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Colloquia
Upcoming Colloquium
May 2012
Firday, May 4th, at 4:00
Erica Flapan, Pomona College
Mirror image symmetry from different viewpoints
Room: PB 192
April 2012
Thursday, April 19th, at 4:00
Carol Meyers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
March 2012
Friday, March 16th, at 4:00
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University
Enumeration of Golomb Rulers
Room: PB 138
Past Colloquia
October 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., PB 134
JANKO GRAVNER, University of California, Davis
"Digital Snowflakes"
Room: PB 134
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., PB 192
DAVID STRONG, Pepperdine University
"An interesting pattern in a fixed point problem and a new identity in a combinatorics problem"
Room: PB 192
May 2011
Friday, May 6, 4:00 P.M., Room PB 192
Peter Tannenbaum, CSUF
The Presidential Election Game and Political Prediction Markets: Can you make money gambling on presidential elections?
Room: PB 192
April 2011
Friday, April 8, 4:00 P.M., Room PB 192
Douglas Singleton, CSUF
Unruth/Hawking radiation for undergraduates
Room: PB 192
March 2011
Friday, March 25, 4:00 P.M., Room PB 194
Oscar Vega, CSUF
The Math of Sudoku
Room: PB 194
February 2011
Friday, February 25, 3:00 P.M., Room PB 192
Tamas Forgacs, CSUF
"O zeros where art thou?''
Room: PB 192
Friday, February 4, 4:00 P.M., Room PB 192
Kathryn Leonard, California State University, Channel Islands
The mathematics of skeletal shape models
Room: PB 192
November 2010
Friday, November 12, 4:00 P.M., Room ED 172
Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University
"Quandles, Braids, and Tangles, oh my!"
Room: ED 172
October 2010
Friday, October 15, 4:00 P.M., Room ED 172
Keith Mellinger, University of Mary Washington
"Kirkman's Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking through Fields of Numbers"
Room: ED 172
September 2010
Friday, September 24, 4:00 P.M., PB 192
Kent Pearce, Texas Tech University
"Use of Computer Technology for Insight and Proof: Strengths, Weaknesses and Practical Strategies"
Room: PB 192
April 2010
Friday, April 9, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. in McL 162
John Baez, UC Riverside
Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A
Rosetta Stone
Room: McL 162
December 2009
Friday, December 4, 4:00 p.m., Room ED 170
Ed Pegg Jr., Wolfram
Fun with Numb3rs - the amazing entertainment of recreational mathematics
Room: ED 170
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