Department Colloquia

Colloquia are held on Fridays at 3 pm in 103A Walker Hall. Special times and rooms are announced when needed.

If you are interested in presenting, contact the Colloquium Coordinators, Dr. Travis Weiland (WeilandTJ) or Dr. Quinn Morris (MorrisQA)

Fall 2018 Colloquia (3 PM in 103A Walker unless otherwise noted):

August 24: Faculty Briefs on Potential Projects
August 31: Anthony Fernandes, UNC-Charlotte
September 7: Anass Bayaga, University of Zululand
September 14: Thomas Cameron, Davidson College CANCELLED due to hurricane Florence
September 21: Premkumar Pugalenthi, UNC-Charlotte, Using Engineering Contexts to Teach Mathematics
September 26 (Wednesday at 3 PM in 103A Walker): Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
October 5: Sherry Nikbakht, ASU Math Walk
October 19: Robert Erhardt, Wake Forest University
October 26: Alun Lloyd, NC State University
November 2: Abbey Bourdon, Wake Forest University
November 9: Ben Orlin

January 19: Holly Hirst, Social Networks and Graph Theory
January 26: Sarah Greenwald, Geometry of the Earth and Universe
February 2: Faculty Interview - candidate research talk
February 9: Faculty Interview - candidate research talk
February 16: Faculty Interview - candidate research talk
March 16: Vicky Klima, An Algebraist Listens to Music
Cancelled due to impending weather....March 23: Sloan Despeaux, visiting from Western Carolina University
April 6: Katie Mawhinney, TBA
April 13: Jill Thomley, TBA
April 20: Directed Research Presentation: Stephen Graham
April 27: Directed Research Presentation: Coleman Ross
May 4: Directed Research Presentations: Averia Padgett; Cescily Metzgar

August 25: Research Opportunities for Students: Jeff Hirst, Joel Sanqui, Travis Weiland, and Jason Osborne
September 8: Bill Cook: OCSA Report
September 22: Jake Pardo, "Gambling against some odds"
October 6: Visiting Speaker James Cook, Liberty University
October 27: Visiting Speaker Anant Godbole, East Tennessee State University
November 10: Visiting Speaker Gene Fiorini, Muhlenberg College, "CrIME: Criminal Investigation through Mathematical Examination"
December 1: Visiting Speaker John Glasser, Centers for Disease Control

August 26: Research Ideas: Eric Marland, Jeff Hirst, Bill Bauldry.
September 9: Bill Bauldry - OCSA Report: Some Projects can Crash and Burn
September 16: Troy Schaudt - Wolfram Technologies in Education and Research
September 23: Visiting Speaker Tomas McIntee, Virginia Tech - Condorcet's Unasked Question
September 30: Bethany Turner - Leibniz Algebras
October 7: Jeff Hirst - Counting uses of Ramsey's theorem
November 4: Visiting Speaker David Royster - Unversity of Kentucky (Grad Program)

January 26: Visiting Speaker Daniel Yorgov, CU Denver
January 29: Visiting Speaker Brooke Alhanti, Emory University
February 5: Greg Rhoads - Minimal Surfaces in R^3
February 12: Visiting Speaker Tim Chartier - Bracketology & March Madness
February 19: Jason Osborne - Curve and Surface Curvature
February 26: Jason Osborne and Eric Marland - Going Paperless & Vicky Klima - Encouraging Careful Questioning
March 16: Visiting Speaker Matt Swinand - ALEKS Placement/Study System
March 24: Visiting Speaker Carl Mummert, Marshall University - Incompleteness Theorems
April 1: Visiting Speaker Celes Woodruff, JMU - Two Mathematical Problems Arising in Geosciences
April 8: Visiting Speaker Matthew Lasater - The Brief History of Bank Stress Testing
April 15:
- Matthew Cavallo - Survey of Cohomology
- Amanda Copeland - Nontraditional Calculus
April 29:
- Lee Fisher - Senior Honors Thesis
- Michael Rudziewicz - Directed Research
May 4: Josh Carr - Senior Honors Thesis

August 28: Research Ideas: Bill Bauldry, Sarah Greenwald, and Joel Sanqui
September 11: Research Ideas: Todd Abel, Eric Marland, and Bill Cook
September 25: Mike Perry - ASU Department of Mathematical Sciences 1960-80: Years of Transformation
October 23: Jeremy Brazas - Fundamental groups in topological algebra
October 30: Mini-dept meeting & Vicky Klima - A Spacey OCSA
November 6: Jeff Scroggs - NCSU Financial Math Program
December 4:
- Laurel Bates - Senior Thesis Defense
- Sarah McGinnis & Katie Severin - Directed Research Projects

February 6: Bill Bauldry -- Changes in Maple
February 13: Eric Marland -- Adaptation and Mitigation in a Changing World: The Role of Uncertainty
February 27: Katrina Palmer -- Dealing with Large Ill-Posed Problems
March 27: (A) Luke Tunstall - Promoting Numeracy in an Online College Algebra Course through Projects and Discussions (B) Noah Hughes - Reverse mathematics and marriage problems: a few new results
April 10: Alan Arnholt -- Using RMarkdown (in Walker 303) then @ 4pm Amanda Whitt - Computational History of Pi (in Walker 103A)
April 17: (A) Ralph Chikhany -- An Introduction to Functional Analysis (B) Alex Vannoy -- The Effects of Population Density on the Spread of Disease (C) Michael Kelley -- Optimal cycle length for a managed forest (D) Susanna Hogue -- Uncertainty in Gridded CO2 Estimates
May 1: (A) Jacob (Tyrel) Winebarger -- Poset Diagrams for theta-Twisted Involutions of Weyl Groups (B) Kenneth Jones -- Fuzzy AHP: Using Chang's Extent Analysis to Examine Several Fuzzified Comparison Scales (C) Amanda Yoder -- Flipping the Statistics Classroom (D) Molly Blackman -- Student Errors in Dynamic Mathematical Environments (E) Tessa McMullen -- Learning thought Dynamic Mathematics Environments: Investigating Cognitive Processes in Problem-Solving

September 12: Research Interests -- Joel Sanqui, Rene Salinas, Bill Bauldry
September 19: Research Interests -- Mark Ginn, Sarah Greenwald, Katie Mawhinney
September 26: Holly Hirst - Overview of the SageMath Computing Environment (we will meet in WA 303)
October 3: Jason Osborne - The Mass-Spring-Damper System on the Sphere
October 10: Herbert Khuzwayo (University of Zululand in South Africa) A Case for the History of Mathematics Education as a Field of Study: A Focus on South Africa
November 7: Trina Palmer - Mapworks
November 14:
- Margaret Rahmoeller (NCSU) - Demazure Crystals for U_q(A^{(1)})
- Abby Bishop - Posets of H_2, H_3, and H_4
November 21: Joyce Dickerman (Wiley) - The Acceleration of Data-Driven Learning and Assessments – examples from WileyPLUS

September 13: Tracie Salinas OCSA report
September 27: John Webb (Wake Forest): A (very brief) History of Partitions
October 4: Research Interests: Mike Bosse, Vicky Klima, Eric Marland, & Joel Sanqui
October 11: Jeff Hirst
November 15: Faith Miller: On the Crossing Number of the K_{3,3,3} Tripartite Graph
November 22: Matt Mastin: Knots, Glueballs, and Symmetry