Colgate: Department of Mathematics

Make sure you check out the following upcoming events:

Math Seminar

Tuesdays, 12.20pm - 1.10pm in 204 McGregory

Spring 2006

Fall 2005

9/27/05: Christopher Mackeprang, Trading Goats
10/4/05: Ryan Colameo, The Betting Line: Picking Winners
10/18/05: Laurie Pritchard, A Cross National Study: Differences in Middle School Problem Solving
10/25/05: Matt Sloane, Architectural Mathematics: A Look at How Geometry Creates Beauty in Both Form and Function
11/1/05: Devin Edwards, Great Hitters and How We Know: Batting Statistics in Baseball
11/8/05: Pian Shu, Logic Can Be Fun
11/15/05: Tomasz Gruska, Socrates, Plato, and Two Numbers
11/29/05: Hung Ho, Life of Phi

Spring 2005

1/25/05: Kellen Myers, Prime Time
2/1/05: Carlee Leraris, You're the next contestant on the Price is Right
3/22/05: Brett Nichols, dangerboy's lucky day and Anton Lokhov, Solving Problems from the Mathematical Montly
3/29/05: Alex Murdzhev, Watch your steps: A mathematical introduction to the game of Minesweeper
4/5/05: Maria Knox, General Russian Roulette and Joe Kurstin, A geometric view of some apportionment paradoxes
4/12/05: Graham Savio, Visualizing 4-dimensional spaces and Jarrett Moyer, Computational motion: From Euler to Runge-Kutta
4/19/05: Bryant Meckley, How to be a shark in your college basketball pool and Brian Dinneen, Numbers by nature
5/4/05: Tim LeSaulnier, High Honors Talk: Ascending Waves (11am-noon, 1pm-2.30pm)

Fall 2004

Spring 2004

1/27/04: Ahmad Khazee, Bart Does Math
2/10/04: Lee Whitcher, Math and Psychology: Bower's Model of Paired-Associate Learning
2/17/04: John Brier Mathematics and Philosophy and Jeff Karb, Nash Equilibria for the Cournot and Bertand Models of Competition
2/24/04: Claudia Melniciuc and Sally Mazzocchi, M. C. Escher and the Art of Symmetry
3/2/04: Greg Crider and Pauyl Cancro, Conquering the World and other applications of the functional programming language, Haskell
3/9/04: Laura Kenny, Gerrymandering and Geometry
3/30/04: Frank Yang and Sunit Sindurakar, Self-Reference in Mathematics and Computer Science
4/6/04: Heather Clark, Math on Stage and Jennifer Levine, Final Jeopardy Betting
4/13/04: Justin Spencer, Quantum Mechanics
4/20/04: A.J. Abadi, Archimedes and the Sphere: A Geometrical Proof of Volumne
High honors talk: 4/29/04 and 4/30/04 at 2.30pm, Room 204: Wei Ren, The Axiom of Choice, its Implications, and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis

Fall 2003

9/8/03: Prof. Tomaz Pizanski, Surfaces for Everybody
9/15/03: Tim LeSaulnier, Euler and the Fullerenes
9/22/03: Michael Melmed, Jai Alai & Horses: The Mathematics of Pari-mutuel Betting
10/7/03: Chris Ritacco, Kepler, Newton, and the Search for New Planets
10/21/03: Maho Ishiguro, Tuning Scales
10/28/03: Chiga Ozar and Krista Rokicki, Playing the Price is Right
11/4/03: Jeremy Jones and Adam Leeman, Fourth and Three: Go For It!
11/11/03: Courtney Bourdeau and Stephanie Almozara, Sophie Germain and Julia Robinson: Famous Women Mathematicians
11/18/03: Sarah Mechura and Nathalie McCormack, Bolyai and Lobachevsky: The Development of Noneuclidean Geometry
12/2/03: Shuto Oikawa, The Mathematics of Poker

Spring 2003

2/4/03: Wei Ren, Progressively Finite Games and Grundy Functions
2/18/03: Trisha Bain and Todd Butterworth, Egyptian and Mayan Mathematics
2/25/03: Rett Grant, When Weakness is Strength
3/4/03: Jared Nearpass, Actuary 101
3/11/03: Dora Gicheva and Jon Simmons, Fun with Cards
3/25/03: Sarah Gaehring, The Brachistochrone
4/8/03: Yevgeniy Frenkel, Game Theory Online
4/22/03: Kroum Sourov, The Mystery of Portia's Caskets

Fall 2002

9/17/02: Professors Hart, Robertson, Saracino, and Schult, Summer Research in Math
9/24/02: Nathaniel Blauss, To Pell and Back
Friday, Sept. 27, 2.15-3.00: Dan Cain '01, My Life Since Colgate: From Math at Penn to the NSA
10/1/02: Yibing Cui, Representations of Integers as Sums of Squares
10/22/02: Janelle Fatt-Hong Chin and Rich Mueller, Does Greed Pay? A Study of NP-Completeness
10/29/02: Jack Graver (Syracuse University), Constructing Rigid Structures
11/5/02: Mike Cheung and Peter Veihe-Naess, Euler and p²/6
11/19/02: Gerry Shaughnessy, Is Ted Williams Still Frozen?
12/2/02: Trevor King and Nathan Rollins, The Mean Value Theorem and the Increasing Function Theorem

Spring 2002

2/5/02: Justin Rubenstein, Sharkovskii's Theorem
2/12/02: Prof. Tucker, Conversations Among Math Majors
2/19/02: David Roberts, Permutations in the Shower
2/26/02: Ben Krause, The Kruskal Count - and Why I'm Always Right... Well, Almost Always
3/5/02: Antwann Dixon and Arjun Mehra, The Game TopSpin and the Symmetric Group
4/2/02: Amy Hand, Permutations Given by a Mechanical Card Shuffler
4/9/02: Yoon Park, Sychronized Insect Emergence and Prime Numbers
4/16/02: Ben Strohsahl, The Golden Mean and Piano Sonatas of Mozart

Fall 2001

10/2/01: Joe Converse, The Euler-Lagrange Equation: Extremizing Through Variational Calculus
10/16/01: Ash Lall, Pi in the Sky: The Beginnings of the Search and Chris Gillick, Buffon's Needle: Does Pi Have Anything to do With Dropping Your Pencil?
10/23/01: Rachael Hersh-Burdick, A Mathematical Modeling Murder Mystery
10/30/01: Emily Landgraf, How to Find True Love, and Zac Mitchell, How to Scam Your Friends
11/6/01: Tabitha Beck, Gabriel's Wedding Cake: You Can Eat it, but You Can't Frost it
11/13/01: Amy Berman, How to Affect the Election Outcome: The Election Committee's Viewpoint, and Matt Costello, The Voter's Viewpoint
11/27/01: Jared Rothman, Counting Your Hair and Other Useless Feats, and Willie Witten, Fun Counting Pigeons
12/4/01: Steve Flannery, Playing Games with the Powers of Two: Survivor and Nim, and Joe Shemo, The Monty Hall Problem

Also, if you are interested, here are some other programs in which you can take part:

William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition and preparation
COMAP Mathematical Modeling Competition
Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (See HRUMC6 photos, HRUMC7 photos, HRUMC8 photos, HRUMC9 photos, HRUMC10 photos, and more information.)

And don't forget our newsletter, The Prime Times. Below are the most recent (I know, I know, not very recent) editions of the newsletter.