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Most Thursday afternoons during the academic year, the Reed College
Department of Mathematics hosts a math talk. The talks are directed to
our mathematics majors but are usually accessible on a variety of
levels.
Coordinates: Unless noted below, all talks are on Thursday afternoons, 4:10-5:00PM, on the third floor of the Reed College library, room L204. Directions to Reed. Coffee and cookies are usually served before the talks. For more information, please email davidp@reed.edu. |
| 2001-2002 Schedule | |
| Fall 2001 | |
| September | |
| 6 | Joe Buhler, Department of Mathematics, Reed College Hat Problems |
| 13 | Meeting with majors. |
| 18 |
Special Tuesday talk, L204, 4:10-5:00
Mark Haiman, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley Some surprising connections between combinatorics and algebraic geometry. |
| 20 | Jesus De Loera, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis, Mystic drawings, the census bureau, and you. |
| 25 |
Special Tuesday talk, Psych. 105, 4:15PM
Jonathan Grudin, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Irresistible Forces and Immovable Objects: Scholarship in the Digital Era |
| 27 | Arne Ledet, University of Waterloo Generic Polynomials |
| October | |
| 4 | Richard Crandall, Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science, Reed College New results in the theory of normal numbers |
| 11 | Tom Wieting, Professor of Mathematics, Reed College DIAMOND |
| 18 | No talk. Fall break. |
| 25 | John Rice, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley Variable Stars |
| November | |
| 1 | MOVIE: John H. Conway's ax^2+hxy+cy^2=n |
| 8 | James Bernhard, Pacific NW College of Art Celtic Knotwork |
| 15 | Rekha Thomas, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington An Introduction to Polytopes |
| 22 | No talk. Thanksgiving break. |
| 29 | Elwyn Berlekamp, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley What's New in Game Theory. Non-standard location: Psychology Auditorium, 4:10-5:00. |
| Spring 2002 | |
| January | |
| 24 | Musical: Fermat's Last Tango Non-standard time/location: Psychology Auditorium, 4:10-6:00. |
| 31 | Richard Crandall, Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science, Reed College The Games that Entropy Plays |
| February | |
| 7 | Kenneth Ross, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon A generalization of a result about Riemann sums. |
| 14 | Albyn Jones, Department of Mathematics, Reed College Do fire trucks cause fires? Counterfactuals, Statistical models, and Causal inference from observational data. |
| 21 | Jon Brundan, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon Crystals ... |
| 28 | Henry Cohn Random Tilings |
| March | |
| 7 | Robert Moody, Scientific Director, Banff International Research Station; Professor of Mathematics, University of Alberta Aperiodic Order: Tilings, Substitutions, and Diffraction I Non-standard location: Psychology Auditorium, 4:10-5:00. |
| 8 |
Special Friday talk, L204, 4:10-5:00
Robert Moody, Scientific Director, Banff International Research Station; Professor of Mathematics, University of Alberta Aperiodic Order: Tilings, Substitutions, and Diffraction II |
| 14 | No talk. Spring break. |
| 19 | Special Tuesday talk, Job Candidate, L204, 4:10-5:00 |
| 21 | Job Candidate, L204, 4:10-5:00 |
| 26 | Special Tuesday talk, Job Candidate, Psychology Auditorium, 4:10-5:00 |
| 28 | Job Candidate, Psychology Auditorium, 4:10-5:00 |
| April | |
| 4 | Steve Awodey, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University Continuity and logical completeness: an application of sheaf theory to logic |
| 11 | Joe Buhler, Reed College The Elliptic Curve in Escher's "Print Gallery" |