SJSU Math Colloquium, Fall 2008-2009

Department of Mathematics

San 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!
Wed Dec 03
Wed Dec 10

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