This Colloquia Archive includes a complete list of all Department of Mathematical Sciences colloquia titles, abstracts and speakers going back to 1997.
Submissions from 2011
Pattern Formation & Geometry of PDE (Cancelled), Dr. Stephen Watson
“The Szegö Kernel for Non-Pseudoconvex Domains in ℂ2”, Michael Gilliam
“D-colorable digraphs with large girth”, Liam Rafferty
What is a singular integral operator?, Michael Gilliam
“The Categories of Graphs”, Demitri Plessas
Estimation and Prediction of Complex Systems: Progress in Weather and Climate, Gregory J. Hakim
A special Case of Hedetniemi's Conjecture, Demitri Plessas
“Proof trajectories- Results of a longitudinal qualitative study”, Nick Haverhals
A Categorial Approach to Information: Information Transformers, Informativeness, and Decision-Making Problems, Peter Golubtsov
Semicategories and Sheaf Theory, Dale Garraway
Simplicial Nim, Dale Garraway
“Informal Mathematics Activities and the Beliefs of Elementary Teacher Candidates”, Matt Roscoe
Graphs with Large Girth and Large Chromatic Number, Liam Rafferty
Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Objective Quantum Bayesianism and the von Neumann-Lueders Projection Postulate, Armond Duwell
Submissions from 2010
Teacher-researcher collaboration in mathematics teaching developmental research, Simon Goodchild
Online Homework for Math, Dick Lane
Spectral preservers in Commutative Banach Algebras, Thomas Tonev
Proof Trajectories, Nick Haverhals
Reflective mathematical activities with pre-service teachers- Some preliminary results, Matt Roscoe
Two matroids on graphs: How do they compare?, Nancy Ann Neudauer
Character Estimates and Random Walks on SU(n), Corey Manack
Similarity in Greek Geometry: A Historico-Educational Account, Michael N. Fried
How to solve applied inverse problems, A. G. Yagola
"The Coloring Graph and variations", Ruth Haas
"Distinguishing Chromatic Numbers of Bipartite Graphs", Karen Seyffarth
"The Center for Women in Mathematics at Smith College", Ruth Haas
“Regularization Parameter Selection Methods for Ill-Posed Poisson Imaging Problems”, John Goldes
“Mathematical and Computational Applications in Disease and Landscape Ecology”, Erin Landguth
A Brief Survey of König-Egerváry Graphs, Pete Kinnecom
Ice Sheet Modeling: Rescaling the Computational Domain for Full Stokes Models, Stephen Schutten
A Nonparametric Test of Independence and Its Application in Digital Image Quality Assessment, Haiyan Wang
Moving faces to other places: Facet Derangements, Gary Gordon
The range of Berezin transform, Rao V. Nagisetty
“Modeling Conversions in Online Advertising”, John Chandler-Pepelnjak
The Mathematics of Beauty and the Beauty of Mathematics, Monica Neagoy
N.J. Lennes, Montana, and Mathematics in the U.S. 1892-1922, David Zitarelli
Designing a coding scheme to classify technology use in the teaching and learning of mathematics, Hilary Risser
Animating Everyday Calculus, Lyle Cochran
Turn-Key OR not Turn-Key: That is the Question, Dr. Mark Parker
A Complete Computational Framework for Ill-Posed Poisson Maximum Likelihood Estimation, John Goldes
Chasing tail(s): statistical intuition in high-throughput studies, Ken Rice
Modeling Heterogeneous Bio-Switches: Review of Recent Results, Leonid Kalachev
Using Classroom Technology to Encourage Student Engagement in an Online Mathematics Course, Josef S. Crepeau
Submissions from 2009
MCMC for (too?) large climate models, Heikki Haario
The geometry and topology of 3-manifolds, Jason DeBlois
STEM Integration: Crossing Disciplinary Borders to Promote Learning and Engagement, Dr. Tamara Moore
Two Vertex Descriptors Based on Hosoya’s Matching Descriptor Z(G), Matt Hudelson
Mathematica 7 in Education, Ginger McKee
