Bard College Mathematics and Computer Science Events |
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Welcome! Here you can find a list of seminars, colloquia, and other events for the spring semester, 2008. Colloquia should be accessible to the general (mathematical) public, while seminars may be at a higher level (upper-level undergraduate and beyond). Please join us! |
| January | 30 | Special lecture sponsored by Cognitive Science and Computer Science |
Peter Norvig Director of Research Google, Inc. Practice makes perfect: How billions of examples lead to better models of language, pictures, and other things 3:00 p.m. Campus Center MPR |
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| February | 1 | Colloquium |
Erik van Erp University of Pennsylvania Why the total curvature of the surface of a coffee mug is zero 3:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
| 6 | Colloquium |
Aravind Asok University of Washington Arithmetic of spheres 12:00 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| 8 | Colloquium |
Rafe Jones University of Wisconsin-Madison Prime divisors of linear recurrences 3:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| 12 | Colloquium |
John Cullinan Bard College Local-Global Obstructions in Arithmetic and Geometry 4:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| 15 | Colloquium |
Anne Catlla Duke University Mathematical modeling of the interactions between neurons and glial cells 3:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| 26 | Special presentation for students |
Greg Landweber Bard College Introduction to LaTex 4:30 p.m. Albee 100 |
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| 27 | Science, Mathematics, and Computing Faculty Research Seminar |
Bob McGrail Bard College Knots, Quandles, and the Constraint Satisfaction Problem 4:30 p.m. RKC Auditorium |
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| March | 6 | Seminar |
John Cullinan Bard College Zeta Functions in Arithmetic and Geometry 4:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
| 13 | Senior project prospectus talk |
Faqir Usman Bard College Using graphs to model the spread and containiment of fire 4:15 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| 14 | Pi Day events |
Three short talks about Pi 1:00 p.m. RKC 111
1:59 p.m. RKC Lobby Pizza Pi and math movies 20:08 p.m. RKC Pods (upstairs) |
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| 20 | Interdisciplinary Seminar |
Louis J. Gross University of Tennessee - Knoxville Mathematics and Life Science Education: Promotin Interdisciplinarity 4:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| 21 | Colloquium |
Charles Hamaker St. Mary's College of California The Mathematics of X-ray Tomography 3:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| 27 | Student Presentations |
Students of Intelligent Robots II Bard College Fetchbot: Beta v0.1 4:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| April | 7 | Colloquium | James Belk Texas A & M University Fractals, Dynamics, and Julia Sets 4:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
| 9 | Colloquium | Cliona Golden University College Dublin Exploring the workings of the brain using mathematics 4:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| 10 | Colloquium | Robert Miller University of Washington Software in Modern Mathematical Research 4:30 p.m. RKC 111 |
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| 28 | Seminar | Jozef Przytycki George Washington University Quandles in Knot Theory: How to Approach Nakanishi 4-Move Conjecture 12:00 p.m. RKC 101 |
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| May |
Join us for lunch in Kline Commons every Wednesday from 12:15-1:15pm. All are welcome!