All talks begin at 4PM unless otherwise noted.
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 8 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Chris Frayer UWP |
Geometry of Polynomials: A Tour of Results |
| Thursday February 22 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Wayne Johnson UWP |
Formal Power Series and Representation Theory |
| Wednesday February 28 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
James Swenson UWP |
Gerrymandering and Geometry |
| Friday March 2 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Heather Everding UnityPoint Health |
Profession Science Master’s Degree and Data Analytics in Health Care |
| Thursday March 8 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Kirthi Premadasa UW-Baraboo |
Optimizing Savings on Attic Insulation: Can Calculus Help? |
| Thursday March 15 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 126 |
Clem Jeske UWP |
Fun with Foursomes |
| Wednesday March 21 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
James Swenson UWP |
Detecting Gerrymandering by Directly Measuring Partisan Bias |
| Wednesday April 4 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Matthew Rissler Loras |
Just How Bad Is That Gerrymander: Using Computers to Assess How Typical a Redistricting Is |
| Tuesday April 10 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Vicki Reuter UWP |
An Introduction to Partitions |
| Friday April 13 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Allison Ewald Loras |
Matrix-Based Ranking Predictions |
| Friday April 20 |
Loras College Hennessy 350 |
Wako Bungula University of Iowa |
Topological Data Analysis and the Mapper Algorithm |
| Thursday April 26 |
UW-Platteville Ottensman 124 |
Barb Barnet UWP |
Outliers |