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Bi-College Math/Stat Colloquium Archive

Fall 2024

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
09/16	Bryn Mawr College	Lisa Traynor Bryn Mawr College	"Non-Squeezing Problems in Symplectic and Contact Topology"
09/23	Haverford	Alexander Diaz-Lopez Villanova	"Arithmetical Structures on Graphs"
09/30	Bryn Mawr College	Erica Graham Bryn Mawr College	“Mathematizing Health Disparities”
10/07	Haverford	Kim Ruane Tufts	"Seeing Algebra with Geometry"
10/14	No Colloquium		Fall Break
10/21	Haverford	Teddy Einstein Swarthmore	"Groups, Geometry and Small Cancellation"
10/28	Bryn Mawr College	Gabe Sosa Costillo Colgate University	"Characterizing Reconstructible Monomial Orders"
11/04	Haverford	Laura Seaberg Boston College	“Constructing and fitting together fractals”
11/11	Bryn Mawr College	TBA	TBA
11/18	Haverford	TBA	TBA
11/25	Bryn Mawr College	TBA	TBA
12/02	Bryn Mawr College	Slevi Kara Bryn Mawr College	TBA
12/09	Haverford	Samuel Taylor Temple	TBA

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2023-24

Fall 2023

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
09/18	Bryn Mawr	Rebecca R.G. George Mason University	Algebra: Neural Ideals
09/25	Bryn Mawr	Michael Fisher West Chester University	“Olympic Games: Three Impartial Games with Infinite Octal Codes”
10/02	Haverford	Andy Bernoff Harvey Mudd College	“Agent-Based and Continuous Models of Locust Swarms”
10/11 (Wednesday)	Haverford (in Library)	Leqi Liu '17 HC BMC Carneigie Mellon University	"Human-Centered Machine Intelligence"
10/13 (Friday)	EDGE Conference		EDGE 25
10/10	No Colloquium		Fall Break
10/23	Bryn Mawr	Maia Fraser University of Ottawa	Geometry + AI
10/30	Haverford	Brandis Whitfield Temple	"An Invitation to Mapping Class Groups and Low-dimensional Topology and Geometry"
11/06	Haverford	Darij Grinberg Drexel University	"The Redei—Berge symmetric function of a directed graph"
11/13	Bryn Mawr	Marissa Loving University of Wisconsin	Low-Dimensional Topology
11/20	No Colloquium		Thanksgiving Break
11/27	Bryn Mawr	Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem Applied Math Team at DOD	Applied mathematics, mathematical modeling, mathematical biology
12/04	Haverford	Mohammad Nooranidoost Florida State University	"Mathematical modeling and uncertainty quantification of biofilm structure"

Spring 2024

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
2/5	Bryn Mawr	Dr. Joseph Nakao Swarthmore College	"Balancing Efficiency, Physics, and Robustness: What Goes into Designing a Good Algorithm?"
2/12	Haverford	Dr. Ila Varma University of Toronto	“Counting number fields and predicting asymptotics”
2/19	Bryn Mawr	Dr. Annalisa Crannell Franklin and Marshall College	"The Moon Tilt Illusion and Perspective Geometry"
2/26	Haverford	Leah Leiner Temple University	TBA
3/4	Bryn Mawr	Dr. Victor Donnay Bryn Mawr College	TBA
3/5 (Tuesday)	Haverford, Hilles 108	Yuxuan Sun '23 University of Minnesota	“Quotients of Special Classes of Positroids”
3/11	No Colloquium		Spring Break
3/18	Haverford	Dr. Carolyn Reinhart Swarthmore College	“The Game of Cops and Robbers on Graphs”
4/1	Haverford	Dr. Yoichiro Mori University of Pennsylvania	TBA
4/8	Bryn Mawr	Dr. Bulent Tosun Institute for Advanced Study/University of Alabama	"From Unknotted Curves on Seifert Surfaces to Contractible 4-manifolds"
4/15	Haverford	Abdullah Malik Florida State University	"Coloring graphs and beyond”
4/22	Haverford	Richard Green University of Colorado Boulder	“Positivity properties for orthogonal sets in lattices”

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2022-23

Fall 2022

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
9/26	Bryn Mawr	Matthew Fury Penn State Abington	"Sectorial and strip-type operators in the study of ill-posed problems"
10/3	Haverford	Sarah Weinstein UPenn	"Statistical Methods for extracting and comparing in multi-modal neuroimaging studies"
10/10	Fall Break	No Talk
10/17	Bryn Mawr	Geremias Polanco Smith College	"On Numbers... and Patterns... and Games... and Greed"
10/24	Haverford	Braeden Reinoso Boston College	"Stretching taffy, tying knots, and counting points"
10/31	Bryn Mawr	Timur Akhunov Haverford College	"Derivative gain and singularities for degenerate Laplace equation"
11/7	Haverford (via Zoom)	Osman Okutan Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences	“Barcode Decorated Merge Trees”
11/14	Bryn Mawr	Soheil Anbouhi Haverford College	“Universal Mappings and Analysis of Functional Data on Geometric Domains”
11/21	Haverford	Henri Drake Princeton University	"Challenges in predicting future weather and climate: turbulence, chaos, and (un)predictability."
12/5	Haverford	Joel Lewis George Washington University	“q-analogues”
12/12	Exam Week	No Talk

Spring 2023

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
1/30	Haverford (joint with Computer Science)	William Gasarch University of Maryland	"The Muffin Problem"
2/6	Haverford	Kaisa Taipale Director of Data Science C.H. Robinson, Twin Cities	"Time series forecasting in logistics"
2/13	Bryn Mawr	Daniel Krashen University of Pennsylvania	"The Geometry of Field Arithmetic"
2/20	Bryn Mawr (joint with Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar)	Valentin Blomer University of Bonn (Hausdorff Center)	“Quantum Chaos, Quadratic Forms and Fibonacci Numbers”
2/27	Haverford	Ipsita Datta Institute for Advanced Study	"What is Symplectic geometry?"
3/06	Spring Break	No Talk
3/13	Haverford	Reza Parran New York Structural Biology Center	“An Overview of the Theoretical Foundation and Applications of Cryo-Electron Microscopy”
3/20	Haverford	Spence Lunderman Senior Applied Scientist, Airspace	"One company's solution to a common logistics problem: A story of Machine Learning and Mathematics "
3/27	Bryn Mawr	Michael Robert Virginia Tech	"An Old Threat in New Territory: Investigating Dengue Emergence with Mathematical Modeling.”
4/3	Haverford	Nsoki Mavinga Swarthmore College	“Fuˇcik Spectrum and Solvability of Nonlinear Differential Equations”
4/10	Bryn Mawr	Jacob van Hook University of Pennsylvania	“An Introduction to Curvature and Curvature Homogeneity.”
4/14 (Friday)	Haverford	Kathleen Hoffman University of Maryland, Baltimore County	"Parameter Identifiability in a Model of in vivo HIV Dynamics"
4/24	Bryn Mawr	Samantha Pezzimenti Penn State Brandywine	"Knot Mosaics: Cusps and Cubes!"

