Bi-Co Math Colloquium Archive

Past colloquia by academic year:

2023-24
2022-23
2021-22
2019-20
2018-19
2017-18
2016-17
2015-16
2014-15
2013-14
2012-13
2011-12
2010-11
2009-10
2008-09
2007-08
2006-07
2005-06
2004-05

Curious about past years' colloquia and speakers? Here's the information you seek!

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Feb 5	Dr. Joseph Nakao Swarthmore College	*"Balancing Efficiency, Physics, and Robustness: What Goes into Designing a Good* Algorithm?"**	Bryn Mawr
Feb 12	Dr. Ila Varma University of Toronto	"Counting Number Fields and Predicting Asymptotics"	Haverford
Feb 19	Dr. Annalisa Crannell Franklin and Marshall College	"The Moon Tilt Illusion and Perspective Geometry"	Bryn Mawr
Feb 26	Leah Leiner Temple University	“An Introduction to Flows on Hyperbolic Manifolds”	Haverford
Mar 4	Dr. Victor Donnay Bryn Mawr College	“Examples of Finite Genus Surfaces Embedded in R³ with Anosov Geodesic Flow”	Bryn Mawr
Mar 5 (Tuesday)	Yuxuan Sun (HC '23) University of Minnesota	“Quotients of Special Classes of Positroids”	Haverford, Hilles 108
Mar 11	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Mar 18	Dr. Carolyn Reinhart Swarthmore College	"The Game of Cops and Robbers on Graphs"	Haverford
Apr 1	Dr. Yoichiro Mori University of Pennsylvania	“Mathematical Modeling of Cell Volume Control and Electrolyte Balance”	Haverford
Apr 8	Dr. Bülent Tosun Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the University of Alabama	"From Unknotted Curves on Seifert Surfaces to Contractible 4-manifolds"	Bryn Mawr
Apr 15	Abdullah Malik Florida State University	"Coloring Graphs and Beyond"	Haverford
Apr 22	Dr. Richard Green University of Colorado, Boulder	"Positivity Properties for Orthogonal Sets in Lattices"	Haverford

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sep 18	Dr. Rebecca R.G. (BMC AB/MA 2011) George Mason University	“Canonical Forms of Neural Ideals”	Bryn Mawr
Sep 25	Dr. Michael Fisher West Chester University	"Olympic Games: Three Impartial Games with Infinite Octal Codes"	Bryn Mawr
Oct 2	Dr. Andrew J. Bernoff Harvey Mudd College	"Agent-Based and Continuous Models of Locust Swarms"	Haverford
Oct 11 WED	Dr. Leqi Liu '17 BMC/HC Alum Princeton's Center for Language and Intelligence	"Human-Centered Machine Intelligence"	Haverford (Lutnick Library 200)
Oct 13	EDGE CONFERENCE	https://www.edgeforwomen.org/edge25/	Bryn Mawr
Oct 16	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Oct 23	Dr. Maia Fraser University of Ottawa	"Mathematics and Machine Learning"	Bryn Mawr
Oct 30	Brandis Whitfield Temple University	"An Invitation to Mapping Class Groups and Low-dimensional Topology and Geometry"	Haverford
Nov 6	Dr. Darij Grinberg Drexel University	“The Redei--Berge Symmetric Function of a Directed Graph”	Haverford
Nov 13	Dr. Marissa Loving University of Wisconsin-Madison	“From Dimension 2 to 3 and Back Again”	Bryn Mawr
Nov 20	THANKSGIVING WEEK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Nov 27	Dr. Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem Applied Math Team at DOD	“Using Mathematics to Unravel the Complexities Associated to Malaria Transmission Success, following a Human-Parasite-Mosquito Interaction in a Built Environment”	Bryn Mawr
Dec 4	Dr. Mohammad Nooranidoost Florida State University	“Mathematical Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Biofilm Structure”	Haverford

Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Jan 30	William Gasarch University of Maryland	"The Muffin Problem"	Haverford
Feb 6	Kaisa Taipale Director, C.H. Robinson	"Time Series Forecasting in Logistics"	Haverford
Feb 13	Daniel Krashen University of Pennsylvania	"The Geometry of Field Arithmetic"	Bryn Mawr
Feb 20	Valentin Blomer University of Bonn (Hausdorff Center for Mathematics)	"Quantum Chaos, Quadratic Forms and Fibonacci Numbers" Joint Talk with Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar	Bryn Mawr
Feb 27	Ipsita Datta Institute for Advanced Study	"What is Symplectic Geometry?"	Haverford
Mar 6	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Mar 13	Reza Parran New York Structural Biology Center	"An Overview of the Theoretical Foundation and Applications of Cryo-Electron Microscopy"	Haverford
Mar 20	Spence Lunderman Senior Applied Scientist, Airspace	“One Company's Solution to a Common Logistics Problem: A Story of Machine Learning and Mathematics”	Haverford
Mar 27	Michael Robert Virginia Tech	“An Old Threat in New Territory: Investigating Dengue Emergence with Mathematical Modeling”	Bryn Mawr
Apr 3	Nsoki Mavinga Swarthmore College	“Fuˇcik Spectrum and Solvability of Nonlinear Differential Equations”	Haverford
Apr 10	Jacob van Hook University of Pennsylvania	"An Introduction to Curvature and Curvature Homogeneity"	Bryn Mawr
Apr 14* Friday	Kathleen Hoffman University of Maryland, Baltimore County	“Parameter Identifiability in a Model of in vivo HIV Dynamics”	Haverford
Apr 24	Samantha Pezzimenti (BMC '18) Penn State Brandywine	"Knot Mosaics: Cusps and Cubes!"	Bryn Mawr

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sep 26	Matthew Fury Penn State Abington	"Sectorial and Strip-type Operators in the Study of Ill-posed Problems"	Bryn Mawr
Oct 3	Sarah Weinstein University of Pennsylvania	"Statistical Methods for Extracting and Comparing in Multi-modal Neuroimaging Studies"	Haverford
Oct 10	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Oct 17	Geremias Polanco Smith College	"On Numbers ... and Patterns ... and Games ... and Greed"	Bryn Mawr
Oct 24	Braeden Reinoso Boston College	"Stretching Taffy, Tying Knots, and Counting Points"	Haverford
Oct 31	Timur Akhunov Haverford College	"Derivative Gain and Singularities for Degenerate Laplace Equation"	Bryn Mawr
Nov 7	Osman Okutan Max Planck Institute	"Barcode Decorated Merge Trees" (via Zoom)	Haverford
Nov 14	Soheil Anbouhi Haverford College	"Universal Mappings and Analysis of Functional Data on Geometric Domains"	Bryn Mawr
Nov 21	Henri Drake Princeton University	"Challenges in Predicting Future Weather and Climate: Turbulence, Chaos, and (Un)predictability"	Haverford
Nov 28		NO COLLOQUIUM
Dec 5	Joel Lewis George Washington University	“q-analogues”	Haverford

