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Events
Departmental events and seminar series

Unless otherwise noted, seminars start at 11:35 with refreshments at 11:30.  Go here for abstracts and fliers for these talks.

Spring 2012


When: Thursday, March 8
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Dieter Grass, Vienna University of Technology
Topics:"Optimal Control Models as Applied to Fisheries"


Fall 2011


When: Tuesday, September 6
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Professor Simon Smith, Syracuse University
Topic: "Truth and Mathematics"


When: Friday, September 23
Location: 101 Ho
Summer Research Symposium


When: Thursday, September 29, 11:15
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe, Binghamton University
Topic: "Cantor's Diagonalization Revisited"
Topic for 4pm: "Is there Life after Majoring in Math?"


When: October 18, 11:30-12:30
Location: 27 Persson Hall
Guest Speaker: Amy Finkbiner, SI Organization, Inc.
Topic: "Truth and Mathematics"


When: November 1, 11:30-12:30
Location: 209 Lathrop Hall
Guest Speaker: Dan Schult, Colgate University
Topic: "Stability, Pattern Formation and Synchronization"


When: November 8, 11:30-12:30
Location: 105 Lawrence Hall
Guest Speaker: Allen Mann, Colgate University
Topic: "The Sleeping Beauty Problem"


Spring 2011


When: Tuesday, February 8
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Ben Steinhurst, Cornell University
Topic: "Calculus on fractals"


When: Tuesday, February 22
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Saziye Bayram, Buffalo State College
Topic: "Mathematical Models of Renal Physiology"


When: Friday, March 4, 2:30-3:30
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Brandt Kronholm, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Topic: "Integer Partitions"


When: Tuesday, March 29
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Tom Dinitz '11, Colgate University
Topic: "Topological Graph Theory"


When: Tuesday, April 12
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Wilcox, Colgate University
Topic: "Non-euclidean Geometry"


Fall 2010

When: Tuesday, September 21
Location: 311 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Professor Thomas Tucker, Colgate University
Topic: "Seeing Surface Symmetry"


When: Tuesday, October 5
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Shujing Wang `12, Colgate University
Topic: "A Mathematical Model for Antibiotic-Resistant Nosocomial Infections with the Application of Optimal Control Theory"


When: Tuesday, October 26
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Quincey Loney, SUNY Binghamton
Topic: "The Octonions:..."


When: Tuesday, November 2
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Professor Evelyn Hart, Colgate University
Topic: "Teaching Calculus"


When: Tuesday, November 9
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Professor Joaquin Rivera, Tom Dinitz `11, David Fuentes `11, Colgate University
Topic: "Summer REU options"


When: Tuesday, November 16
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Professor Ken Valente, Colgate University
Topic: "Historical Perspectives of Mathematics"


When: Tuesday, November 30
Location: 204 McGregory
Guest Speaker: Camil Mascalu, Cornell University
Topic: TBA


Ongoing Events

* William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition and preparation
* COMAP Mathematical Modeling Competition
* Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (See photos from previous years or click here for more information.)