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Mathematics Colloquium
Weekly series of talks given by Humboldt Mathematics faculty and guest speakers on topics in Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science or related fields. All math enthusiasts welcome!
Unless indicated otherwise, all Mathematics Colloquium talks will be held in BSS 302 from 4-4:50pm.
We cordially invite you to the Pre-Colloquium Tea located inside BSS 312 at 3:30 pm with light snacks and refreshments.
If you would like to receive emails for any of these events, please email math@humboldt.edu.
2025-2026
October 2 - The Pythagorean Proposition and the Enduring Beauty of Mathematics - John Martin (Santa Rosa Junior College, Mathematics)
September 18 - A Brief History of Time-Keeping - Dr. Fred Sharifi (Cal Poly Humboldt, Physics & Astronomy)
September 11 - How One Mathematician Walks Two Dogs - Dr. Brad Ballinger (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
September 4 - Linear Algebra in Quantum Computing: The Math You Already Know Opens Quantum Doors - Dr. Tyler J. Evans (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
2024-2025
May 1 - The Privacy Paradox: Unlocking Deeper Insights from Ethical Data - Joshua Paul Barnard (Data Scientist, Presearch)
April 24 - Divergent Series - Dr. Ken Yanosko (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics - Emeritus)
April 17 - The Probability an Integer is Squarefree - or - Counting Number Fields - Dr. Kevin McGown (CSU Chico, Mathematics and Statistics)
April 10 - Fund Your Future: Scholarships, Internships, and Research Opportunities - Dr. Bethany Johnson (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
April 3 - An Introduction to Kubernetes and JupyterLab on TIDE: Powertools for Research in the Mathematical Sciences - Brian Campbell, Ravi Chalasani and John Gerving (Cal Poly Humboldt Information and Technology Services)
March 27 - A Mathematical and Historical Treatment of Timekeeping - Dr. Chris Dugaw (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
March 13 - Introduction to Fusion Energy and using Machine Learning to Detect Instabilities - Drs. Kenneth Owens & Rosanna Overholser (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
March 6 - Film: Between the Folds: The Science of Art, The Art of Science
February 28 - Primes Galore: Some Elementary, Analytic, and Algebraic Number Theory - Joe Carroll (Cal Poly Humboldt, Adjunct Faculty, Mathematics)
February 20 - Visit from Alumni - Tanya Garcia (Schatz Energy Research Center)
February 13 - The Grammar of Graphics: A Framework for Designing Data Visualizations - Dr. Rosanna Overholser (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
February 6 - Cluster Quest: Connect with your Community through Machine Learning - DATA 322 (Machine Learning) Students
January 30 - How Economists Build Forecast Models - Dr. Dan Hamilton (California Lutheran University, School of Management)
December 12 - Mechanistic multivariate tools for trait-based ecology - Dr. Alana Chin (Cal Poly Humboldt, Biological Sciences)
December 5 - Camera Modeling with QR Decompositions (part 2) - Dr. Kenneth Owens (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
November 21 - Camera Modeling with QR Decompositions - Dr. Kenneth Owens (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
November 14 - Computing and Data Science Education with Human Contexts - Dr. Lisa Yan (UC Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences)
November 7 - From Here to Infinity: Lemniscates and Elliptic Integrals - Dr. Walden Freedman (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
October 31 - AI in Math Education: Teaching and Learning with AI - Carlos A. Lopez Gonzalez (Tuto)
October 24 - Disc Game Dynamics: A Latent Paradigm for Learning in Zero-Sum Games - Dr. Alexander Strang (UC Berkeley, Statistics and Data Science)
October 17 - Getting to Know Your Limits: the Epsilon-Delta Definition - Dr. Kenneth Owens (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
October 10 - Innovations in Data Science and Statistics at a California Community College - Dr. Solomon Russell (El Camino College, Computer Science)
