Bard College Mathematics and Computer Science Seminar

Spring 2009 Events

February 5 seminar Cliona Golden
Bard College Mathematics Program
From Fourier Analysis to Wavelets
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
  12 Seminar Ethan Bloch
Bard College Mathematics Program
The Angle Defect and Its Generalizations
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
  19 Seminar John Cullinan
Bard College Mathematics Program
Dynamical Systems and Number Theory
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
  26 Seminar Rebecca Ryan
Bard College MAT Program in Mathematics
The Black-Scholes Insight: Hedging Investments to Create a Risk-free Portfolio
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
March 5 Seminar Peter Golbus
Bard College ASC Lab
Tricolorable Torus Knots are NP-Complete
4:15 p.m. RKC 102
12 Distinguished
Scientist
Lecture
S. James Gates, Jr.
John S. Toll Professor of Physics
Director, Center for String and Particle Theory
University of Maryland
On Solving an "Unsolvable" Problem in Superstring/M-Theory
Thursday, March 12, 7:30 p.m., Olin Auditorium
Poster (pdf)
13 (Fr.) Pi Day Seminar S. James Gates, Jr.
John S. Toll Professor of Physics
Director, Center for String and Particle Theory
University of Maryland
Cartan's View Of Einstein's Relativity
12:00 p.m. RKC 103
18 (Wed.) Seminar Jeff Suzuki
Brooklyn College
Thirty Days Hath September or, Diophantus, Music, and Shakespeare
6:15 p.m. RKC 102
26 Spring break
April 2 Seminar Robert McGrail
Bard College ASC Lab
A Cycle-Structure Invariant for Finite, Connected Quandles
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
9 Seminar Kristin Lane
Bard College Psychology Program
Gender Participation and Performance in Science and Mathematics: The Ordinary
Origins and Unintended Consequences of Attitudes and Stereotypes

4:15 p.m. RKC 111
16 Seminar Harry Mairson
Brandeis University Computer Science Department
How hard is static program analysis?
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
20 (Mon.) Seminar Gidon Eshel
Bard College Physics Program
Linear Stability of Simple Higher-Dimensional Dynamical System: The Role
of Self-Adjointness and Non-Normality, with Examples from Ecology and Climate

4:30 p.m. RKC 111
30 Seminar Megumi Harada
McMaster University
A Glimpse of Symplectic Geometry, via lots of Pictures
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
May 5 Senior Project Talks 4:15 Mona Merling
4:40 Ezra Winston
5:05 Dexin Zhou
7 Senior Project Talks 4:15 Nicholas Michaud
4:40 Sylvia Naples
5:05 Tomasz Przytycki
5:30 Zhechao Zhou
12 Senior Project Talks 4:15 Scott McMillen
4:40 Tina Zhang
5:05 Serena Randolph


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