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Feb. 7	Wen-ching Winnie Li Penn State University	"Primes and Zeta Functions in Combinatorics and Number Theory"	Haverford
Feb. 14	Lynne Steuerle Schofield Swarthmore College	"Using Response Time Data to Model Cognition and Cognitive Decline"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 28	Danqi Luo Rady School at UCSD	"Improving Emergency Department Crowding via Operations Research Guided Causal Inference"	Bryn Mawr
March 7	No Colloquium	Spring Break
March 14 Please note change of time for talk to 4:30 p.m.	Karen Kafadar University of Virginia	"To Screen or Not to Screen? Using Data from Randomized Screening Trials to Quantify Risks & Benefits of Cancer Screening"	Haverford
March 21	Yumeng Ou University of Pennsylvania	"Distance Problems and Projections of Measures"	Bryn Mawr
March 28	Daniel Ullman George Washington University	"Classic Problems"	Haverford
April 11 Please note different location and time: Park 25 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.	Lisa Traynor Bryn Mawr College	"The Captivating World of Symplectic Topology"	Bryn Mawr
April 18	Akshay Venkatesh Institute for Advanced Study	"Number Fields and 3-Dimensional Geometry" Joint Talk with Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar	Bryn Mawr
April 25	Michael Dougherty Swarthmore College	“Graphs, Braids, and Configuration Spaces”	Haverford

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 13	Xiang Wan Haverford College	"Poisson Equations in Two-dimensional Domains with Line Fracture: from Qualitative to Quantitative Analysis"	Bryn Mawr
Sept. 20	Jana Gevertz The College of New Jersey	“Exploring the Predictive Abilities of a Mathematical Model of Cancer”	Haverford
Sept. 27	Allison Miller Swarthmore College	"Algebra and Topology in Dimension Four"	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 4	Rylee Lyman Rutgers University	“Train Track Maps and CTs for Free Products”	Haverford
Oct. 11	Fall Break	No Colloquium
Oct. 18	Jaclyn Lang Temple University	"Towards Explicit Class Field Theory Beyond the Imaginary Quadratic Case"	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 25	Priyam Patel University of Utah	“Curves and Surfaces in Topology”	Haverford
Nov. 1	Renee Bell University Pennsylvania	“Analogies Between Number Theory and Geometry: Monodromy of Tamely Ramified Covers”	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 8	Gideon Simpson Drexel University	"Sampling from Rough Energy Landscapes"	Haverford
Nov. 15	Radhika Gupta Temple University	"Groups as Spaces and Exponential Growth"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 22	Michael Pokojovy UT El Paso	"Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Discretely Observed Multivariate Vasicek Processes"	Haverford
Dec. 6	Miriam Kuzbary Georgia Tech	"Polynomial Invariants of Knots"	Haverford

2019–2020

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Feb 3	Nicholas Miller University of California - Berkeley	"Big Mapping Class Groups and Their Actions on Infinite Graphs"	Haverford
Feb 10	Sydne Record Bryn Mawr College	"Scaling Up Biotic Interactions"	Bryn Mawr
Feb 17	Samuel Taylor Temple University	"A Central Limit Theorem for Random Closed Geodesics on Surfaces"	Haverford
Feb 24	Dan Cristafaro-Gardner University of California - Santa Cruz and Institute for Advanced Study	"The Simplicity Conjecture"	Bryn Mawr
Mar 2	Emelie Curl (BMC '14) Christopher Newport University	"A Polychromatic Approach to a Turán-type Problem in Finite Groups"	Bryn Mawr
Mar 9	Spring Break	No Colloquium
Mar 16	Linh Truong Institute for Advanced Study	Canceled	Bryn Mawr
Mar 23	Sunny Yang Xiao (Brown University)	Canceled	Haverford
Apr 3	Talithia Williams Harvey Mudd College Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker	Canceled	Bryn Mawr
Apr 6	Jana Gevertz The College of New Jersey	Canceled	Haverford
Apr 13	Dawn Nelson St. Peter's University	Canceled

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sep 16	Elizabeth Drellich Haverford College	"Cars, Cartoons, and Cohomology"	Bryn Mawr
Sep 23	Nancy Zhang The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	"Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics"	Bryn Mawr
Sep 30	Marissa Loving Georgia Institute of Technology	“Surfaces: BIG and small”	Haverford
Oct 7	Tarik Aougab Haverford College	"Properties of Random Curves on Surfaces"	Bryn Mawr
Oct 14	Fall Break	No Colloquium
Oct 21	Thomas Ng Temple University	"Counting and Growth in Infinite Graphs and Groups"	Haverford
Oct 28	Chung-Nan Tzou Haverford College	"Fluid Models with Sharp Interfaces - Clouds and Plumes"	Haverford
Nov 4	Tom Crawford Swarthmore College	"Cusps in Hyperbolic Spaces"	Haverford
Nov 11	Shelby Wilson University of Maryland	"A Mathematical Model of Temperature Effects on Human Sleep Regulation"	Bryn Mawr
Nov 18	Jordan Dworkin University of Pennsylvania	"Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data"	Haverford
Nov 25	Mona Merling University of Pennsylvania	"Algebraic K-theory and Its Connections to Other Fields"	Bryn Mawr
Dec 2	Candice Price Smith College	"Unravelling Biochemistry Mysteries: Knot Theory Applied to Biochemistry"	Bryn Mawr
Dec 9	Elizabeth Newman Emory University	"Tensor Linear Algebra: The Next Dimension"

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Feb. 4	Ailana Fraser University of British Columbia and Institute for Advanced Study	"Minimal Surfaces and Sharp Eigenvalue Bounds"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 11	Anna Pun Drexel University	"An Introduction to Symmetric Functions - A Gem in Algebraic Combinatorics"	Haverford
Feb. 18	Amanda Folsom Amherst College and Institute for Advanced Study	"Symmetry, almost" Joint Talk with Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 25	Nsoki Mavinga Swarthmore College	"Delay Differential Equations with Applications to the Analysis of the Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases”	Haverford
March 4	Nancy Zhang The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	TALK CANCELLED "Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics"	Bryn Mawr
March 11	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
March 18	Michael Stein University of Chicago	"Statistical Extremes: Theory and Practice”	Haverford
March 25	Zvezdelina Stankova (BMC '93) University of California, Berkeley	"Restricted Patterns of the Past, Present and Future"	Bryn Mawr
April 1	Nick Battista The College of New Jersey	“Holey Tentacles, Batman! How complex morphologies affect jellyfish swimming performance”	Haverford
April 8	Joanna Burt-Kinderman Haverford College '98	"Problematizing Math Teaching: A journey from Haverford to revolution in West Virginia math classrooms"	Haverford
April 15	Mira Bernstein Tufts University Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker	"Gerrymandering: Why It's More Complicated Than You Might Think"	Bryn Mawr
April 22	Andy Eisenberg Saint Louis University	"Rewriting Systems and Gilman's Conjecture”	Haverford
April 29	Stephanie Dick University of Pennsylvania	"Making Up Minds: Computing and Proof in the Postwar United States"	Bryn Mawr