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2021-22

Fall 2021

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
9/13	Bryn Mawr	Xiang Wan Haverford College	“Poisson Equations in Two-dimensional Domains with Line Fracture: from Qualitative to Quantitative Analysis”
9/20	Haverford	Jana Gevertz The College of New Jersey	“Exploring the Predictive Abilities of a Mathematical Model of Cancer”
9/27	Bryn Mawr	Allison Miller Swarthmore College	“Algebra and Topology in Dimension Four”
10/4	Haverford	Rylee Lyman Rutgers University	“Train Track Maps and CTs for Free Products”
10/11	Fall Break	No Talk
10/18	Bryn Mawr	Jaclyn Lang Temple University	"Towards Explicit Class Field Theory Beyond the Imaginary Quadratic Case."
10/25	Haverford	Priyam Patel University of Utah	“Curves and Surfaces in Topology”
11/1	Bryn Mawr	Renee Bell University of Pennsylvania	“Analogies Between Number Theory and Geometry: Monodromy of Tamely Ramified Covers”
11/8	Haverford	Gideon Simpson Drexel	"Sampling from Rough Energy Landscapes"
11/15	Bryn Mawr	Radhika Gupta Temple University	"Groups as Spaces and Exponential Growth"
11/22	Haverford	Michael Pokojovy UT El Paso	"Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Discretely Observed Multivariate Vasicek Processes"
12/6	Haverford	Miriam Kuzbary Georgia Tech	"Polynomial Invariants of Knots"

Spring 2022

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
1/31	Bryn Mawr
2/7	Haverford	Wen-ching Winnie Li Penn State University	“Primes and Zeta functions in combinatorics and number theory”
2/14	Bryn Mawr	Lynne Steuerle Schofield Swarthmore College	"Using Response Time Data to Model Cognition and Cognitive Decline”
2/21	Haverford
2/28	Bryn Mawr
3/7	Spring Break	No Talk
3/14	Haverford	Karen Kafadar University of Virginia	"To Screen or Not to Screen? Using data from randomized screening trials to quantify risks & benefits of cancer screening"
3/21	Bryn Mawr	Yumeng Ou University of Pennsylvania	“Distance Problems and Projections of Measures”
3/28	Haverford	Daniel Ullman George Washington University	“Classic Problems”
4/4	Haverford
4/11	Bryn Mawr	Lisa Traynor Bryn Mawr College
4/18	Bryn Mawr	Akshay Venkatesh IAS
4/25	Haverford	Michael Dougherty Swarthmore College

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2019-20

Fall 2019

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
9/16	Bryn Mawr	Elizabeth Drellich Haverford College	"Cars, cartoons, and Cohomology"
9/23	Bryn Mawr	Nancy Zhang University of Pennsylvania/Wharton	"Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics"
9/30	Haverford	Marissa Loving Georgia Tech	"Surfaces: BIG and small"
10/7	Bryn Mawr	Tarik Aougab Haverford College	“Properties of Random Curves on Surfaces”
10/14	Fall Break	No Talk
10/21	Haverford	Thomas Ng Temple University	“Counting and growth in infinite graphs and groups”
10/28	Haverford	Chung-Nan Tzou Haverford College	“Fluid Models with Sharp Interfaces - Clouds and Plumes”
11/4	Haverford	Tom Crawford Swarthmore College	“Cusps in Hyperbolic Spaces”
11/11	Bryn Mawr	Shelby Wilson University of Maryland	"A mathematical model of temperature effects on human sleep regulation"
11/18	Haverford	Jordan Dworkin University of Pennsylvania	"Statistical modeling and analysis of magnetic resonance imaging data"
11/25	Bryn Mawr	Mona Merling University of Pennsylvania	“Algebraic K-theory and Its Connections to Other Fields”
12/2	Bryn Mawr	Candice Price Smith College	"Unravelling Biochemistry Mysteries: Knot Theory Applied to Biochemistry”
12/9	Haverford	Liz Newman Emory University	"Tensor Linear Algebra: The Next Dimension"

Spring 2020

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
2/03	Haverford	Nicholas Miller University of California, Berkeley	"Big Mapping Class Groups and Their Actions on Infinite Graphs"
2/10	Bryn Mawr	Sydne Record Bryn Mawr College	"Scaling Up Biotic Interactions"
2/17	Haverford	Samuel Taylor Temple University	"A Central Limit Theorem for Random Closed Geodesics on Surfaces"
2/24	Bryn Mawr	Dan Cristafaro-Gardner University of California – Santa Cruz & Institute for Advanced Study	“The Simplicity Conjecture”
3/2	Bryn Mawr	Emelie Curl BMC '14 Christopher Newport University	“A Polychromatic Approach to a Turán-type Problem in Finite Groups”
3/9	Spring Break	No Talk
3/16	Bryn Mawr	Linh Truong Institute for Advanced Study	TBA
3/23	Haverford	Sunny Yang Xiao Brown University	TBA
3/30	Bryn Mawr	Talithia Williams Harvey Mudd College	TBA
4/6	Haverford	Jana Gevertz The College of New Jersey	TBA
4/13	Bryn Mawr	Dawn Nelson St. Peter’s University	TBA

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2018-19

Fall 2018

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
9/17	Bryn Mawr	Rebecca Everett Haverford College	“Using Mathematical and Statistical Modeling to Understand Behavior Change in Problem Drinkers”
9/24	Haverford	John Bergdall Bryn Mawr College	"Approximating roots: from Newton to the ghost conjecture”
10/1	Bryn Mawr	Jason Cantarella University of Georgia	“Modeling the ‘Cambrian explosion’ of Topological Polymers”
10/8	Bryn Mawr	Tamar Friedmann Haverford College	"From Lie Algebras to Catalan Numbers and Beyond"
10/15	Fall Break	No Talk
10/22	Haverford	Angela Hicks Lehigh University	"Symmetric Functions and Beyond"
10/29	Bryn Mawr	David Futer Temple University	“Can You Hear the Shape of a 3-Manifold?”
11/5	Haverford	Karola Meszaros Cornell University & Institute for Advanced Study	"Grothendieck polynomials via flow polytopes"
11/12	Bryn Mawr	Will Heuett Marymount University	"Bayesian Model Selection: Removing Our Biases and Allowing the Data to Guide Us"
11/19	Haverford	Isaac Klapper Temple University	"Linking Microbial Metabolism to Microbial Community Environment"
11/26		No Talk
12/3	Haverford	Kim Ruane Tufts University	"A Geometric Proof of Parity of Permutations"

