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, 2007. "Colloquia" should be accessible to the general (mathematical) public, while "seminars" may be at a higher level (upper-level undergraduate and beyond). After February 15 most talks will be on Tuesdays at 4:15pm in Albee 106. There will be refreshments at 4:00. Please join us! |
| February | 1 | Colloquium |
Patrick Crotty Department of Neurosurgery University of Virginia Health System Energy, Information, and Evolution: The Optimization of Biological Nervous Systems for Energy Consumption and Information Rates 5:00 pm, Hegeman 102 |
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Nathaniel Thiem Stanford University Melting glass and combinatorial representation theory 5:00 pm, Hegeman 102 |
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| 5 | Colloquium |
Andrew Beveridge Carnegie Mellon University Random Walks and Stopping Rules 5:00 pm, Hegeman 102 |
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| 6 | Colloquium |
Joel Franklin Reed College Birkhoff's Theorem in Electrodynamics, General Relativity, and Beyond 5:00 pm, Hegeman 102 |
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| 8 | Colloquium |
Ashok Muthukrishnan Swarthmore College From basic to applied science: Entanglement in quantum informatics and quantum optics 5:00 pm, Hegeman 102 |
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| 9 | Colloquium |
Greg Landweber University of Oregon Graph Theory and Supersymmetry 5:00 pm, Hegeman 106 (note special room) |
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| 12 | Colloquium |
Helga Huntley
University of Washington Modeling Ice in Motion 5:00 pm, Hegeman 102 |
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| 15 | Colloquium |
Kariane Calta Cornell University Billiards: geometry and dynamical systems 5:00 pm, Hegeman 102 |
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| 27 | Seminar | Robert McGrail Bard College Sudoku and Algebra Completions 4:15 pm, Albee 106 |
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| March | 6 | Seminar | Samuel Hsiao Bard College Distributive lattices, matroids, and spheres 4:15 pm, Albee 106 |
| 13 | Seminar | Joe Kirtland Marist College A Solution to the Puzzle No. Crunch&trade Leads to Word Length in Sn for n even and n >= 6 Abstract (Word format with embedded image) 4:30 pm (note later time), Albee 106 |
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| 14 | Special Pi Day Talk | Robert McGrail Bard College A Brief Modern History of pi and the Mathematical Hobbyist 6:00 pm, LC115 Pizza Pi and other kinds of Pi will be served |
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| 21 | Distinguished Scientist Lecture | Frank Morgan Atwell Professor of Mathematics at Williams College Soap Bubbles and Mathematics 8:00 pm, Multipurpose Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center |
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| 27 | Seminar | Andrija Perunicic Bard College Comparing the Geometric and Combinatorial Symmetry Groups of a 4-dimensional Solid 4:15 pm, Albee 106 |
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| April | 3 | No Event | |
| 10 | Seminar | Rebecca Thomas Bard College Agents for the Semantic Web 4:15 pm, Albee 106 |
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| 17 | Seminar | John Cullinan Bard College Inverse Galois Theory and Arithmetic Geometry II 4:15 pm, Albee 106 |
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| 21 | Math Conference | The Hudson River Undergraduate Math Conference will be held at Siena College on April 21st, 2007. All students are welcome to attend and/or give a talk. If you're interested in presenting, abstracts are due February 25th. Contact: Lauren Rose, rose@bard.edu | |
| 23 | Joint Seminar with MAT Program | Amanda Serenevy Math Circle Discussion 4:30 pm, Olin 204 |
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| 24 | Joint Seminar with Cognitive Science | Amanda Serenevy Mathematics and the Brain 4:30 pm, Hegeman 102 |
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| May | 1 | Seminar | Timothy Goldberg Cornell University A Little Taste of Symplectic Geometry 4:15 pm, Albee 106 |
| 10 | Seminar | Melanie Stein Trinity College Playing with Richard Thompson's Group F 4:15 pm, Albee 106 |
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| 17 | Seminar | Jordan Volz Bard College Group Structure of Isogeneous Elliptic Curves Over Finite Fields 4:15 pm, Albee 106 |
Join us for lunch in Kline Commons every Wednesday from 12-1pm. All are welcome!
The Hudson River Undergraduate Math Conference will be held at Siena College on April 21st, 2007. All students are welcome to attend and/or give a talk. If you're interested in presenting, abstracts are due February 25th. Contact: Lauren Rose, rose@bard.edu