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 17	Rebecca Everett Haverford College	"Using Mathematical and Statistical Modeling to Understand Behavior Change in Problem Drinkers"	Bryn Mawr
Sept. 24	John Bergdall Bryn Mawr College	"Approximating roots: from Newton to the ghost conjecture”	Haverford
Oct. 1	Jason Cantarella University of Georgia	"Modeling the 'Cambrian explosion' of Topological Polymers"	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 8	Tamar Friedmann Haverford College	"From Lie Algebras to Catalan Numbers and Beyond"	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 15	Fall Break	No Colloquium
Oct. 22	Angela Hicks Lehigh University	"Symmetric Functions and Beyond"	Haverford
Oct. 29	Dave Futer Temple University	"Can You Hear the Shape of a 3-Manifold?"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 5	Karola Meszaros Cornell University & Institute for Advanced Study	"Grothendieck Polynomials via Flow Polytopes"	Haverford
Nov. 12	Will Heuett Marymount University	"Bayesian Model Selection: Removing Our Biases and Allowing the Data to Guide Us"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 19	Isaac Klapper Temple University	"Linking Microbial Metabolism to Microbial Community Environment”	Haverford
Nov. 26		No Colloquium
Dec. 3	Kim Ruane Tufts University	"A Geometric Proof of Parity of Permutations”	Haverford

Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Feb 12	Cristian Gutierrez Temple University	"On the Existence of Dichromatic Single Element Lenses"	Haverford
Feb 26	Nina Xu Bucknell University	"Extended Canonical Correlation Analysis: Beyond One-on-One Correlation"	Haverford
March 5	Karen Taylor Bronx Community College, CUNY and Bryn Mawr College	"Arithmetic and Modular Forms"	Bryn Mawr
March 12	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
March 26	Dennis DeTurck University of Pennsylvania	"Continuous Symmetries and Linking Integrals"	Bryn Mawr
April 2	Anisah Nu'Man Ursinus College	"Geodesic Words for Groups and Formal Language Theory"	Haverford
April 9	Lillian Pierce Duke University and Institute for Advanced Study	"Marching Bands, Prime Numbers, and Sieves: Sometimes Imprecision Wins"	Bryn Mawr
April 13* 4:00 PM *Please note special day	Thane Plambeck Counterwave, Inc.	"Combinatorial Game Theory in the Apple App Store"	Haverford
April 16	Rosemary Guzman University of Chicago	"Quantitative Mostow Rigidity: Relating Volume to Topology for Hyperbolic 3-manifolds"	Haverford
April 23 Please note talk will take place in Park 243	Rebecca Goldin George Mason University and STATS/Sense about Science USA Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker	"Should You Believe It? Critical Minds in the Information Age" Supported by the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund	Bryn Mawr

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sep 11	NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK
Sep 18	Herman Gluck University of Pennsylvania	"How Much Must You Bend a Rope to Tie a Knot?"	Bryn Mawr
Sep 25	Kyle Hayden (Haverford College '13) Boston College	"Braids in Algebra and Topology"	Haverford
Oct 2	J. Robert Buchanan Millersville University	"A Novel Geometry-Based Cryptosystem"	Bryn Mawr
Oct 9	Nathan Williams University of Texas at Dallas	"Doppelgängers”	Haverford
Oct 16	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Oct 27	COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED		Bryn Mawr
Oct 30	Adam Piggott Bucknell University	"Graph Products of Groups and Their Automorphisms"	Haverford
Nov 6	Colin Diemer Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHES)	"Flips, Flops, and Surgery for Rings and Modules"	Bryn Mawr
Nov 13	Alanna Hoyer-Lietzel Mount Holyoke College	"Possible Quantifications of Resilience"	Haverford
Nov 20	THANKSGIVING	NO COLLOQUIUM
Nov 27	Charles Cunningham Haverford College	"What's the Shape of a Group?"	Bryn Mawr

Spring 2017

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Jan. 16	MLK DAY	NO COLLOQUIUM
Jan. 23	Jason Liao Sr. Principal Statistician Merck & Co., Inc.	"Quantifying an Agreement Study"	Haverford
Jan. 30	Chelsea Walton Temple University	"Quantum Symmetry"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 6	Thomas Church Stanford University/IAS	"The Cap Set Problem & Fast Matrix Multiplication"	Haverford
Feb. 13	Robert J. Lemke Oliver Tufts University Joint with Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar	"Prime Numbers, Randomness, and The Gambler's Fallacy"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 20		For information, please contact Anne Wolverton.	Haverford
Feb. 27	David Burstein Swarthmore College	"Analyzing Network Dynamics Through Random Graph Models"	Bryn Mawr
March 6	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
March 13	Kathryn Bryant Colorado College	"The Unsolved(!) Inscribed Square Problem"	Haverford
March 20	Dubi Kelmer Boston College	"Shrinking Target Problems, Homogenous Dynamics, and Diophantine Approximations"	Bryn Mawr
March 27 Please note this talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. instead of 4:00 p.m.	Gregory Campbell President, GCStat Consulting LLC, Former Director, Division of Biostatistics, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA	"Biostatistics and Medical Devices: Making a Difference in People's Health Every Day"	Haverford
April 3 Please note this talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. instead of 4:00 p.m.	Ruthi Hortsch Program Manager, Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM)	"Advanced Mathematical Pathways for Underserved Students"	Haverford
April 10	Michael Tait Carnegie Mellon University	"Applications of Finite Geometry in Extremal Combinatorics"	Bryn Mawr
April 17 Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker	Helen Moore Bristol-Myers Squibb	"Mathematical Optimization of Combination Therapy"	Bryn Mawr
April 24 Simons Senior Thesis Colloquium	Sam Payne Yale University Please note this talk will take place in Hilles 108.	"Chip-firing on Graphs and Divisor Class Groups"	Haverford

Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 5	LABOR DAY	NO COLLOQUIUM
Sept. 12	Alexander Diaz-Lopez Swarthmore College	Peaks and Descents of Permutations	Haverford
Sept. 19	Paul Feehan Rutgers University	Real Analytic Functions and Their Role in Differential Geometry, Mathematical Physics, and Topology	Bryn Mawr
Sept. 26	Walter Stromquist Bryn Mawr College	Fair Division: Pouring Wine and Cutting Cakes	Haverford
Oct. 3	Eric Stachura Haverford College	Metamaterial Lens Design	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 10	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Oct. 17	Robert Grizzard University of Wisconsin	Conjugate Solutions to Linear Equations	Haverford
Oct. 24	Anna Pun Drexel University	On Decomposition of the Product of Demazure Atom and Demazure Characters	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 31	Robert Strain University of Pennsylvania	On the Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell System	Haverford
Nov. 7	Heidi Goodson Haverford College	Elliptic Curves Over Three Fields	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 14	Jake Levinson University of Michigan	Syzygies, Hilbert Polynomials, and Matrix Varieties	Haverford
Nov. 21	Lise Chlebak Tufts University	A Time-Changed Q-Wiener Process	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 28	Shari Moskow Drexel University	Inverse Problems: Determining the Equation from the Solution	Haverford
Dec. 5	Yonatan Aumann Bar-Ilan University	Fair and Square: Cake Cutting in 2D	Bryn Mawr

For more information, please contact Djordje Milićević (Bryn Mawr) or Elizabeth Milićević (Haverford).

