Bi-Co Math Colloquium Archive
Curious about past years' colloquia and speakers? Here's the information you seek!
Spring 2026
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Feb 2 | Dr. Matthew Mizuhara The College of New Jersey | "Why Fireflies Flash in Unison: The Mathematics of Synchronizing Systems" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb 2 | Dr. Abbey D'Ovidio Muhlenberg College | “Modeling and Analysis of Radiation Therapy” | Haverford |
| Feb 9 | Alice Oveson University of Maryland | “The Potential Impact of Policy Changes on MMR Vaccine Uptake and Measles Transmission in Florida” | Haverford |
Feb 16
| Dr. Daniel Cooney University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | "Modeling Evolution and Cooperation at Multiple Levels of Organization" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb 23 | POSTPONED | Haverford | |
| Mar 2 | Dr. Takayuki Hibi The University of Osaka | "Pick’s Formula and Castelnuovo Polytopes" | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 9 | SPRING BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Mar 16 | Dr. Josh Sabloff Haverford College | “How to Tie Your Unicycle in Knots: An Introduction to Legendrian Knot Theory” | Haverford |
| Mar 23 (Please note room change from Park 245 to Park 243) | Dr. Peter Mucha Dartmouth College Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker | "Lassos and Logarithms: How Mathematics Finds Needles in Omics Haystacks" Supported by the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 30 | Dr. Tainara Gobetti Borges University of Pennsylvania | "Nonempty Interior of Pinned Distance Sets" | Haverford |
| Apr 6 | Dr. Lorena Grundy
University of Pennsylvania | "Exploring Energy and Sustainability Education Opportunities at Penn Engineering" | Bryn Mawr |
| Thursday Apr 9* | Dr. Jonah Gaster University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | “Hyperbolic Geometry and the Markov Unicity Conjecture” | Haverford |
| Apr 13 | Dr. Nicholas Miller Villanova University | "The Dynamics of Quadratic Forms" | Haverford |
| Apr 20 | Dr. Harris Quach Temple University | "A Natural Projection for Functional Sliced Inverse Regression with Applications to the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study" | Bryn Mawr |
| Apr 27 | Dr. Helena Liu Princeton University | "From Neurons to Networks to Behavior: AI and Computational Tools to Study How the Brain Learns" | Haverford |
Fall 2025
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sep 8 | Tara Anand Columbia University Irving Medical Center | "Graphs for Causal Inference Over Groups" | Haverford |
| Sep 15 | Dr. Lawrence Seminario-Romero Haverford College | "Modeling Predator-Prey Dynamics with a Type III Functional Response" | Bryn Mawr |
| Sep 22 | Dr. Liz Milicevic Haverford College | "Polynomials and Pipe Dreams" | Haverford (LUT 200 at 4:30 p.m.) |
| Sep 29 | Dr. Kyle Stanley University of Pennsylvania/ | "Functional Factor Analysis of Brain Connectivity" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct 6 | Dr. Padi Fuster University of Colorado (Boulder) | "The World Through an Analyst's Lens" | Haverford |
| Oct 13 | FALL BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Oct 20 | Dr. Kate Okikiolu Independent Mathematician | "Computational Geometry" | Bryn Mawr |
Oct 27 | Dr. Emma K.T. Benn Mt. Sinai Hospital | "A Biostatistician's Musings on Racism and the Casual 'Causal' Role of Race in Health Equity Research" | Haverford (LUT 200) |
| Nov 3 | Dr. Klaus Volpert Villanova University | “A Dynamic Kelly Criterion for Games with Maximum Payouts” | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov 10 | Dr. Josh Pollitz Syracuse University | “Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra” | Haverford |
| Nov 17 | Dr. Ellen (Ellie) Caniglia University of Pennsylvania/ | "From Randomized Clinical Trials to Real-World Data: Using Epidemiology to Bridge the Causal Inference Gap" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov 24 | Dr. Abba Gumel University of Maryland | "Mathematics of Vector-borne Diseases"
| Haverford |
| Dec 8 | Dr. Anna Nelson University of New Mexico | "Building Community and Finding Connections in Mathematics" | Bryn Mawr |
Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Feb 3 | Dr. Selvi Kara Bryn Mawr College | "MΣΣT a Mathematician, Edge Ideals, and Beyond!" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb 17 | Dr. Alicia Prieto-Langarica Youngstown State University | "My Journey to Math and Why I Love Undergraduate Research" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb 24 | Dr. Jacob Russell Swarthmore College | "Taming Complexity with Geometry" | Haverford |
| Mar 3 | Dr. Nicholas Landry University of Virginia | "Realistically Modeling Diseases: From Data to Models and Back Again" | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 10 | SPRING BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Mar 17 | Dr. Angela Wu Bucknell University | "How to Draw Four Dimensional Shapes When You Can Only Draw in Two Dimensions" | Haverford |
| Mar 24 | Dr. Tanushree Shah Chennai Mathematics Institute, India | "Brushstrokes of Geometry: Visualizing Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds Through Paintings" | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 31 | Dr. Alexander Diaz-Lopez Villanova University | "Arithmetical Structures on Graphs" | Haverford |
| Apr 7 | Dr. William Dunham Bryn Mawr College | "When Euler Met l’Hospital" | Bryn Mawr |
| Apr 10 Thursday | Dr. Caitlin Hult Gettysburg College | "Life Finds a Way: Mathematical Modeling in Immunology and Cell Biology" | Haverford |
| Apr 14 | Dr. Ranthony Clark Duke University Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker | "Quantitative Justice: Research at the Intersection of Mathematics & Society" Supported by the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund | Bryn Mawr |
Apr 14
| Maciej Piwowarczyk University of Nebraska - Lincoln | "Code Design for Data Storage in Synthetic DNA" | Haverford |
April 28
| Dr. David Futer Temple University | "The Generalized Knot Complement Problem" | Haverford |
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Feb 5 | Dr. Joseph Nakao Swarthmore College | "Balancing Efficiency, Physics, and Robustness: What Goes into Designing a Good Algorithm?" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb 12 | Dr. Ila Varma University of Toronto | "Counting Number Fields and Predicting Asymptotics" | Haverford |
| Feb 19 | Dr. Annalisa Crannell Franklin and Marshall College | "The Moon Tilt Illusion and Perspective Geometry" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb 26 | Leah Leiner Temple University | “An Introduction to Flows on Hyperbolic Manifolds” | Haverford |
| Mar 4 | Dr. Victor Donnay Bryn Mawr College | “Examples of Finite Genus Surfaces Embedded in R3 with Anosov Geodesic Flow” | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 5 (Tuesday) | Yuxuan Sun (HC '23) University of Minnesota | “Quotients of Special Classes of Positroids” | Haverford, Hilles 108 |
