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.
Date | Location | Speaker | Title |
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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 |