Spring 2019

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
2/4	Bryn Mawr	Ailana Fraser University of British Columbia / Institute for Advanced Study	“Minimal Surfaces and Sharp Eigenvalue Bounds”
2/11	Haverford	Anna Pun Drexel University	“An introduction to symmetric functions - a gem in Algebraic Combinatorics”
2/18	Bryn Mawr	Amanda Folsom Amherst College / Institute for Advanced Study	“Symmetry, almost”
2/25	Haverford	Nsoki Mavinga Swarthmore College	"Delay Differential Equations with Applications to the Analysis of the Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases”
3/4	Bryn Mawr	Nancy Zhang University of Pennsylvania/Wharton	“Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics”
3/11	Spring Break	No Talk
3/18	Haverford	Michael Stein University of Chicago	“Statistical extremes: Theory and practice”
3/25	Bryn Mawr	Zvezdelina Stankova UC Berkeley	“Restricted Patterns of the Past, Present and Future”
4/1	Haverford	Nick Battista The College of New Jersey	“Holey Tentacles, Batman! How complex morphologies affect jellyfish swimming performance”
4/8	Haverford	Joanna Burt-Kinderman Haverford College Alum	"Problematizing Math Teaching: A journey from Haverford to revolution in West Virginia math classrooms"
4/15	Bryn Mawr	Mira Bernstein Tufts University	"Gerrymandering: Why It's More Complicated Than You Might Think"
4/22	Haverford	Andy Eisenberg Saint Louis University	"Rewriting Systems and Gilman's Conjecture"
4/29	Bryn Mawr	Stephanie Dick University of Pennsylvania / History and Sociology of Science	"Making Up Minds: Computing and Proof in the Postwar United States"

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2017-18

Fall 2017

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
9/18	Bryn Mawr	Herman Gluck University of Pennsylvania	How Much Must You Bend a Rope to Tie a Knot?
9/25	Haverford	Kyle Hayden (HC '13) Boston College	Young Alumni Lecture: Braids in algebra and topology
10/2	Bryn Mawr	Robert Buchanan Millersville University	A Novel Geometry-Based Cryptosystem
10/9	Haverford	Nathan Williams University of Texas at Dallas	Doppelgängers
10/16	Fall Break	No Talk
10/27 *	Bryn Mawr	Maria Vega United States Military Academy	CANCELLED Smash Coproduct Extensions for Hopf Algebras
10/30	Haverford	Adam Piggott Bucknell University	Graph products of groups and their automorphisms
11/6	Bryn Mawr	Colin Diemer Institut des hautes etudes scientifiques (IHES)	Flips, Flops, and Surgery for Rings and Modules
11/13	Haverford	Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel Mount Holyoke College	Possible Quantifications of Resilience
11/20	Thanksgiving	No Talk
11/27	Bryn Mawr	Charles Cunningham Haverford College	"What's the Shape of a Group?"

Spring 2018

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
2/12	Haverford	Cristian Gutierrez Temple University	On the existence of dichromatic single element lenses
2/26	Haverford	Nina Xu Bucknell University	Extended Canonical Correlation analysis: beyond one-on- one correlation
3/5	Bryn Mawr	Karen Taylor Bronx Community College, CUNY and Bryn Mawr College	Arithmetic and Modular Forms
3/12	Spring Break	No Talk
3/26	Bryn Mawr	Dennis DeTurck University of Pennsylvania	Continuous Symmetries and Linking Integrals
4/2	Haverford	Anisah Nu'Man Ursinus College	Geodesic words for groups and formal language theory
4/9	Bryn Mawr	Lillian Pierce Duke University and Institute for Advanced Study	Marching Bands, Prime Numbers, and Sieves: Sometimes Imprecision Wins
4/13 4 p.m.	Haverford	Thane Plambeck	Combinatorial game theory in the Apple and Google App stores
4/16	Haverford	Rosemary Guzman University of Chicago	Quantitative Mostow Rigidity: Relating volume to topology for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
4/23	Bryn Mawr Park 243	Rebecca Goldin George Mason University and STATS/Sense about Science USA	Should you believe it? Critical minds in the information age

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2016-17

Fall, 2016

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
Sep 12	Haverford	Alexander Diaz-Lopez Swarthmore College	Peaks and descents of permutations
Sep 19	Bryn Mawr	Paul Feehan Rutgers University	Real analytic functions and their role in differential geometry, mathematical physics, and topology
Sep 26	Haverford	Walter Stromquist Bryn Mawr College	Fair Division: Pouring Wine and Cutting Cakes
Oct 3	Bryn Mawr	Eric Stachura Haverford College	Metamaterial lens design
Oct 10	Fall Break	No Talk	No Talk
Oct 17	Haverford	Robert Grizzard University of Wisconsin	Conjugate solutions to linear equations
Oct 24	Bryn Mawr	Anna Pun Drexel University	On decomposition of the product of Demazure atom and Demazure characters
Oct 31	Haverford	Robert Strain University of Pennsylvania	On the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell System
Nov 7	Bryn Mawr	Heidi Goodson Haverford College	Elliptic Curves over Three Fields
Nov 14	Haverford	Jake Levinson University of Michigan	Syzygies, Hilbert polynomials, and matrix varieties
Nov 21	Bryn Mawr	Lise Chlebak Tufts University	A Time-Changed Q-Wiener Process
Nov 28	Haverford	Shari Moskow Drexel University	Inverse Problems: Determining the Equation from the Solution
Dec 5	Bryn Mawr	Yonatan Aumann Bar Ilan University	Fair and Square: Cake Cutting in 2D

Spring, 2017

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
1/16	MLK Day	No Talk	No Talk
1/23	Haverford Hilles 108*	Jason Liao Merck & Co., Inc.	Quantifying an Agreement Study
1/30	Bryn Mawr	Chelsea Walton Temple University	Quantum Symmetry
2/6	Haverford	Thomas Church Stanford University & Institute for Advanced Study	The cap set problem & fast matrix multiplication
2/13	Bryn Mawr	Robert Lemke Oliver Tufts University	Joint Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar: Prime Numbers, Randomness, and The Gambler’s Fallacy
2/20	Haverford		For information, contact aewolverto [at] haverford.edu">Anne Wolverton.
2/27	Bryn Mawr	David Burstein Swarthmore College	Analyzing Network Dynamics Through Random Graph Models
3/6	Spring Break	No Talk	No Talk
3/13	Haverford	Kathryn Bryant Collorado College	The Unsolved(!) Inscribed Square Problem
3/20	Bryn Mawr	Dubi Kelmer Boston College	Shrinking Target Problems, Homogeneous Dynamics, and Diophantine Approximations
3/27 Meet at 4:30 p.m.	Haverford	Distinguished Visitor Gregory Campbell Former Director of Biostatistics, FDA	Biostatistics and Medical Devices: Making a Difference in People’s Health Everyday
4/3 Meet at 4:30 p.m.	Haverford	Ruthi Hortsch Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM) Math Awareness Month!	Advanced Mathematical Pathways for Underserved Students
4/10	Bryn Mawr	Michael Tait Carnegie Mellon University	Applications of Finite Geometry in Extremal Combinatorics
4/17	Bryn Mawr	Helen Moore Bristol-Myers Squibb	Math Appreciation Week Keynote Address: Mathematical Optimization of Combination Therapy
4/24	Haverford Hilles 108*	Sam Payne Yale University	Simons Senior Thesis Colloquium: Chip-firing on graphs and divisor class groups