| Mar 11 | SPRING BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Mar 18 | Dr. Carolyn Reinhart Swarthmore College | "The Game of Cops and Robbers on Graphs" | Haverford |
| Apr 1 | Dr. Yoichiro Mori University of Pennsylvania | “Mathematical Modeling of Cell Volume Control and Electrolyte Balance” | Haverford |
| Apr 8 | Dr. Bülent Tosun Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the University of Alabama | "From Unknotted Curves on Seifert Surfaces to Contractible 4-manifolds" | Bryn Mawr |
| Apr 15 | Abdullah Malik Florida State University | "Coloring Graphs and Beyond" | Haverford |
| Apr 22 | Dr. Richard Green University of Colorado, Boulder | "Positivity Properties for Orthogonal Sets in Lattices" | Haverford |
Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sep 18 | Dr. Rebecca R.G. (BMC AB/MA 2011) George Mason University | “Canonical Forms of Neural Ideals” | Bryn Mawr |
| Sep 25 | Dr. Michael Fisher West Chester University | "Olympic Games: Three Impartial Games with Infinite Octal Codes" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct 2 | Dr. Andrew J. Bernoff Harvey Mudd College | "Agent-Based and Continuous Models of Locust Swarms" | Haverford |
| Oct 11 WED | Dr. Leqi Liu '17 BMC/HC Alum Princeton's Center for Language and Intelligence | "Human-Centered Machine Intelligence" | Haverford (Lutnick Library 200) |
| Oct 13 | EDGE CONFERENCE | https://www.edgeforwomen.org/edge25/ | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct 16 | FALL BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Oct 23 | Dr. Maia Fraser University of Ottawa | "Mathematics and Machine Learning" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct 30 | Brandis Whitfield Temple University | "An Invitation to Mapping Class Groups and Low-dimensional Topology and Geometry" | Haverford |
| Nov 6 | Dr. Darij Grinberg Drexel University | “The Redei--Berge Symmetric Function of a Directed Graph” | Haverford |
| Nov 13 | Dr. Marissa Loving University of Wisconsin-Madison | “From Dimension 2 to 3 and Back Again” | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov 20 | THANKSGIVING WEEK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Nov 27 | Dr. Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem Applied Math Team at DOD | “Using Mathematics to Unravel the Complexities Associated to Malaria Transmission Success, following a Human-Parasite-Mosquito Interaction in a Built Environment” | Bryn Mawr |
| Dec 4 | Dr. Mohammad Nooranidoost Florida State University | “Mathematical Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Biofilm Structure” | Haverford |
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Jan 30 | William Gasarch University of Maryland | "The Muffin Problem" | Haverford |
| Feb 6 | Kaisa Taipale Director, C.H. Robinson | "Time Series Forecasting in Logistics" | Haverford |
| Feb 13 | Daniel Krashen University of Pennsylvania | "The Geometry of Field Arithmetic" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb 20 | Valentin Blomer University of Bonn (Hausdorff Center for Mathematics) | "Quantum Chaos, Quadratic Forms and Fibonacci Numbers" Joint Talk with Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb 27 | Ipsita Datta Institute for Advanced Study | "What is Symplectic Geometry?" | Haverford |
| Mar 6 | SPRING BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Mar 13 | Reza Parran New York Structural Biology Center | "An Overview of the Theoretical Foundation and Applications of Cryo-Electron Microscopy" | Haverford |
| Mar 20 | Spence Lunderman Senior Applied Scientist, Airspace | “One Company's Solution to a Common Logistics Problem: A Story of Machine Learning and Mathematics” | Haverford |
| Mar 27 | Michael Robert Virginia Tech | “An Old Threat in New Territory: Investigating Dengue Emergence with Mathematical Modeling” | Bryn Mawr |
| Apr 3 | Nsoki Mavinga Swarthmore College | “Fuˇcik Spectrum and Solvability of Nonlinear Differential Equations” | Haverford |
| Apr 10 | Jacob van Hook University of Pennsylvania | "An Introduction to Curvature and Curvature Homogeneity" | Bryn Mawr |
Apr 14* Friday | Kathleen Hoffman University of Maryland, Baltimore County | “Parameter Identifiability in a Model of in vivo HIV Dynamics” | Haverford |
| Apr 24 | Samantha Pezzimenti Penn State Brandywine | "Knot Mosaics: Cusps and Cubes!" | Bryn Mawr |
Fall 2022
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Feb. 7 | Wen-ching Winnie Li Penn State University | "Primes and Zeta Functions in Combinatorics and Number Theory" | Haverford |
| Feb. 14 | Lynne Steuerle Schofield Swarthmore College
| "Using Response Time Data to Model Cognition and Cognitive Decline" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 28 | Danqi Luo Rady School at UCSD | "Improving Emergency Department Crowding via Operations Research Guided Causal Inference" | Bryn Mawr |
| March 7 | No Colloquium | Spring Break | |
March 14 Please note change of time for talk to 4:30 p.m. | Karen Kafadar University of Virginia | "To Screen or Not to Screen? Using Data from Randomized Screening Trials to Quantify Risks & Benefits of Cancer Screening" | Haverford |
| March 21 | Yumeng Ou University of Pennsylvania | "Distance Problems and Projections of Measures" | Bryn Mawr |
| March 28 | Daniel Ullman George Washington University | "Classic Problems" | Haverford |
April 11 Please note different location and time: Park 25 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. | Lisa Traynor Bryn Mawr College | "The Captivating World of Symplectic Topology" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 18 | Akshay Venkatesh Institute for Advanced Study | "Number Fields and 3-Dimensional Geometry" Joint Talk with Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar | Bryn Mawr |
| April 25 | Michael Dougherty Swarthmore College | “Graphs, Braids, and Configuration Spaces” | Haverford |
Fall 2021
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Feb 3 | Nicholas Miller University of California - Berkeley | "Big Mapping Class Groups and Their Actions on Infinite Graphs" | Haverford |
| Feb 10 | Sydne Record Bryn Mawr College | "Scaling Up Biotic Interactions" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb 17 | Samuel Taylor Temple University | "A Central Limit Theorem for Random Closed Geodesics on Surfaces" | Haverford |
| Feb 24 | Dan Cristafaro-Gardner University of California - Santa Cruz | "The Simplicity Conjecture" | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 2 | Emelie Curl (BMC '14) Christopher Newport University | "A Polychromatic Approach to a Turán-type Problem in Finite Groups" | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 9 | Spring Break | No Colloquium | |
| Mar 16 | Linh Truong Institute for Advanced Study | Canceled | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 23 | Sunny Yang Xiao (Brown University) | Canceled | Haverford |
| Apr 3 | Talithia Williams Harvey Mudd College Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker | Canceled | Bryn Mawr |
