SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium, Fall 2015-2016 Department of Mathematics and Statistics 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 26	Guangliang Chen, SJSU	The Kaggle competitions: An introduction to CAMCOS Fall 2015
Wed Sep 02	SPECIAL EVENT	Welcome to the major in mathematics at SJSU
Wed Sep 09	SPECIAL EVENT	So you want to go to grad school, 3:00-4:15pm
Wed Sep 16	NO COLLOQUIUM	DEPARTMENT MEETING
Wed Sep 23	Jordan Schettler, SJSU	Topology and Surrealism: Corpus Hypercubus Revisited
Wed Sep 30	Matthew D. Johnston, SJSU	Extinction and Persistence in Discrete Chemical Reaction Networks
MON OCT 05	Re-rescheduled meeting	DEPARTMENT MEETING, MH320, 3-4pm
Wed Oct 07	Marion Campisi, SJSU	Neighbors of Knots in the Gordian Graph
Wed Oct 14	Frank Sottile, Texas A&M	Some algebraic geometry in applications
Wed Oct 21	Federico Ardila, SFSU	Positroids, 1/e^2, and a conjecture of Da Silva
Wed Oct 28	Ethan Berkove, Lafayette College	Solving the Color Cubes Puzzle
Wed Nov 04	NO COLLOQUIUM	DEPARTMENT MEETING
Wed Nov 11	NO COLLOQUIUM	Veterans Day
Wed Nov 18	Nic Brummell, UCSC	The Mathematics of the Sun
Wed Nov 25	NO COLLOQUIUM	Happy Thanksgiving!
Wed Dec 02	NO COLLOQUIUM	DEPARTMENT MEETING

See here for more about the SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium.

Useful links:

• Directions to SJSU. For transit directions, use the Google maps link there, or contact the colloquium organizer.
• SJSU campus map. Math/Stats Dept is in MacQuarrie Hall (MQH), SW quadrant of campus.
• Interactive SJSU campus map. Click the Parking button to see parking garages; recommended parking garage is 7th St @ San Salvador. Select the building "MacQuarrie Hall" to see Math/Stats Dept.
• Guide to parking at SJSU
• SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium Spring 2014-2015
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