October 3 - Zeros of a family of complex-valued harmonic polynomials - Dr. Michael Dorff (Brigham Young University, Mathematics)
September 26 - Improving forecasts of the ecological impacts of climate change - Jason McLachlan (University of Notre Dame, Biological Sciences)
September 19 - Growing with AI: Lessons Learned from Competing in 75 International Data Science Competitions - Dr. Chris Deotte (Senior Data Scientist Nvidia & Quadruple Kaggle Grandmaster)
September 12 - Can AI Grade Your Homework? - Max Bohun, Aman Garg and Keith Sollers (GradeWiz and Cornell University)
September 5 - If Attention is all we need, is Linear Regression mostly all we need? - Dr. Rosanna Overholser (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
August 29 - GEO AI Food Security: Remote Sensing of Central Valley Crop Water Stress - Dr. Kamila Dilmurat (UC Merced)
2023-2024
April 25 - Modeling Paradigms for Immune Cell Activity - Dr. Kamila Larripa, Amanda Case, Emmanuel Mezzulo, Abigail Penland & Cheyenne Ty (Cal Poly Humboldt Mathematics and Computer Science)
April 18 - Solving Conservation Puzzles with Integrated Community Models - Dr. Elise Zipkin (Red Cedar Distinguished Associate Professor, Michigan State University)
April 11 - Never Underestimate a Theorem That Counts Something! - Dr. Tyler J. Evans (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
April 4 - An Aspirational Approach to the Mathematical Preparation of Teachers - Dr. Beth Burroughs (Montana State University, Mathematical Sciences)
March 28 - Chaos in the Wild: Unveiling Nature's Dynamic Patterns - Dr. Bethany Johnson (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
March 21 - Module Categories: Why We Care, and How to Find Them - Caleb Hill (University of New Hampshire, Mathematics & Statistics (Ph.D. Candidate))
March 7 - How to Accidentally Program a Supercomputer? - Dr. Ken Owens (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
February 29 - Shallow- and Deep-Water Ocean Waves: Deconstructing the Dispersion Relation - Dr. Tamara Beitzel Barriquand (Cal Poly Humboldt, Oceanography and Physics & Astronomy)
February 22 - A World from a Sheet of Paper (Video from the Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures) - Dr. Tadashi Tokieda (Stanford, Mathematics)
February 15 - Navajo Math Circles - A film by George Paul Csicsery
February 8 - Forgetful Observations on Sudoku Solutions and the Phistomefel Ring - Dr. Joe Carroll (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
November 30 - Language as a Softening Liquid - Dr. Peter Overholser (Schatz Energy Research Center)
November 16 - Transformations and Symmetry - Dr. Brandon Ashley (Southern Oregon University, Mathematics)
November 9 - Secrets of the SurfaceThe Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani - A film by George Csicsery
November 2 - What is Data Science? What Does a Data Scientist Do? - Dr. Rosanna Overholser (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
October 27 (Friday) - Clocks, Parking Garages, and the Solvability of the Quintic: A Friendly Introduction to Monodromy - Dr. Edray Goins (Pomona College, Mathematics)
October 19 - The Microscopic World of Piecewise Isometries - Dr. Arek Goetz (San Francisco State University, Mathematics)
October 16 (Monday) - Online Trend Estimation and Detection of Trend Deviations in Sub-sewershed Time Series of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Measured in Wastewater - Dr. Julia Schedler (Rice University, Statistics)
October 12 - Integer Cokernels and Fragmented Tilings - Dr. Alex McDonough (UC Davis, Mathematics)
October 5 - No colloquium lecture
September 28 - Encryption via Permutations and Breaking the Enigma Machine - Dr. Tyler Evans (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
September 21 - Hyperbolic Tessellations and the Art of M.C. Escher - Dr. Martha Byrne (Sonoma State University, Mathematics and Statistics)
September 14 - The Intersection of Mathematics and Art Cognitions - The Great Wave off Kanagawa and The Fibonacci Spiral - Mr. Tuto Lopez Gonzalez (San Francisco State University, Mathematics)
September 7 - The Mysterious Linking of the Borromean Rings Explained: A Geometric Picture of Milnor’s Link Invariants - Dr. Anna Cepek (University of Oregon, Mathematics)