| Apr 6 | Jana Gevertz The College of New Jersey | Canceled | Haverford |
| Apr 13 | Dawn Nelson St. Peter's University | Canceled |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sep 16 | Elizabeth Drellich Haverford College | "Cars, Cartoons, and Cohomology" | Bryn Mawr |
| Sep 23 | Nancy Zhang The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | "Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics" | Bryn Mawr |
| Sep 30 | Marissa Loving Georgia Institute of Technology | “Surfaces: BIG and small” | Haverford |
| Oct 7 | Tarik Aougab Haverford College | "Properties of Random Curves on Surfaces" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct 14 | Fall Break | No Colloquium | |
| Oct 21 | Thomas Ng Temple University | "Counting and Growth in Infinite Graphs and Groups" | Haverford |
| Oct 28 | Chung-Nan Tzou Haverford College | "Fluid Models with Sharp Interfaces - Clouds and Plumes" | Haverford |
| Nov 4 | Tom Crawford Swarthmore College | "Cusps in Hyperbolic Spaces" | Haverford |
| Nov 11 | Shelby Wilson University of Maryland | "A Mathematical Model of Temperature Effects on Human Sleep Regulation" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov 18 | Jordan Dworkin University of Pennsylvania | "Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data" | Haverford |
| Nov 25 | Mona Merling University of Pennsylvania | "Algebraic K-theory and Its Connections to Other Fields" | Bryn Mawr |
| Dec 2 | Candice Price Smith College | "Unravelling Biochemistry Mysteries: Knot Theory Applied to Biochemistry" | Bryn Mawr |
| Dec 9 | Elizabeth Newman Emory University | "Tensor Linear Algebra: The Next Dimension" |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Feb. 4 | Ailana Fraser University of British Columbia and Institute for Advanced Study | "Minimal Surfaces and Sharp Eigenvalue Bounds" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 11 | Anna Pun Drexel University | "An Introduction to Symmetric Functions - A Gem in Algebraic Combinatorics" | Haverford |
| Feb. 18 | Amanda Folsom Amherst College and Institute for Advanced Study | Joint Talk with Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 25 | Nsoki Mavinga Swarthmore College | "Delay Differential Equations with Applications to the Analysis of the Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases” | Haverford |
| March 4 | Nancy Zhang The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | TALK CANCELLED | Bryn Mawr |
| March 11 | SPRING BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| March 18 | Michael Stein University of Chicago | "Statistical Extremes: Theory and Practice” | Haverford |
| March 25 | Zvezdelina Stankova (BMC '93) University of California, Berkeley | "Restricted Patterns of the Past, Present and Future" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 1 | Nick Battista The College of New Jersey | “Holey Tentacles, Batman! How complex morphologies affect jellyfish swimming performance” | Haverford |
| April 8 | Joanna Burt-Kinderman Haverford College '98 | "Problematizing Math Teaching: A journey from Haverford to revolution in West Virginia math classrooms" | Haverford |
| April 15 | Mira Bernstein Tufts University Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker | "Gerrymandering: Why It's More Complicated Than You Might Think" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 22 | Andy Eisenberg Saint Louis University | "Rewriting Systems and Gilman's Conjecture” | Haverford |
| April 29 | Stephanie Dick University of Pennsylvania | "Making Up Minds: Computing and Proof in the Postwar United States" | Bryn Mawr |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 17 | Rebecca Everett Haverford College | "Using Mathematical and Statistical Modeling to Understand Behavior Change in Problem Drinkers" | Bryn Mawr |
| Sept. 24 | John Bergdall Bryn Mawr College | "Approximating roots: from Newton to the ghost conjecture” | Haverford |
| Oct. 1 | Jason Cantarella University of Georgia | "Modeling the 'Cambrian explosion' of Topological Polymers" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 8 | Tamar Friedmann Haverford College | "From Lie Algebras to Catalan Numbers and Beyond" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 15 | Fall Break | No Colloquium | |
| Oct. 22 | Angela Hicks Lehigh University | "Symmetric Functions and Beyond" | Haverford |
| Oct. 29 | Dave Futer Temple University | "Can You Hear the Shape of a 3-Manifold?" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 5 | Karola Meszaros Cornell University & Institute for Advanced Study | "Grothendieck Polynomials via Flow Polytopes" | Haverford |
| Nov. 12 | Will Heuett Marymount University | "Bayesian Model Selection: Removing Our Biases and Allowing the Data to Guide Us" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 19 | Isaac Klapper Temple University | "Linking Microbial Metabolism to Microbial Community Environment” | Haverford |
| Nov. 26 | No Colloquium | ||
| Dec. 3 | Kim Ruane Tufts University | "A Geometric Proof of Parity of Permutations” | Haverford |
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Feb 12 | Cristian Gutierrez Temple University | "On the Existence of Dichromatic Single Element Lenses" | Haverford |
| Feb 26 | Nina Xu Bucknell University | "Extended Canonical Correlation Analysis: Beyond One-on-One Correlation" | Haverford |
| March 5 | Karen Taylor Bronx Community College, CUNY and Bryn Mawr College | "Arithmetic and Modular Forms" | Bryn Mawr |
| March 12 | SPRING BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| March 26 | Dennis DeTurck University of Pennsylvania | "Continuous Symmetries and Linking Integrals" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 2 | Anisah Nu'Man Ursinus College | "Geodesic Words for Groups and Formal Language Theory" | Haverford |
| April 9 | Lillian Pierce Duke University and Institute for Advanced Study | "Marching Bands, Prime Numbers, and Sieves: Sometimes Imprecision Wins" | Bryn Mawr |
April 13* *Please note special day | Thane Plambeck Counterwave, Inc. | "Combinatorial Game Theory in the Apple App Store" | Haverford |
| April 16 | Rosemary Guzman University of Chicago | "Quantitative Mostow Rigidity: Relating Volume to Topology for Hyperbolic 3-manifolds" | Haverford |
April 23** **Please note talk will take place in Park 243 | Rebecca Goldin George Mason University and STATS/Sense about Science USA Math Appreciation Week Keynote | "Should You Believe It? Critical Minds in the Information Age" Supported by the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund | Bryn Mawr |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sep 11 | NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK | ||
| Sep 18 | Herman Gluck University of Pennsylvania | "How Much Must You Bend a Rope to Tie a Knot?" | Bryn Mawr |
| Sep 25 | Kyle Hayden (Haverford College '13) Boston College | "Braids in Algebra and Topology" | Haverford |
| Oct 2 | J. Robert Buchanan Millersville University | "A Novel Geometry-Based Cryptosystem" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct 9 | Nathan Williams University of Texas at Dallas | "Doppelgängers” | Haverford |