Spring 2016

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Jan. 25	Victor Barranca Swarthmore College	"Compressed Coding in Senory Systems: From Sparse Stimuli to Network Structure"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 1	Will Gryc Muhlenberg College	"What Math Can Tell Us About eBay, Teacup Auctions, and the Winner's Curse"	Haverford
Feb. 8	William Gasarch University of Maryland	"Advanced Results in the Theory of Languages and Computation which have Simple Proofs"	Haverford Joint with Computer Science
Feb. 15	Nayantara Bhatnagar University of Delaware	"Limit Theorems for Longest Monotone Subsequences in Random Mallows Permutations"	Haverford
*Feb. 22	Jedidah Isler Vanderbilt University	"On the Physics of Quasars and Blazars"	Bryn Mawr Joint with Physics Dalton 300, 6:30 PM
Feb. 29	Christina Weaver Franklin & Marshall College	"Mathematical Modeling of Neurons: From Data to Discovery"	Haverford
March 7	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
March 14	Trubee Davison Haverford College	"Fixed Points, Fractals, and Functional Analysis"	Bryn Mawr
March 21	Kyu-Hwan Lee University of Connecticut	"Fully Commutative Elements of the Symmetric Group"	Haverford
March 28	Kathryn Haymaker (BMC '07) Villanova University	"Groups, Graphs, and the Cantor Set"	Bryn Mawr
April 4	Michael Biro Swarthmore College	"Planar Graphs with Many Perfect Matchings"	Haverford
** April 8 2 p.m.	Amanda Landi Bard College at Simon's Rock	"Differential Equations: The Separation of Variables Method"	Bryn Mawr Please note earlier time for talk.
April 11	Tim Chartier Davidson College Math Appreciation Week Keynote Speaker	"Playing from a Laptop: Sports Analytics"	Bryn Mawr
April 18	Stefanos Aretakis Princeton University	"Topics in General Relativity"	Haverford
April 25	Karamatou Yacoubou Djima Swarthmore College	"Diffusion Wavelet Frames and an Application of Laplacian Eigenmaps to Retinal Imaging"	Bryn Mawr

* Please note different location and time.

** Special Colloquium

Fall 2015

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 14	Pavel Grinfeld Drexel University	"The Moving Surface Analogs of Classical Equations of Applied Mathematics"	Haverford
Sept. 21	Amanda French Haverford College	"Resonance and the Null Condition for Nonlinear Wave Equations"	Bryn Mawr
Sept. 28	Maureen Carroll The University of Scranton	"A Recipe for Games on Planes"	Haverford
Oct. 5	Yixin Guo Drexel University	"Modeling Thalamocortical Relay Neuron, Parkinsonian Network, and Deep Brain Stimulation"	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 12	No Colloquium	Fall Break
Oct. 19	Holley Friedlander Dickinson College	"Riemann's Function for Function Fields"	Haverford
Oct. 26	Emese Kennedy Muhlenberg College	"Swing-up and Stabilization of a Single Inverted Pendulum on a Cart"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 2	Greta Panova University of Pennsylvania	"Lattice Models and Symmetric Functions"	Haverford
Nov. 9	Ryan Kaliszewski Drexel University	"Q-Analogs, Binomial Coefficients, and Catalan Numbers"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 16	Erica Graham Bryn Mawr College	"Reproductive Hormone Dynamics: Modeling Regulation and Dysfunction"	Haverford
Nov. 23	Jessica Purcell Institute of Advanced Study	"Cusp Volumes of Alternating Knots"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 30	Ron Umble Millersville University	"Cellular Homology & Brunnian Links"	Haverford
Dec. 7	Andreas Aristolelous West Chester University	"Modeling Heterogenous Biofilms"

Fall 2014

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Monday Sept 8	R. Andrew Hicks Drexel University	"Controlling Ray Bundles with Reflectors"	Haverford
Monday Sept 15	Jonathan Hanke	"Quadratic Forms in Number Theory" • (slides)	Bryn Mawr
Monday Sept 22	Erica Graham (BMC '04) North Carolina State University	“Using Mathematics to Understand Why Insulin Resistance is Bad for You, but Can be Good for Your Cells” • (slides)	Bryn Mawr
Monday Sept 29	William Dunham University of Pennsylvania	"An Afternoon with Euler"	Haverford
Monday Oct 6	Rachel Hall (HC '91) St. Joseph's University	"Submajorization and the Geometry of Unordered Collections, with Applications to Music and Welfare Economics"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Oct 13	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Monday Oct 20	Isabel Averill Bryn Mawr College	"Building a Theorem: Start to Finish"	Haverford
Monday Oct 27	Tara Holm Cornell University and Institute for Advanced Study	"The Geometry of Origami: How the ancient Japanese art triumphed over Euclid" • (slides forthcoming)	Bryn Mawr
Monday Nov 3	Katherine Scranton Yale University	"Parameter estimation in population ecology: An approximate Bayesian computation approach for stochastic models."	Haverford
Monday Nov 10	Ben Salisbury Central Michigan University	"What is a Crystal?"	Haverford
Monday Nov 17	Kristopher Tapp St. Joseph's University	"The Mathematics of Measuring Self-Delusion" • (slides)	Bryn Mawr
Monday Nov 24	Paul Bernhardt Villanova University	"Joint Modeling: When One Model is Not Enough"	Haverford
*Tuesday Nov 25 1:00 PM	Matthew Wright University of Minnesota	"Euler Characteristic and Data Analysis" • (slides) • (slides from the PACT seminar talk)	Bryn Mawr (Park 338)
Monday Dec 1	Annalisa Crannell (BMC '87) Franklin & Marshall College	"In the Shadow of Desargues" • (slides forthcoming)	Bryn Mawr
Monday Dec 8	Robert Buchanan Millersville University	"Mathematics of Pari-Mutuel Wagering"	Haverford

