| 2009-10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 14 |
David Perkinson, Reed College |
Sandpiles and Tilings |
| September 21 |
Student Summer Research Presentations |
Stephanie Hatley UPS '10
Finding Efficient Tree Embeddings Computationally Using Genetic Algorithms Jessica Olsen UPS '10: Formal Groups and Their Endomorphisms Dylan Poulson UPS '10: A Formal Model of the Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic |
| September 28 |
Jake Linenthal '08, Hitachi Consulting |
Math and Computer Science on the Front Lines |
| October 26 |
David Iverson '88 NASA Ames Research Center |
From Puget Sound to NASA Mission Control: Data Mining for Space Mission Operations |
| November 2 |
Jason Sawin, University of Puget Sound |
An Overview of Bitmap Indexing |
| 2008-09 | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 15 |
Student Summer Research Presentations |
Jessica Olsen, UPS ’10:
Flexagons Peter Ott, UPS ’09: Homothetic Space Curves and the Curve Shortening Flow Dylan Poulsen, UPS ’10: Asymptotic Behavior of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales |
| October 6 |
Manley Perkel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Puget Sound |
Embedding Complete Binary Trees into Grids |
| February 11 |
Peter Otto, Willamette University |
We Always Say What You Learn in Class Will Pay Off... Sometimes It Pays Off Big |
| February 25 |
DeWayne Derryberry, Idaho State University |
A Rationale for the Robustness of t-Procedures Based on the Central Limit Theorem |
| April 27 |
Paul Allen '01, University of Washington - Tacoma |
The Mathematics of Modeling Large-Scale Structure in our Universe |
| 2007-08 | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 10 |
Student Summer Research Presentations |
Mark Shoemaker, UPS ’08:
Applying homology to protein-protein interaction networks Alex Twist, UPS ’08: Product Calculus: Limits, Integration, and Series Andrew M. Zimmer, UPS ’08: The Minimum Semidefinite Rank of Graphs with Small Cut Sets |
| September 17 |
Student Summer Research Presentations |
Steve Canfield ‘08:
Tardy Boat: Analyzing delays in the Washington State Ferry System Walker Lindley ’08: Redistricting Utopia Jake Linenthal ’08: Long and Short Term Learning in Content-Based Image Retrieval |
| October 1 |
Axel Mainzer Koenig, Koenig & Associates, Inc. |
Simple Design Methods for 2-D Airfoil Profiles via the Joukowsky Transformation |
| November 5 |
Kevin Hutson, Department of Mathematics. Furman University
|
Hungry
Ants, Insane Bus Drivers, and Kevin Bacon |
| November 27 |
Naiomi Cameron, Department of Mathematics, Lewis & Clark College
|
A
Variation on the Tennis Ball Problem |
| February 11 |
David Molnar, University of Puget Sound
|
Continued
fractions, Diophantine approximation, and ergodic theory |
| February 25 |
Donald A. Lutz, San Diego State University |
On some
exponentially asymptotically constant difference equations |
| February 27 |
Anita Bateman,
Senior Certified IT Architect, IBM
Corporation
|
Software
Engineering using the IBM Cell Broadband Engine™ |
| April 2 |
Werner Balser,
Universität Ulm, Germany
|
Why are divergent
power series useful? |
| April 8 |
William Stein and Emily Kirkman ‘08,
University
of Washington
|
SAGE: Creating
a Viable Free Open Source Alternative to Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, and
Magma? |
| April 21 |
Dr. Michael Aristidou, DigiPen Institute of Technology
|
Quaternions: Their
Interesting Algebra and Some Applications |
| May 5 |
Student Research Presentations |
Walker Lindley '08,
Stefan Moluf '08, and Steven Canfield '08:
Tanks and
Teapots or how we learned to stop worrying and love middleware Jake Linenthal '08, Alex Twist, and Andy Zimmer Crisis to Rival Global Warming: Sudoku Puzzle Generation. This was from their MCM project |
| 2006-07 | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 6 |
Mike Spivey, Dept. of Math/CS, University of Puget Sound
|
A
Product Calculus |
| September 27 |
Student Summer Research Presentations |
Asa Scherer, UPS ’07:
Determinants and the Matching Polynomial Walker Lindley, UPS ’08: Redistricting Utopia: Using Computers for Impartial Redistricting Jake Linenthal, UPS ’08: Learning to Make Decisions in a Hostile and Uncertain Environment: How I taught my computer to play Texas Hold 'em |
| October 18 |
James Bernhard, Physics Department, University of Puget Sound |
Statistics in the Ongoing Biological Revolution |
| October 25 |
Iva Stavrov, Dept. of Mathematics,
Lewis & Clark College
|
Riemannian
Geometry of the Octonionic Projective Plane |
| November 8 |
Nathan
Roberts, Josh Kendol, and Chelsea Zarnowski (Boeing) |
Math
and Statistics in the
Working World: A Presentation and Panel Discussion |
| February 28 |
Jennifer Quinn, Executive Director of the Association for Women in
Mathematics and
Visiting Associate Professor, UPS
|
Determinants via Determined Ants |
| March 21 |
Jessica Sklar, Department of Mathematics, Pacific Lutheran University |
Defeating
the Robot and Unlocking Doors: Mathematical Solutions to Computer Game
