Mathematics and Statistics Colloquia

Colin Adams, Williams College
"Making Your Bed and Sleeping in it: How Rumpled is that Surface?"
"Stick Knots and Variations on Bridge Number"
"Stick Knots"

Pau Atela
"Using Art to Teach Math"

Olga R. Beaver, Williams College
"Singular Functions"

Carsten Botts, Williams College
"Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Estimating the Spectral Density"
"Likelihood Approximations in Bayesian Multiple Curve Fitting, part 2"

Michael Daniels, University of Florida
"Analysis of the Treatment Mechanism in a Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial"

Satyan Devadoss, Williams College
"Shape Deformation in Cartography"

John Finnerty '71,, Professor of Finance and Director of the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance Program, Fordham University
"Tuition Inflation, Prepaymennt Programs, and the Mispricing of Tuition Prepayment Contracts"

John Friedlander, University of Toronto
"A Brief History of Primes"

Thomas Garrity, Williams College
"Generalized Hyperbolic Trig Functions"
"Multidimensional Continued Fractions and Basic Statistical Mechanics"

Victor E. Hill IV, Williams College
"Change-Ringing: It's Just Permutation Groups!"

Theron J. Hitchman, Williams College
"Rigidity of Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups: Their Dynamics"

Stewart Johnson, Williams College
"Colliding Vector Fields: Stasis and Stuttering Two Cycles"

Bernhard Klingenberg, Williams College
"Dose Estimation Under Model Uncertainty"

Jean-Francois Lafont, Ohio State University
"Computational Aspects of Lower Algebraic K-theory"

Susan Loepp, Williams College
"Local Formal Fibers"
"Open Problems in Commutative Algebra"

Florian Luca, Williams College
"Diophantine Quadruples"

Frank Morgan, Williams University
"Honeycombs and Planes with Density (with Geometry Group)"
"Banff and Partitioning Problems"

Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
"Freeman Dyson's Challenge for the Future: The Story of Ramanujan's Mock Theta Functions"

Adam Petrie, Williams College
"Spanning Trees as Tools for Data Analysis ermat to Function Fields"

David Pollack, Wesleyan University
"Serre's Conjecture on Modularity of Galois Representation"

Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College
"A New Primal Screen"

Cesar Silva, Williams College
"Mixing Polynomials on Compact-Open Subsets the p-adic Numbers"
"Ergodic Nonsingular Transformations"

Mihai Stoiciu, Williams College
"Eigenvalue Statistics for Random Unitary Matrices"m Matrices"
"Spectral Theory for Stochastic Hamiltonians"

Mathematics and Statistics Student Colloquia

SMALL Bayesian Statistics, Ergodic Theory and Knot Theory Groups,Williams College
"Bayesian Statistics, Ergodic Theory, and Knot Theory"

SMALL Geometry Group,Williams College
"Honeycombs and Planes with Density"

SMALL Number Theory and Riemannian Geometry Groups, Williams College
"Number Theory and Riemannian Geometry"

Katherine Baldiga '07
"Analysis in Algebra: Completions of Commutative Rings"

Cagatay Bircan '07
"The Problem of Prize Division"

Sheryl Brea '07
"March Madness and Weighted Least Squares"

Megan Bruck '07
"Hilbert's 16th Problem"

Colin Carroll '07
"Primes is in P: Erastothenes sieve be damned!"

Arjun Chandar '07
"Bootstrap Methods of Statistical Inference: Sampling with Replacement"

John Chatlos '07
"3 Implies Everything"

Shea Chen '07
"The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector"

Jetsada Chuenchoojit '07
"Hilbert's Basis Theorem"

Alexandra Constantin '07
"Statistical Machine Translation"

Candice Corvetti '07
"Relative Primality"

Diana Davis '07
"An Elementary Proof of Krull's Intersection Theorem"

Matthew Davis '07
"A Probabilistic Proof of Bernstein Polyomials"

Katherine Dieber '07
"Mathematics for the Visual Thinker"

Michael Dougherty '07
"The Neyman-Pearson Theory of Hypothesis Testing"

Angela Doyle '07
"A Proof of the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem"

Matthew Earle '07
"Next!"

