Fall 2019 Colloquium schedule. All talks are at 2:30 pm;
room as indicated.
- Friday, October 4, in Mendel G92: Dr.
Elizabeth Drellich, Haverford College,
Folding words around
trees: Models inspired by RNA.
- Friday, November 1, in Mendel 102: Dr. David
Richeson, Dickinson College,
Tales of
Impossibility
- Friday, November 15, in Mendel G92: Dr. Holley
Friedlander, Dickinson College,
Arithmetic of
Apollonian circle packings
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Tuesday, December 10, in Mendel G92: Dr. Suzanne Thornton, Swarthmore
College,
Computational statistical inference for complex data
Colloquium coordinator:
Dr. Timothy Feeman
Recent colloquia:
- 09/21/2019.
James Phillips, University of
Virginia,
Good reduction of covers of curves.
-
11/02/2018.
Dr. Michael Tait, Carnegie-Mellon University,
Algebraic methods in extremal graph theory.
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2/23/2018.
Dr. Lu Chen, Swarthmore
College,
Missing data problems in cancer risk prediction.
- 3/16/2018. Dr. Peter Muller, Villanova University, Electrical Impedance Tomography: Linear and Nonlinear
Inversion Methods
- 4/20/2018. Dr. Haydee Lindo, Williams
College, Trace ideals and endomorphism rings
- 9/15/2017. Dr. Diana Davis, Swarthmore
College,
Lines on polygon surfaces.
- 11/10/2017. Dr. Anisah Nu'Man, Ursinus College, Tame filling functions for Diestel-Leader groups.
- 10/21/2016. Dr. Jesse Frey, Villanova University,
Improving the Big East Conference basketball tournament using Monte
Carlo methods.
- 6/10/2016. Paul Cornwell, University of North
Carolina, Stability of waves and the Maslov Index.
- 4/26/2016. Presented by VU Student chapter AWM:
Dr. Janet Fierson, La Salle University, Connectivity, coloring graphs, and collaboration.
- 4/01/2016. Dr. Erica Graham, Bryn Mawr College,
On Mathematical Models of Metabolic Dysfunction: Diabetes, Cells, and
Sleep.
- 2/12/2016. Dr. Weiwen Miao, Haverford
College,
New Statistical Tests for Detecting Disparate Impact Arising from
Two-Stage Selection Processes.
- 4/17/2015. Dr. Nathan Corwin, Rutgers
University, A structure theorem for Thompson's group V.
- 3/27/2015. Dr. Amanda Knecht,
Villanova University, Ready for hailstones in a cloud? The 3n+1 problem.
- 4/10/2015. Dr. Gene Fiorini, DIMACS,
CrIME: Criminal Investigation through Mathematical Examination.
- 1/30/2015. Dr. Maureen Carroll,
Scranton University, Games on planes.
Colloquium coordinator:
Dr. Timothy Feeman