SJSU Math Colloquium, Fall 2008-2009Department of MathematicsSan José State University |
Unless otherwise indicated, on colloquium days (Wednesdays unless otherwise noted):
Date | Speaker | Title (click links for abstracts) |
Wed Sep 03 | Ben Green, Cambridge Univ. | Linear equations in primes |
Wed Sep 10 | Moon Duchin, Univ. of Michigan | Geometrical Paradoxes |
Wed Sep 17 | SPECIAL EVENT | GRAD SCHOOL NIGHT |
Wed Sep 24 | NO COLLOQUIUM | DEPARTMENT MEETING |
Wed Oct 01 | David Barnes, Lockheed Martin | Mathematics and Missile Defense |
Wed Oct 08 | Valerie Peterson, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Geometry, Topology, Group Theory, and Killer Robots (see .pdf of talk, 8MB or Quicktime version available here) |
Wed Oct 15 | Alina Alt, SGI (formerly Sportvision, Inc.) | An introduction to the math behind PitchFX |
Wed Oct 22 | Lucas Sabalka, UC Davis | Navigating Blindly (see .pdf of talk, 1.4MB) |
Wed Oct 29 | NO COLLOQUIUM | DEPARTMENT MEETING |
Wed Nov 05 | NO COLLOQUIUM | Cancelled due to speaker schedule conflict |
Wed Nov 12 | Hans Johansen, Washington Mutual | Why is Excel the #1 software application for business? |
Wed Nov 19 | Amy Kapp, Genentech | Anatomy of a biostatistician (see .pdf of talk, 1.0MB) |
Wed Nov 26 | NO COLLOQUIUM | Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Wed Dec 10 |
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Math Colloquium.