Bi-Co Math Colloquium Archive

Curious about past years' colloquia and speakers? Here's the information you seek!
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
(BMC '18)

Penn State Brandywine

"Knot Mosaics: Cusps and Cubes!"

Bryn Mawr

Fall 2022

Date

Speaker

Title of Talk

Location

Sep 26

Matthew Fury

Penn State Abington

"Sectorial and Strip-type Operators in the Study of Ill-posed Problems"

Bryn Mawr

Oct 3

Sarah Weinstein

University of Pennsylvania

"Statistical Methods for Extracting and Comparing in Multi-modal Neuroimaging Studies"

Haverford

Oct 10

FALL BREAK

NO COLLOQUIUM

 

Oct 17

Geremias Polanco

Smith College

"On Numbers ... and Patterns ... and Games ... and Greed"

Bryn Mawr

Oct 24

Braeden Reinoso

Boston College

"Stretching Taffy, Tying Knots, and Counting Points"

Haverford

Oct 31

Timur Akhunov

Haverford College

"Derivative Gain and Singularities for Degenerate Laplace Equation"

Bryn Mawr

Nov 7

Osman Okutan

Max Planck Institute

"Barcode Decorated Merge Trees" (via Zoom)

Haverford

Nov 14

Soheil Anbouhi

Haverford College

"Universal Mappings and Analysis of Functional Data on Geometric Domains"

Bryn Mawr

Nov 21

Henri Drake

Princeton University

"Challenges in Predicting Future Weather and Climate: Turbulence, Chaos, and (Un)predictability"

Haverford

Nov 28

 

NO COLLOQUIUM

 

Dec 5

Joel Lewis

George Washington University

“q-analogues”

Haverford

 

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

Date Speaker Title of Talk Location
Sept. 13

Xiang Wan

Haverford College

"Poisson Equations in Two-dimensional Domains with Line Fracture: from Qualitative to Quantitative Analysis" Bryn Mawr
Sept. 20

Jana Gevertz

The College of New Jersey

“Exploring the Predictive Abilities of a Mathematical Model of Cancer” Haverford
Sept. 27

Allison Miller

Swarthmore College

"Algebra and Topology in Dimension Four" Bryn Mawr
Oct. 4

Rylee Lyman

Rutgers University

“Train Track Maps and CTs for Free Products” Haverford
Oct. 11 Fall Break No Colloquium  
Oct. 18

Jaclyn Lang

Temple University

"Towards Explicit Class Field Theory Beyond the Imaginary Quadratic Case" Bryn Mawr
Oct. 25

Priyam Patel

University of Utah

“Curves and Surfaces in Topology” Haverford
Nov. 1

Renee Bell

University Pennsylvania

“Analogies Between Number Theory and Geometry: Monodromy of Tamely Ramified Covers”  Bryn Mawr
Nov. 8

Gideon Simpson

Drexel University

"Sampling from Rough Energy Landscapes" Haverford
Nov. 15

Radhika Gupta

Temple University

"Groups as Spaces and Exponential Growth" Bryn Mawr
Nov. 22

Michael Pokojovy

UT El Paso

"Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Discretely Observed Multivariate Vasicek Processes" Haverford
Dec. 6

Miriam Kuzbary

Georgia Tech

"Polynomial Invariants of Knots" Haverford

 

2019–2020

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
and Institute for Advanced Study​​​​​

"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

"Symmetry, almost"

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

"Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics"

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*
4:00 PM

*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 
Speaker

"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
Tufts University

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
Yale University

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" • (slides)

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, enterpreneurship, 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

Date

Speaker

Title of Talk

Location

Jan. 21

 Rebecca Vandiver
University of Arizona

"Differential Growth and Residual Stress in Cylindrical Elastic Structures"

Bryn Mawr

Jan. 27

Nessy Tania
University of Utah

"Mathematical Models of Calcium Regulation"

Bryn Mawr

Jan. 29

Dylan Shepardson
Georgia Institute of Technology

"Modeling Adaptable Behavior in Neurons" (How Mathematics can get on your Nerves)

Bryn Mawr

Feb. 2

Fang Chen
Oxford College of Emory Univ.

