Upcoming Events and Lectures for Fall 2005
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| 09/15 | Lecture by Prof Jim Henle (Smith Math Dept) on "Squaring the Plane" at 3:00 p.m., followed by tea in Burton forum at 3:50. | |
| 09/22 | Happy Mountain Day!! Talk and tea moved to next week! | |
| 09/29 | Lecture by Prof Leanne Robertson (Smith Math Dept) on "Cyclotomic Integers and Fermat's Last Theorem" at 3:00 p.m., followed by tea in Burton forum at 4:00. | |
| 10/06 | Mark Glickman (Boston University) will talk on "Magic, Probability, and Statistics" at 3:00 p.m. in Burton 301, followed by tea in Burton forum at 4:00. | |
| 10/13 | The Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science present the Neal McCoy Lecture. Peter Schroder, Professor of Computer Science and Applied & Computational Mathematics at Caltech, is this year's guest lecturer. The title of his talk is "Three Points make a Triangle--or a Circle." The talk will take place at 5:00 pm in Seelye 201, and will be preceded by refreshments at 4:30 in Burton forum. | |
| 10/17 | Chaired Professor Lecture by Mike Albertson: "Graph Coloring: A Mathematical Curiosity Grows Up." Seelye 106 4:30 p.m. | |
| 10/19 | Presentation of the MATH MAJOR!! Come learn about why you should be a math major. Dinner from Teapot will be provided. 5:30-7:00 p.m. in Burton forum. | |
| 10/21 | Elizabeth Stuart (Smith '97) will be giving a statistics talk, "Evaluating a school dropout prevention program: Estimation of causal effects through matching" from 12:10-1:00 p.m. in McConnell 404. The department will provide a pizza lunch, which means all that is required of you is to show up! | |
| 10/27 | At 3:00 p.m. in Burton 301, Tanya Leise (Amherst College) will talk on the Dynamics of a Multistage Circadian System. | |
| 10/28 | Special seminar in honor of Otelia Cromwell Day 2005. Dr. Yvonne Freeman, Executive Director of SECME, Inc. will talk on "Weapons of Mass Distraction" at 5:00 p.m. in McConnel B05. Refreshments will be served at 4:45 p.m. | |
| 11/10 | Pau Atela and Chris Gole will talk on "Piling Coins on a Cylinder: A Plant Game" at 3:00 in Burton 301. This will be followed by tea in the forum at 4:00. | |
| 11/17 | Chris Hardin will talk on "The Axiom of Choice and Predicting the Future" at 3:00 pm in Burton 301, followed by tea at 4 pm in the Math Forum. | |
| 12/01 | Marjorie Senechal will talk on "The Maths of Crystal Twins" at 3:00 pm in Burton 301, followed by tea at 4 pm in the Math Forum. | |
| 12/08 | Nick Horton will give a talk titled "Singularly valuable even when decomposed" at 3:00 pm in Burton 301, followed by tea at 4 pm in the Math Forum. | |
| 12/15 | Join us for Juggling and Math Games at 3:15 in the Math foruM!. We'll have tea as well. Come relax and play on the last day of classes! |