| Oct 16 | FALL BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Oct 27 | COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED | Bryn Mawr | |
| Oct 30 | Adam Piggott Bucknell University | "Graph Products of Groups and Their Automorphisms" | Haverford |
| Nov 6 | Colin Diemer Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHES) | "Flips, Flops, and Surgery for Rings and Modules" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov 13 | Alanna Hoyer-Lietzel Mount Holyoke College | "Possible Quantifications of Resilience" | Haverford |
| Nov 20 | THANKSGIVING | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Nov 27 | Charles Cunningham Haverford College | "What's the Shape of a Group?" | Bryn Mawr |
Spring 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Jan. 16 | MLK DAY | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Jan. 23 | Jason Liao Sr. Principal Statistician Merck & Co., Inc. | "Quantifying an Agreement Study" | Haverford |
| Jan. 30 | Chelsea Walton Temple University | "Quantum Symmetry" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 6 | Thomas Church Stanford University/IAS | "The Cap Set Problem & Fast Matrix Multiplication" | Haverford |
| Feb. 13 | Robert J. Lemke Oliver Joint with Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar | "Prime Numbers, Randomness, and The Gambler's Fallacy" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 20 | For information, please contact Anne Wolverton. | Haverford | |
| Feb. 27 | David Burstein Swarthmore College | "Analyzing Network Dynamics Through Random Graph Models" | Bryn Mawr |
| March 6 | SPRING BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| March 13 | Kathryn Bryant Colorado College | "The Unsolved(!) Inscribed Square Problem" | Haverford |
| March 20 | Dubi Kelmer Boston College | "Shrinking Target Problems, Homogenous Dynamics, and Diophantine Approximations" | Bryn Mawr |
March 27 Please note this talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. instead of 4:00 p.m. | Gregory Campbell President, GCStat Consulting LLC, Former Director, Division of Biostatistics, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA | "Biostatistics and Medical Devices: Making a Difference in People's Health Every Day" | Haverford |
April 3 Please note this talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. instead of 4:00 p.m. | Ruthi Hortsch Program Manager, Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM) | "Advanced Mathematical Pathways for Underserved Students" | Haverford |
| April 10 | Michael Tait Carnegie Mellon University | "Applications of Finite Geometry in Extremal Combinatorics" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 17 Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker | Helen Moore Bristol-Myers Squibb | "Mathematical Optimization of Combination Therapy" | Bryn Mawr |
April 24 Simons Senior Thesis Colloquium | Sam Payne Please note this talk will take place in Hilles 108. | "Chip-firing on Graphs and Divisor Class Groups" | Haverford |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 5 | LABOR DAY | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Sept. 12 | Alexander Diaz-Lopez Swarthmore College | Peaks and Descents of Permutations | Haverford |
| Sept. 19 | Paul Feehan Rutgers University | Real Analytic Functions and Their Role in Differential Geometry, Mathematical Physics, and Topology | Bryn Mawr |
| Sept. 26 | Walter Stromquist Bryn Mawr College | Fair Division: Pouring Wine and Cutting Cakes | Haverford |
| Oct. 3 | Eric Stachura Haverford College | Metamaterial Lens Design | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 10 | FALL BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Oct. 17 | Robert Grizzard University of Wisconsin | Conjugate Solutions to Linear Equations | Haverford |
| Oct. 24 | Anna Pun Drexel University | On Decomposition of the Product of Demazure Atom and Demazure Characters | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 31 | Robert Strain University of Pennsylvania | On the Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell System | Haverford |
| Nov. 7 | Heidi Goodson Haverford College | Elliptic Curves Over Three Fields | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 14 | Jake Levinson University of Michigan | Syzygies, Hilbert Polynomials, and Matrix Varieties | Haverford |
| Nov. 21 | Lise Chlebak Tufts University | A Time-Changed Q-Wiener Process | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 28 | Shari Moskow Drexel University | Inverse Problems: Determining the Equation from the Solution | Haverford |
| Dec. 5 | Yonatan Aumann Bar-Ilan University | Fair and Square: Cake Cutting in 2D | Bryn Mawr |
For more information, please contact Djordje Milićević (Bryn Mawr) or Elizabeth Milićević (Haverford).
Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Jan. 25 | Victor Barranca Swarthmore College | "Compressed Coding in Senory Systems: From Sparse Stimuli to Network Structure" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 1 | Will Gryc Muhlenberg College | "What Math Can Tell Us About eBay, Teacup Auctions, and the Winner's Curse" | Haverford |
| Feb. 8 | William Gasarch University of Maryland | "Advanced Results in the Theory of Languages and Computation which have Simple Proofs" | Haverford Joint with Computer Science |
| Feb. 15 | Nayantara Bhatnagar University of Delaware | "Limit Theorems for Longest Monotone Subsequences in Random Mallows Permutations" | Haverford |
| *Feb. 22 | Jedidah Isler Vanderbilt University | "On the Physics of Quasars and Blazars" | Bryn Mawr Joint with Physics Dalton 300, 6:30 PM |
| Feb. 29 | Christina Weaver Franklin & Marshall College | "Mathematical Modeling of Neurons: From Data to Discovery" | Haverford |
| March 7 | SPRING BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| March 14 | Trubee Davison Haverford College | "Fixed Points, Fractals, and Functional Analysis" | Bryn Mawr |
| March 21 | Kyu-Hwan Lee University of Connecticut | "Fully Commutative Elements of the Symmetric Group" | Haverford |
| March 28 | Kathryn Haymaker (BMC '07) Villanova University | "Groups, Graphs, and the Cantor Set" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 4 | Michael Biro Swarthmore College | "Planar Graphs with Many Perfect Matchings" | Haverford |
| ** April 8 2 p.m. | Amanda Landi Bard College at Simon's Rock | "Differential Equations: The Separation of Variables Method" | Bryn Mawr Please note earlier time for talk. |
| April 11 | Tim Chartier Davidson College Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker | "Playing from a Laptop: Sports Analytics" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 18 | Stefanos Aretakis Princeton University | "Topics in General Relativity" | Haverford |
| April 25 | Karamatou Yacoubou Djima Swarthmore College | "Diffusion Wavelet Frames and an Application of Laplacian Eigenmaps to Retinal Imaging" | Bryn Mawr |
* Please note different location and time.