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2015-16

Fall, 2015

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20150914	Haverford	Pavel Grinfeld Drexel University	The Moving Surface Analogs of Classical Equations of Applied Mathematics
20150921	Bryn Mawr	Amanda French Haverford College	Resonance and the Null Condition for Nonlinear Wave Equations
20150928	Haverford	Maureen Carroll University of Scranton	A Recipe for Games on Planes
20151005	Bryn Mawr	Yixin Guo Drexel University	Modeling Thalamocortical Relay Neuron, Parkinsonian Network, and Deep Brain Stimulation
20151012	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
20151019	Haverford	Holley Friedlander Dickinson College	Riemann’s Function for Function Fields
20151026	Bryn Mawr	Emese Kennedy Muhlenberg College	Swing-up and Stabilization of a Single Inverted Pendulum on a Cart
20151102	Haverford	Greta Panova University of Pennsylvania	Lattice models and symmetric functions
20151109	Bryn Mawr	Ryan Kaliszewski Drexel University	Q-Analogs, Binomial Coefficients, and Catalan Numbers
20151116	Haverford	Erica Graham Bryn Mawr College	Reproductive Hormone Dynamics: Modeling Regulation and Dysfunction
20151123	Bryn Mawr	Jessica Purcell Institute of Advanced Study	Cusp Volumes of Alternating Knots
20151230	Haverford	Ron Umble Millersville University	Detecting the Linkage of an n-Component Brunnian Link
20151207	Bryn Mawr	Andreas Aristolelous West Chester University	Modeling Heterogenous Biofilms

Spring, 2016

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20160125	Bryn Mawr	Victor Barranca Swarthmore College	Compressed Coding in Sensory Systems: From Sparse Stimuli to Network Structure
20160201	Haverford	Will Gryc Muhlenberg College	Auction Theory: What Math Can Tell Us About eBay, Teacup Auctions, and the Winner's Curse
20160208	Haverford	Bill Gasarch University of Maryland	Advanced results in the theory of languages and computation which have simple proofs (Joint with the Computer Science Department)
20160215	Haverford	Nayantara Bhatnagar University of Delaware	Limit Theorems for Longest Monotone Subsequences in Random Mallows Permutations
20160222	Bryn Mawr	Jedidah Isler Vanderbilt University	TBA (Joint with the BMC Physics Department)
20160229	Haverford	Christina Weaver Franklin & Marshall College	Mathematical Modeling of Neurons: from Data to Discovery
20160307	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
20160314	Bryn Mawr	Trubee Davison Haverford College	TBA
20160321	Haverford	Kyu-Hwan Lee University of Connecticut	TBA
20160328	Bryn Mawr	Kathryn Haymaker Villanova University	TBA
20160404	Haverford	Ralph Gomez Swarthmore College	TBA
20160411	Bryn Mawr	Tim Chartier Davidson College	TBA (Math Awareness Keynote Speaker)
20160418	Haverford	Stefanos Aretakis Princeton University	TBA
20160425	Bryn Mawr	Karamatou Yacoubou Djima Swarthmore College	TBA

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2014-15

Fall 2014

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20140908	Haverford	R. Andrew Hicks Drexel	Controlling Ray Bundles with Reflectors
20140915	Bryn Mawr	Jonathan Hanke	Quadratic Forms in Number Theory
20140922	Bryn Mawr	Erica Graham North Carolina State University	Using Mathematics to Understand Why Insulin Resistance is Bad for You, but Can be Good for Your Cells
20140929	Haverford	William Dunham University of Pennsylvania	An Afternoon with Euler
20141006	Bryn Mawr	Rachel Hall St. Joseph's University	Submajorization and the Geometry of Unordered Collections, with Applications to Music and Welfare Economics
20141020	Haverford	Isabel Averill Bryn Mawr	Building a Theorem: Start to Finish
20141027	Bryn Mawr	Tara Holm Cornell University and the Institute for Advanced Study	The Geometry of Origami: How the ancient Japanese art triumphed over Euclid
20141103	Haverford	Katherine Scranton Yale	Parameter estimation in population ecology: An approximate Bayesian computation approach for stochastic models
20141110	Haverford	Ben Salisbury Central Michigan University	What is a Crystal?
20141117	Bryn Mawr	Kristopher Tapp St. Joseph’s University	The Mathematics of Measuring Self-Delusion
20141124	Haverford	Paul Bernhardt Villanova	Joint Modeling: When One Model is Not Enough
20141201	Bryn Mawr	Annalisa Crannell Franklin & Marshall College	In the Shadow of Desargues
20141208	Haverford	Robert Buchanan Millersville	Mathematics of Pari-Mutuel Wagering

Spring 2015

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20150202	Haverford	Lili Dworkin University of Pennsylvania	Multi-Armed Bandits: How to Win in Vegas
20150209	Bryn Mawr	Vin de Silva Pomona College	Topological Persistence via Category Theory
20150216	Haverford	Ronald Perline Drexel University	Mirrors, thin films, and related geometry
20150223	Bryn Mawr	Benjamin J. Galluzzo Shippensburg University	If Math (Modeling) is the Answer, What's the Question?
20150302	Haverford Simons Senior Thesis Colloquium	Megan Owen CUNY	Statistics in Tree Space
20150316	No colloquium
20150323	Bryn Mawr	Maksym Radziwill Rutgers University	Around the Moebius function
20150330	Haverford 4:30	Sergey Fomin University of Michigan	Computing without subtracting (and/or dividing)
20150406	Haverford	Nicholas J. Horton Amherst College	Adjusting for Non-response in the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics Survey
20150413	Bryn Mawr 4pm sharp Park 243	Ivars Peterson	Pancake Sorting, Prefix Reversals, and DNA Rearrangements
20150420	Swarthmore Sci Ctr 199 4:30pm	Jordan Ellenberg University of Wisconsin	Uncertainty and Contradiction
20150421	Swarthmore Sci Ctr 199 4:30pm	Jordan Ellenberg University of Wisconsin	Spinning a needle in a finte field
20150427	Haverford	Sue Khim brilliant.org	The mission of brilliant.org

