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Claremont Colleges Mathematics Colloquia

The Claremont Colleges present Mathematics Colloquia on every Wednesday, 4:15 - 5:15 pm.

For more information or to suggest speakers, please contact Dr. Mario Martelli. Email: mmartelli@cmc.edu

Spring 2009 Math Colloquia

Date:sort iconTitle:Speakers:
Apr/29/2009The Inquiry Oriented Differential Equations Project: Addressing Challenges Facing Undergraduate Mathematics EducationChris Rasmussen San Diego State University
Apr/22/2009Lissajous, Fourier, and Chebyshev KnotsJim Hoste Pitzer College
Apr/15/2009Algebraic Voting TheoryProfessor Michael Orrison of Harvey Mudd College
Apr/08/2009ELLIPTIC HYPERGEOMETRIC INTEGRALSEric Rains California Institute of Technology
Mar/25/2009TBDAlfonso Castro, Harvey Mudd College
Mar/11/2009INTEGRAL QUADRATIC FORMS WITH FINITELY MANY EXCEPTIONSWai Kiu Chan Wesleyan University
Mar/04/2009THE BRIDGES OF KNIGSBERG: EULER, HIERHOLZER, FLEURY, AND BEYONDBrian Hopkins St. Peter’s College
Feb/25/2009THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF THE MANDELBROT SETRobert L. Devaney Boston University
Feb/18/2009A STOCHASTIC MODEL OF HIV-1 ESCAPE FROM THE CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE RESPONSEElissa Schwartz Washington State University
Feb/11/2009FARADAY WAVES IN BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATESRicardo Carretero, San Diego State University
Feb/04/2009VORTEX RINGS WITH SWIRLStefan Llewellyn Smith University of California, San Diego
Jan/28/2009Structure Enhancement Diffusion and Contour Extraction for Electron Tomography of MitochondriaPeter Blomgren (San Diego State University)
Jan/21/2009Best Approximation in Metric TreesAsuman Aksoy, CMC

Fall 2008 Math Colloquia

Date:sort iconTitle:Speakers:
Dec/10/2008Demonic Graphs and Undergraduate ResearchAparna Higgins, University of Dayton
Dec/03/2008A Fast Forward Solver for Radiative Transfer Equation with Applications in Optical ImagingHongkai Zhao University of California, Irvine
Nov/26/2008No Colloquium - HolidayNo Speaker - Holiday
Nov/19/2008Outliers when Clustering Microarray DataJo Hardin Pomona College
Nov/12/2008Dances Between Continuous and Discrete: Euler's Summation FormulaDavid Pengelley New Mexico State University
Nov/05/2008Computing Without Computers: Serving the Needs of Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval IslamGlen van Brummelen Quest University Canada
Oct/29/2008Maxima, Minima, and other ExtremaDavid G. Costa University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Oct/22/2008Electrowetting and Digital MicrofluidicsAli Nadim Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute
Oct/15/2008Harmonic Analysis and Analyzing DataRaanan Schul University of California, Los Angeles
Oct/08/2008Rating System Design: Transforming Individual Preferences to Rating ScoresAnna Bargagliotti University of Memphis
Oct/01/2008Periodic solutions to a piece--wise linear second order ordinary Adolfo Rumbos, Pomona College
Sep/24/2008Semigroups of Maps and Periodic Difference EquationsRobert Sacker, University of Southern California
Sep/19/2008How to classify the solutions of a phase transition equation as either minima or saddle pointsStephen Robinson, Wake Forest University
Sep/17/2008Poster SessionSee list attached
Sep/10/2008Matchings and Marriage, Chains and Dominance Shahriar Shahriari (Pomona)
Sep/03/2008Post-Colloquium, Non-Colloquium Party TBA

Spring 2008 Math Colloquia

Date:sort iconTitle:Speakers:
Jan/30/2008Phase Models with Time DelaySue Ann Campbell (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Feb/06/2008OSCILLATIONS AND DELAYS IN DRUGJacques Belair
Feb/13/2008TBACarlos Castillo-Chavez
Feb/20/2008TBASusan Martonosi
Feb/27/2008TBAHarish Bhat
Mar/05/2008#CANCELLED# The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot SetRobert Devaney (Boston University)
Mar/12/2008TBARoss William
Mar/26/2008The Mathematics of the Bluegrass BanjoJoti Rockwell (Pomona College, Music Department)
Apr/02/2008Peaks, Passes and Pits: From Topography to Topology via Quantum MechanicsJohn Roe (Penn State University, University Park in PA)
Apr/09/2008Combinatorial Reciprocity TheoremsMathias Beck (San Francisco State University)
Apr/16/2008Mathematical insights into phage therapy: Using phages to combat bacterial infections.Hal Smith (Arizona State University)
Apr/23/2008TBAYang Kuang
Apr/30/2008TBAMichael Shearer
May/07/2008TBAMario Martelli

Fall 2007 Math Colloquia

Date:sort iconTitle:Speakers:
Sep/12/2007Critical points and solvability of boundary value problems Dr. Alfonso Castro (Chair, Harvey Mudd College Math Department)
Sep/17/2007The backward shift on Dirichlet-type spacesStephan Garcia (Pomona College)
Sep/19/2007Why Did Lagrange Prove the Parallel Postulate?Dr. Judith Grabiner (Pitzer College)
Sep/26/2007Optimization of a delay-differential model of the immune response to cancer vaccinesDr. Ami Radunskaya ( Pomona College )
Oct/03/2007The Impact of Ballistics on MathematicsDr. Shawn McMurran (California State University, San Bernardino)
Oct/10/2007How mathematics departments can improve prospective teachers' mathematical content knowledge for teachingDr. Stacy Brown (Pitzer and Claremont McKenna Colleges)
Oct/17/2007Recent Insights into A^{\infty} and the Jones Factorization TheoremDr. Winston Ou (Scripps College)
Oct/31/2007Scary boundaries and harmonic measuresDr. Michael O'Neill (Claremont McKenna College)
Nov/07/2007Sphere Packing, Lattices, and Epstein zeta functionLenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College
Nov/14/2007Compressive SamplingProf. Emmanuel Candes, California Institute of Technology
Nov/19/2007Banach Algebras of continuous functions and measures, and their second duals H.G. Dales (Leeds College, UK)
Nov/28/2007Beaucoup de Sudoku Michael Krebs (California State University, Los Angeles)