*Special Talk - Joint with Computer Science

Spring 2015

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Monday Feb 2	Lili Dworkin University of Pennsylvania	"Multi-Armed Bandits: How to Win in Vegas"	Haverford
*Monday Feb 9	Vin de Silva Pomona College	"Topological Persistence via Category Theory"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Feb 16	Ronald Perline Drexel University	"Mirrors, Thin Films, and Related Geometry"	Haverford
Monday Feb 23	Benjamin J. Galluzzo Shippensburg University	"If Math (Modeling) is the Answer, What's the Question?"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Mar 2	Megan Owen CUNY	"Statistics in Tree Space"	Haverford Simons Senior Thesis Colloquium
Monday Mar 9	NO COLLOQUIUM	SPRING BREAK
Monday Mar 16	NO COLLOQUIUM
Monday Mar 23	Maksym Radziwill Rutgers University	"Around the Moebius Function"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Mar 30	Sergey Fomin University of Michigan	"Computing without Subtracting (and/or Dividing)"	Haverford
Monday Apr 6	Nicholas J. Horton Amherst College	"Adjusting for Non-response in the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics Survey"	Haverford
Monday Apr 13	Ivars Peterson Math Awareness Month Keynote Speaker	"Pancake Sorting, Prefix Reversals, and DNA Rearrangements"	Bryn Mawr
**Wednesday Apr 15	Catherine Searle Wichita State University	"Curvature, Symmetries and Topology"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Apr 20	Jordan Ellenberg University of Wisconsin	"Uncertainty and Contradiction"	Swarthmore Sci Ctr 199 4:30 p.m.
**Tuesday Apr 21	Jordan Ellenberg University of Wisconsin	"Spinning a Needle in a Finite Field"	Swarthmore Sci Ctr 199 4:30 p.m.
Monday Apr 27	Sue Khim brilliant.org Math Awareness Month colloquium at Haverford	brilliant.org, problem solving, educational diversity, social networking, entrepreneurship, and enacting social global change	Haverford

Fall 2013

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Monday Sep 9	Daniel Studenmund University of Chicago	"Hidden symmetries of groups"	Haverford
Monday Sep 16	Gabriel Feinberg Haverford College	"Catalan's Numbers and Some Representation Theoretic Applications"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Sep 23	Kristina Garrett St. Olaf College	"The Mathematics of Good Will Hunting"	Haverford
Monday Sep 30	Timothy Feeman Villanova University	"The ART of Tomography"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Oct 7	William Traves United States Naval Academy	"Generalizing Pascal's Theorem"	Haverford
Monday Oct 14	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Monday Oct 21	Irina Mitrea Temple University	"The Art of Integration by Parts (and why everybody should know this)"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Oct 28	Liz McMahon Lafayette College	"Affine Geometry Inspired by the Game of SET®"	Haverford
Monday Nov 4	John Boller University of Chicago	"A little bit of p-adic analysis"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Nov 11	Isaac Klapper Temple University	"Two Tales of a Microbial City"	Haverford
Monday Nov 18	Daniel Ruberman Brandeis University	"Where can you put a non-orientable surface?"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Nov 25	Zach Hamaker Dartmouth College	"Random Sorting Networks"	Haverford
Monday Dec 2	Anna Bertiger University of Waterloo	"The Rim Hook Rule"	Haverford
FRIDAY DEC 6 3 PM	Sarah Kate Wilson (BMC '79) Santa Clara University	"Blinded by the Light: Optical Wireless Communications"	Bryn Mawr

Spring 2014

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Monday Jan 27	Mark Dominus	"Topology of data types"	Haverford
Monday Feb 3	Ivana Božić Harvard University	"Evolutionary Dynamics of Targeted Cancer Therapy"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Feb 10	Rachel Epstein Swarthmore College	"The Church-Turing Thesis and Its Controversy"	Haverford
Monday Feb 17	Lynne Steuerle Schofield Swarthmore College	"Measurement Error in Variables that Predict STEM Retention"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Feb 24	Amanda Knecht Villanova University	"Unirational Parameterizations of Cubic Surfaces"	Haverford
Monday Mar 3	Leila Schneps Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris Math Awareness Week Keynote Speaker	"Mathematics in the Courtroom: Uncharted Territory"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Mar 10	NO COLLOQUIUM	SPRING BREAK
Monday Mar 17	Kristine L. Snyder (BMC '02) University of Michigan	"Brain and Body Dynamics in Human Locomotion"	Bryn Mawr
*Friday Mar 21	Austin Daughton Temple University	"1+2+3+4+... and Other Divergent Series"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Mar 24	Daniel Orr Virginia Tech	"The Toda Lattice in Algebra and Geometry"	Haverford
Monday Mar 31	Mihai Stoiciu Williams College	"The Eigenvalue Distribution for Random Jacobi and CMV Matrices"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Apr 7	Chris Ryan University of Chicago, Booth School of Business	"Duality theory via Fourier-Motzkin Elimination"	Haverford
Monday Apr 14	Chantal David Concordia University and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal	"One level density for families of L-functions attached to elliptic curves"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Apr 21	Richard S. Millman Georgia Institute of Technology	"A Mixture of Completeness in the Space of Riemannian Geometries"	Bryn Mawr
WEDNESDAY Apr 23 4:30PM	Suresh Venkatasubramanian University of Utah	"Metaclustering"	Haverford
Monday Apr 28	Antonella Grassi University of Pennsylvania	"Noether-Lefschetz loci and polytopes"	Bryn Mawr

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Monday Sep 10	Karl Schaffer De Anza College	"The Dance of Mathematics and the Mathematics of Dance"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Sep 17	Elizabeth Beazley Haverford College	"Matrix groups, Newton polygons, and the quantum Bruhat graph"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Sep 24	Djordje Milićević Bryn Mawr College	"Kloostermania in confined spaces"	Haverford
Monday Oct 1	Eugenio Calabi University of Pennsylvania	"The Affine Geometry of Convex Bodies"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Oct 8	Benjamin Seibold Temple University	"The Analogy of Phantom Traffic Jams and Detonation Waves"	Haverford
Monday Oct 15	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Monday Oct 29	CANCELLED DUE TO STORM		Haverford
Monday Nov 5	David Benson NetJets Inc.	"An Aircraft Crew Scheduling Problem that Satisfied Company and Employee Preferences Modeled and Solved as a Mixed-Interger Program"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Nov 12	Elizabeth Niese Marshall University	"A q-analogue of the hook-length formula"	Haverford
Monday Nov 19	Ami Radunskaya Pomona College	"Using mathematics to design cancer vaccines"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Nov 26	Katie Haymaker (BMC '07) University of Nebraska	"Rewriting codes using finite geometries"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Dec 3	Erica Flapan Pomona College	"Mirror Image Symmetry from Different Viewpoints"	Haverford
Monday Dec 10	Ryan Vinroot College of William & Mary	"Combinatorics of finite fields and symmetric functions"	Haverford