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2013-14

Fall 2013

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20130909	Haverford	Daniel Studenmund University of Chicago	Hidden symmetries of groups
20130916	Bryn Mawr	Gabe Feinberg Haverford College	Catalan’s Numbers and Some Representation Theoretic Applications
20130923	Haverford	Tina Garrett St. Olaf College	The Mathematics of Good Will Hunting
20130930	Bryn Mawr	Tim Feeman Villanova University	The ART of Tomography
20131007	Haverford	William Traves US Naval Academy	Generalizing Pascal's Theorem
20131014	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
20131021	Bryn Mawr	Irina Mitrea Temple University	The Art of Integration by Parts (and why everybody should know this)
20131028	Haverford	Liz McMahon Lafayette College	Affine Geometry Inspired by the Game of SET®
20131104	Bryn Mawr	John Boller University of Chicago	A Little p-adic Analysis
20131111	Haverford	Isaac Klapper Temple University	Two Tales of a Microbial City
20131118	Bryn Mawr	Daniel Ruberman Brandeis University	Where can you put a non-orientable surface?
20131125	Haverford	Zach Hamaker Dartmouth College	Random Sorting Networks
20131202	Haverford	Anna Bertiger University of Waterloo	The Rim Hook Rule
20131206	Bryn Mawr Note time: Friday 3pm	Sarah Kate Wilson Santa Clara University	Blinded by the Light

Spring 2014

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20140127	Haverford	Mark Dominus	Topology of Data Types
20140203	Bryn Mawr	Ivana Božić Harvard University	Evolutionary Dynamics of Targeted Cancer Therapy
20140210	Haverford	Rachel Epstein Swarthmore College	The Church-Turing Thesis and its Controversy
20140217	Bryn Mawr	Lynne Steuerle Schofield Swarthmore College	Measurement Error in Variables that Predict STEM Retention
20140224	Haverford	Amanda Knecht Villanova University	Unirational Parameterizations of Cubic Surfaces
20140303	Bryn Mawr	Leila Schneps Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu	Mathematics in the Courtroom: Uncharted Territory
20140317	Bryn Mawr	Kristine L. Snyder (BMC '02) University of Michigan	Brain and Body Dynamics in Human Locomotion
20140324	Haverford	Daniel Orr Virginia Tech	The Toda lattice in algebra and geometry
20140325	Haverford	Michael Stein University of Chicago	Climate Model Emulation and Future Climate Simulation
20140331	Bryn Mawr	Mihai Stoiciu Williams College	The Eigenvalue Distribution for Random Jacobi and CMV Matrices
20140407	Haverford	Chris Ryan University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Duality theory via Fourier-Motzkin Elimination
20140414	Bryn Mawr	Chantal David Concordia University and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal	One level density for families of L-functions attached to elliptic curves
20140423	Haverford	Suresh Venkatasubramanian University of Utah and UC Berkeley	Metaclustering
20140428	Bryn Mawr	Antonella Grassi University of Pennsylvania	Noether-Lefschetz loci and polytopes

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2012-13

Fall 2012

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20120910	Bryn Mawr	Karl Schaffer De Anza College	The Dance of Mathematics & the Mathematics of Dance
20120917	Bryn Mawr	Elizabeth Beazley Haverford College	Matrix groups, Newton polygons, and the quantum Bruhat graph
20120924	Haverford	Djordje Milićević Bryn Mawr College	Kloostermania in confined spaces
20121001	Bryn Mawr	Eugenio Calabi University of Pennsylvania	The Affine Geometry of Convex Bodies
20121008	Haverford	Benjamin Seibold Temple University	The Analogy of Phantom Traffic Jams and Detonation Waves
20121029	Haverford CANCELLED	Patricia Cahn University of Pennsylvania	Counting Crossings of Curves on Surfaces (Cancelled)
20121105	Bryn Mawr	David Benson NetJets Inc.	An Aircraft Crew Scheduling Problem that Satisfies Company and Employee Preferences Modeled and Solved as a Mixed-Integer Program
20121112	Haverford	Elizabeth Niese Marshall University	A q-analogue of the hook-length formula
20121119	Bryn Mawr	Ami Radunskaya Pomona College	Using mathematics to design cancer vaccines
20121126	Bryn Mawr	Katie Haymaker University of Nebraska	Rewriting codes using finite geometries
20121203	Haverford 4:30 in H109	Erica Flapan Pomona College	Mirror Image Symmetry from Different Viewpoints
20121210	Haverford	Ryan Vinroot College of William and Mary	Combinatorics of finite fields and symmetric functions

Spring 2013

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20130128	Haverford	Patricia Cahn University of Pennsylvania	Counting Crossings of Curves on Surfaces
20130204	Bryn Mawr	Klaus Volpert Villanova University	The Math and Magic of Financial Derivatives
20130211	Haverford	Rosa McCullagh University of Chicago Laboratory School	Visualization in High School Mathematics
20130218	Bryn Mawr Park 338	Lily S. Khadjavi Loyola Marymount University	Social Justice and Mathematics: Analyzing police practice in Los Angeles
20130225	Haverford	Andrew Cooper University of Pennsylvania	Using the heat equation to shorten curves (and other Lagrangian submanifolds
20130304	Bryn Mawr	Cecilia Diniz Behn Gettysburg College	Dynamics of sleep-wake regulation
20130311	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
20130318	Haverford	Whitney George West Chester University	Positive Twist Knots and the Uniform Thickness Property
20130325	Bryn Mawr	Nalini Anantharaman Université Paris-Sud (Orsay) and Institute for Advanced Study	Order and chaos in wave propagation
20130401	Bryn Mawr	David Kung St. Mary's College of Maryland	Closer to Fair: Mathematics and Social Justice
20130408	Haverford	Ralph Gomez Swarthmore College	A Brief Tour of Sasakian Geometry
20130415	Haverford	Alden Walker University of Chicago	Finding surface maps with linear programming
20130422	Bryn Mawr	Peter Sarnak Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study	Thin matrix groups and Diophantine analysis

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2011-12

Fall 2011

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20110912	Haverford	Weiwen Miao, Haverford College	The Use of Statistical Tests in Discrimination Cases
20110919	Bryn Mawr	Melanie Edwalds, Princeton University	An Introduction to the Mathematics of Optimal Control Theory
20110926	Haverford 4:15	Greg Schneider, Bryn Mawr College	On the Classification of Legendrian Rational Tangles
20111003	Bryn Mawr	Richard McGehee, University of Minnesota	Glacial Cycles: Mathematics and the 100,000-Year Problem
20111010	No Colloquium (Fall Break)
20111017	Haverford	Anthony Licata, The Institute for Advanced Study and Australian National University	Natural numbers, vector spaces, additive categories, and so forth
20111024	Bryn Mawr	Klaus Volpert, Villanova University	The Mathematics of Income Inequality
20111031	Haverford	Scott Cook, Swarthmore College	Mathematics of the bad bounce
20111107	Bryn Mawr	Marie Snipes, Kenyon College	Soap Films, Image Processing, and the "Flat Chains" of Geometric Measure Theory
20111114	Haverford	M. Brad Henry, Siena College	Hunting for connections among Legendrian knot invariants
20111121	No Colloquium
20111128	Bryn Mawr	Timothy DeVries, Haverford College	Counting by climbing

