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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 4:10-5:00 in either the Physics Building, P123, or on the second floor of Eliot Hall, E314. Directions to Reed. Refreshments are served before the talks. For more information, please email davidp at reed.edu. |
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| 2007-2008 Schedule | |
| Fall 2007 | |
| September | |
| 6 | Meeting with majors. No talk this week. |
| 13 |
Common Knowledge
Joe Buhler, CCR/Reed College (emeritus) |
| 20 |
Statistical properties of chaotic dynamical systems
Matthew Nicol, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston |
| 27 |
How many primes are less than one mole?
Richard E. Crandall, Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science, Reed College ROOM: Eliot 314 |
| October | |
| 4 |
The Many Names of (7,3,1)
Ezra Brown, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech ROOM: P123 |
| 11 |
Urning Voter Confidence
Philip B. Stark, Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley ROOM: Eliot 314 |
| 18 | Fall break |
| 25 |
Geometry and the "complexity" of
computation
Jessica Sidman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mount Holyoke College ROOM: Eliot 314 |
| November | |
| 1 |
Factoring algebraic numbers
Roger Wiegand, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska |
| 8 |
Gauss Sums and Dirichlet Series
Dan Bump, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University/Reed College |
| 15 |
Games, Puzzles, and Computation
Robert Hearn, Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College |
| 22 | Thanksgiving break |
| 29 |
Sage for Mathematical Research
William Stein, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington |
| Spring 2008 | |
| February | |
| 7 |
Groups as Twisted Products of Spheres
Rebecca Field, Visiting Scholar, Reed College |
| 13 |
Wednesday Talk: Room E314
Job candidate |
| 14 |
Thursday Talk: Room E314
Job candidate |
| 19 |
Tuesday Talk: Room P123
Job candidate |
| 21 | No Thursday talk this week. |
| 28 |
Genome-scale Sequencing, Genomics, and Gene
Regulation -- Tackling open biological problems computationally
C. Titus Brown, Laboratory of Genomics, Evolution and Development Michigan State University |
| March | |
| 6 |
Beyond Words: Affect Recognition and the
Math Inside
Izhak Shafran, OGI School of Science & Engineering Room: P123 |
| 13 |
Dehn functions for finitely presented
groups
Ravi Shankar, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma |
| 20 | Spring break |
| 27 |
Recent Developments on the Boij-Soderberg
Conjecture
Michael Goff, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington |
| April | |
| 3 |
Creating a Modern Computing Curriculum for
Bermuda
Eric Roberts, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University |
| 10 |
Rational Numbers and Polynomials: The Complete
Story
Susan Loepp, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Williams College |
| 17 |
Coverage Problems in Geometrical Probability:
Moments and Probability of
Coverage for Random Arcs on a Circle
Andrew F. Siegel, University of Washington Business School and Statistics Department |
| 24 |
Universal Space
Tom Wieting, Department of Mathematics, Reed College Room: P123 |
| Past colloquia: | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001 |