August 31 - A Cautionary Tale in Applied Statistics - Dr. John G Williams (Environmental Scientist, retired, and veteran of the Central Valley water wars)
2022-2023
April 27 - How to Build and Program a Supercomputer - Dr. Ken Owens and Charlin Duff (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
April 20 - From the Heavens to the Earth: The Mercurial Tale of Spherical Trigonometry - Dr. Glen Van Brummelen (Trinity Western University, Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences)
April 13 - A New Kind of Music - Emma Modrick (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics and Oceanography)
April 6 - The Poincare Disk and the Hyperquilt: Easing into models of the hyperbolic plane - Dr. Carol Keig (Sonoma State, Mathematics and Statistics)
March 30 - The Geometry of Numbers - Dr. Dibyajyoti Deb (Oregon Institute of Technology, Mathematics)
March 23 - The Paradoxes of the Game Penney Ante - Philip Farmer
March 9 - Surprising Connections in Number Theory - Dr. Daniel Martin (UC Davis, Mathematics) [Cancelled]
March 2 - Informing students about Cal-Bridge and REUs - Dr. Chris Dugaw (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
February 23 - Introduction to Python: Python vs. R - Dr. Yoon Kim (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
February 16 - Towards Open Science Using GitHub and R Markdown - Mr. Judson Fisher (Cal Poly Humboldt, Fisheries, Forestry Watershed & Wildland Sciences Graduate Student)
February 9 - Darts-Visualizing Probability: Simulations, Graphs & Mapping Diagrams - Dr. Martin Flashman (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics (Emeritus))
February 2 - Mathematical Trinities - Mystery & Beauty of Mathematics - Dr. Andrew Conner (St. Mary’s College of California, Mathematics & Computer Science)
December 1 - SoME1 - Winners - Dr. Jeff Haag (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
November 24 - No colloquium lecture (fall break)
November 17 - No colloquium lecture
November 10 - Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics - Dr. Jeff Haag (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
November 3 - Fourier Series: The Beauty of Circular Motion, part II - Dr. Walden Freedman (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
October 27 - A Deep Dive into (the best show ever) Futurama - Dr. Chris Harmon (Cal Poly Humboldt, Chemistry)
October 20 - No colloquium lecture
Friday, October 14 - "On the (t, r) Broadcast Domination Number of Graphs" - Dr. Pamela E. Harris (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Mathematics)
October 6 - "Binary Logistic Regression and the Maximum Likelihood Estimator" - Dr. Joseph Carrol (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
September 29 - "Pascal’s Mystic Hexagon" - Dr. Peter Goetz (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
September 22 - "An Introduction to Model Selection and Causal Diagrams" - Dr. Rosanna Overholser (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
September 15 - "A Brief Introduction to Check Digits" - Dr. Tyler Evans (Cal Poly Humboldt, Mathematics)
September 8 - "W, H, A, T, S, _, N, E, X, ..." - Dr. Peter Overholser (Oregon Institute of Technology, Mathematics)
September 1 - "Wave-driven Changes in Beach Sand Levels" - Dr. Bonnie Ludka (Cal Poly Humboldt, Environmental Resource Engineering and Mathematics)
2021-2022
April 7 - "A Geometer’s view of Statistical Inference and Machine learning" - Dr. Jesús De Loera
March 3 - "Stability Analysis with Fourier Transforms" - Dr. Ken Owens
February 24 - "Taming tensors" - Dr. Peter Brooksbank
February 17 - "An Invitation to Invariant Theory" - Dr. Frank Moore
February 10 - "Romancing the Triples" - John Martin
December 9 - "What are we actually modeling? Movement, assumptions, and imperfect detection complicate estimates of animal abundance." - Dr. Frank Fogarty
November 4 - "The (possible) shapes of space: 3-dimensional topology and geometrization" - Dr. Stephen Trettel
October 28 - "Teaching Undergraduate Data Science at UC Berkeley with Jupyter notebooks: pathways for curricular innovation" - Dr. Eric Van Dusen
