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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: The talks are held 4:10-5:00 in the Physics building, room P123, unless otherwise noted below. Directions to Reed. Refreshments are usually served before the talks. For more information, please email davidp at reed.edu. |
| 2005-2006 Schedule | |
| Fall 2005 | |
| September | |
| 8 |
Theory & application of space-filling curves
Richard E. Crandall, Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science, Reed College |
| 15 |
Meeting with majors. No talk this week.
Room: TBA |
| 22 |
Forensic Statistics
Albyn Jones, Department of Mathematics, Reed College |
| 29 |
Reed Student talks:
Investigations in Nonabelian Difference Sets of Order 25, Strom Borman Turbulence stratification and f-invariant delta-scrambled subsets, Forrest Elliott-Farren |
| October | |
| 6 |
Music of the spheres...and their
quotients
Liz Stanhope, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Lewis and Clark College |
| 13 |
Singular Value Decomposition
Tom Wieting, Department of Mathematics, Reed College |
| 20 | Fall Break. |
| 27 |
Genetic Programming: Finding Algorithms by Evolution
Peter Drake, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Lewis and Clark College |
| November | |
| 3 |
Billiards and Geometric Topology
Moon Duchin, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis |
| 10 |
Using Wavelets to Minimize Max
Joe Lakey, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University |
| 17 |
Fibonacci Determinants -- A Combinatorial Approach
Naiomi Cameron, Department of Mathematics, Occidental College |
| 24 | Thanksgiving break. |
| December | |
| 1 |
Unfolding polyhedra
Ezra Miller, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota |
| Spring 2006 | |
| January | |
| 26 |
Topology and Modal Logic
Steve Awodey, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University |
| February | |
| 2 |
Building Reliable Software from Proofs:
Amphion, Deductive Synthesis, and Space
Steve Roach, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso and MacKichan Software |
| 9 | There is no Thursday talk this week. However, there will be a special Friday talk. See the next entry. |
| 10 |
Friday Talk
Random Graphs with a Given Degree Sequence: Algorithms and Combinatorics Joseph Blitzstein, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University Reed job candidate |
| 16 |
Thursday Talk
Groups and convexity - almost! Susan Hermiller, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska |
| 17 |
Friday Talk
Approximating Optimal Binary Decision Trees Brent Heeringa, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst Reed job candidate |
| 21 |
Tuesday Talk
*** Time: 3:10-4:00 *** When Computers Flip Coins Ian Barland, Department of Computer Science, Rice University Reed job candidate |
| 23 |
Thursday Talk
From Fermat's Last Theorem to the Concept of Ideals of a Ring Patrick Morandi, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University |
| 28 |
Tuesday Talk
*** Time: 3:10-4:00 *** Security of Identification Schemes Adriana Palacio, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego Reed job candidate |
| March | |
| 2 | No Thursday talk this week. |
| 10 |
Special Friday Talk [Come help celebrate the beginning of
Spring break!]
The Combinatorial Structure of Moment Polytopes Tara Holm, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut P123, 4:10–5:00 |
| 16 | Spring break. |
| 23 |
Frontiers in 3D Photography
Steven Seitz, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington |
| 30 |
An Introduction to Clifford Algebras
Peter Dolan, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon Reed job candidate |
| April | |
| 6 |
Characterizing the amoeba
Kevin Purbhoo, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia |
| 13 |
Liouville's theorem in conformal geometry
Karin Melnick, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago |
| 20 |
Quality approximation of real numbers by rationals
Mary Flahive, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University |
| 27 |
Braids, graphs, and robots
Aaron Abrams, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia |
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