2016-17 Schedule
The Swarthmore College Department of Mathematics and Statistics invites you to join us on Tuesdays for Colloquium talks. Unless otherwise specified, the Math/Stat Colloquium will be held at:
- Location: Science Center 199 (unless otherwise noted)
- Time: Tuesdays 4:30–5:30 (refreshments served at 4:15)
| Date | Speaker | Title (click to see flyer and abstract) |
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| Sep 13 | Frank Morgan (Williams College) |
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| Sep 27 | Gregor Kovacic (Rensselaer Polytechnic) |
Mathematical Descriptions of Simple Brain Processes: Successes and Pitfalls |
| Oct 4 | Heidi Goodson (Haverford College) |
Elliptic Curves over Three Fields |
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Oct 18 |
Darren Glass (Getttysburg College) |
Chip Firing on Graphs with Automorphisms Location: Science Center 101 |
| Nov 15 | Melanie Hopkins (American Museum of Natural History) |
Studying Evolution in the Fossil Record Using Shape Analysis |
| Nov 22 | Math/Stat Dept | Math 97 Poster Session (2:30pm, SC158 and Math/Stat Lounge) |
| Nov 29 | Henry Cohn (Microsoft Northeast) |
2016-17 Kitao Lecture: The sphere packing problem in dimensions 8 and 24 |
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Apr 24-25 |
Robert Bryant (Duke University) |
2016-17 Dresden Lectures (in SC 101): I. The Idea of Holonomy II. On the geometry of geodesics on Finsler surfaces |