Folafolu Folowosele '07
"Proof of Sylow Theorem 1"

Christopher Fort '07
"Because Life is not a Linear Function"

Mateusz Furmaga '07
"Bertrand's Paradox: An Ill-Posed Problem?!"

Nicholas Gallucci '07
"Tying up Text Books-Arc Presentation and Arc Index"

Alexander Ginman '07
"Burnside's Counting Theorem"

Zachary Grossman '07
"If You Only Had One Short...Optimal Strategies for Sequential Games of Skill"

Lingwei Gu '07
"Linear Programming"

Kevin Hahm '07
"Event Studies in Economics and Finance"

Douglas Hammond '07
"Optimal Strategies for Professional Sports Drafts"

Jennifer James '07
"Relating Knotted Surfaces with Tubes"

Min Kim '07
"Equivalents to the Axiom of Choice"

Thomas Kindred '07
"Unfolding Origami: Swans, Frogs, and Dodecahedrons"

Ross Kravitz '07
"How the Ideal Got Its Name"

Kathryn Lindsey '07
"Cellular Automata and Randomness"

Lawrence Madziwa '07
"Paying the Piped Piper: Premium Parameter Estimation Using Credibility Theory"

Rohan Mehra '07
"The 6-Color Conjecture in R3"

Nei Mendoza '07
"The Housemates Problem"

Myron Minn-Thu-Aye '07
"Drawing "Nice" Metro Maps"

Brian Munroe '07
"Divergent Series, A Brief Introduction"

Amanda Nicol '07
"Class Numbers and Fermat's Last Theorem"

William Parsons '07
"The Calculus of Variations: A Two-Pronged Approach"

Conor Quinn '07
"Benford's Law and Fraud Detection"

James Randall '07
"How to Elect our Next President: An Optimal Voting System"

Martha Rogers '07
"Likelihood Methods for Censored Data"

Steven Schumsky '07
"Measuring with Jugs"

David Senft '07
"How to Find the Perfect Mate While Teaching Medicine in France: Allocation Algorithms and the Stable-Marriage Problem"

Brian Simanek '07
"Of Friends, Politicians, and Kotzig's Conjecture"

Daniel Sussman '07
"The Spectrum of the Schrodinger Operator"

Lindsay Ting '07
"Zeroing in on Zeros"

Wesley Tjosvold '07
"Normal Numbers"

Nicholas Yukich '07
"Convergence of the Binomial Model to the Black-Scholes Model"

Alexei Zaliznyak '07
"Find a Valentine! Optimal Foraging Strategies in Resource Scarce Environments"

Off-Campus Colloquia

Colin Adams
"Mel Slugbate's Real Estate In Hyperbolic Space"
Park City Mathematics Institute, Park City, UT
"Blown Away: What Knot to do When Sailing"
Park City Mathematics Institute, Park City, UT
Keynote Lecture, AMATYC Meetings, Cicinnati, OH
Kingswood Oxford School, W. Hartford, CT
University of Virginia
MAA Northeast Section Preskenis Dinner, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA

Carsten Botts
"Likelihood Approximations in Bayesian Multiple Curve Fitting"
Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA

Edward B. Burger
"Conferences Lectures"
MAA Mathfest, Special Session, Knoxville, TN
NCTM Annual Meeting,Invited Address, Chicago, IL
Second Annual Mathematics Symposium, Donna, TX
Mathematics Council of Alberta Teachers Association Conference, Banff, Canada
The 2006 Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, James Madison University
The T3 Regional Mathematics Conference
Southeast Mathematics Conference, Sam Houston State University
Greenville County Council of Teachers of Mathematics
"Mathematics Colloquia"
Carleton College
Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo College
Grinnell College
Fairfield University, Pi Mu Epsilon Address
Colorado State University
Trinity University
Drexel University