** Special Colloquium
Fall 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 14 | Pavel Grinfeld Drexel University | "The Moving Surface Analogs of Classical Equations of Applied Mathematics" | Haverford |
| Sept. 21 | Amanda French Haverford College | "Resonance and the Null Condition for Nonlinear Wave Equations" | Bryn Mawr |
| Sept. 28 | Maureen Carroll The University of Scranton | "A Recipe for Games on Planes" | Haverford |
| Oct. 5 | Yixin Guo Drexel University | "Modeling Thalamocortical Relay Neuron, Parkinsonian Network, and Deep Brain Stimulation" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 12 | No Colloquium | Fall Break | |
| Oct. 19 | Holley Friedlander Dickinson College | "Riemann's Function for Function Fields" | Haverford |
| Oct. 26 | Emese Kennedy Muhlenberg College | "Swing-up and Stabilization of a Single Inverted Pendulum on a Cart" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 2 | Greta Panova University of Pennsylvania | "Lattice Models and Symmetric Functions" | Haverford |
| Nov. 9 | Ryan Kaliszewski Drexel University | "Q-Analogs, Binomial Coefficients, and Catalan Numbers" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 16 | Erica Graham Bryn Mawr College | "Reproductive Hormone Dynamics: Modeling Regulation and Dysfunction" | Haverford |
| Nov. 23 | Jessica Purcell Institute of Advanced Study | "Cusp Volumes of Alternating Knots" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 30 | Ron Umble Millersville University | "Cellular Homology & Brunnian Links" | Haverford |
| Dec. 7 | Andreas Aristolelous West Chester University | "Modeling Heterogenous Biofilms" |
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Monday Sept 8 | R. Andrew Hicks Drexel University | "Controlling Ray Bundles with Reflectors" | Haverford |
| Monday Sept 15 | Jonathan Hanke | "Quadratic Forms in Number Theory" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Sept 22 | Erica Graham (BMC '04) North Carolina State University | “Using Mathematics to Understand Why Insulin Resistance is Bad for You, but Can be Good for Your Cells” • (slides) | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Sept 29 | William Dunham University of Pennsylvania | "An Afternoon with Euler" | Haverford |
| Monday Oct 6 | Rachel Hall (HC '91) St. Joseph's University | "Submajorization and the Geometry of Unordered Collections, with Applications to Music and Welfare Economics" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Oct 13 | FALL BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Monday Oct 20 | Isabel Averill Bryn Mawr College | "Building a Theorem: Start to Finish" | Haverford |
| Monday Oct 27 | Tara Holm Cornell University and Institute for Advanced Study | "The Geometry of Origami: How the ancient Japanese art triumphed over Euclid" • (slides forthcoming) | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Nov 3 | Katherine Scranton Yale University | "Parameter estimation in population ecology: An approximate Bayesian computation approach for stochastic models." | Haverford |
| Monday Nov 10 | Ben Salisbury Central Michigan University | "What is a Crystal?" | Haverford |
| Monday Nov 17 | Kristopher Tapp St. Joseph's University | "The Mathematics of Measuring Self-Delusion" • (slides) | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Nov 24 | Paul Bernhardt Villanova University | "Joint Modeling: When One Model is Not Enough" | Haverford |
| *Tuesday Nov 25 1:00 PM | Matthew Wright University of Minnesota | "Euler Characteristic and Data Analysis" • (slides) • (slides from the PACT seminar talk) | Bryn Mawr (Park 338) |
| Monday Dec 1 | Annalisa Crannell (BMC '87) Franklin & Marshall College | "In the Shadow of Desargues" • (slides forthcoming) | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Dec 8 | Robert Buchanan Millersville University | "Mathematics of Pari-Mutuel Wagering" | Haverford |
*Special Talk - Joint with Computer Science
Spring 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Monday Feb 2 | Lili Dworkin University of Pennsylvania | "Multi-Armed Bandits: How to Win in Vegas" | Haverford |
| *Monday Feb 9 | Vin de Silva Pomona College | "Topological Persistence via Category Theory" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Feb 16 | Ronald Perline Drexel University | "Mirrors, Thin Films, and Related Geometry" | Haverford |
| Monday Feb 23 | Benjamin J. Galluzzo Shippensburg University | "If Math (Modeling) is the Answer, What's the Question?" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Mar 2 | Megan Owen CUNY | "Statistics in Tree Space" | Haverford Simons Senior Thesis Colloquium |
| Monday Mar 9 | NO COLLOQUIUM | SPRING BREAK | |
| Monday Mar 16 | NO COLLOQUIUM | ||
| Monday Mar 23 | Maksym Radziwill Rutgers University | "Around the Moebius Function" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Mar 30 | Sergey Fomin University of Michigan | "Computing without Subtracting (and/or Dividing)" | Haverford |
| Monday Apr 6 | Nicholas J. Horton Amherst College | "Adjusting for Non-response in the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics Survey" | Haverford |
| Monday Apr 13 | Ivars Peterson Math Awareness Month Keynote Speaker | "Pancake Sorting, Prefix Reversals, and DNA Rearrangements" | Bryn Mawr |
| **Wednesday Apr 15 | Catherine Searle Wichita State University | "Curvature, Symmetries and Topology" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Apr 20 | Jordan Ellenberg University of Wisconsin | "Uncertainty and Contradiction" | Swarthmore Sci Ctr 199 4:30 p.m. |
| **Tuesday Apr 21 | Jordan Ellenberg University of Wisconsin | "Spinning a Needle in a Finite Field" | Swarthmore Sci Ctr 199 4:30 p.m. |
| Monday Apr 27 | Sue Khim brilliant.org Math Awareness Month colloquium at Haverford | brilliant.org, problem solving, educational diversity, social networking, entrepreneurship, and enacting social global change | Haverford |
Fall 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Monday Sep 9 | Daniel Studenmund University of Chicago | "Hidden symmetries of groups" | Haverford |
| Monday Sep 16 | Gabriel Feinberg Haverford College | "Catalan's Numbers and Some Representation Theoretic Applications" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Sep 23 | Kristina Garrett St. Olaf College | "The Mathematics of Good Will Hunting" | Haverford |
| Monday Sep 30 | Timothy Feeman Villanova University | "The ART of Tomography" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Oct 7 | William Traves United States Naval Academy | "Generalizing Pascal's Theorem" | Haverford |
| Monday Oct 14 | FALL BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Monday Oct 21 | Irina Mitrea Temple University | "The Art of Integration by Parts (and why everybody should know this)" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Oct 28 | Liz McMahon Lafayette College | "Affine Geometry Inspired by the Game of SET®" | Haverford |
| Monday Nov 4 | John Boller University of Chicago | "A little bit of p-adic analysis" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Nov 11 | Isaac Klapper Temple University | "Two Tales of a Microbial City" | Haverford |
| Monday Nov 18 | Daniel Ruberman Brandeis University | "Where can you put a non-orientable surface?" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Nov 25 | Zach Hamaker Dartmouth College | "Random Sorting Networks" | Haverford |
