This Colloquia Archive includes a complete list of all Department of Mathematical Sciences colloquia titles, abstracts and speakers going back to 1997.
Submissions from 2002
Amalgams or A Tale About Two Groups Who Wish To Become One, Dr. Arturo Magidin
Toida's Conjecture is True and Other Results on the Cayley Isomorphism Problem, Dr. Joy Morris
Mathematics in Estonia, Dr. Mati Abel
How Can the "I-Like-Ike Teacher" Motivate the "Be-Like-Mike Student" in Middle Grades Mathematics, Dr. Rick Billstein
The 24th International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2002 - Beijing), Dr. Thomas Tonev
Graphs & Digraphs with Large Chromatic Numbers & Long Shortest Cycles, Dr. Mark Kayll
A TEXnology Tour, Dr. Karel Stroethoff
Graph Products with Small Cycle Double Covers, Dr. Karen Seyffarth
Colouring Problems and Transversals in Graphs, Dr. Penny Haxell
The Curvature of Space, Dr. Jeffery Weeks
The Shape of Space, Dr. Jeffery Weeks
The Effect Of Information On A Stochastic Fishery, Greg Cripe
Inside Math Excel - A Video Visit, Professor Tom Dick
Asymptotic Analysis of a Fast Reaction Outside a Solid Sphere in a Creeping Flow, Supawan Lertskrai
The Instantaneous Pressure-Volume Relationship of the Left Ventricle, Professor Scott A. Stevens
Dreamweaver, Jessie Neidigh
Hopf Algebras: An Introduction (Cancelled), Professor Serban Raianu
An Introduction to Noncommutative Geometry, Professor Adam Nyman
Analysis of the Distribution of Grades from the Fall 2001 Calculus 152 Final Examination and Nonparametric Estimation of a Linear Relationship for Bivariate Data, Professor Rudy Gideon
On Universal Cycles of k-sets of an n-set, Professor Brett Stevens
Is There a Shoe Polish with Fluoride?, Johnny W. Lott
Graphs in the Theory of Location of Facilities, K. B. Reid
Submissions from 2001
Mathematical Creativity in Problem Solving Situations, Bharath Sriraman
Native American Mathematics: An Ethnomathematical Review, Dr. Charles P. Funkhouser
Computer use in Mathematics, Professor Karel Stroethoff, Professor Scott Stevens, Professor Brian Steele, and Dick Lane
A Century of Geometry Texts, Jim Elander
Malfatti Problems, Professor Oleg Mushkarov
Geometry of Twistor Spaces, Professor Johann Davidov
Panel Discussion on Large Mathematics Classes At The University of Montana, Professor Libby Krussel
Down Memory Lane: A Growing University; Is Bigger Better?, Michael Allan Andrus
Forensic DNA Probabilities, Jim Streeter
Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Professor Hashim Saber
Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems and Their Applications, Professor Anatoly G. Yagola
Random Walks on Graphs, Professor Sean McGuinness
From Coloring Planar Graphs to Choosability in Vector Spaces, Professor Matt DeVos
A Combinatorialist Counts the Rational Numbers, Professor Herbert S. Wilf
From the Königsberg Bridges to DNA Sequencing, Professor Herbert S. Wilf
Proposal Preparation Workshop, Dr. Joseph Brennan
A Class of Models Describing Age Structure Dynamics of a Natural Forest, Michael A. Kraemer
Systems of Distinct Representatives, Dr. Evan Wantland
Bridging Cognitive and Measurement Models in the Analysis of Mathematics Achievement Tests, Dimiter Dimitrov
Exploring the Cold Oceans of the North... With Math, Peter B. Rhines
Classroom Fractals, Jane Wilson
Unleashing Student Energy: Teaching Math at a Tribal College, Matt Seeley
Defying Distance: Research and Action in Rural Mathematics Education, Jennie Luebeck
Analytical Solution of Hermite Collocation Discretization of Differential Equations, Dr. Stephen H. Brill
The Burden of Mathematics: Coping with Societal Prejudice Plays Defining and Socializing Roles in a Mathematics Department, Timothy Gutmann
Tourism in Montana: What do Residents Think?, Dr. Norma Nickerson
Where has Geometry Gone?, Jim Hirstein
Division of Fractions: A Multi-Level Perspective on Students and their Instructors, David Erickson and Libby Krussel
