Bi-State Math Colloquium
Spring 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
February 9
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Dave Boyles
UWP
Mathematics in the House of Wisdom
Thursday
February 16
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Matthew Rissler
Loras
The Rissler Universe of Sports Rankings:
It's Markov Chains All the Way Down
Thursday
February 23
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Clem Jeske
UWP
Packing of Planes and Boxes
Friday
March 3
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Stephen Odaibo, MD
Medical Associates
From Math Major to Physician-Scientist and Back:
A How-to Guide
Friday
March 17
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Anne Marx Scheuerell
Loras
Applications of Statistics to Baseball:
Offensive Productivity and Play Call Challenges
Thursday
March 23
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Kyle Czarnecki
UWP
Prime Counting and the Riemann Zeta Function
Wednesday
March 29
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Clem Jeske
UWP
Packing of Planes and Boxes Reprise
Thursday
April 6
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Nicole Fonger
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Exploring a Career Trajectory in Mathematics Education
Thursday
April 13
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Chris Frayer & Landon Gauthier
UWP
A Tale of Two Circles: Geometry of a Class of Quartic Polynomials
Friday
April 21
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Bev Florence, Amanda Matson
Jonas Meyer, Emily Schmidt
Play and Be Curious
Thursday
April 27
UW-Platteville
Ottensman 124
Benjamin V.C. Collins
UWP
The Gougu Theorem
Friday
May 5
Loras College
Hennessy 250
Anh Nguyen
University of Iowa
Hodgkin-Huxley model

Previous Semesters