| Monday Dec 2 | Anna Bertiger University of Waterloo | "The Rim Hook Rule" | Haverford |
| **FRIDAY** DEC 6 **3 PM ** | Sarah Kate Wilson (BMC '79) Santa Clara University | "Blinded by the Light: Optical Wireless Communications" | Bryn Mawr |
Spring 2014
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Monday Jan 27 | Mark Dominus | "Topology of data types" | Haverford |
| Monday Feb 3 | Ivana Božić Harvard University | "Evolutionary Dynamics of Targeted Cancer Therapy" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Feb 10 | Rachel Epstein Swarthmore College | "The Church-Turing Thesis and Its Controversy" | Haverford |
| Monday Feb 17 | Lynne Steuerle Schofield Swarthmore College | "Measurement Error in Variables that Predict STEM Retention" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Feb 24 | Amanda Knecht Villanova University | "Unirational Parameterizations of Cubic Surfaces" | Haverford |
| Monday Mar 3 | Leila Schneps Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris Math Awareness Week Keynote Speaker | "Mathematics in the Courtroom: Uncharted Territory" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Mar 10 | NO COLLOQUIUM | SPRING BREAK | |
| Monday Mar 17 | Kristine L. Snyder (BMC '02) University of Michigan | "Brain and Body Dynamics in Human Locomotion" | Bryn Mawr |
| *Friday Mar 21 | Austin Daughton Temple University | "1+2+3+4+... and Other Divergent Series" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Mar 24 | Daniel Orr Virginia Tech | "The Toda Lattice in Algebra and Geometry" | Haverford |
| Monday Mar 31 | Mihai Stoiciu Williams College | "The Eigenvalue Distribution for Random Jacobi and CMV Matrices" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Apr 7 | Chris Ryan University of Chicago, Booth School of Business | "Duality theory via Fourier-Motzkin Elimination" | Haverford |
| Monday Apr 14 | Chantal David Concordia University and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal | "One level density for families of L-functions attached to elliptic curves" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Apr 21 | Richard S. Millman Georgia Institute of Technology | "A Mixture of Completeness in the Space of Riemannian Geometries" | Bryn Mawr |
| **WEDNESDAY Apr 23 **4:30PM | Suresh Venkatasubramanian University of Utah | "Metaclustering" | Haverford |
| Monday Apr 28 | Antonella Grassi University of Pennsylvania | "Noether-Lefschetz loci and polytopes" | Bryn Mawr |
Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Monday Sep 10 | Karl Schaffer De Anza College | "The Dance of Mathematics and the Mathematics of Dance" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Sep 17 | Elizabeth Beazley Haverford College | "Matrix groups, Newton polygons, and the quantum Bruhat graph" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Sep 24 | Djordje Milićević Bryn Mawr College | "Kloostermania in confined spaces" | Haverford |
| Monday Oct 1 | Eugenio Calabi University of Pennsylvania | "The Affine Geometry of Convex Bodies" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Oct 8 | Benjamin Seibold Temple University | "The Analogy of Phantom Traffic Jams and Detonation Waves" | Haverford |
| Monday Oct 15 | FALL BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Monday Oct 29 | CANCELLED DUE TO STORM | Haverford | |
| Monday Nov 5 | David Benson NetJets Inc. | "An Aircraft Crew Scheduling Problem that Satisfied Company and Employee Preferences Modeled and Solved as a Mixed-Interger Program" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Nov 12 | Elizabeth Niese Marshall University | "A q-analogue of the hook-length formula" | Haverford |
| Monday Nov 19 | Ami Radunskaya Pomona College | "Using mathematics to design cancer vaccines" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Nov 26 | Katie Haymaker (BMC '07) University of Nebraska | "Rewriting codes using finite geometries" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Dec 3 | Erica Flapan Pomona College | "Mirror Image Symmetry from Different Viewpoints" | Haverford |
| Monday Dec 10 | Ryan Vinroot College of William & Mary | "Combinatorics of finite fields and symmetric functions" | Haverford |
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Monday Jan 28 | Patricia Cahn University of Pennsylvania | "Counting Crossings of Curves on Surfaces" | Haverford |
| Monday Feb 4 | Klaus Volpert Villanova University | "The Math and Magic of Financial Derivatives" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Feb 11 | Rosa McCullagh Univ. of Chicago Laboratory School | "Visualization in High School Mathematics" | Haverford |
| Monday Feb 18 | Lily S. Khadjavi Loyola Marymount University | "Social Justice and Mathematics: Analyzing police practice in Los Angeles" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Feb 25 | Andrew Cooper University of Pennsylvania | "Using the heat equation to shorten curves (and other Lagrangian submanifolds)" | Haverford |
| Monday Mar 4 | Cecilia Diniz Behn (BMC '99) Gettysburg College | "Dynamics of sleep-wake regulation" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Mar 11 | SPRING BREAK | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Monday Mar 18 | Whitney George West Chester University | "Positive Twist Knots and the Uniform Thickness Property" | Haverford |
| Monday Mar 25 | Nalini Anantharaman Université Paris-Sud (Orsay) and Institute for Advanced Study | "Order and chaos in wave propagation" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Apr 1 | David Kung St. Mary's College of Maryland | "Closer to Fair: Mathematics and Social Justice" | Bryn Mawr |
| Monday Apr 8 | Ralph Gomez Swarthmore College | "A Brief Tour of Sasakian Geometry" | Haverford |
| Monday Apr 15 | Alden Walker University of Chicago | "Finding surface maps with linear programming" | Haverford |
| Monday Apr 22 | Peter Sarnak Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study | "Thin matrix groups and Diophantine analysis" | Bryn Mawr |
Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 12 | Weiwen Miao, Haverford College | The Use of Statistical Tests in Discrimination Cases | Haverford |
| Sept. 19 | Melanie Edwalds, Princeton University | An Introduction to the Mathematics of Optimal Control Theory | Bryn Mawr |
| Sept. 26 | Greg Schneider, Bryn Mawr College | On the Classification of Legendrian Rational Tangles | Haverford |
| Oct. 3 | Richard McGehee, University of Minnesota | Glacial Cycles: Mathematics and the 100,000-Year Problem | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 10 | No Colloquium | Fall Break | |
| Oct. 17 | Anthony Licata, The Institute for Advanced Study and Australian National University | Natural numbers, vector spaces, additive categories, and so forth | Haverford |
| Oct. 24 | Klaus Volpert, Villanova University | The Mathematics of Income Inequality | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 31 | Scott Cook, Swarthmore College | Mathematics of the bad bounce | Haverford |
| Nov. 7 | Marie Snipes, Kenyon College | Soap Films, Image Processing, and the "Flat Chains" of Geometric Measure Theory | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 14 | M. Brad Henry, Siena College | Hunting for connections among Legendrian knot invariants | Haverford |
