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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. |
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| 2006-2007 Schedule | |
| Fall 2006 | |
| September | |
| 7 | No talk this week. |
| 14 |
Mathematics of audio compression
Richard E. Crandall, Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science, Reed College Room change: Biology 19 |
| 21 |
Meeting with majors. No talk this week.
Room: TBA. |
| 28 |
Statistics in the New Biology: DNA
Microarray Experiments
James Bernhard, Department of Physics, University of Puget Sound |
| October | |
| 5 |
Prime ideal pictures
Sylvia Wiegand, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska |
| 12 |
Dynamics of Oceans and Atmospheres: why are
there intense jet streams?
Peter Rhines, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington |
| 19 | Fall Break |
| 26 |
The Implications of Unique Factorization
for Gambling
Sandra Spiroff, Mathematics Department, Seattle University |
| November | |
| 2 |
Commuting Matrices: Algebra and
Geometry
Al Sethuraman, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge |
| 3 |
Special Friday Talk
The Riemann zeta function and Hermitian operators. Dan Bump, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University |
| 9 |
Some inexact methods to obtain exact results. Chris Peterson, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University |
| 16 |
The Geometry of Special Relativity
Tevian Dray, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University |
| 23 | Thanksgiving break |
| 30 |
Khinchin's Theorem
Tom Wieting, Department of Mathematics, Reed College |
| Spring 2007 | |
| January | |
| 25 | Eric Babson, Department of Mathematics, UCSD |
| February | |
| 1 |
Performance of Portfolios Optimized with
Estimation Error
Andrew F. Siegel, University of Washington Business School |
| 8 |
Filling (some of) Euclidean space with
congruent round spheres
Daniel Asimov, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania |
| 15 |
Solutions of Polynomial Equations of
Matrices
Rao Potluri, Department of Mathematics, Reed College |
| 22 |
The role of communication in
computational complexity.
Nathan Segerlind, Department of Computer Science, Portland State University |
| March | |
| 1 |
Mount St. Helens, Seismology, and the
Discrete Wavelet Transform Albyn Jones, Department of Mathematics, Reed College |
| 8 |
On the Riemannian Geometry of the Cayley
Projective Plane Brian Van Koten, Lewis and Clark College |
| 15 | Spring break |
| 22 |
Clique Vectors of Graphs Andy Frohmader, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington |
| 29 |
Closure Operations on Ideals in
Commutative Rings
Neil Epstein, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan |
| April | |
| 5 |
A differential geometric proof of
Picard's theorem in complex analysis
Ravi Shankar, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma |
| 12 | No talk this week. |
| 19 |
Three views of Mount Grover: mathematical
perspectives of a quantum algorithm
David Meyer, Department of Mathematics, UCSD |
| 26 | No talk this week. |
| Past colloquia: | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001 |