Colloquia

Upcoming Colloquium

To be announced

Past Colloquia

October 2009

Friday, October 9, 4:00 p.m., Room PB 103

Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College
The Combinatorial Revolution in Knot Theory
Room: PB 103

September 2009

Friday, September 25 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
Shortest paths, soap films, and the shape of the universe
Room: ED 170

May 2009

Friday, 08 May at 3:30pm

John P. D'Angelo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Complex Geometry: Is it too complex to teach to freshmen?
Room: Peters Business 134

April 2009

Friday, 24 April at 3:30pm

Cindy Wyels, CSU Channel Islands
Student Accessible problems in Graph Labeling
Room: Peters Business 194

October 2008

Friday, 10 October at 4:00pm

James Feigenbaum, University of Pittsburgh
“Can Physics Explain the Stock Market?”
Room: Alice Peters Auditorium (UBC)

April 2008

Friday, 18 April at 4:00pm

Adam Landsberg , Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges
“NONLINEAR DYNAMICS and COMBINATORIAL GAMES: The renormalization of Chomp”
Room: Education 172

Friday, 11 April at 4:00pm

Glenn Hurlbert , Arizona State University
“Extremal Sets, Probability, and Graph Pebbling”
Room: Alice Peters Auditorium (UBC)

Friday, 4 April at 4:00pm

Daniel Goldston , San Jose State University
“Primes and Twin Primes”
Room: Ag 109

February 2008

Friday, 29 February at 4:00pm

Steve Bleiler , Portland State University
“Schooling, Implicit Collusion, and the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, or What to do when the Guppies are eating the Sharks.”
Room: Alice Peters Auditorium (UBC)

November 2007

Friday, 2 November at 4:00pm

Sam Payne , Stanford University
Bidding Games - Theory and Practice
Room: Ag 109

October 2007

Friday, 19 October at 4:00pm

Doron Zeilberger , Rutgers University
Mathematics: An Experimental Science Indeed
Room: Alice Peters Auditorium (UBC)

April 2007

Friday, 13 April at 4:00pm

Donald Saari , UC Irvine
Mathematics of Voting Rules; Why Your Last Election Outcome Was So Lousy!
Room: IT 101

March 2007

Friday, 16 March at 4:00pm

Michael Orrison , Harvey Mudd College
Voting from an Algebraic Perspective
Room: IT 101

February 2007

Monday, 26 February at 4:00pm

Carl Pomerance , Dartmouth College
Prime Time for Primes
Room: Alice Peters Auditorium (UBC)

November 2006

Friday, 3 November at 4:00pm

John Stillwell , University of San Francisco
Yearning for the Impossible
Room: Music 160

October 2006

Tuesday, 24 October at 3:00pm

Herbert Wilf , University of Pennsylvania
Mathematics: An Experimental Science
Room: Peters Educational Center Auditorium