Past Seminars & Colloquia
Previous colloquia and lectures
2011-2012
September 2011 Megan Kerr Nonnegatively curved homogeneous spaces: how is algebra controlling geometry? October 2011 Moon Duchin Counting Problems October 2011 Andrew Schultz A $q$-analog of Fleck's congruence October 2011 Alex Diesl Strongly Clean Matrices November 2011 Karen Lange Searching for simple integer parts November 2011 Caroline Klivans The Space of Phylogenetic Trees
February 2012 Michael Ching Apollonian circle packings of the half-plane
February 2012 Aaron Hoffman Phase Planes, Waves and Delays
February 2012 Nathan Karst Reliable data transmission over a wireless channel
March 2012 Andrew Schultz Linear Algebra in your daily (digital) life
March 2012 Brian Storey Modeling Flow and Transport in Nanofluidic Devices
March 2012 Christine Breiner Existence and Uniqueness of Minimal Surfaces
April 2012 Elizabeth Denne Rectangles and other polygons inscribed in curves
April 2012 Ann Trenk The Discrepency of a Poset: Mathematical Approach to Fair Rankings
April 2012 Ashley Dombkowski Research, MeSearch, WeSearch: How consumer-directed genetic technologies are changing the face of medicine
April 2012 Ismar Volic
Configuration spaces in topology
2010-2011
September 2010 Andrew Schultz Algebraic $K$-theory and Quadratic Reciprocity October 2010 David Mazur Error-correcting codes: what Hamming wrought November 2010 Jonathan Tannenhauser Entropy, Strings and Partitions of Integers November 2010 Charles Bu Math Education in China November 2010 Ismar Volic The fundamental theorem of finite type knot invariants November 2010 Catherine Roberts An Equation Runs Through It: River Rafting in the Grand Canyon March 2011 Allison Pacelli Algebraic Number Theory: An Ideal Subject March 2011 Thomas Fleming Milnor Numbers and Clasper Surgery: How Mathematicians Study Stretchy Strings
2009-2010
September 21, 2009 Steven Miller Pythagoras at the Bat: an Introduction to Statistics and Mathematical Modelling October 20, 2009 Chelsea Walton Noncommutative Geometry?! November 4, 2009 Jillian Mcleod Partition Regular Matrices from a Linear Algebraic Perspective November 13, 2009 Francis Su Voting in Agreeable Societies
2008-2009
September 23, 2008 Karen Parshall Internationalization of Mathematics October 21, 2008 Kathryn Leonard The Terminator's eyeballs November 4, 2008 Sol Friedberg Euler products and twisted Euler products November 13, 2008 Dev Sinha Fixed points, from fractals to your coffee December 2, 2008 John McCleary The square-peg problem March 10, 2009 Pascal Lambrechts The Poincaré conjecture and the shape of the universe March 16, 2009 Mark Kayll Integrals and graph theory April 14, 2009 Joseph Mileti Rainbow problem
2007-2008
October 2, 2007 Jill Pipher, Brown Univrersity Public key cryptography, lattices and NTRU November 5, 2007 Ben Brubaker, MIT Rethinking Riemann's zeta function February 12, 2008 Bob Devaney, Boston University The Mandelbrot set and Fibonacci sequence April 1, 2008 Brian Munson, Harvard University Two things about the linking number April 22, 2008 Seth Sullivant, Harvard University How secure is your data?
Previous Student Seminars
Spring 2012
| January 30 | Prof. Andrew Schultz | Polynomial Generalizations of binomial coefficients |
| February 6 | Erica Dohring | Applications of Operations Research in Physical Oceanography |
| February 13 | Melinda Lanius and Joy Das | Putnam 2011 solutions |
| February 27 | Stephanie Welch | Exploring Incompressibility: What makes a number random? |
| March 5 | Caroline Parnass, Laura Liu | Putnam 2011 Solutions, Part II |
| March 12 | Ginny DeviChou | Cardinality and the Continuum Hypothesis |
| March 26 | Michelle Park | Derivation of Van der Waals |
| April 2 | Laura Liu | Optimization through Linear Programming |
| April 9 | Ran Ji | Super Awesome Stuff: Linear Forms Over Finite Abelian Groups |
Fall 2011
September 12 Prof. Oscar Fernandez Hamiltonizing Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems September 19 Melinda Lanius Universal cycles for unordered combinatorial objects September 26 Cornelia Mihaila Multidimensional continued fractions October 17 Divya Gopinath Combinatorics and the generalized Fibonacci numbers October 24 Naomi Takaki The Special Theory of Relativity October 31 Prof. Karen Lange Finding Paths through Trees November 7 Kristen Chun A derivation of the Michaelis-Menten equation November 14 Various Students Panel on summer math programs November 28 Mimi Moncada The Peano Curve December 5 Kristin Liska Game theory and the Nash equilibrium
