The Colloquia

The Mathematics Colloquium is organized by the Department of Mathematics and schedules talks from all major areas of mathematics and mathematics education. The topics presented are usually accessible to students and everyone is welcome to attend.

The talks are typically scheduled on Wednesdays at 3:30PM in Wright Hall 217. Coffee and cookies are served before each talk.

Upcoming Colloquia Schedule

September 26, 2011
Professor Anant Godbole, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, East Tennessee State University
Title: Twenty years of REU direction: Lessons Learned

October 7, 2011
Dr. Jacek Wesolowski, Mathematical Institute, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, POLAND
Title: Asymptotic Normality Through Factorial Cumulants and a New Identity for Partitions of Integers

October 17, 2011
Jacob McCoy, FSA, MAAA, Principal Financial Group
Title: Current Trends in the Insurance Industry

October 26, 2011
Wolfgang Kliemann, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
Title: ALEKS Placement and Other Tools to Manage Transition to Iowa's Public Universities

November 9, 2011
Professor Philip Kutzko, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Title: Euclid and Descartes

November 17, 2011
Petre Ghenciu, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Title: The subset-subspace analogy and the Hamiltonicity of the subspace graph

November 30, 2011
Prof. Dennis Schneider, Knox College
Title: Technology in Education: What to do? What not to do.

January 25, 2012
Dr. Bin Liu, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa
Title: Asymptotic Behaviors of the Waiting Times of M/G/1K Queues with Heavy Tailed Service Times

February 8, 2012
Dr. Theron Hitchman, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa
Title: Sage Mathematical Software in the Classroom

More Coming. . . .