Bi-State Math Colloquium
Fall 2017

Loras College and UW-Platteville

All talks begin at 4PM unless otherwise noted. To carpool to Platteville from Loras, contact Angela Kohlhaas.

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
Thursday
September 14
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 122
Mu-Ling Chang
UWP
Evaluation of Pi by Nested Radicals
Thursday
September 21
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Brian Katz
Augustana College
How Do Mathematicians Believe?
Thursday
September 28
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 122
James Swenson
UWP
Hackenbush and the Surreal Numbers
Thursday
October 5
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Maria Gommel
University of Iowa
The Shape of Data:
An Introduction to Topological Data Analysis
3PM Friday
October 6
Loras College
Wahlert 110
Loras Alum Math Alumni Panel featuring
Karla Digmann, Heather Everding, and Jeff Heitzman
Thursday
October 12
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 122
Miyeon Kwon
UWP
Applications of Linear Algebra in Calculus
Friday-Saturday
October 20-21
Loras College
Wahlert/Science Hall
Iowa Section MAA Meeting Click here for schedule.
Thursday
October 26
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 122
Leonida Ljumanovic
UWP
Cantor's Set Theory
Thursday
November 2
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Sarah Schoel
Loras
Fractal Sequence Analysis and Creation of Art and Music
Friday
November 3
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Hunter Brehm
Loras
Modular Fibonacci Sequences
Thursday
November 9
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 122
Camille Felton
UWP
Limiters for Lax-Wendroff Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Friday
December 1
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Jacob Heidenreich
Loras
What We Can Learn about Things by Pouring Syrup on Them

Previous Semesters