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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Thursday September 10 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Jason Thrun UWP |
Polya's Orchard Visibility Problem |
Friday September 18 |
Loras Hennessy 250 |
Angela Kohlhaas Loras |
Patterns and Recurrence: the Math of Music |
Thursday September 24 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Clem Jeske UWP |
Magic Hexagons |
Wednesday September 30 |
Loras Hennessy 250 |
Matt Rissler Loras |
The Problem of Paths-Colley Matrix (Rissler) Ranking Method for College Football |
Thursday October 8 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Benjamin V.C. Collins UWP |
Easier than π |
Wednesday October 14 |
Loras Hennessy 250 |
Nathaniel Richmond University of Iowa |
Networks, Networks, Networks! |
Thursday October 22 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Vicki Reuter UWP |
Continued Fractions: They're not just for number theorists anymore! |
Thursday October 29 |
Loras Hennessy 250 |
Kim Anderson Loras |
Fractals Found in Music |
Thursday November 12 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Dave Boyles UWP |
Rational and Implicit Equations of Polar Curves |
Wednesday November 18 |
Loras Hennessy 250 |
Clem Jeske UWP |
Magic Hexagons (Reprise) |
Friday December 4 |
Loras Hennessy 250 |
Dick Smith and Kris Nelson University of Dubuque |
A Simple Thing Became a Journey |