Department Colloquium

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

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

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Spring 2016 Colloquium Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title  (click title to see abstract)
January 26th	Mike Falk	NAU	A geometer’s view of frames: definitions and open problems
February 2nd	Roy St. Laurent	NAU	Bootstrap Confidence Intervals, Randomization Tests, and STA 270.
February 9th	Dana Ernst	NAU	Several representations of my favorite open problem
Thursday February 11th	Phillip Hotchkiss	Westfield State College	Inquiry-Based Learning: Pedagogy, Research and Practices
February 16th	Kiona Ogle Informatics and Computing	NAU	Bayesian and non-Bayesian approaches to quantifying physiological, morphological, and allometric traits of U.S. tree species
February 23rd	Kirsten Davis	NAU Dept alumni, ME grad student	The Use of Dynamic Time Warping to Reduce Inter-trial Variability in Gait Data
March 1st	Tracy Stepien	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Arizona State University	Cell Migration: Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
March 8th	Shafiu Jibrin	NAU	Sabbatical Talk
March 15th	NAU Spring break	No Talk Scheduled
March 22nd
March 29th	John Neuberger	NAU	Derivatives, Difference Matrices, and Differential Equations (Calculus)
April 5th	Jeffrey Bennett</a>	Astronomer, teacher, and writer	Mathematics for Life: Are You Teaching Students What They Really Need?
April 12th	Jesse Mapel	NAU	MS Thesis Talk Finite Difference Methods for the p-Laplacian
April 19th	Kevin Salmon	NAU	MS Thesis Talk Exploring Temperley-Lieb algebras of type affine C.
Thursday April 28th	Honors Week Speaker Francis Su	Harvey Mudd College MAA President	Honors week Advanced Talk 12:45 - 2:00 pm AMB Room #164
Thursday April 28th	Honors Week Speaker Francis Su		Honors week General Talk 4:00 - 5:00 pm LMC Room #221
May 3rd	Taryn Laird	NAU	MS Thesis Talk A Study of T-Avoiding Elements of Coxeter Groups