Satyan Devadoss
"Robot Motions and Collisions"
George Washington University
"Realization of Graph-Associahedra"
Invited Address, AMS Meeting at University of Connecticut
"Reclaiming Da Vinci"
Keynote Speaker, Mishner Festival of the Arts Symposium
"Moduli Spaces and Blowups of Coxeter Complexes"
Deformation Theory Seminar, University of Pennsylvania

Thomas Garrity
"On Writing Numbers"
Vassar College
"On the Arrogance of Mathematicians"
Williams Roadscholars, Chicago, IL

Susan Loepp
"Protecting your Personal Information: An Introduction to Encryption"
Young Alumnus Award Convocation, Bethel College
"Public Key Cryptography"
Bethel College

Frank Morgan
"Geometric Measure Theory and Open Problems"
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
"Isoperimetric Problems"
Lafayette College (REU)
Knoxville MAA Mathfest
Munster, Germany
"Isoperimetric Problems, Including Open Problems for Mathematicians and Undergraduates"
Lehigh University Geometry-Topology Conference
"Manifolds with Density"
Madrid International Congress of Mathematicians
Trento, Italy
Zurich
Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul
Pisa, Italy
Lancaster Pennsylvania Tetrahedral Seminar
St. Mary's College, Maryland
"Geometric Measure Theory and Soap Bubbles"
Granada Spain International Seminar on Applied Geometry in Andalusia
"The Double Bubble Theorem"
Libson Portugal Instituto Superior Tecnico
"Bubbles and Bagels"
St. Mary's College, Maryland
Brigham Young University
"Bubble Clusters and Mathematics"
St. Mary's College, Maryland
"Black-Scholes Option Pricing and Other Topics"
Korea Development Institute, Seoul
"Black-Scholes Option Pricing and Other Topics"
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul
"Soap Bubbles and Mathematics"
Seoul National University Epsilon Lecture
Bard College
Connecticut College
Georgia Tech
Sweetwood, Williamstown
"Differential Geometry"
Vietnam National University, Hanoi
"Area-Minimizing Surfaces"
Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi
"Soap Bubbles, Students, and Mathematics"
"Double Bubbles and Student Research"
"Area-Minimizing Surfaces and Manifolds with Density"
Hue University, Vietnam
"Minimal Surfaces in Singular Ambients"
Levico Italy (CIRM)
"Bolle di Sapone e Matematica" for the public
"Bolle di Sapone e Matematica" for high school teachers and student
"Manifolds with Density" two lecture for young mathematicians
Modena Italy
"Partitioning Problems"
Banff Scientific Research Station, Canada
"Double Bubbles in the Torus"
Millersville University-Franklin and Marshall Joint Colloquium

Allison Pacelli
"The 3-Rank of the Class Group in Number Fields and Function Fields"
Five College Number Theory Seminar
"Life at a Liberal Arts College"
"High n-Rank in Class Groups of Function Fields"
University of Wisconsin
"Class Numbers of Quadratic Fields"
Brown University
"Constructing Number Fields and Function Fields with Prescribed Class Group Properties"
Fields Institute Workshop on Computational Challenges in Algorithmic Number Theory and Cryptography
"Algebraic Number Theory: An "Idea" Subject"
George Washington University Summer Program for Women in Mathematics
"High n-Rank in Class Groups of Global Fields"
Canadian Number Theory Association Meeting IX

Cesar Silva
"Mixing in the Baker's Transformation, Other Notions of Mixing, and Other Transformations"
SUNY, Potsdam

Mihai Stoiciu
"The Distribution of Eigenvalues for Random Unitary Matrices"
Mathematical Physics Seminar, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
"Eigenvalue Statistics for Various Classes of Random CMV Matrices"
Analysis and Probability Quantum Physics Workshop, Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Kristopher Tapp
"Math Colloquium"
Suffolk University
Bryn Mawr College
"Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces Conference"
University of Pennsylvania
"Nonnegative Curvature Seminar"
University of Pennsylvania