SJSU Math Colloquium, Fall 2011-2012 Department of Mathematics San José State University

Unless otherwise indicated, on colloquium days (Wednesdays unless otherwise noted):

• Tea will be held at 2:30pm in MacQuarrie Hall 331B.
• Colloquium will be held from 3-4pm in MacQuarrie Hall 320.

Date	Speaker	Title (click links for abstracts)
Wed Aug 31	Ron Davis, SJSU	Implications of Exponential Utility: From Fallacies to Fortunes
Wed Sep 07	Goran Konjevod, Lawrence Livermore National Labs	Some mathematics motivated by origami
Wed Sep 14	Kelli Talaska, UC Berkeley	Determinants and path counting
Wed Sep 21	NO COLLOQUIUM	DEPARTMENT MEETING
Wed Sep 28	Sami Assaf, Berkeley Quantitative	Combinatorics in card shuffling
Wed Oct 05	SPECIAL EVENT	So you want to major in math
Wed Oct 12	SPECIAL EVENT	Surviving Calculus
Wed Oct 19	Pascale Garaud, UC Santa Cruz	The mystery of the oceanic staircases
Wed Oct 26	NO COLLOQUIUM	DEPARTMENT MEETING
Wed Nov 02	Tim Roughgarden, Stanford Univ.	Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy
Wed Nov 09	Cornelia Van Cott, Univ. of San Francisco	Brussels Sprouts and the Euler Characteristic
Wed Nov 16	Aaron Abrams, Emory Univ./MSRI	Cutting a square into triangles
Wed Nov 23	NO COLLOQUIUM	Happy Thanksgiving!
Wed Nov 30	Andrew Berget, UC Davis	Projective Equivalence
Wed Dec 07	Tom Means, SJSU	How Could The Expected Utility Model Be So Wrong?

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Useful links:

• Directions to SJSU
• Recommended parking garage (7th St @ San Salvador) (guide to parking at SJSU)
• Google Map for 7th St. parking garage (click "get directions" for directions)
• SJSU campus map (Math Dept is in SW quadrant of campus)
• SJSU Math Colloquium Spring 2010-2011
• SJSU Math Colloquium Spring 2011-2012
• SJSU Math