Spring 2011
January 31 Jonathan Tannenhauser Computing $\pi$ with Colliding Balls February 7 Various students Solutions to the 2010 Putnam Exam February 14 Alex Gendreau Exploring the Needleman-Wunsch Algorithm
and the Polytope Propagation AlgorithmFebruary 22 Various students Solutions to the 2010 Putnam Exam, Part II February 28 Andrew Schultz Math Origami Workshop March 7 Liz Ferme Disrupting Terrorist Networks March 14 No seminar! March 28 Katelin Snow Group Theory and Chemistry: Molecular Symmetry and its applications April 4 Kelly Walters Restricted Partition Functions of Integers April 11 Josh Jordan Math for fun and profit at athenahealth April 19 Gabriela Perez Villalobos Eulerian numbers April 25 Amanda Curtis and Jane Rieck Visualizing Arithmetic
Fall 2010
September 13 Andrew Schultz, faculty An irrational quest September 20 Amanda Curtis '11 Minimal surfaces and planar harmonic mappings September 27 Melinda Lanius '12 Explorations in Tessellations October 4 Brian Munson, faculty Minimizing distances using flux October 12 Various students Panel on summer math programs October 18 Cornelia Mihaila '12 Existence of Solutions to the Modified Sylvester Equation October 25 Maddy Prenner '11 Cryptanalysis of STR-KAP November 1 Nora Evans '11 Google Page Rank Algorithm November 8 Anthea Cheung '12 Euler Characteristic and the Platonic Solids November 15 Tanen Clark '11 and
Rebecca Graber '11To Infinity and Beyond: Constructing the Real Projective Plane November 29 Jane Rieck '11 Computability Theory
Spring 2010
February 5 Megan Kerr, faculty Straightedge and compass constructions February 19 Lisa Abraham '10 and Geraldine Ng '10 Mathematics and Finance March 12 Margarita Miranda '10 The Poincare Conjecture March 19 Caitlin Danis '10 and Cecilia Flatley '10 Mathematics and Juggling April 13 Zoe Xiao '10 Continued Fractions April 16 Lisa Yang '10 TBD April 23 Kate Donahue '12 TBD April 30 Amanda Curtis '11 TBD
Fall 2009
September 21 Jizhou Wang '10 Markov chains October 5 Alex Gendreau '12 Directed strongly regular graphs October 19 Professor Alex Diesl Perfect numbers October 26 Amanda Curtis '11 Quotients of polynomial rings November 2 Margaret Ma '10 Sphere packing November 9 Kelly Pendergast and Vanessa Zhang Fractals November 16 Anna Loparev Automata theory November 23 cancelled cancelled November 30 Soumya Srinagesh '10 TBD December 7 Katie Poon '10 and Sue He '10 TBD
Spring 2009
February 9 Stanley Chang, Professor Markov chains February 23 Caitlin Leverson '10 Delta Sets of Numerical Monoids March 2 Bridget Tenner Combinatorics and tilings March 9 Erika Kahn '09 Topics in Cantorian Set Theory March 16 Steph Xiang '09 and Katie Sang '09 The Golden Ratio March 30 Swini Garimella '09 The Busy Beaver Function April 6 Subin Park '11 The Square Pyramid Puzzle April 13 Hae Jin Chang '10 Magic Squares April 21 Sha Lu '10 Network Optimization April 27 Amanda Curtis '11 Bernoulli Numbers May 4 Jaree Pinthong '09 & Lin Xu '09 Shortest Path Algorithms
Fall 2008
September 8 Ismar Volic, Professor Some convergence of series proofs September 15 Stanley Chang, Professor Famous unsolved problems in mathematics September 22 Ashley Hartman '09 Applications of game theory September 29 Voula Collins '09 The Euler characteristic October 6 Natalya Kopyra '09 The Josephus problem October 20 Ghassan Sarkis (Pomona) p-adics: a primer October 27 Bianca Thompson '09 The axiom of choice November 3 Amanda Curtis '11 Hyperbolic space November 10 Jen Pawson '09 Fibonacci numbers: an unexpected result November 17 Andrea Johnston '09 Integer programming and chemistry December 1 Kate Sorenson '09 & Kristin Jochems '09 RSA cryptosystems
Spring 2008
February 4 Ismar Volic, Professor An introduction to knots, Part I Februrary 11 Ismar Volic, Professor An introduction to knots, Part II February 25 Katie Kinnaird '08 Random walks and tissue engineering March 3 Stanley Chang, Professor Classification of closed surfaces March 10 Sarah LaFrance '08 Conway's game of life March 17 Amanda Curtis '11 Linear algebra, disease spread and DNA March 31 Caitlin Leverson '10 & Fran Zeller '10 Pseudorandomness in primes April 7 Caitlin Leverson '10 & Fran Zeller '10 Primes in arithmetic progression April 22 Caitlin Vaccaro '08 On lambda-permutations of infinite series April 28 Voula Collins '09 An order to the Baumslag-Solitar groups May 5 Rebecca Rothkopf '09 Mathematics of computer vision
