Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics  College of Science and Mathematics
305 Roop Hall, MSC 1911, JMU, Harrisonburg, VA 22807

Fall 2009 Colloquia


Colloquia are held on selected Mondays throughout the term from 3:45-4:45 pm in Roop 103. Refreshments will be served at 3:30, also in 103. Occasional colloquia may be held at other times and/or locations.

Date
Speaker
Home Institution
Title, with link to abstract and bio
Sept. 7
Dr.  Dominic Lanphier
Western Kentucky University
Heartless Poker
Sept. 14
Dr.  G. Edgar Parker
JMU
Polynomial Projection Redux: The 2008-2009 Picard Seminar
Sept. 21

Dr. Debra Warne &
Dr. Paul Warne
JMU
Simply Un-real
Sept. 28
Dr. Paul Warne JMU
Simply Un-real, Part II: a step through the back of the wardrobe
Oct. 3
Saturday

SUMS Conference
various

contributed talks from undergraduate researchers
invited talks from Dr. D. Zeilberger and Dr. M. Starbird
Oct. 12
Spring course information day


Oct. 19
Dr. Krishna Kodukula SRI International An overview of research at CADRE
Oct. 26
Dr. Bernard Madison
University of
Arkansas
Quantitative Reasoning: Habits and Hurdles
Nov. 2
 Dr. Carl Droms
JMU
Cylindrical Cayley Graphs
Nov. 9
Dr. Steven Lucas
JMU
So you think you can subtract?
Nov. 16
 Dr. James Money
Booz Allen Hamilton
Discretized Picard's Method

* = (tentative) 
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