Spring 2012

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20120221	Bryn Mawr	Djordje Milićević Max Planck Institute and Bryn Mawr College	Many ways in which things oscillate
20120312	Bryn Mawr	Haggai Nuchi University of Pennsylvania	Integral formulas for linking of curves
20120322	Haverford 4:30 in H109	Nick Patterson Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	Analysis of ancient DNA
20120323	Haverford 4:30 in H109	Nick Patterson Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	Using exact ascertainment and joint spectra to learn human genetic history
20120326	Bryn Mawr	Jodi Black Bucknell University	On Generalizations of Springer's Theorem
20120402	Haverford	Chris Atkinson Temple	Shape and size in hyperbolic space
20120404	Bryn Mawr	Alissa Crans Loyola Marymount University
20120409	Bryn Mawr	Austin Daughton Temple University	Hamburger's Theorem and the "Big Mac Theorem"
20120416	Haverford	Ellen Gasparovic University of North Carolina
20120423	Bryn Mawr	Dave Futer Temple University	The Rental Harmony Theorem

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2010-11

Fall 2010

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20100913	Haverford	Ryan Blair, University of Pennsylvania	Knot Width is Additive
20100920	Haverford	Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia	Inscribed Polygons and the Square Peg Problem
20100927	Bryn Mawr	Joshua Sabloff, Haverford College
20101004	Bryn Mawr	Raina Robeva
20101011		NO COLLOQUIUM -- FALL BREAK
20101018	Haverford	Fred Cohen, University of Rochester	Disks, Circles, and Subspaces of their Products
20101025	Bryn Mawr	Radmila Sazdanović, University of Pennsylvania
20101101	Haverford
20101108	Bryn Mawr	Kevin Ross, Swarthmore College
20101115	Haverford	Andrew Obus, Columbia University
20101122		NO COLLOQUIUM
20101129	Bryn Mawr	Jenniver Paulhus, Villanova University

Spring 2011

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20110214	Haverford	Jeff Jauregui, University of Pennsylvania	Mathematical relativity and nonnegative scalar curvature
20110221	Bryn Mawr 4:00	Walt Stromquist, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges	The mathematics of three-candidate elections
20110228	Bryn Mawr	Jeremy Brandman, Courant Institute	Fighting crime and saving lives with mathematics
20110307	No Colloquium (Spring Break)
20110314	Haverford	Louis Theran, Temple University	The rigidity transition in random graphs
20110321	Haverford	Kim Plofker, Union College	Infinite series in ancient India
20110328	Bryn Mawr	Rob Manning, Haverford	Mathematical Models for DNA Looping or Cyclization
20110404	Bryn Mawr	Gregory Schneider, University at Buffalo, SUNY	Knots, Links, Braids...and Paper Strips
20110406	Bryn Mawr 4:00	Colin Adams, Williams College	Blown Away: What Knot to Do When Sailing
20110411	Bryn Mawr	Sarah Greenwald, Appalachian State	Good News Everyone! Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons and Futurama
20110418	Haverford	Antonio Marciano, Haverford (Physics)	Canceled

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2009-10

Fall 2009

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20090914	Haverford	Joan Licata, Stanford University	Grid Diagrams and Knot Invariants
20090921	Haverford	Rebecca Vandiver, Bryn Mawr College	Morphoelasticity: The Mechanics and Mathematics of Elastic Growth
20090928	Bryn Mawr	Walter Stromquist, Swarthmore College	Three Stories
20091005	Bryn Mawr	Colton Magnant, Lehigh University	Painting the Office
20091019	Haverford	Ben Coleman & Kevin Hartshorn, Moravian College (joint colloquium with Computer Science)	Game, SET, Math
20091026	Bryn Mawr	Jeana Mastrangeli, Lockheed Martin	Polarization, Depolarization, and a Model: A Brief Introduction
20091102	Haverford	Danny Kaplan, Macalester College	Untangling Causation in Complex Systems
20091109	Bryn Mawr	Brandy Rapatski, Richard Stockton College	Mathematical Modeling of the HIV Epidemic
20091116	Haverford	Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware	Modeling and Simulation of Water Waves
20091130	Bryn Mawr	Sarah Bryant, Gettysburg College	Subordinate Killed Brownian Motion

Spring 2010

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20100125	Haverford	Erica Greene (HC '10) and Jonathan Lima (HC '10), Haverford College	"A Foray into Statistical Poetry" and "Symmetric Function Inequalities"
20100201	Bryn Mawr	Walter Huddell, Eastern University	The Distributional Derivative
20100208	Haverford	Ben Allen (HC '02), Boston University	Evolutionary Game Theory in Structured Populations
20100215	Haverford	Valentina Joukhovitski	Topology of Links and Knots (Or, how I learned to enjoy math)
20100222	Bryn Mawr	Sunil Chetty, Colorado College (NOTE: Talk begins at 4:30)	Diophantine Equations and Number Theory
20100301	Bryn Mawr	Jonelle Hook, Lehigh University	The Classification of Critical Graphs and Star-Critical Ramsey Numbers
20100308		NO COLLOQUIUM -- SPRING BREAK
20100315	Haverford	Tim deVries, University of Pennsylvania	Mathematical connections in combinatorial enumeration
20100322	Bryn Mawr	Mirko Visontai, University of Pennsylvania	The MCP conjecture
20100329		NO COLLOQUIUM
20100405	Bryn Mawr	Betty Mayfield, MAA and Hood College	Women and Mathematics in the Time of Euler
20100412	Bryn Mawr	Michelle Craddock, US Military Academy	Reflexivity For Fremlin Tensor Products of Banach Lattices
20100419	Bryn Mawr	Sarah Hews, Swarthmore College	HBV Models: the role of hepatocytes on persisent infection
20100426	Haverford	Peter Horn, Columbia University	Generalizing the Genus of a Knot

