Fall 2017 Department Colloquium

The NAU Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium takes place on Tuesdays at 4:00-5:00 pm in Room 164 of the Adel Mathematics Building. Refreshments are available from 3:45pm in the same room.

Titles and abstracts uploaded as available. Schedule subject to change.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title  (click title to see abstract)
Aug 29			Organizational Meeting
Sep 5	Jim Swift	NAU	Synchrony and Anti-Synchrony in Difference-Coupled Cell Networks
Sep 12	Steve Wilson	NAU	The wooly hats
Sep 20 (Wednesday)	James Tanton		Exploding dots - from arithmetic to the infinite
Sep 26	Katie Louchart	NAU	A placement-focused semester
Oct 3	Angie Hodge	NAU	Recruiting mathematics majors, minors, and keepers of the discipline: Lessons learned
Oct 10	William Jaco	Oklahoma State University	Fundamental Problem of Topology: The Homeomorphism Problem
Oct 17	Michael Falk	NAU	Weak orders - left and right - and configuration spaces
Oct 24	John Hagood	NAU	Selective sum of a convergent series
Oct 31	Art Draut		The twin prime conjecture
Nov 7	John M. Neuberger	NAU	Derivatives, Difference Matrices, and Differential Equations (Calculus), Part II
Nov 14	Bahattin Yildiz	NAU	The homogeneous weight and the related gray map for codes over $R_k$
Nov 21	Dana Ernst	NAU	An introduction to the combinatorics of genome rearrangements
Nov 28	Amy Rushall	NAU	The role of the LMC at NAU, the day-to-day work and the people contributing to its success
Dec 5	Christopher Briggs	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Uniform Exponential Growth in Algebras