| Nov. 21 | No Colloquium | ||
| Nov. 28 | Timothy DeVries, Haverford College | Counting by climbing | Bryn Mawr |
Spring 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Feb. 21 | Djordje Milićević Max Planck Institute and Bryn Mawr College | Many ways in which things oscillate | Bryn Mawr |
| March 12 | Haggai Nuchi University of Pennsylvania | Integral formulas for linking of curves | Bryn Mawr |
| March 22 | Nick Patterson Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Analysis of ancient DNA | Haverford |
| March 23 | Nick Patterson Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Using exact ascertainment and joint spectra to learn human genetic history | Haverford |
| March 26 | Jodi Black Bucknell University | On Generalizations of Springer's Theorem | Bryn Mawr |
| April 2 | Chris Atkinson Temple | Shape and size in hyperbolic space | Haverford |
| April 4 | Alissa Crans Loyola Marymount University | "Swing-up and Stabilization of a Single Inverted Pendulum on a Cart" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 9 | Austin Daughton Temple University | Hamburger's Theorem and the "Big Mac Theorem" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 16 | Ellen Gasparovic University of North Carolina | "Q-Analogs, Binomial Coefficients, and Catalan Numbers" | Bryn Mawr |
| April 23 | Dave Futer Temple University | The Rental Harmony Theorem | Bryn Mawr |
Fall 2010
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 13 | Ryan Blair, University of Pennsylvania | Knot Width is Additive | Haverford |
| Sept. 20 | Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia | Inscribed Polygons and the Square Peg Problem | Haverford |
| Sept. 27 | Joshua Sabloff, Haverford College | Bryn Mawr | |
| Oct. 4 | Raina Robeva | Bryn Mawr | |
| Oct. 11 | No Colloquium | Fall Break | |
| Oct. 18 | Fred Cohen, University of Rochester | Disks, Circles, and Subspaces of their Products | Haverford |
| Oct. 25 | Radmila Sazdanović, University of Pennsylvania | Bryn Mawr | |
| Nov. 1 | Haverford | ||
| Nov. 8 | Kevin Ross, Swarthmore College | Bryn Mawr | |
| Nov. 15 | Andrew Obus, Columbia University | Haverford | |
| Nov. 22 | No Colloquium | ||
| Nov. 29 | Jenniver Paulhus, Villanova University | Bryn Mawr |
Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Feb. 14 | Jeff Jauregui, University of Pennsylvania | Mathematical relativity and nonnegative scalar curvature | Haverford |
| Feb. 21 | Walt Stromquist, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges | The mathematics of three-candidate elections | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 28 | Jeremy Brandman, Courant Institute | Fighting crime and saving lives with mathematics | Bryn Mawr |
| March 7 | No Colloquium | Spring Break | |
| March 14 | Louis Theran, Temple University | The rigidity transition in random graphs | Haverford |
| March 21 | Kim Plofker, Union College | Infinite series in ancient India | Haverford |
| March 28 | Rob Manning, Haverford | Mathematical Models for DNA Looping or Cyclization | Bryn Mawr |
| April 4 | Gregory Schneider, University at Buffalo, SUNY | Knots, Links, Braids...and Paper Strips | Bryn Mawr |
| April 6 | Colin Adams, Williams College | Blown Away: What Knot to Do When Sailing | Bryn Mawr |
| April 11 | Sarah Greenwald, Appalachian State | Good News Everyone! Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons and Futurama | Bryn Mawr |
| April 18 | Antonio Marciano, Haverford (Physics) | Canceled | Haverford |
Fall 2009
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 14 | Joan Licata, Stanford University | Grid Diagrams and Knot Invariants | Haverford |
| Sept. 21 | Rebecca Vandiver, Bryn Mawr College | Morphoelasticity: The Mechanics and Mathematics of Elastic Growth | Haverford |
| Sept. 28 | Walter Stromquist, Swarthmore College | Three Stories | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 5 | Colton Magnant, Lehigh University | Painting the Office | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 19 | Ben Coleman & Kevin Hartshorn, Moravian College (joint colloquium with Computer Science) | Game, SET, Math | Haverford |
| Oct. 26 | Jeana Mastrangeli, Lockheed Martin | Polarization, Depolarization, and a Model: A Brief Introduction | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 2 | Danny Kaplan, Macalester College | Untangling Causation in Complex Systems | Haverford |
| Nov. 9 | Brandy Rapatski, Richard Stockton College | Mathematical Modeling of the HIV Epidemic | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 16 | Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware | Modeling and Simulation of Water Waves | Haverford |
| Nov. 30 | Sarah Bryant, Gettysburg College | Subordinate Killed Brownian Motion | Bryn Mawr |
Spring 2010
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Jan. 25 | Erica Greene (HC '10) and Jonathan Lima (HC '10), Haverford College | "The Moving Surface Analogs of Classical Equations of Applied Mathematics" | Haverford |
| Feb. 1 | Walter Huddell, Eastern University | "A Foray into Statistical Poetry" and "Symmetric Function Inequalities" | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 8 | Ben Allen (HC '02), Boston University | The Distributional Derivative | Haverford |
| Feb. 15 | Valentina Joukhovitski | Evolutionary Game Theory in Structured Populations | Haverford |
| Feb. 22 | Sunil Chetty, Colorado College | Diophantine Equations and Number Theory | Bryn Mawr |
| March 1 | Jonelle Hook, Lehigh University | The Classification of Critical Graphs and Star-Critical Ramsey Numbers | Bryn Mawr |
| March 15 | Tim deVries, University of Pennsylvania | Mathematical connections in combinatorial enumeration | Haverford |
| March 22 | Mirko Visontai, University of Pennsylvania | The MCP conjecture | Bryn Mawr |
| April 5 | Betty Mayfield, MAA and Hood College | Women and Mathematics in the Time of Euler | Bryn Mawr |
| April 12 | Michelle Craddock, US Military Academy | Reflexivity For Fremlin Tensor Products of Banach Lattices | Bryn Mawr |
| April 19 | Sarah Hews, Swarthmore College | HBV Models: the role of hepatocytes on persisent infection | Bryn Mawr |
| April 26 | Peter Horn, Columbia University | Generalizing the Genus of a Knot | Haverford |
Fall 2008
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 8 | Jennifer Boyko '09 and Taylor Burmeister '09 Haverford College | Boyko: The Effect of Missingness on the Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Modifying Drug Clinical Trails Burmeister: Local Edge Detection with Wavelets | Haverford |
| Sept. 22 | Stephan Wehrli Columbia University | "New invariants for sutured 3-manifolds" | Bryn Mawr |
| Sept. 29 | Linda Chen Swarthmore | "Enumerative Geometry, Combinatorics, and Algebra" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 6 | Michael Lavine University of Massachusetts, Amherst | "What is Bayesian Statistics and Why Everything Else is Wrong" | Haverford |
| Oct. 7 | Michael Lavine University of Massachusetts, Amherst | "Spike Trains and Human Brains" | Haverford |
| Oct. 20 | Rob Ghrist University of Pennsylvania | "Euler Calculus and Sensor Networks" | Haverford |