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2008-09

Fall 2008

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20080908	Haverford	Jennifer Boyko '09 and Taylor Burmeister '09 Haverford College	Boyko: The Effect of Missingness on the Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Modifying Drug Clinical Trails Burmeister: Local Edge Detection with Wavelets
20080915		NO COLLOQUIUM
20080922	Bryn Mawr	Stephan Wehrli Columbia University	"New invariants for sutured 3-manifolds"
20080929	Bryn Mawr	Linda Chen Swarthmore	"Enumerative Geometry, Combinatorics, and Algebra"
20081006	Haverford	Michael Lavine University of Massachusetts, Amherst	"What is Bayesian Statistics and Why Everything Else is Wrong"
20081007	Haverford Sharpless Auditorium	Michael Lavine University of Massachusetts, Amherst	"Spike Trains and Human Brains"
20081013	Fall Break	NO COLLOQUIUM
20081020	Haverford	Rob Ghrist University of Pennsylvania	"Euler Calculus and Sensor Networks"
20081027	Bryn Mawr	Helen Wong Bowdoin College	"Distinguishing 3-dimensional manifolds"
20081103	Haverford	Dave Futer Temple University	"The Space Around a Knot"
20081110	Bryn Mawr	Sarah Mason Davidson College	"Permutations, partitions, and 'fue de taquin'"
20081117	Bryn Mawr	David Lippel Haverford College	"O-minimal structures: tame fragments of analysis"
20081124	Haverford	Laura Hall-Seelig University of Massachusetts, Amherst	"Finite Fields, Curves, Points, and Genera"
20081201	Haverford	Patrick Clarke University of Pennsylvania	"Morse Theory, Topology, and Physics"

Spring 2009

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20090121	Bryn Mawr	Rebecca Vandiver University of Arizona	"Differential Growth and Residual Stress in Cylindrical Elastic Structures"
20090127	Bryn Mawr	Nessy Tania University of Utah	"Mathematical Models of Calcium Regulation"
20090129	Bryn Mawr	Dylan Shepardson Georgia Institute of Technology	"Modeling Adaptable Behavior in Neurons" (How Mathematics can get on your Nerves)
20090202	Bryn Mawr	Fang Chen Oxford College of Emory Univ.	"Dividing a system of weights into two groups of equal mass"
20090202	Haverford	Siggy Moore '09 Haverford College	"An injective proof of strong q-log-convexity for Bell polynomials"
20090205	Bryn Mawr	Amy N. Myers Bryn Mawr College	"Coke and Pepsi and the Binomial Distribution"
20090209	Bryn Mawr	Kristen Sellke University of Connecticut	"A Journey through Mathematics with the Fibonacci Sequence"
20090216	Bryn Mawr	Maya Kiehl Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	"Abstract Sets and DeMorgan's Laws"
20090223	Haverford	No Colloquium
20090302	Bryn Mawr	Clay Shonkwiler University of Pennsylvania	"Linking Integrals in Hyperspheres"
20090316	Haverford	Nick Horton Smith College	"Much ado about nothing: methods and software implementations to estimate incomplete data regression models"
20090323	Bryn Mawr	Charles Buehrle and Mark Skandera Lehigh University	"Clausen's construction of irreducible representations of the symmetric group"
20090330	Haverford	David Shea Vela-Vick University of Pennsylvania	"Triple linking numbers, ambiguous Hopf invariants and integral formulas for three-component links"
20090406	Bryn Mawr	John Baldwin Princeton University	"On the spectral sequence from Khovanov homology to Heegaard Floer homology"
20090413	Bryn Mawr	Clay Shonkwiler University of Pennsylvania	"Linking Integrals in Hyperspheres"
20090420	Haverford KINSC H108*	Ayako Fukui Bryn Mawr College	"Lp Boundedness of Oscillatory Singular Inegral Operators"
20090427	Haverford	Richard Ball and Bill Huber Haverford College	"Campaign Strategies and the Electoral College System"

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2007-08

Fall 2007

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20070910	Haverford	Ethan Alguire '09 Haverford College	"The Flask on the Hard Drive: How to Be a Chemist and Not Get Your Hands Dirty"
20070917	Bryn Mawr	Jane Holsapple Long (BMC '02) University of Maryland	"Group Cohomology and Free Actions on Products of Spheres"
20070924	Bryn Mawr	Elisenda Grigsby Columbia University	"Combinatorial Knot Floer Homology for Knots in Lens Spaces"
20071001	Haverford	Peter Storm University of Pennsylvania	"Imagining Hyperbolic Space from the Inside"
20071008	Haverford	Davide Cervone Union College	"The Hypercube and Hypersphere: Breaking them Down and Building the Up"
20071015	Fall Break	NO COLLOQUIUM
20071022	Bryn Mawr	Daniel Krashen University of Pennsylvania	"Division Algebras and Geometry"
20071105	Bryn Mawr	Puneet Batra Columbia University	"Anomalies in Gauge Theories"
20071116	Haverford Sharpless Auditorium	Eric Maskin* Institute for Advanced Study	"How Should Presidents Be Elected"
20071119	Bryn Mawr	Keith Burns Northwestern University	"A Simple Proof of Sharkovsky's Theorem"
20071126	Haverford	Bruce Char Drexel University	"Explorations in the Characterization of Mathematical Handwriting"
20071129	Haverford	Austin Parker '02 Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland, College Park	"How Computers Play Poker: Algorithms for Imperfect Information Games"
20071203	Bryn Mawr	Juliana Belding	"Curves, Cryptography and Calculus: A Weil Pairing on Elliptic Curves over the Dual Numbers"
20071204	Haverford	Aaron Block '02 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	TBA

Spring 2008

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20080128	Haverford	Amy Myers Bryn Mawr College	"The Outstanding Elements of Permutations and Words"
20080204	Bryn Mawr	John Flynn Haverford College	"An examination of the size of the image for polynomial maps over finite fields."
20080213	Haverford	Laurie Rubel CUNY Brooklyn	"Research in Mathematics Education: Battlefields and Beyond"
20080218	Bryn Mawr	Ana Cannas da Silva Princeton University	"From hermitian matrices to symplectic geometry and back again"
20080225	Haverford	Jayadev Athreya Princeton University	"Billiards, ergodic theory, and number theory"
20080303		NO COLLOQUIUM
20080310	Spring Break	NO COLLOQUIUM
20080317	Haverford	Sarah-Marie Belcastro Smith College	"Edge-Coloring Graphs on Surfaces: Recent Progress on Grünbaum's Conjecture"
20080319	Bryn Mawr	Freeman Hrabowski University of Maryland	"Strategies that Support Student Success in the Sciences"
20080324	Bryn Mawr	Dennis DeTurck University of Pennsylvania	"Exploiting invariance, from freshman calculus to linking integrals"
20080331	Haverford	Darren Glass Gettysburg College	"Cyptography, Coding Theory, and Curve Interpolation"
20080407	Bryn Mawr Park 243	Herbert S. Wilf University of Pennsylvania	"Sister Celine, as I knew her"
20080414	Haverford	George Cobb Mount Holyoke	"Markov Chain Monte Carlo: A Course for Math Majors"
20080415	Haverford Sharpless Aud	George Cobb Mount Holyoke	"Two Statisticians and One Serial Murderer"
20080421	Bryn Mawr	Janet Talvacchia Swarthmore College	"Generalized Geometry"
20080428	Haverford Final 07/08 Colloquium	Rob Kusner Univ of Massachusetts Amherst University of Pennsylvania	"Lengths and Crossing Numbers of Knotted Ropes and Strips"