Puzzles |
| April 11 |
William
J. Melanson, Department of Philosophy, University of Puget Sound |
The Philosophical Search for Mathematical Objects: Semantics, Ontology,
and Epistemology: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics |
| April 18 |
Amy Ryken and John Woodward, School of Education, UPS |
Understanding Calculus or Becoming Quantitatively Literate? |
| 2004-05 | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 8 |
Steve Swanson '99, University of
Washington |
Abandoning the Sinking Chip:
The Case for a New Class of Microprocessors |
| September 20 |
Bethany Fisher, University of Puget Sound |
The Sphere Packing Problem |
| September 28 |
Carol (Boyd) Overdeep, '84, Western Oregon University | Markov Chains That Go Boom! |
| October 5 |
DeWayne Derryberry, University
of Puget Sound |
Popperian Philosophy of Science
Meets Statistical Inference |
| February 2 |
Rob Beezer, University of Puget Sound |
Platonic Solids from Paper Plates |
| February 9 |
William Heuett, University of Washington |
A Model of Testosterone Oscillations in Men |
| March 7 |
David Neel, '95, Seattle University |
What is a Graph, and How Complex is It? |
| 2003-04 | ||
|---|---|---|
| October 1 | Nathan Roberts (UPS '98), Boeing Inc. | Comparison Shopping: A case for Applied Statistics |
| October 14 | Horst Holstein, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK | Robust one-to-correspondence through binary space partition trees: An application in the interpretation of real-world human motion capture data" |
| October 29 | Michael Casey, University of Puget Sound | The Scenario Generation Algorithm: A New Algorithm for Solving Stochastic Optimization Problems |
| November 24 | Martin Jackson, University of Puget Sound | Your chance at a million dollars may be slipping away: Ricci flow and the Poincaré Conjecture |
| February 9 | James Bernhard, University of Puget Sound | Hearing the shape of a drum |
| TBA | Bob Matthews, University of Puget Sound | TBA |
| 2002-03 | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 19 | Steve Bleiler, Portland State University | Quit Work, Play Poker, Sleep Till Noon |
| September 26 | Robert Sacker, University of Southern California | Bifurcation of Maps and Cycling in Genetic Systems |
| October 7 | John Riegsecker, University of Puget Sound | A Mathematical Journey: From de Bruijn Sequences to DNA Sequences |
| October 23 | Jeff Stuart, Pacific Lutheran University | Tournament Matrices: Separating the winners from the losers! |
| November 6 | Constance Reid | E. T. Bell and the University of Washington |
| November 7 | Constance Reid | The Pulitzer Prize Play PROOF - in Real Life |
| January 29 | Marc Olson, Microsoft Corporation | Building Software for 300 Million People: Creating Microsoft Office |
| April 2 | Michael Casey, University of Puget Sound | Probability Density Estimation: Statistics, Optimization and Wavelets |
| April 9 | Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College | Four Kinds of Graph (and Map) Coloring |
| April 30 | Tom Schauer, Trust Consulting & Compliance | "Last Month We Stole Millions of Dollars Worth of Information, Then We Gave It Back!" |
| 2001-02 | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 25 | David Scott, University of Puget Sound | A Mathematician in Industry |
| October 30 | Kerrie Paige, NovaSim | Simulating Business Success |
| November 13 | Tom Judson, University of Puget Sound | The Tacoma Narrows Bridge |
| February 19 | David R. Ferguson, Boeing Company | The Use of Splines and B-Splines in
Industry: An Introduction |
| March 12 | Staurt Boersma, Central Washington University | A Mathematician's Look At Foucault's Pendulum |
| April 2 | Steven Murray, Frank Russell Company | Stochastic Programming |
| April 30 | Bruce Lind, University of Puget Sound | Niels Henrik Abel: The Man, His Times and (some of) His Mathematics |
| 2000-01 | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 19 | Bob O'Malley, University of Washington | How to Renormalize Your Way Past Divergence |
| October 2 | David Neel, Truman State University | Matroids and the Idea of Independence |
| November 14 | Jeremy Gulley, Microsoft Corporation | Developing Worldwide Software |
| December 4 | Bob Matthews, University of Puget Sound | A Child of Lorainne, The Early Childhood of Henri Poincare |
| February 5 | Tony de Sam Lazaro, St. Martins College | Handling Imprecision in Data |
| March 26 | Don Lutz, San Diego State University | How are Difference Equations Different? |
| 1999-2000 | ||
|---|---|---|
| March 27 | Zelda Zabinsky, University of Washington | Stochastic Methods for Practical Global Optimization |
| April 10 | Nancy Neudauer, Pacific Lutheran University | Transversal Presentations of the Bicircular Matroid of a Graph |
| April 17 | Stephen Keeler, Boeing Company | Getting Math Off the Ground |
| May 2 | Rob Beezer, University of Puget Sound | Uniquely Four-Colorable Planar Graphs |
Last Updated: February 3, 2009
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