Bi-State Math Colloquium
Fall 2014

Loras College and UW-Platteville

All talks begin at 4PM unless otherwise noted. To carpool to Platteville from Loras, meet outside Hennessy 210 by 3:15 on the afternoon of the talk.

If you would like to give a talk at Loras or have questions regarding the colloquium, contact Angela Kohlhaas. To see abstracts, click on the title of the talk. Titles and abstracts from previous semesters can be viewed here.

Schedule

Date Location Speaker Title
Friday
September 5
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Susan Crook
Loras
Generalized Happy Numbers
Thursday
September 11
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Clem Jeske
UWP
Dissecting Quadratic Equations
(and other things as well)
Friday
September 19
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Tricia McCarthy
Loras
Cancer Stem Cells in Treating
Glioblastoma Multiform Brain Cancer
Thursday
September 25
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Rob Calcaterra
UWP
Some Interesting Problems in Analysis
Wednesday
October 1
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Jenni Good
University of Iowa
What Did J.S. Bach Know about Fractals?
Thursday
October 9
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Rob O'Connell
Epic Systems
Fun with Fractals:
A Journey through the Mandelbrot Set and Beyond
Wednesday
October 15
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Amy Ray
Transamerica Life Insurance
The Actuarial Profession:
What Is It and What Does It Take?
Friday
November 7
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Matt Welz
UW-Stevens Point
An Application of Sperner's Lemma
to a Problem in Euclidean Geometry
Wednesday
November 12
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Katie Gonzales
Loras
Calculating Wins Produced in the WNBA
Thursday
November 13
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Cassidy Krause
UWP
Analysis of the Finite Element Method
in the Discrete Maximum Principle
Friday
November 21
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Morgan Fonley
University of Iowa
Analyzing River Flow

Previous Semesters