"Dividing a system of weights into two groups of equal mass"

Haverford

Feb. 2

Siggy Moore '09
Haverford College

"An injective proof of strong q-log-convexity for Bell polynomials"

Haverford

Feb. 5

Amy N. Myers
Bryn Mawr College

"Coke and Pepsi and the Binomial Distribution"

Bryn Mawr

Feb. 9

Kristen Sellke
University of Connecticut

"A Journey through Mathematics with the Fibonacci Sequence"

Bryn Mawr

Feb. 16

Maya Kiehl
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"Abstract Sets and DeMorgan's Laws"

Bryn Mawr

March 16

Nick Horton
Smith College 

"Much ado about nothing: methods and software implementations to estimate incomplete data regression models"

Haverford

March 23

Charles Buehrle and
Mark Skandera
Lehigh University

"Clausen's construction of irreducible representations of the symmetric group"

Bryn Mawr

March 30

David Shea Vela-Vick
University of Pennsylvania

"Triple linking numbers, ambiguous Hopf invariants and integral formulas for three-component links"

Haverford

April 6

John Baldwin
Princeton University

"On the spectral sequence from Khovanov homology to Heegaard Floer homology"

Bryn Mawr

April 13 Clay Shonkwiler
University of Pennsylvania
"Linking Integrals in Hyperspheres" Bryn Mawr
April 20 Ayako Fukui
Bryn Mawr College
"Lp Boundedness of Oscillatory Singular Inegral Operators" Haverford
April 27 Richard Ball
and Bill Huber
Haverford College
"Campaign Strategies and the Electoral College System" Haverford

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

Date

Speaker

Title of Talk

Location

Jan. 28

Amy Myers
Bryn Mawr College

"The Outstanding Elements of Permutations and Words"

Haverford

Feb. 4

John Flynn
Haverford College

"An examination of the size of the image for polynomial maps over finite fields."

Bryn Mawr

Feb. 13

Laurie Rubel
CUNY Brooklyn

"Research in Mathematics Education: Battlefields and Beyond"

Haverford

Feb. 18

Ana Cannas da Silva
Princeton University

"From hermitian matrices to symplectic geometry and back again"

Bryn Mawr

Feb. 25

Jayadev Athreya
Princeton University

"Billiards, ergodic theory, and number theory"

Haverford

March 17

Sarah-Marie Belcastro
Smith College 

"Edge-Coloring Graphs on Surfaces: Recent Progress on Grünbaum's Conjecture"

Haverford

March 19

Freeman Hrabowski
University of Maryland

"Strategies that Support Student Success in the Sciences"

Bryn Mawr

March 24

Dennis DeTurck
University of Pennsylvania

"Exploiting invariance, from freshman calculus to linking integrals"

Bryn Mawr

March 31

Darren Glass
Gettysburg College

"Cyptography, Coding Theory, and Curve Interpolation"

Haverford

April 7

Herbert S. Wilf
University of Pennsylvania 

"Sister Celine, as I knew her"

Bryn Mawr

April 14

George Cobb
Mount Holyoke

"Markov Chain Monte Carlo: A Course for Math Majors"

Haverford

April 15

George Cobb
Mount Holyoke

"Two Statisticians and One Serial Murderer"

Haverford

April 21

Janet Talvacchia
Swarthmore College

"Generalized Geometry"

Bryn Mawr

April 28 Rob Kusner
Univ of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Pennsylvania
"Lengths and Crossing Numbers of Knotted Ropes and Strips" Haverford

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

Date

Speaker

Title of Talk

Location

Jan. 29

Constance Leidy
University of Pennsylvania

"Knots and the Fourth Dimension"

Bryn Mawr

Feb. 6

Tim McMurry
DePaul University

"Nonparametric Regression with Infinite Order Flat-Top Kernels"

Haverford

Feb. 8

Arthur Berg
University of California - San Diego

"A Statistical Journey through Historic Haverford"

Haverford

Feb. 12

Leah Jager
Grinnell College

"A trip to the dressing room -- does your probability model fit properly?"

Haverford

Feb. 14

Weiwen Miao
Mavalester College

"The Use of Statistics in the Legal System"

Haverford

Feb. 19

Janet Rosenbaum
Harvard University 

"Do teenagers always tell the truth? Estimating the prevalence of adolescent risk behaviors from inconsistent self-report"

Haverford

Feb. 26

Angela Gibney
University of Pennsylvania 

"What is a moduli space and why do algebraic geometers love them?"

Bryn Mawr

March 5

Aldan Walker '07
Haverford College

"Decision Trees and Fundamental Complexity, or Topology: It's Not Just for Topologist"

Haverford

March 19

Kristopher Tapp
Williams College

"Symmetry and Curvature"

Bryn Mawr

March 26

Victor Moll
Tulane University 

"Pretty pictures from Interesting integrals"

Haverford

April 2

Katherine Okikiolu
University of California - San Diego

"Spectral zeta functions and Sobolev-type inequalities on manifolds"

Bryn Mawr

April 9

Timothy Y. Chow
Center for Communications Research

"Counting Lattice Paths that Avoid a Boundary"

Haverford

April 16

Robert Ghrist
University of Illinois

"Topology, Algebra, and Sensor Networks"

Bryn Mawr

April 23 Ciprian Manolescu
Columbia University
"Combinatorial Floer Homology"

Bryn Mawr

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

Department of Mathematics

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