| Oct. 27 | Helen Wong Bowdoin College | "Distinguishing 3-dimensional manifolds" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 3 | Dave Futer Temple University | "The Space Around a Knot" | Haverford |
| Nov. 10 | Sarah Mason Davidson College | "Permutations, partitions, and 'fue de taquin'" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 17 | David Lippel Haverford College | "O-minimal structures: tame fragments of analysis" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 24 | Laura Hall-Seelig University of Massachusetts, Amherst | "Finite Fields, Curves, Points, and Genera" | Haverford |
| Dec. 1 | Patrick Clarke University of Pennsylvania | "Morse Theory, Topology, and Physics" | Haverford |
Spring 2009
Fall 2007
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 10 | Ethan Alguire '09 Haverford College | "The Flask on the Hard Drive: How to Be a Chemist and Not Get Your Hands Dirty" | Haverford |
| Sept. 17 | Jane Holsapple Long (BMC '02) University of Maryland | "Group Cohomology and Free Actions on Products of Spheres" | Bryn Mawr |
| Sept. 24 | Elisenda Grigsby Columbia University | "Combinatorial Knot Floer Homology for Knots in Lens Spaces" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 1 | Peter Storm University of Pennsylvania | "Imagining Hyperbolic Space from the Inside" | Haverford |
| Oct. 8 | Davide Cervone Union College | "The Hypercube and Hypersphere: Breaking them Down and Building the Up" | Haverford |
| Oct. 22 | Daniel Krashen University of Pennsylvania | "Division Algebras and Geometry" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 5 | Puneet Batra Columbia University | "Anomalies in Gauge Theories" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 16 | Eric Maskin* Institute for Advanced Study | "How Should Presidents Be Elected" | Haverford |
| Nov. 19 | Keith Burns Northwestern University | "A Simple Proof of Sharkovsky's Theorem" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 26 | Bruce Char Drexel University | "Explorations in the Characterization of Mathematical Handwriting" | Haverford |
| Nov. 29 | Austin Parker '02 Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland, College Park | "How Computers Play Poker: Algorithms for Imperfect Information Games" | Haverford |
| Dec. 3 | Juliana Belding | "Curves, Cryptography and Calculus: A Weil Pairing on Elliptic Curves over the Dual Numbers" | Bryn Mawr |
| Dec. 4 | Aaron Block '02 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | TBA | Haverford |
Spring 2008
Fall 2006
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 18 | Sarah Crown University of Michigan | "Cyclic Homology of the Coloring Complex of Simple, Connected Graphs" | Bryn Mawr |
| Sept. 25 | David Crombecque Bryn Mawr College | "Non-Orientable Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds" | Haverford |
| Oct. 5 | Tara Brendle Cornell University | "Mapping Class Groups: Progress and Problems" | Haverford |
| Oct. 9 | Peter Roquette Heidelberg | "Hermann Weyl and Emmy Noether" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 23 | Ty Cunningham Bryn Mawr College | "Moving Cycloids" | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 30 | Daniel Studenmund '08 | "Linking Graphs on a Circle" | Haverford |
| Nov. 6 | Charles Livingston Indiana University | "Four-dimensional Aspects of Classical Knot Theory" | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 13 | Steve C. Wang Swarthmore College | "Dating the Demise of the Dinosaurs" | Haverford |
| Nov. 20 | Stephen Wang Haverford College | How to Zoom Out | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 27 | Alan Baker Department of Philosophy Swarthmore College | Mathematical Impossibilities | Haverford |
Spring 2007
Fall 2005
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Sept. 12 | Allison Cuttler (Haverford College '06) | What I Did at my Summer REU | Haverford |
| Sept. 19 | Mark Skandera (Haverford College) | Total Nonnegativity | Bryn Mawr |
| Sept. 26 | David Goldschmidt (Institute for Defense Analyses) | Breaking ENIGMA: Applied Group Theory in Action | Haverford |
| Oct. 3 | Dr. Stanislav Dubrovskiy (Keio University) | Classifying a Pair of Matrices | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 17 | John Meier (Lafayette College) | From Poincare to Perelman: An Introduction to Classifying Manifolds | Haverford |
| Oct. 24 | Walter Stromquist | Helping the Navy Search for Lost Objects | Bryn Mawr |
| Oct. 31 | Don Davis (Lehigh University) | Binomial Coefficients and Roots of Unity in Topology | Haverford |
| Nov. 7 | Dr. Elisenda Grigsby (UC Berkeley and Columbia University) | Modern Algebraic Invariants of 3-Manifolds | Haverford |
| Nov. 14 | Constance Leidy (University of Pennsylvania) | Knot Diagram Moves | Haverford |
| Nov. 21 | Professor Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College) | Ergodic and Non-Ergodic Metrics on Embedded Surfaces | Bryn Mawr |
| Nov. 28 | Kathi Crow (Gettysburg University | Counterexamples in Ring Theory | Haverford |
Spring 2006
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Jan. 30 | Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers) | How I Got HOOKED into Doing Combinatorics | Haverford |
| Feb. 6 | Dr. Jill Jordan (Bryn Mawr College) | A Polynomial Invariant for Legendrian Links | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 20 | Noel Watson (Harvard) | Human Behavioral Dynamics in Supply Chain Management | Haverford |
| March 27 | Jim Reeds (Center for Communications Research) | Large Deviation Rate for a Lattice Path Counting Problem. Slides from the talk are also available! | Haverford |
| April 10 | Robin Pemantle (Penn) | Solving Equations | Bryn Mawr |
| April 24 | Garikai Campbell (Swarthmore) | A Bunch of Problems (involving rational distances) I Can't Solve: an Introduction to Elliptic Curves | Haverford |
Spring 2005
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Location |
| Jan. 31 | Selman Akbulut (Michigan State) | Calibrated manifolds and gauge theory | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 7 | Mark Dominus | Arithmetic with Continued Fractions | Haverford |
| Feb. 14 | Josh Sabloff (Haverford) | How Many Ways Can You Parallel-Park a Unicycle? | Bryn Mawr |
| Feb. 22 | William Dunham (Muhlenberg) | A Tribute to Euler | Haverford |
| March 15 | Helene Tyler (Manhattan College) | Computing Modules Over Finite Dimensional Algebras | Haverford |
| March 21 | Sema Salur (Northwestern and IAS) | Deformation theory of calibrated submanifolds | Bryn Mawr |
| March 28 | R. Andrew Hicks (Drexel) | Sideview Mirrors and Panoramic Cameras | Haverford |
| April 4 | Yibiao Pan (University of Pittsburgh and Bryn Mawr) | Convolution operators and oscillatory integrals | Bryn Mawr |
| April 11 | Math Awareness Day at Bryn Mawr! | Bryn Mawr | |
| April 18 | Effie Kalfagianni (Michigan State and IAS) | Crossing changes and knot invariants | Bryn Mawr |
| April 25 | Craig Sutton (UPenn) | Manifolds of Positive Sectional Curvature | Haverford |
Contact Us
Mathematics Department
Tina Fasbinder
Academic Administrative Assistant
tfasbinder@brynmawr.edu
610-526-5348
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Bryn Mawr College
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