Upcoming Events and Lectures
for Spring 2005
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| 01/27 | At 3 p.m. in the forum, Nick Horton will give a talk titled "Maternal influenza and schizophrenia: statistical sleuthing during epidemics." This talk is based on work he did with Emily Shapiro '04 last summer. |
| 02/03 | At 3 p.m. in Rm. 307, Ruth Haas will talk about "Permutations with a Twist." This talk will be followed by tea in the forum. |
| 02/04 | The Smith College Connecticut Valley Colloquium brings us speaker Janos Pach (Courant Institute of New York University; Renyi Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences). The title of his talk is "Intersection Patterns of Geometric Objects." Refreshments and tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. in Burton 3rd floor forum, and the talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. in McConnell 404. |
| 02/10 | At 3:00 p.m. in the forum, Jan Jaworowski will give a talk titled "Mathematics in my Life." As usual, this will be followed by tea and refreshments. |
| 02/14 | 4:10 p.m. Burton 301. Dr. Andrea Foulkes (UMass) "Characterizing genotype-phenotype relationships with application to HIV." Dr. Foulkes has offered to meet with students regarding graduate school and career opportunities in statistics. |
| 02/17 | At 3:00 p.m. in the forum, Prof. Marjorie Senechal will talk on "The Sculpture Revisited." This will be a hands-on presentation about the sculpture in the main entrance of Burton and related ideas. Then join us for math tea at 3:50. |
| 02/24 | Leanne Robertson will give a talk titled "Fermat's Last Tango" at 3:00 in the math forum. This will be followed by tea. |
| 02/28 | MaTh Movie and GaMe NiGht!!! The fun begins at 9:00 p.m. in the forum. We'll watch "Rain Man," play nerdy math games, and eat tons of junk food. Stop by any time between 9 and 11. |
| 03/03 | Jessica Sidman will talk about "Algebra, geometry, computers, and the Hilbert syzygy theorem" at 3:00 in the math forum, followed by tea. |
| 03/10 | Hermann Chernoff from the Department of Statistics at Harvard University will talk about "The Waterworks Problem" at 3:00 in Burton 301, followed by tea. |
| 03/24 | The Smith Mathematics Department Annual Alice Dickinson Lecture will be held at 4:30 in McConnell 404. Prior to the talk there will be tea at 4:00 in Burton forum. The invited speaker is Mary Lou Zeeman (U. Texas San Antonio), and the title of the talk is "How does estradiol initiate the LH surge? A modeling approach." There will be a dinner at Teapot after the talk. The dinner is free to all Smith Math students and faculty. You must RSVP for the dinner by Wednesday 3/23 at 4 pm to jbond@email.smith.edu , x3803, or tell Ruth Haas. |
| 03/28 | At 4:10 pm in Burton 301, Erin Conlon from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst will speak on integrating DNA Motif Discovery and Geonome-Wide Expression Analysis. For more information see: http://www.math.smith.edu/~nhorton/lecture.html. |
| 03/31 | Presentation of the Math Major at 5:00 pm in the forum, followed by dinner at 6:00. |
| 04/07 | Stephanie Jakus ('05) will give a talk on the Morse Lemma at 3:00 in the forum, followed by tea at 3:50. |
| 04/14 | "2D and 3D: The case of the Descartes-Soddy Circle Theorem" by Roger Howe. Talk at 7pm in McConnel B17. Pizza before the talk at 6pm in the forum. RSVP for this event to jbond@email.smith.edu by noon Wednesday 4/13. |
| 04/18 | 4:10 Burton 307 Stephanie Jakus (Honors defense) "The Morse Lemma", Celebratory Tea to follow. |
| 04/19 | 4:10 Burton 302 Lizzy McAninch (Honors Defense)"The Human Menstrual Cycle and a Dynamic Model of the LH surge". Celebratory Tea to follow. |
| 04/21 | UCVC at Amherst College: Dinner at 6 talk at 7pm "Was Cantor Surprised?" RSVP to lroberts@email.smith.edu for a ride and dinner. |
| 04/22 | 4:10 Burton 302 Mariel Ficunane (Honors Defense)"Incomplete-data regression models for longitudinal studies pf HIV/AIDS". Celebratory Tea to follow. |
| 05/02 | The annual math department picnic will be on Burton lawn from 5-7 pm. Grilled stuff, including the department's own recipe for veggie burgers, salads, etc. Games, t-shirts, plus (possibly) a performance of a piece by Maria Theresa Gaetano, sister of Maria Agnesi Gaetano, who wrote (in 1748) the first calculus text. Join us! |