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.

Spring 2017 Colloquium Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title  (click title to see abstract)
January 17th	Organizational Meeting.
January 24th	cancelled due to snow
January 31st	Dana Ernst Monika Ernst Nandor Sieben	NAU	Jamming the Death Star cafeteria pool table with counterfeit coins: The wonderful world of MAT 220
February 7th	Jeffrey Hovermill	NAU	Quantitative Reasoning, Accountability, Social Justice, and Liberal Education
February 14th	Dr. Benjamin Ruddell	NAU School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems	Information Theory in the Geosciences
February 21st	Maya Chhetri	UNC-Greensboro	Asymptotically linear systems
February 28th	Brent Burch	NAU	Comparing sampling strategies to estimate the age characteristics of a forest
March 7th	Michael Falk	NAU	Resolution of singularities and the Milnor fiber boundary
March 14th	Spring Break
March 21st	Shafiu Jibrin	NAU	Finding an Interior Point of a Spectrahedron Using Infeasible Newton's Method
March 28th	Bianca Luedecker	NAU	Women and Mathematics
April 4th	William Schulz	NAU, Retired	Some Interesting Mathematics from History
April 11th	Cancelled
April 18th	Tenure-Track Math Candidate	4:00	AMB164
April 25th	Phillip Doi	NAU	M.S. Thesis 12:45-1:45PM
April 27th	Honors Week Dr. Luis David Garcia Puente Honors Week Schedule	Sam Houston State University	Colloquium 12:45 AMB164 Modern Algebra Techniques in Theoretical Neuroscience
April 27th	Honors Week Dr. Luis David Garcia Puente	Sam Houston State University	Student talk 4:00 SAS221 What is a Sandpile Group?
April 28th	Honors Week Dr. Luis David Garcia Puente	Sam Houston State University	Interdisciplinary Talk 4:00 AMB164 Modern Mathematics in Cancer Studies - The Need for Small Data Analysis
May 2nd	Zachary Parker	NAU	M.S. Thesis