Coffee Time Talks Before 2019
Fall 2018
Dr. Shane Redmond & Dr. Lisa Kay: An Exploration of a Possible Solution to Gerrymandering
Dr. Brandon Hibbard: Fractal Dimension
Dr. Amanda Ellis: How Bayesian Statistics Saved the Life of One Fisherman and What It Can Do for You
Spring 2018
Dr. Shane Redmond: Geometry and Gerrymandering
Dr. Buz Buskirk: Slide Rules: What They Are and How to Use Them
Dr. Joseph D. Fehribach: Kirchhoff Graphs and Chemistry
Fall 2017
Dr. Shane Redmond: Gerrymandering, Math, and the Supreme Court
Sierra Chugg, Dalton Hopper, Claire Crouch, Zachary Morgan, & Jenna Johnson: Student Panel: Academic Enrichment Activities
Dr. George Cobb, Professor Emeritus of Statistics: Why look for an antiderivative when your laptop can just play Monopoly?Markov Chain Monte Carlo as the second revolution in the 2500-year history of calculus
Spring 2017
Dr. Pat Costello: A Few of My Favorite Things
Jason Rollins: Minesweeper—NP or Not NP? That Is the Question
Dr. Rachel Bishop-Ross, Dr. Jason Gibson, Dr. Jeff Neugebauer, & Dr. Michelle Smith: Graduate School Panel
Fall 2016
Dr. Shane Redmond, Dr. Patti Costello, & Dr. Lisa Kay: The Modern Master’s Degree in Mathematics: What Does It Look Like?
Dr. Noah Aydin: The Legacy of Medieval Islamic Math and Science in the Modern World
Nathan Russell: The Mathematics of My Life and Industry
Spring 2016
Dr. Jeff Neugebauer: Fractional Calculus
Rebecca Thiem, Dr. Michelle Smith, & Dr. Lisa Kay: Do Study Halls Produce Valedictorians?
Dr. Benjamin Braun: Information about Applying to Graduate Programs in Mathematics
Fall 2015
Dr. Atilla Sit: Geometric Buildup Algorithm with Applications to Molecular Modeling
Dr. Kari Everett: Fractal Geometry: Geometry of Nature
Spring 2015
Deanna Pelfrey, Chris Phillips, & Chris Sears: Panel Presentation: Teaching Mathematics at a Community College
Dr. Jeff Neugebauer: An Introduction to Time Scales
Dr. Kirk Jones: Exploring Complex Power Series with Gaps
Fall 2014
Dr. Rachel Bishop-Ross, Dr. Kirk Jones, Dr. Jeff Neugebauer, Dr. Shane Redmond, Dr. Michelle Smith, & Dr. Steve Szabo: Graduate School Panel
Dr. Guy Brock: Beyond the t-test: Lessons Learned in the Life of One Humble Biostatistician
Dr. Rachel Bishop-Ross: Euler’s Theorem and Related Results
Spring 2014
Josh Sparks: Hyperpower to the Max! An E-Z Look at Tetrations and Their Maximization
Dr. Don Greenwell: The Odd Ball Problem and Mastermind
Fall 2013
Nathan Russell: A Few Real Abnormalities
Dr. Lisa Kay: This Ain’t Your Grandmother’s P-Value: Using Randomization-Based Methods to Introduce Inference
Dr. Shane Redmond: How I Tried to Beat Vegas: An Exercise in the Right and Wrong Ways to Use Probability
Spring 2013
Dr. Xiang-dong Hou: Sums of Reciprocals of Polynomials Over Finite Fields
Dr. Steven Dougherty: Japanese Ladders and Games
Dr. Jeff Neugebauer: Introduction to Fractional Calculus
Fall 2012
Dr. Yong Wang: R and Introductory Data Mining
Dr. Shawn Clift: Twin Primes
Dr. Daniel Mundfrom & Dr. Michelle Smith: The Effect of “Freebies” on Winning in Baseball
Spring 2012
Dr. Kirk Jones: How Much Wiggle Ya Got?
Dr. Steve Szabo: An Introduction to Algebraic Coding Theory
Dr. Daniel Mundfrom: The Game of Mousetrap: A Problem in Permutations
Dr. Cheryll Crowe: KenKen®
Fall 2011
Dr. Shane Redmond: Backgammon Quiz
Dr. Pat Costello: Breaking Up (Integers) Is Hard to Do, But Not for Euler
Dr. Mathew Cropper: Cook’s Paradox
Information on older talks available upon request.
Colloquium Talks Before 2019
Spring 2018
Dr. Amanda Ellis: Inference from Mark-Recapture Models while Allowing for Uncertainty in Photographic Identification
Spring 2017
Ashish Srivastava: Some Steps Toward Cluster Superalgebras
Sarah King: Extending Difference of Votes Rules to Infinite Domains Without Neutrality or Anonymity
Fall 2016
Noah Aydin: Recent Results in Quasi-Twisted and Related Codes
Spring 2016
David Swart: An Elliptic Exploration
Tefjol Pllaha: Isometries of Additive Codes
Spring 2015
Nathan Russell: Conjectures and Known Properties of the Unknown Code
Wade Combs: The Cantor-Zassenhaus Method for Factoring Polynomials over Finite Fields
Christina Hollon: Existence of Positive Solutions of a Fractional Boundary Value Problem
Dr. Anthony Hilton: Some Theorems and Conjectures About Extremal Nite Set Structures
Dr. Yuval Ginosar: Lipschitz Condition, Uniqueness, and Stability of Solutions of Differential Equations
Fall 2014
Jeffery Neugebauer: An Ordering on Green’s Functions for a Family of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems for Fractional Differential Equations.
Attila Sit: Distance Geometry in Protein Modeling
Allen Herman: Table Algebras Obtained From Graphs
Mikhael Muzychuk: A Solution Of An Isomorphism Problem For Circulant Digraphs
Spring 2014
Yun Fan: Polyadic Constcyclic Codes
Ryan Whaley: Algorithms for Solving the Discrete Logarithm Problem
Shane Redmond: Locating Codes and Locating Numbers of Graphs
Shawn Clift: Dieudonne-Dwork Quotients
Fall 2013
Dr. Banteng Xu: Varietal Terwilliger Algebras
Dr. James Ross: Languages accepted by automata with counters
Dr. Pat Costello: Tiling Squares With Big Holes With L-Trominoes
Spring 2013
Anthony Clark: Gaussian Amicable Pairs: “Friendly Imaginary Numbers”
Dr. Heide Gluesing-Luerssen: Duality and MacWilliams Identities in Coding Theory
Dr. Steven Dougherty: Foundations of Coding Theory as Pure Mathematics
Dr. Edgar Martinez-Moro: Public Key Cryptography based on Coding Theory
Fall 2012
Dr. Margaret Yoder: Bringing Research Into the Classroom
Dr. Michelle Smith: Multistate Start-up Demonstration Tests
Professor Guy Brock: Competing Risks and Multi-state Models for Time-dependent Outcomes
Spring 2012
Dr. Sergio Lopez-Permouth: Measuring Modules: Alternative Perspectives in Module Theory
Dr. Chaoyuan Mary Liu: Operations on Nested Rectangles
Dr. Matthew Cropper: The Disconnection Number of a Graph
Dr. Shane Redmond: Cut Vertices and Isolated Vertices in Zero-Divisor Graphs
Fall 2011
Dr. Steve Szabo: Generalized Cyclic Convolutional Codes
Dr. Yong Wang: Prediction in Spatial Statistics
Dr. Jeffrey Neugebauer: An Introduction to Time Scales and an Application of a New Fixed Point Theorem
Information regarding older talks available upon request.