Teaching Online Courses for High School Mathematics Teachers, Maurice Burke
Using linear solvers to sample large Gaussians, Al Parker
Symmetry Breaking in Graphs and Matroids, Jenny McNulty
My Experiences With and Thoughts About Distance Learning, Mike O'Lear
BlackBoard training and a brief review of available on-line learning support, Mary Engstrom
Continuous Meets Discrete: Some Integral Counting Formulas, Mark Kayll
Introduction of Classroom Response Systems (CPS Clickers) and Performance Response Systems (PRS Clickers), John Pyktel
Reflective Mathematics Activities: A Pathway to the Beliefs of Pre-service Elementary School Teachers, Matt B. Roscoe
Investigating undergraduate Students development of Proof: A Longitudinal Study, Nick Haverhals
“Randomness in Tree Ensemble Methods”, Joran Elias
Boolean Rings, John Hart
“Norm-preserving criteria for uniform algebra isomorphisms”, Rebekah Yates
Preservers on Quantum Structures, Professor Lajos Molnar
Math Awards Ceremony, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Montana
Randomness in Tree Ensemble Methods, Joran Elias
10th Annual Math Film Festival, University of Montana
The Isis problem as a probe for understanding students' adaptive expertise and ideas about proof, Brian Greer
Uniform Algebra Isomorphisms, Rebekah Yates
Whose mathematical models are better, the global economists, or the global climate scientists?, Regents Professor Steven W. Running
Accurate Statistical Method for Diagnostic Testing Suited for Clustered Data, Frank Konietschke
The number ∏, Karel Stroethoff
Adaptive MCMC and model selection, Marko Laine
Formal Software Verification, Frank Stomp
Submissions from 2008
Reconciling Non-malleability with Homomorphic Encryption, Mike Rosulek
Statistical Learning in Online Advertising, John Chandler-Pepelnjak
Cleaning Graphs with a Greedy Algorithm, Margaret-Ellen Messinger
A Research Problem that Just Won’t Quit, John Bardsley
Mathematics and the Thirty Meter Telescope Project, Curt Vogel
Inference for Multivariate Data, Arne Bathke
Mathematica 6 in Education and Research, Ginger McKee
Paced Algebra to Calculus Electronically, Paul Kennedy
Noncommutative Uniform Algebras, Krzysztof Jarosz
Classroom Voting in Contemporary Mathematics, Lahna VonEpps
Topos-like Properties in Two Categories of Graphs and Graph-like Features in an Abstract Category, Demitri Plessas
Examining the Skew-Normal Distribution, John Hossler
“Spectral Preserver Problems in Uniform Algebras”, Scott Lambert
“Regularization Methods for Ill-Posed Poisson Imaging Problems: Mathematical Theory”, N’djekornom D. Laobeul
The Peripheral Spectrum and Function Algebra Isomorphisms, Aaron Luttman
Departmental Awards Ceremony, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Montana
A Comparison of Analytical Methods for DNA Microarrays, Jordan Purdy
Regularization Methods for Ill-Posed Poisson Imaging Problems: An Introduction and Overview, N'djekornom Dara Laobeul
Traps and Pitfalls in Statistical Decision-Making, Karen B. Williams
Size-Structured Population Models: Sensitivity & Probabilistic/Stochastic Formulations for Inclusion of Uncertainty/Variability in Growth, Dr. H. T. Banks
9th Annual Math Film Festival, University of Montana
Is fair voting and apportionment possible? A mathematical look, Michael de Villiers
“Proof Processes of Novice Mathematics Proof Writers”, Hillary VanSpronsen
The Proof-Writing Process: A Look at Novice Mathematics Students, Hillary VanSpronsen
Teaching Quantitative Literacy, Bill Briggs
Surfaces, 3-manifolds, and character varieties, Eric Chesebro
Division algebras over fields of characteristic p, Kelly McKinnie
Combinatorics of Trig Functions, Amanda Riehl
Spatial problems in mathematical ecology, Andrew Nevai