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 February 11 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
James Swenson UWP |
Unique Prime Factorization and Piano Tuning |
| Friday February 19 |
Loras Hennessy 350 |
Bhupesh Shetty University of Iowa Analytics |
Analysis of Monday Night Football Viewership |
| Thursday February 25 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Michael Black UWP |
How to Earn a Million Dollars by Playing the Lottery (or not) |
| Friday March 4 |
Loras Hennessy 250 |
Brian Katz Augustana |
How Do Mathematicians Believe? |
| Thursday March 10 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Corey Manack | Mathematics of the Board Game RISK |
| Wednesday March 16 |
Loras Hennessy 350 |
Chris Frayer UWP |
Geometry of Generalized Cubic Polynomials |
| Wednesday March 30 |
Loras Hennessy 350 |
Caleb Buss Loras |
Game Theory and Soccer's Penalty Shootout |
| Thursday, 3:30 March 31 |
Loras Hennessy 250 |
Brandi Jess Loras |
Trends in Poverty |
| Thursday, 4:30 March 31 |
Loras Hennessy 250 |
Will Rabedeaux Loras |
Computational Implicit Solvation Modeling Using an Adaptive Boundary Cavity |
| Wednesday April 6 |
Loras Hennessy 350 |
Dan Willis Loras |
An Introduction to Bootstrap and Randomization Methods in Inferential Statistics |
| Thursday April 14 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Kevin Haertzen UWP |
Some Geometric Aspects of the Sturm-Liouville Problem |
| Wednesday April 20 |
Loras Hennessy 350 |
Jonas Meyer Loras |
An Introduction to the Riemann Hypothesis |
| Wednesday May 4 |
Loras Hennessy 350 |
Sam Hoelscher Loras |
Can You Prove Me False? |
| Friday May 6 |
Loras Hennessy 350 |
Nick Mueller Northwestern Mutual |
An Introduction to the Actuarial Profession |