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Monday Jan 28	Patricia Cahn University of Pennsylvania	"Counting Crossings of Curves on Surfaces"	Haverford
Monday Feb 4	Klaus Volpert Villanova University	"The Math and Magic of Financial Derivatives"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Feb 11	Rosa McCullagh Univ. of Chicago Laboratory School	"Visualization in High School Mathematics"	Haverford
Monday Feb 18	Lily S. Khadjavi Loyola Marymount University	"Social Justice and Mathematics: Analyzing police practice in Los Angeles"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Feb 25	Andrew Cooper University of Pennsylvania	"Using the heat equation to shorten curves (and other Lagrangian submanifolds)"	Haverford
Monday Mar 4	Cecilia Diniz Behn (BMC '99) Gettysburg College	"Dynamics of sleep-wake regulation"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Mar 11	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Monday Mar 18	Whitney George West Chester University	"Positive Twist Knots and the Uniform Thickness Property"	Haverford
Monday Mar 25	Nalini Anantharaman Université Paris-Sud (Orsay) and Institute for Advanced Study	"Order and chaos in wave propagation"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Apr 1	David Kung St. Mary's College of Maryland	"Closer to Fair: Mathematics and Social Justice"	Bryn Mawr
Monday Apr 8	Ralph Gomez Swarthmore College	"A Brief Tour of Sasakian Geometry"	Haverford
Monday Apr 15	Alden Walker University of Chicago	"Finding surface maps with linear programming"	Haverford
Monday Apr 22	Peter Sarnak Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study	"Thin matrix groups and Diophantine analysis"	Bryn Mawr

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 12	Weiwen Miao, Haverford College	The Use of Statistical Tests in Discrimination Cases	Haverford
Sept. 19	Melanie Edwalds, Princeton University	An Introduction to the Mathematics of Optimal Control Theory	Bryn Mawr
Sept. 26	Greg Schneider, Bryn Mawr College	On the Classification of Legendrian Rational Tangles	Haverford
Oct. 3	Richard McGehee, University of Minnesota	Glacial Cycles: Mathematics and the 100,000-Year Problem	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 10	No Colloquium	Fall Break
Oct. 17	Anthony Licata, The Institute for Advanced Study and Australian National University	Natural numbers, vector spaces, additive categories, and so forth	Haverford
Oct. 24	Klaus Volpert, Villanova University	The Mathematics of Income Inequality	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 31	Scott Cook, Swarthmore College	Mathematics of the bad bounce	Haverford
Nov. 7	Marie Snipes, Kenyon College	Soap Films, Image Processing, and the "Flat Chains" of Geometric Measure Theory	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 14	M. Brad Henry, Siena College	Hunting for connections among Legendrian knot invariants	Haverford
Nov. 21	No Colloquium
Nov. 28	Timothy DeVries, Haverford College	Counting by climbing	Bryn Mawr

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Feb. 21	Djordje Milićević Max Planck Institute and Bryn Mawr College	Many ways in which things oscillate	Bryn Mawr
March 12	Haggai Nuchi University of Pennsylvania	Integral formulas for linking of curves	Bryn Mawr
March 22	Nick Patterson Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	Analysis of ancient DNA	Haverford
March 23	Nick Patterson Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	Using exact ascertainment and joint spectra to learn human genetic history	Haverford
March 26	Jodi Black Bucknell University	On Generalizations of Springer's Theorem	Bryn Mawr
April 2	Chris Atkinson Temple	Shape and size in hyperbolic space	Haverford
April 4	Alissa Crans Loyola Marymount University	"Swing-up and Stabilization of a Single Inverted Pendulum on a Cart"	Bryn Mawr
April 9	Austin Daughton Temple University	Hamburger's Theorem and the "Big Mac Theorem"	Bryn Mawr
April 16	Ellen Gasparovic University of North Carolina	"Q-Analogs, Binomial Coefficients, and Catalan Numbers"	Bryn Mawr
April 23	Dave Futer Temple University	The Rental Harmony Theorem	Bryn Mawr

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 13	Ryan Blair, University of Pennsylvania	Knot Width is Additive	Haverford
Sept. 20	Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia	Inscribed Polygons and the Square Peg Problem	Haverford
Sept. 27	Joshua Sabloff, Haverford College		Bryn Mawr
Oct. 4	Raina Robeva		Bryn Mawr
Oct. 11	No Colloquium	Fall Break
Oct. 18	Fred Cohen, University of Rochester	Disks, Circles, and Subspaces of their Products	Haverford
Oct. 25	Radmila Sazdanović, University of Pennsylvania		Bryn Mawr
Nov. 1			Haverford
Nov. 8	Kevin Ross, Swarthmore College		Bryn Mawr
Nov. 15	Andrew Obus, Columbia University		Haverford
Nov. 22	No Colloquium
Nov. 29	Jenniver Paulhus, Villanova University		Bryn Mawr

Spring 2011

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Feb. 14	Jeff Jauregui, University of Pennsylvania	Mathematical relativity and nonnegative scalar curvature	Haverford
Feb. 21	Walt Stromquist, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges	The mathematics of three-candidate elections	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 28	Jeremy Brandman, Courant Institute	Fighting crime and saving lives with mathematics	Bryn Mawr
March 7	No Colloquium	Spring Break
March 14	Louis Theran, Temple University	The rigidity transition in random graphs	Haverford
March 21	Kim Plofker, Union College	Infinite series in ancient India	Haverford
March 28	Rob Manning, Haverford	Mathematical Models for DNA Looping or Cyclization	Bryn Mawr
April 4	Gregory Schneider, University at Buffalo, SUNY	Knots, Links, Braids...and Paper Strips	Bryn Mawr
April 6	Colin Adams, Williams College	Blown Away: What Knot to Do When Sailing	Bryn Mawr
April 11	Sarah Greenwald, Appalachian State	Good News Everyone! Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons and Futurama	Bryn Mawr
April 18	Antonio Marciano, Haverford (Physics)	Canceled	Haverford

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 14	Joan Licata, Stanford University	Grid Diagrams and Knot Invariants	Haverford
Sept. 21	Rebecca Vandiver, Bryn Mawr College	Morphoelasticity: The Mechanics and Mathematics of Elastic Growth	Haverford
Sept. 28	Walter Stromquist, Swarthmore College	Three Stories	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 5	Colton Magnant, Lehigh University	Painting the Office	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 19	Ben Coleman & Kevin Hartshorn, Moravian College (joint colloquium with Computer Science)	Game, SET, Math	Haverford
Oct. 26	Jeana Mastrangeli, Lockheed Martin	Polarization, Depolarization, and a Model: A Brief Introduction	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 2	Danny Kaplan, Macalester College	Untangling Causation in Complex Systems	Haverford
Nov. 9	Brandy Rapatski, Richard Stockton College	Mathematical Modeling of the HIV Epidemic	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 16	Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware	Modeling and Simulation of Water Waves	Haverford
Nov. 30	Sarah Bryant, Gettysburg College	Subordinate Killed Brownian Motion	Bryn Mawr