October 21 - "Opportunities to Teach Empathetic Critical Thinking through Modeling" - Prof. Beth Burroughs
October 14 - "Secret Code Girls of World War II" - Liza Mundy
October 7 - "Fourier Series: The Beauty of Circular Motion" - Dr. Walden Freedman
September 23 - "Introduction to BA 422: Financial Data Analytics and Econometrics" - Dr. Ramesh Adhikari
September 16 - "Michael's Card Shuffling Problem: An Inductive Inquiry into Derangements" - Dr. Joe Carroll
September 9 - " Survival Analysis, Mixture Distributions, and Individual Heterogenity" - Dr. Chris Dugaw
2020-2021
April 29 - " Real Partners for Real Analysis: An Academic Support Program for Students" - Drs. Abigail Higgins and Sayonita Ghosh Hajra
April 22 - "A Counting problem for Standard Young Tableaux with a given shape and a major index" - Dr. Lipika Deka
April 15 - "A Virtual Summer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory" - Dr. Jessica De Silva
April 8 - "Humanizing Online STEM Courses" - Dr. Sarah Williams
April 1 - "Primes, sieves and pentiums: A tale from the 90's" - Dr. Kevin McGown
March 25 - "A Freshmen Level Computational Linear Algebra Course" - Dr. Laura Chowdury
March 4 - "Learning Through the Triad: Cryptography, Theory, and Programming" - Dr. Jeff Meyer
January 21 - "A Mathematical and Historical Treatment of Timekeeping" - Dr. Chris Dugaw
January 28 - "A conversation about teaching with two Humboldt Math Education alumni"
2019-2020
March 12 - "Advances in Spatially Balanced Sampling: The HIP and BAS Methods" - Dr. Trent McDonald
March 5 - "Using Pre-College Student Attitudes and Demographics to Predict STEM Career Interest" - Alana Unfried
February 27 - "A Brief Encounter with the Distributional Kind" - Ellery Ames
February 13 - "The Spiritual Side of Mathematics" - John Martin
February 6 - "Irrational and Transcendental Numbers" - Kevin McGown
December 19 - "Catching Internal Waves in the Ocean: The Mathematics of Internal Waves and Turbulence in the Ocean" - Tamara Barraquand
November 14 - "Two Videos by 3Blue1Brown"
November 7 - "Classifiers for Predicting Undergraduate Computer Science Performance" - Sherrene Bogle
October 31 - "Tricks & Treats" - Brad Ballinger
October 24 - "Public Key Cryptography" - Adamou Fode Made
October 17 - "Bertrand's Paradox (i) from R simulation and (ii) from the Bayesian Perspective" - Yoon Kim
October 3 - "Restricted Patterns of the Past, Present, and Future" - Zvezdelina Stankova
September 26 - "False Position" - Walden Freedman
September 19 - "Circles in Polygons" - Tyler Evans
September 12 - "What's Wrong with Statistical Significance Tests: An Example from Environmental Flow Assessment" - John Williams
September 5 - "Linear Algebra and Mapping Diagrams: Old and New Visualizations with GeoGebra" - Martin Flashman
2018-2019
May 2 - "Introduction to the geometric product and the geometric algebras G2 and G3" - Tim Lauck
April 25 - "Mathematical Art from Complex Analysis" - Frank A. Farris
April 18 - "Principal Component Analysis- An Explanation and an Application" - Michael Wilson & Peter Oliver
April 11 - "Relevant Advances and Applications of Occupancy Models" - Larissa Bailey
April 4 - "Points, Polytopes, and Polynomials" - Katharina Jochemko
March 28 - "An Interfering Paths Approach to Understanding Quantum Mechanics" - Ken Owens
March 7 - "There are Infinitely Many Universes on My Beach Ball! Surprising Facts, Useful Tools, and New Results in Topology" - Leanne Merrill
February 28 - "Empirical Likelihood for Detecting Changes in Time Series Models" - Ramadha Piyadi Gamage
February 21 - "Applied Approaches to Missing Data"
February 14 - "A Comparison of Statistical Models with Longitudinal Data: An Application to Outpatient Clinical Treatment for Problem Drinkers" - Judith Canner
January 31 - "Musings on Multiplicative Functions" - Tyler Evans
November 15 - Must See Math Videos hosted by Jeff Haag
November 8 - "From Permutations to Slopes: A Suprising Example of Generating Functions" - Warren Staley
October 25 - "Equations over Finite Groups and a new Perspective on 'Solvability'" - Alon Amit
October 18 - "Using in situ meansurements and numerical models to investigate subsurface coastal ocean transport" - Jacob S. Partida
