Bard College Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics Seminar

Fall 2008 Events

September 11 Movie The Great Pi/e Debate: Which is the better number?
Colin Adams vs. Thomas Garrity
Moderated by Edward Berger
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
  17 Distinguished
Scientist
Lecture
Colin Adams
Williams College
  25 Seminar Gregory Landweber
Bard College
Calculus, Supersized
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
October 2 Seminar Robert McGrail
Bard College
Losing L'Hopital for Limits through Lazy Logic
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
6 Senior Project
Midway Talk
Faqir Usman
Using graphs to model the spread and containment of fire
4:30 p.m. Hegeman 106
  16 Seminar Allison Pacelli
Williams College
The Mathematics of Fairness
4:30 p.m. RKC 111
  20 Senior Project
Prospectus Talks
4:30: Mona Merling
4:50: Nicholas Michaud
5:10: Serena Randolph
5:30: Ezra Winston
RKC 111
  23 Senior Project
Prospectus Talks
4:30: Sylvia Naples
4:50: Zhechao Zhou
RKC 111
  27 Seminar Peter Selfridge
Creating Realistic Graphical Agent Populations: An Integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenge
12:00 p.m. RKC 103
  30 Summer Research Talks
by Students
4:15: Sylvia Naples
4:35: Nicholas Michaud
4:55: Mona Merline
RKC 111
November 3 Senior Project
Prospectus Talks
4:30: Tomasz Przytycki
4:50: Dexin Zhou
5:10: Scott McMillen
5:30: Tina Zhang
RKC 111
6 Seminar Charles Doran
University of Alberta
Reflexive Polytopes, Complex Tori, and Elliptic Curves
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
8 Conference Discrete Mathematics Day in the Northeast
Please visit the conference website.
13 REU Information Session
  20 Seminar James Belk
Bard College
Geometry of Infinite Graphs
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
  25 Computer Science
Search Candidate Lecture
Keith O'Hara
Off the Desk and Into the Wild: Principles and Practice of Robot Systems Architecture
4:00 p.m. RKC 111
December 1 Seminar Katherine Mullen
Statistical Engineering Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Separable nonlinear models: theory, implementation and applications in physics and chemistry
4:30 p.m. RKC 111
4 Seminar Maria Belk
Bard College
Rigidity and Flexibility of Structures
4:15 p.m. RKC 111
11 Senior Project
Final Presentation
Faqir Usman
Using Graphs to Model the Spread and Containment of Fire
4:30 p.m. RKC 111

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