The History of the Information Age: From Ancient Babylon to the Internet, George Keremedjiev
Submissions from 2000
Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems, Dr. Thomas I. Seidman
Statistical Literacy For Today and Tomorrow, Gail Burrill
The Latest Thinking in Japanese Mathematics Education, Professor Rick Billstein
How Do They Determine That the Earth Has A Diameter of 7,930 Miles?, Professor Richard Paul
A Statistical Analysis of Spatial Classifiers for a Landsat TM Mapping Problem with Incomplete Spatial Coverage, Professor Brian Steele
The Inverse Problem of Parameter/Protein Identification Using the Ultracentrifuge Sedimentation Velocity Experiment, Professor Hashim Saber
Which Tanks Empty Faster?, Dr. Leonid Hanin
Mathematical life in Kazan State University, Professor Suren Grigoryan
Data Analysis of The Aortic Valve Complex Measured by Digital Sonomicrometry, Nolan Thomas Rice
Mathematics in Airport Literature, Professor Johnny W. Lott
Bivariate Cauchy Regression, Professor Rudy Gideon
The Interplay between Graphs and Matroids, Professor James Oxley
The Mysterious Arithmetic of Integral Lexicographic Codes, John Horton Conway
Non-commutative Projective Geometry as a Tool, Professor Michaela Vancliff
Exchange of Stability and Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations, Professor Klaus R. Schneider
Multi-Parameter Optimization in Plasma Physics, Professor Andrew Ware
Representations of Bicircular and Transversal Matroids, Professor Nancy Ann Neudauer
Visualization and the Fubini Principle, Professor Roger Nelsen
Asymptotics of multivariate sequences, Assistant Professor Mark Wilson
Models of steady state evolutionary algorithms, Professor Alden Wright
Operator Spaces and Convolution of Multilinear Forms, Professor Bert Schreiber
Compartmental Models of Biological Fluid Dynamics, Dr. Scott Stevens
Numerical evidence of stationary and breathing concentration patterns in the Oregonator with equal diffusivities, Professor Richard J. Field
Iteration Techniques for Convection Dominated Flow Problems, Dr. Jayathi Raghavan
Multicomponent Gas Transport in Fuel Cell Electrodes, Dr. John Stockie
Information Transformers and the Concept of Informativeness, Dr. Peter Golubtsov
Submissions from 1999
Market Offering Strategies for Hydro-electric Generators, Dr. Golbon Zakeri
Random Ramblings on Graph Pebbling, Professor Mark Kayll
Using Interdisciplinary Applications to Integrate Mathematical Topics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Professor John Scharf and Professor Marie Vanisko
Mineral Leaching, and Clean Green Applied Mathematics, Dr. Larry K. Forbes
An Algorithmic Approach to Multicolouring, Professor Jeannette Janssen
Mathematics, Computer Games and Gender, Dr. Maria M. Klawe
The Impact of User Interfaces in Educational Software, Dr. Maria M. Klawe
Topological Structure of the Space of Composition Operators on Hinfinity, Dr. Ruhan Zhao
The mathematics of problem solving in sport and nature, Professor Neville de Mestre
Controllability of Excitable Cells, Dr. Mark Pernarowski
Introduction to Cellular Automata (CA), Dr. William Derrick
Invertible Polynomial Transformations, Dr. Gene Freudenburg
Connectivity for Binary Matroids and Graphs, Dr. Haidong Wu
A Non-commutative Version of Polynomial Rings, Thomas Cassidy
Pattern formation in the Extended Fisher Kolmogorov equation, Dr. William C. Troy
On the numerical solution of differential equations with algebraic constraints, Dr. Raymond Spiteri
Dual Model Robust Regression, Dr. Timothy Robinson
Superalgebras and their uses, Dr. Mark Wilson
Exact Bootstrap Moments of an L-estimator, Dr. Michael D. Ernst
How quickly do we generate the matrix algebra?, Dr. Christopher Pappacena
Computing Geodetic Coordinates, Dr. Yves Nievergelt
Isometries and Biholomorphy in Several Complex Variables (Cancelled), Professor Farhad Jafari