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Department Chairperson
Jeff Boersema, PhD
ENGR 400A
(206) 296-5929
boersema@seattleu.edu

Administrative Assistant
Lisa Berman
BANN 412
(206) 296-5930
bermanl@seattleu.edu

Department Webmaster
dsylvest@seattleu.edu

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Undergraduate Colloquium

Fall Quarter 2009

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	Location
October 14, 3:30 PM	Dr. Dylan Helliwell	Spherical Geometry and Archimedean Dice	BANN 402
October 22, 3:30 PM	Dr. McLean Sloughter	Probcase: Visualizing and Understanding Uncertainty in Weather Forcasts	BANN 202
November 5, 3:30 PM	Dr. Peter Littig	Postponed due to illness, will reschedule	TBA
November 13, 3:30 PM	Jeremy Dashiell	Mathematics and Music	BANN 403
November 18, 3:30 PM	Dr. Allison Henrich	DNA knots and games	BANN 202

Spring Quarter 2009

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	Location
April 21, 2:00 pm	Wilhelmina Chik, David Prigge, and Natalie Sheils	Mathematical Contest in Modeling: Energy and the Cell Phone	BANN 202
May 5, 1:30 pm	Libby Graff and Marc Parrish	Classifying Non-divisor Graphs, Schwarz Christoffel Transformations	BANN 401
May 12, 1:30 pm	Wilhelmina Chik	Stability of Plane-Wave Solutions to the VMDNLS	BANN 401
May 15, 2:30 pm	Dr. Ravi Agarwal	Singular Boundary Value Problems with Real World Applications.	BANN 401
May 19, 1:30 pm	Meghan Shortell and Becca Butler	Tupperware and Other Forms of Containment: Women's (Under)Representation in Mathematics, Fourier Analysis and Sound	BANN 401
May 21, 1:30 pm	Edgar Lobaton	Occlusions in Camera Networks: The Bridge between Topological Recovery and Metric Reconstruction	BANN 301
May 26, 1:30 pm	Nichole Brown and Ben Small	Transmission Eigenvalues in One Spatial Dimension, On Newman's Conjecture and Prime Trees	BANN 401
June 2, 1:30 pm	Kellie-Dee Manatad	2 17 24 15 19 14 6 17 0 15 7 24 3 4 2 17 24 15 19 4 3 A Brief Overview and The Mathematics Behind this Secret Code	BANN 401

Winter Quarter 2009

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	Location
Jan. 26, 3:00 pm	Ursula Whitcher	Reflexive Polytopes and Mirror Symmetry	BANN 202
Jan. 30, 3:00 pm	Dr. Hannah Robbins	Symmetries of the square and invariant polynomials	BANN 403
Feb. 6, 3:00 pm	Dr. Allison Henrich	What does it mean to be virtually knotty?	BANN 402
Feb. 9, 3:00 pm	Alicia Johnson	When All Else Fails...Simulate Some Data	BANN 402
Feb. 11, 3:30 pm	Dr. Domonic Klyve	Twin Primes	BANN 402
Feb. 17: 3:00 pm	Sandrah Eckel	Statistical methods to investigate the health effects of air pollution in older adults	BANN 401
Mar. 3: 3:00 pm	J. Mclean Sloughter	Probcast: Creating and Communicating Probabilistic Weather Forecasts	BANN 401

Fall Quarter 2008

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	Location
Nov. 6, 3:00pm	Dr. Leanne Roberson	Cyclotomic Integers and Fermat's Last Theorem	BANN 201
Nov. 20, 3:00pm	Dr. Jeff DiFranco	Random Matrices, Mexican Busses, and Increasing Subsequences	BANN 201
Dec. 4, 3:00pm	Dr. Dylan Helliwell	Geometric Flows Based on Curvature	TBA

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