Spring 2010

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Jan. 25	Erica Greene (HC '10) and Jonathan Lima (HC '10), Haverford College	"The Moving Surface Analogs of Classical Equations of Applied Mathematics"	Haverford
Feb. 1	Walter Huddell, Eastern University	"A Foray into Statistical Poetry" and "Symmetric Function Inequalities"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 8	Ben Allen (HC '02), Boston University	The Distributional Derivative	Haverford
Feb. 15	Valentina Joukhovitski	Evolutionary Game Theory in Structured Populations	Haverford
Feb. 22	Sunil Chetty, Colorado College	Diophantine Equations and Number Theory	Bryn Mawr
March 1	Jonelle Hook, Lehigh University	The Classification of Critical Graphs and Star-Critical Ramsey Numbers	Bryn Mawr
March 15	Tim deVries, University of Pennsylvania	Mathematical connections in combinatorial enumeration	Haverford
March 22	Mirko Visontai, University of Pennsylvania	The MCP conjecture	Bryn Mawr
April 5	Betty Mayfield, MAA and Hood College	Women and Mathematics in the Time of Euler	Bryn Mawr
April 12	Michelle Craddock, US Military Academy	Reflexivity For Fremlin Tensor Products of Banach Lattices	Bryn Mawr
April 19	Sarah Hews, Swarthmore College	HBV Models: the role of hepatocytes on persisent infection	Bryn Mawr
April 26	Peter Horn, Columbia University	Generalizing the Genus of a Knot	Haverford

Fall 2008

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 8	Jennifer Boyko '09 and Taylor Burmeister '09 Haverford College	Boyko: The Effect of Missingness on the Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Modifying Drug Clinical Trails Burmeister: Local Edge Detection with Wavelets	Haverford
Sept. 22	Stephan Wehrli Columbia University	"New invariants for sutured 3-manifolds"	Bryn Mawr
Sept. 29	Linda Chen Swarthmore	"Enumerative Geometry, Combinatorics, and Algebra"	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 6	Michael Lavine University of Massachusetts, Amherst	"What is Bayesian Statistics and Why Everything Else is Wrong"	Haverford
Oct. 7	Michael Lavine University of Massachusetts, Amherst	"Spike Trains and Human Brains"	Haverford
Oct. 20	Rob Ghrist University of Pennsylvania	"Euler Calculus and Sensor Networks"	Haverford
Oct. 27	Helen Wong Bowdoin College	"Distinguishing 3-dimensional manifolds"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 3	Dave Futer Temple University	"The Space Around a Knot"	Haverford
Nov. 10	Sarah Mason Davidson College	"Permutations, partitions, and 'fue de taquin'"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 17	David Lippel Haverford College	"O-minimal structures: tame fragments of analysis"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 24	Laura Hall-Seelig University of Massachusetts, Amherst	"Finite Fields, Curves, Points, and Genera"	Haverford
Dec. 1	Patrick Clarke University of Pennsylvania	"Morse Theory, Topology, and Physics"	Haverford

Spring 2009

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Jan. 21	Rebecca Vandiver University of Arizona	"Differential Growth and Residual Stress in Cylindrical Elastic Structures"	Bryn Mawr
Jan. 27	Nessy Tania University of Utah	"Mathematical Models of Calcium Regulation"	Bryn Mawr
Jan. 29	Dylan Shepardson Georgia Institute of Technology	"Modeling Adaptable Behavior in Neurons" (How Mathematics can get on your Nerves)	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 2	Fang Chen Oxford College of Emory Univ.	"Dividing a system of weights into two groups of equal mass"	Haverford
Feb. 2	Siggy Moore '09 Haverford College	"An injective proof of strong q-log-convexity for Bell polynomials"	Haverford
Feb. 5	Amy N. Myers Bryn Mawr College	"Coke and Pepsi and the Binomial Distribution"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 9	Kristen Sellke University of Connecticut	"A Journey through Mathematics with the Fibonacci Sequence"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 16	Maya Kiehl Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	"Abstract Sets and DeMorgan's Laws"	Bryn Mawr
March 16	Nick Horton Smith College	"Much ado about nothing: methods and software implementations to estimate incomplete data regression models"	Haverford
March 23	Charles Buehrle and Mark Skandera Lehigh University	"Clausen's construction of irreducible representations of the symmetric group"	Bryn Mawr
March 30	David Shea Vela-Vick University of Pennsylvania	"Triple linking numbers, ambiguous Hopf invariants and integral formulas for three-component links"	Haverford
April 6	John Baldwin Princeton University	"On the spectral sequence from Khovanov homology to Heegaard Floer homology"	Bryn Mawr
April 13	Clay Shonkwiler University of Pennsylvania	"Linking Integrals in Hyperspheres"	Bryn Mawr
April 20	Ayako Fukui Bryn Mawr College	"Lp Boundedness of Oscillatory Singular Inegral Operators"	Haverford
April 27	Richard Ball and Bill Huber Haverford College	"Campaign Strategies and the Electoral College System"	Haverford

Fall 2007

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 10	Ethan Alguire '09 Haverford College	"The Flask on the Hard Drive: How to Be a Chemist and Not Get Your Hands Dirty"	Haverford
Sept. 17	Jane Holsapple Long (BMC '02) University of Maryland	"Group Cohomology and Free Actions on Products of Spheres"	Bryn Mawr
Sept. 24	Elisenda Grigsby Columbia University	"Combinatorial Knot Floer Homology for Knots in Lens Spaces"	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 1	Peter Storm University of Pennsylvania	"Imagining Hyperbolic Space from the Inside"	Haverford
Oct. 8	Davide Cervone Union College	"The Hypercube and Hypersphere: Breaking them Down and Building the Up"	Haverford
Oct. 22	Daniel Krashen University of Pennsylvania	"Division Algebras and Geometry"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 5	Puneet Batra Columbia University	"Anomalies in Gauge Theories"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 16	Eric Maskin* Institute for Advanced Study	"How Should Presidents Be Elected"	Haverford
Nov. 19	Keith Burns Northwestern University	"A Simple Proof of Sharkovsky's Theorem"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 26	Bruce Char Drexel University	"Explorations in the Characterization of Mathematical Handwriting"	Haverford
Nov. 29	Austin Parker '02 Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland, College Park	"How Computers Play Poker: Algorithms for Imperfect Information Games"	Haverford
Dec. 3	Juliana Belding	"Curves, Cryptography and Calculus: A Weil Pairing on Elliptic Curves over the Dual Numbers"	Bryn Mawr
Dec. 4	Aaron Block '02 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	TBA	Haverford

Spring 2008

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Jan. 28	Amy Myers Bryn Mawr College	"The Outstanding Elements of Permutations and Words"	Haverford
Feb. 4	John Flynn Haverford College	"An examination of the size of the image for polynomial maps over finite fields."	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 13	Laurie Rubel CUNY Brooklyn	"Research in Mathematics Education: Battlefields and Beyond"	Haverford
Feb. 18	Ana Cannas da Silva Princeton University	"From hermitian matrices to symplectic geometry and back again"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 25	Jayadev Athreya Princeton University	"Billiards, ergodic theory, and number theory"	Haverford
March 17	Sarah-Marie Belcastro Smith College	"Edge-Coloring Graphs on Surfaces: Recent Progress on Grünbaum's Conjecture"	Haverford
March 19	Freeman Hrabowski University of Maryland	"Strategies that Support Student Success in the Sciences"	Bryn Mawr
March 24	Dennis DeTurck University of Pennsylvania	"Exploiting invariance, from freshman calculus to linking integrals"	Bryn Mawr
March 31	Darren Glass Gettysburg College	"Cyptography, Coding Theory, and Curve Interpolation"	Haverford
April 7	Herbert S. Wilf University of Pennsylvania	"Sister Celine, as I knew her"	Bryn Mawr
April 14	George Cobb Mount Holyoke	"Markov Chain Monte Carlo: A Course for Math Majors"	Haverford
April 15	George Cobb Mount Holyoke	"Two Statisticians and One Serial Murderer"	Haverford
April 21	Janet Talvacchia Swarthmore College	"Generalized Geometry"	Bryn Mawr
April 28	Rob Kusner Univ of Massachusetts Amherst University of Pennsylvania	"Lengths and Crossing Numbers of Knotted Ropes and Strips"	Haverford