October 11 - "Perplex vs. Complex" - Walden Freedman
October 4 - "Heat and Mass Transfer in Soil with Application to Seasonal Renewable Energy Storage and Enviornmental Remediation" - Ali Moradi Gharehtapeh
September 27 - "Radioactive Pi" - Chris Dugaw
September 20 - "Investigation of Surfaces using the Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Technique" - Chris Harmon
September 13 - "How Many Ways can you solve a Quadratic Euation Visually? From the Greeks to 21st Century Technology" - Martin Flashman
September 6 - "A Brief Introduction to Elliptic Curves" - Peter Goetz
2017-2018
May 2 - "The Many Faces of Dispersive Equations" - Gigliola Staffilani
April 26 - "An Introduction to the Change Point Problem and Applications to Stock Market Data" - Abeer Hasan
April 19 - "Hyperoperation Absurdity" - Brian Stonelake
April 12 - Student Results of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling
April 5 - An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics - Edward Roualdes
March 29 - Slide Rules - Ken Yanosko
March 22 - Cold Fusion/LENR Update - Robin Carter
March 8 - Applications of Quantile Regression in Ecology - Barry Noon
February 22 - Mathematical Games and Puzzles, Part 2 - Brad Ballinger
February 15 - "Building Your Career in the Exciting World of Data Science - Jim Hetrick and Rick Hutley
February 8 - "Surreal Numbers and Combinatorial Games" - Andrew Conner
February 1 - Mathematical Games and Puzzles - Brad Ballinger
January 25 - Introductory LaTeX Workshop - Brad Ballinger
November 30 - "Bézout's Theorem: A Tale of Two Curves" - Pete Goetz
November 16 - Mathematics Videos
November 9 - "PIC Math Course: Preparing to Enter Non-Teaching Careers" - Bori Mazzag
November 2 - "Solar Energy Soiling: The Problem, Experiments, and Model Development" - Liza Boyle
October 26 - "Foolhardy Forays into Generalizations of the Collatz Conjecture" - Erik Knutsen
October 19 - Video Conference with an Humboldt Graduate - Valerie Yellam - PDF
October 12 - "Three-term Arithmetic Progressions" - Hans Parshall, The Ohio State University
October 5 - "The Joy of Mathematical Games" - Video by Arthur Benjamin
September 28 - "Conics in Euclidean, Projective, and Hyperbolic Planes" - Dale Oliver
September 21 - "Mathematical Puzzle Party"
September 12 - "Can't you just feel the Moonshine?" - Ken Ono
September 7 - "Quadratic Residues and Primative Roots" - Kevin McGown
August 24 - "Solving Polynomial Equations: Visualization from Linear to Cubic, from Rational to Complex Numbers" - Martin Flashman
2016-2017
April 27 - "The Maxwell-Wiechert Model of Viscoelasticity" - Joseph Carroll
April 20 - "Dividing a Square into Triangles: Combinatorial Topology meets the 2-adic Absolute Value" - Peter Goetz
Apr 13 - "The Jewel in the Crown: Quadratic Reciprocity" - Rick Luttmann
Apr 6 - "64=65? Lewis Carroll: Puzzling Mathematician & Mathematical Puzzler" - Stuart Moskowitz
Mar 30 - "Alumna Interview: Profile of a Non-Academic Career Path in Mathematics" - Jennifer Sorkin (via Skype)
Mar 23 - "Spatial Capture-Recapture: Integrating Observations and Ecological Theory" - Andy Royle
Mar 9 - "Understanding Quasars: The Study of Galaxies far, far away...." - Paola Rodrigues Hidalgo
Mar 2 - "Vector-Valued Modular Forms and the Bounded Denominator Conjecture" - Christopher Marks
Feb 23 - "The Electoral College vs. The Popular Vote or Balinski and Young vs. Kenneth Arrow" - Charlie Biles
Feb 16 - "Summing it Up" - A Video presentation of a talk given at Google by Avner Ash and Robert Gross on August 23, 2016
Feb 9 - "Feel the Bern - The Bernoulli Numbers" - Jeff Haag
Feb 2 - "Combinatorial Fixed Point Theorems" - Francis Su
Jan 26 - "Connections Beyond the Margins of the Grid" - Peter Alstone
Dec 1 - "intrinsic Properties of Graphs Embedded in R3" - Erica Flapan
Nov. 17 - "Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture" - film by George Csicery, ZALA films, MSRI
Nov. 10 - "A Mathematician's View on Quantum Mechanics" - Kenneth Owens
Nov. 3 - "Mathematical Modeling in Ecology" - Christopher Dugaw
Oct. 27 - "Mathematical Origami: Forcing Sets for Miura Folding Patterns" - Brad Ballinger
Oct. 20 - "Teaching and Learning Mathematics with a Growth Mindset" - Dale Oliver
