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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday January 31 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 126 |
Chris Frayer UWP |
The Basel Problem: An amazingly simple proof |
| Thursday February 14 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 126 |
Clem Jeske UWP |
Fermat Point of a Triangle |
| Wednesday February 20 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Angela Kohlhaas Loras |
Pictures of Monomial Ideals |
| Thursday March 7 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 126 |
Sr. Barbara Reynolds Cardinal Stritch Univ. |
The Arbelos, the Salinon, and the Parbolos |
| Friday March 15 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Brian Estervig Iowa State University |
Inferring the Unseeable: An Introduction to Inverse Problems |
| Wednesday March 20 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Chris Mooney University of Iowa |
An Introduction to Non-Unique Factorization |
| Wednesday April 3 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Morgan Mayer Loras |
Geometric Optics and Spherical Aberration |
| Friday April 5 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Logan Benson Loras |
Projective Geometry and its Applications in Perspective Art |
| Thursday April 11 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 126 |
David Boyles UWP |
The Bott-Milnor-Kervaire 1,2,4,8 theorem |
| Wednesday April 17 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Jonas Meyer Loras |
Fair Distribution of Prime Numbers |
| Thursday April 25 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 126 |
Barb Barnet UWP |
Sir R.A. Fisher and Experimental Design |
| Friday May 3 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Amanda Matson Clarke University |
Word Games or Factorizations? |
| Wednesday May 8 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Dick Smith University of Dubuque |
Proofs that developed when students said, "What if?" |