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2006-07

Fall 2006

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20060918	Bryn Mawr	Sarah Crown University of Michigan	"Cyclic Homology of the Coloring Complex of Simple, Connected Graphs"
20060925	Haverford	David Crombecque Bryn Mawr College	"Non-Orientable Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds"
20061005	Haverford	Tara Brendle Cornell University	"Mapping Class Groups: Progress and Problems"
20061009	Bryn Mawr	Peter Roquette Heidelberg	"Hermann Weyl and Emmy Noether"
20061016		FALL BREAK
20061023	Bryn Mawr	Ty Cunningham Bryn Mawr College	"Moving Cycloids"
20061030	Haverford	Daniel Studenmund '08	"Linking Graphs on a Circle"
20061106	Bryn Mawr	Charles Livingston Indiana University	"Four-dimensional Aspects of Classical Knot Theory"
20061113	Haverford	Steve C. Wang Swarthmore College	"Dating the Demise of the Dinosaurs"
20061120	Bryn Mawr	Stephen Wang Haverford College	How to Zoom Out
20061127	Haverford	Alan Baker Department of Philosophy Swarthmore College	Mathematical Impossibilities

Spring 2007

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20070129	Bryn Mawr	Constance Leidy University of Pennsylvania	"Knots and the Fourth Dimension"
20070206	Haverford	Tim McMurry DePaul University	"Nonparametric Regression with Infinite Order Flat-Top Kernels"
20070208	Haverford	Arthur Berg University of California - San Diego	"A Statistical Journey through Historic Haverford"
20070212	Haverford	Leah Jager Grinnell College	"A trip to the dressing room -- does your probability model fit properly?"
20070214	Haverford	Weiwen Miao Mavalester College	"The Use of Statistics in the Legal System"
20070219	Haverford	Janet Rosenbaum Harvard University	"Do teenagers always tell the truth? Estimating the prevalence of adolescent risk behaviors from inconsistent self-report"
20070226	Bryn Mawr	Angela Gibney University of Pennsylvania	"What is a moduli space and why do algebraic geometers love them?"
20070305	Haverford	Aldan Walker '07 Haverford College	"Decision Trees and Fundamental Complexity, or Topology: It's Not Just for Topologist"
20070309		SPRING BREAK
20070319	Bryn Mawr	Kristopher Tapp Williams College	"Symmetry and Curvature"
20070326	Haverford	Victor Moll Tulane University	"Pretty pictures from Interesting integrals"
20070402	Bryn Mawr	Katherine Okikiolu University of California - San Diego	"Spectral zeta functions and Sobolev-type inequalities on manifolds"
20070409	Haverford	Timothy Y. Chow Center for Communications Research	"Counting Lattice Paths that Avoid a Boundary"
20070416	Bryn Mawr	Robert Ghrist University of Illinois	"Topology, Algebra, and Sensor Networks"
20070423	Bryn Mawr	Ciprian Manolescu Columbia University	"Combinatorial Floer Homology"
20070430	Haverford	TBA	TBA

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2005-06

Fall 2005

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20050912	Haverford	Allison Cuttler (Haverford College '06)	What I Did at my Summer REU
20050919	Bryn Mawr	Mark Skandera (Haverford College)	Total Nonnegativity
20050926	Haverford	David Goldschmidt (Institute for Defense Analyses)	Breaking ENIGMA: Applied Group Theory in Action
20051003	Bryn Mawr	Dr. Stanislav Dubrovskiy (Keio University)	Classifying a Pair of Matrices
20051007		Fall Break - Classes resume Oct 17
20051017	Haverford	John Meier (Lafayette College)	From Poincare to Perelman: An Introduction to Classifying Manifolds
20051024	Bryn Mawr	Walter Stromquist	Helping the Navy Search for Lost Objects
20051031	Haverford	Don Davis (Lehigh University)	Binomial Coefficients and Roots of Unity in Topology
20051107	Bryn Mawr	Dr. Elisenda Grigsby (UC Berkeley and Columbia University)	Modern Algebraic Invariants of 3-Manifolds
20051114	Haverford	Constance Leidy (University of Pennsylvania)	Knot Diagram Moves
20051121	Bryn Mawr	Professor Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College)	Ergodic and Non-Ergodic Metrics on Embedded Surfaces
20051128	Haverford	Kathi Crow (Gettysburg University	Counterexamples in Ring Theory
20051205	Bryn Mawr	CANCELLED

Spring 2006

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20060130	Haverford	Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers)	How I Got HOOKED into Doing Combinatorics
20060206	Bryn Mawr	Dr. Jill Jordan (Bryn Mawr College)	A Polynomial Invariant for Legendrian Links
20060220	Haverford	Noel Watson (Harvard)	Human Behavioral Dynamics in Supply Chain Management
20060327	Haverford	Jim Reeds (Center for Communications Research)	Large Deviation Rate for a Lattice Path Counting Problem. Slides from the talk are also available!
20060410	Haverford	Robin Pemantle (Penn)	Solving Equations
20060417	Bryn Mawr	CANCELLED
20060424	Haverford	Garikai Campbell (Swarthmore)	A Bunch of Problems (involving rational distances) I Can't Solve: an Introduction to Elliptic Curves

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2004-05

Spring 2005

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
20050131	Bryn Mawr	Selman Akbulut (Michigan State)	Calibrated manifolds and gauge theory
20050207	Haverford	Mark Dominus	Arithmetic with Continued Fractions
20050214	Bryn Mawr	Josh Sabloff (Haverford)	How Many Ways Can You Parallel-Park a Unicycle?
20050222	Haverford	William Dunham (Muhlenberg)	A Tribute to Euler
20050228	Bryn Mawr	(Cancelled due to snow)
20050315	Haverford	Helene Tyler (Manhattan College)	Computing Modules Over Finite Dimensional Algebras
20050321	Bryn Mawr	Sema Salur (Northwestern and IAS)	Deformation theory of calibrated submanifolds
20050328	Haverford	R. Andrew Hicks (Drexel)	Sideview Mirrors and Panoramic Cameras
20050404	Bryn Mawr	Yibiao Pan (University of Pittsburgh and Bryn Mawr)	Convolution operators and oscillatory integrals
20050411	Math Awareness Day at Bryn Mawr!
20050418	Bryn Mawr	Effie Kalfagianni (Michigan State and IAS)	Crossing changes and knot invariants
20050425	Haverford	Craig Sutton (UPenn)	Manifolds of Positive Sectional Curvature

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