Oct. 13 - "Modeling Carbon Nanotube Networks" - Ruth Saunders
Oct. 6 - "A Trip through the Numerical-Galaxy Zoo" - Ellery Ames
Sept. 29 - "Planning for Uncertainty: Power Planning Models for the Northwest" - Steven Simmons
Sept. 22 - "No Punt Intended" - Katharine Gray
Sept. 15 - "Statistical and Ecosystem Modeling in Support of Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries Management" - Andre Buchheister
Sept. 8 - "A Selection from Kvant Selecta: On Removing Parentheses with D.B. Fuchs" - Tyler Evans
Sept. 1 - "Waste-to-Reuse: Novel Membrane-Based Processes for Resource and Energy Recovery" - Kerri Hickenbottom
2015-2016
Apr. 21 - "Supercomputing and Quantum Tunneling"
Apr. 14 - "The Great Math Mystery" - Nova Series
Apr. 7 - "Chaos from Simple Trigonometry" - Rick Luttman
Mar. 24 - "Tensors and Their Eigenvectors" - Bernd Sturmfels
Mar. 10 - "Proofs from the Other Book" - Ken Yanosko
Mar. 3 - "Complex Variables: Mapping Diagrams for Visualizing Complex Arithmetic and Functions Dynamically with GeoGebra" - Martin Flashman
Feb. 25 - "From the Abacus to the iPhone" - John Martin
Feb. 18 - "Little Things that Run the Savanna" - Daniel Doak
Feb. 11 - "Competition: Some Insights from Individual-based Models" - Rollie Lamberson
Feb. 4 - "Weird Means to an End: An Introduction to Functional Equations" - Walden Freedman
Jan. 28 - "Optimization inspired by biology: parameter fitting using the genetic algorithm” - Bori Mazzag
Dec. 10 - "Can Dolphins Communicate Abstract Ideas?" - Abeer Hasan
Dec. 3 - "The Math Life" - Wendy Conquest, Bob Drake & Dan Rockmore
Nov. 19 - "Synchronicity: Alternating Sums, Exclusion, and Determinants" - Jennifer J. Quinn
Nov. 12 - "Formative Fun" - Michael Butler
Nov. 5 - "N is a Number" - film hosted by Dr. Walden Freedman
Oct. 29 - "Restricted Central Extensions of Modular Witt Algebras" - Dr. Tyler Evans
Oct. 22 - No Colloquium
Oct. 15 - "The History of Congressional Apportionment Through a Mathematical Lens" - Dr. Charles Biles
Oct. 8 - "Pattern-oriented modeling for design and validation of individual-based wildlife models: the Jamaica coffee farm example" - Dr. Steve Railsback
Oct. 1 - "Investigation of Surfaces Using the Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Technique" - Dr. Chris Harmon
Sept. 24 - "Proof the Square root of 2 is Irrational and an Introduction to Convexity" - Dr. Richard Spjut
Sept. 17 - "Positroids, 1/e², and a conjecture of Da Silva” - Dr. Federico Ardila
Sept. 8 - "Tsunami Propagation over Underwater Obstacles" - Dr. Sergei Fomin
Sept. 3 - "Let's Get Series About Calculus" - Dr. Jeff Haag
2014-2015
April 30 - "Is Mathematics Biology's Next Microscope?" - Dr. Kamila Larripa
April 23 - "Quantum Tunneling and Computation" - Dr. Kenneth Owens
April 16 - "WebWork: An Open Source Alternative" - Tim Lauck and Tim Payer
April 6 - "A Computational Mathematician Combusts" - Dr. Margot Gerritsen
March 12 - "Professors Pondering Pi" - Drs. Dale Oliver and Jeff Haag
March 5 - "A Tribute to Euler" - Dr. William Dunham (video)
February 26 - "Evidence, Errors and AIC" - Dr. Brian Dennis
February 19 - "Dirac's Belt Trick, the iPad®, and Quaternions" - Dr. Richard Koch
February 12 - "Odds and Ends of Introductory Statistics" - Dr. Yoon G. Kim
February 5 - "Mapping Diagrams Take on Calculus and Complex Variables" - Dr. Martin Flashman
January 29 - "The Pythagorian Theorem and the Enduring Beauty of Mathematics" - John Martin
December 11 - "Matrix Factorizations" - Dr. Andrew Conner
December 4 - "Colorectal Cancer Screening and the Simplest Random Variables" - Dr. Joseph Carroll
November 20 - "Mathematics Videos" - Dr. Jeff Haag
November 13 - "Positive Polynomials and their Applications" - Dr. Richard Spjut
November 6 - No Colloquium
October 29 - "The Space of Polynomials from 1540 to today" - Dr. Benson Farb
October 23 - "Adventures in Plasma Physics" - Dr. Kenneth Owens, Tim Lauck
October 16 - "Why does Calculus Matter?" - Dr. Adamou Fodé Madé
October 9 - "Partitions are Everywhere!" - Dr. Ben Ford
September 25 - "Models of Human Locomotion" - Dr. Justus Ortega
September 18 - "Using Fubini's Principle in Counting Problems" - Dr. Dale Oliver
September 11 - "Products with Vectors" - Dr. Jeff Haag