Fall 2006

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 18	Sarah Crown University of Michigan	"Cyclic Homology of the Coloring Complex of Simple, Connected Graphs"	Bryn Mawr
Sept. 25	David Crombecque Bryn Mawr College	"Non-Orientable Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds"	Haverford
Oct. 5	Tara Brendle Cornell University	"Mapping Class Groups: Progress and Problems"	Haverford
Oct. 9	Peter Roquette Heidelberg	"Hermann Weyl and Emmy Noether"	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 23	Ty Cunningham Bryn Mawr College	"Moving Cycloids"	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 30	Daniel Studenmund '08	"Linking Graphs on a Circle"	Haverford
Nov. 6	Charles Livingston Indiana University	"Four-dimensional Aspects of Classical Knot Theory"	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 13	Steve C. Wang Swarthmore College	"Dating the Demise of the Dinosaurs"	Haverford
Nov. 20	Stephen Wang Haverford College	How to Zoom Out	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 27	Alan Baker Department of Philosophy Swarthmore College	Mathematical Impossibilities	Haverford

Spring 2007

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Jan. 29	Constance Leidy University of Pennsylvania	"Knots and the Fourth Dimension"	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 6	Tim McMurry DePaul University	"Nonparametric Regression with Infinite Order Flat-Top Kernels"	Haverford
Feb. 8	Arthur Berg University of California - San Diego	"A Statistical Journey through Historic Haverford"	Haverford
Feb. 12	Leah Jager Grinnell College	"A trip to the dressing room -- does your probability model fit properly?"	Haverford
Feb. 14	Weiwen Miao Mavalester College	"The Use of Statistics in the Legal System"	Haverford
Feb. 19	Janet Rosenbaum Harvard University	"Do teenagers always tell the truth? Estimating the prevalence of adolescent risk behaviors from inconsistent self-report"	Haverford
Feb. 26	Angela Gibney University of Pennsylvania	"What is a moduli space and why do algebraic geometers love them?"	Bryn Mawr
March 5	Aldan Walker '07 Haverford College	"Decision Trees and Fundamental Complexity, or Topology: It's Not Just for Topologist"	Haverford
March 19	Kristopher Tapp Williams College	"Symmetry and Curvature"	Bryn Mawr
March 26	Victor Moll Tulane University	"Pretty pictures from Interesting integrals"	Haverford
April 2	Katherine Okikiolu University of California - San Diego	"Spectral zeta functions and Sobolev-type inequalities on manifolds"	Bryn Mawr
April 9	Timothy Y. Chow Center for Communications Research	"Counting Lattice Paths that Avoid a Boundary"	Haverford
April 16	Robert Ghrist University of Illinois	"Topology, Algebra, and Sensor Networks"	Bryn Mawr
April 23	Ciprian Manolescu Columbia University	"Combinatorial Floer Homology"	Bryn Mawr

Fall 2005

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sept. 12	Allison Cuttler (Haverford College '06)	What I Did at my Summer REU	Haverford
Sept. 19	Mark Skandera (Haverford College)	Total Nonnegativity	Bryn Mawr
Sept. 26	David Goldschmidt (Institute for Defense Analyses)	Breaking ENIGMA: Applied Group Theory in Action	Haverford
Oct. 3	Dr. Stanislav Dubrovskiy (Keio University)	Classifying a Pair of Matrices	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 17	John Meier (Lafayette College)	From Poincare to Perelman: An Introduction to Classifying Manifolds	Haverford
Oct. 24	Walter Stromquist	Helping the Navy Search for Lost Objects	Bryn Mawr
Oct. 31	Don Davis (Lehigh University)	Binomial Coefficients and Roots of Unity in Topology	Haverford
Nov. 7	Dr. Elisenda Grigsby (UC Berkeley and Columbia University)	Modern Algebraic Invariants of 3-Manifolds	Haverford
Nov. 14	Constance Leidy (University of Pennsylvania)	Knot Diagram Moves	Haverford
Nov. 21	Professor Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College)	Ergodic and Non-Ergodic Metrics on Embedded Surfaces	Bryn Mawr
Nov. 28	Kathi Crow (Gettysburg University	Counterexamples in Ring Theory	Haverford

Spring 2006

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Jan. 30	Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers)	How I Got HOOKED into Doing Combinatorics	Haverford
Feb. 6	Dr. Jill Jordan (Bryn Mawr College)	A Polynomial Invariant for Legendrian Links	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 20	Noel Watson (Harvard)	Human Behavioral Dynamics in Supply Chain Management	Haverford
March 27	Jim Reeds (Center for Communications Research)	Large Deviation Rate for a Lattice Path Counting Problem. Slides from the talk are also available!	Haverford
April 10	Robin Pemantle (Penn)	Solving Equations	Bryn Mawr
April 24	Garikai Campbell (Swarthmore)	A Bunch of Problems (involving rational distances) I Can't Solve: an Introduction to Elliptic Curves	Haverford

Spring 2005

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Jan. 31	Selman Akbulut (Michigan State)	Calibrated manifolds and gauge theory	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 7	Mark Dominus	Arithmetic with Continued Fractions	Haverford
Feb. 14	Josh Sabloff (Haverford)	How Many Ways Can You Parallel-Park a Unicycle?	Bryn Mawr
Feb. 22	William Dunham (Muhlenberg)	A Tribute to Euler	Haverford
March 15	Helene Tyler (Manhattan College)	Computing Modules Over Finite Dimensional Algebras	Haverford
March 21	Sema Salur (Northwestern and IAS)	Deformation theory of calibrated submanifolds	Bryn Mawr
March 28	R. Andrew Hicks (Drexel)	Sideview Mirrors and Panoramic Cameras	Haverford
April 4	Yibiao Pan (University of Pittsburgh and Bryn Mawr)	Convolution operators and oscillatory integrals	Bryn Mawr
April 11		Math Awareness Day at Bryn Mawr!	Bryn Mawr
April 18	Effie Kalfagianni (Michigan State and IAS)	Crossing changes and knot invariants	Bryn Mawr
April 25	Craig Sutton (UPenn)	Manifolds of Positive Sectional Curvature	Haverford

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Mathematics Department

Tina Fasbinder
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