Contact

Department Chairperson

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

Administrative Assistant

Margie Trenary
BANN 415
(206) 296-5930
trenarym@seattleu.edu  

Department fax: (206) 296-5932

Department Webmaster  

dsylvest@seattleu.edu

Undergraduate Colloquium

Spring Quarter 2013

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
April 4	Jack Lee	The Curvature of the Universe	BANN 402, at 3:30PM
April 11		No talk scheduled this week
April 18	Natalie Sheils	Solving Partial Differential Equations Using Fokas's Method	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
April 25	Tom Boothby	Connecting Topological Graph Theory and Computational Biology	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
May 2	Leanne Robertson	TBA	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
May 9	Jeff Boersema	Almost Commuting Matrices	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
May 16	Senior Students	Senior Synthesis Talks	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
May 23	Senior Students	Senior Synthesis Talks	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
May 30	Senior Students	Senior Synthesis Talks	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM

For more information about Spring Quarter 2013 talks, please click here.

Winter Quarter 2013

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
January 16	Dwight Bean	The (3, 5, 7) Triangle is Ramsey in E2	BANN 501, at 3:30PM
January 24	Steven Klee	Perfect Matchings and Hall’s Marriage Theorem (how I learned to solve my favorite problem from this year’s Putnam Exam!)	BANN 402,  at 3:30 PM
January 31	Nema Dean	A Simple Clustering Problem (and how many ways it got complicated)	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
February 7	McLean Sloughter	Modeling Beetle-Caused Forest Mortality	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
February 14	David Neel	Being a Number (and what it has to do with Love)	BANN 402, 3:30 PM
February 21	SU Students	The MCM Competition	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
February 28	Allison Henrich	What is a pseudoknot?	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
March 7	John Carter	Modeling Surface Waves in the Ocean	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM
March 14	SU Faculty and Students	Applying to Graduate School	BANN 402, at 3:30 PM

For more information about Winter Quarter 2013 talks, please click here.

Spring Quarter 2012

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
April 17	Kia Braha, Aaron Klingensmith, and Everett Sullivan	The Search for Strategy – Games on Knots and Braids
April 24	Patrick Trainor and Erica Yoshimoto	Modelling Tree Mortality Caused by Pine Beetles and Modelling Small Water Waves
May 1	Everett Sullivan, Emily Frost, and Brian Feist	The Three Point Ellipse, Some New Taxicab Conics, and Impossible! Or Are They?  Euclidean Problems and Modern Solutions
May 8	Mathew Lane, Anjouli Burke, and Juston Laxton	A Mathematical Analysis of The Coase Theorem, Using Ordinal Logistic Regression to Model Accident Severity, and The Black and Scholes Partial Differential Equation for Modelling Derivatives Contracts
May 15	Colin Buley, Peter Sullivan, and Allie O'Brien	Exploring Mathematical Models of Monopoly, An Introduction to Game Theory, and Sabermetrics:  Using math to maximize and predict baseball performance
May 22	Casey Johnson and Lindsey Chen, and Hannah Bancroft	Inequalities on Differential Forms and Understanding Measles Immunization Rates Using the Chi-Squared Test
May 29	Renee Russell, Derrik Hanson, and Jordan Maier	Cyclotomic Fields, Rings of Integers, and Bremner's Conjecture,  Simulating Evolution of Tyto Alba Auditory Processing Using Bayesian Natural Selection, and Analytical Modeling of an Axial Flux Generator

Winter Quarter 2012

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
January 27	Seth Meyers	Graphs Matrices, and Perfect Matchings, or How to optimally distribute Halloween candy to picky kids
January 30	Steven Klee	An Introduction to Matroids
February 9	Katie Oliveras	Measuring Waves
February 10	Cassie Williams	How Elliptic Curves Can Keep Secrets and Prove Theorems
February 13	Eric Bahuaud	Soap Bubbles, a $1,000,000 Prize, and Differential Equations
February 17	Stefanos Folias	Bifurcations of Equilibrium Solutions:  from ODE's to Neural Field Equations

Fall Quarter 2011

Spring Quarter 2011

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	Location
May 17, 1:30 PM	Alex Hwong & Anja Tjaden	The Coloring Problem, A Statistical Analysis of Maternal Mortality in Latin America and Vicinity	BANN 401
May 24, 1:30 PM	Cullen Tanoue & Amber O'Connell	Group Theory and Molecular Symmetry, Carmichael Numbers	BANN 401
May 31, 1:30 PM	Michelle Nuzman & Kristina McComick	Transmission Eigenvalues and A Survey of the Differential Geometry of Curves	BANN 401

Winter Quarter 2011

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	Location
February 3, 2:30 pm	Mark Dennis	Knotted Optical Fields	BANN 301
February 11, 3:45 pm	Haley Hedlin	Statistical Methods for Estimating Temporal Associations from Electrographic Data	BANN 401
February 14, 3:45 pm	Dr. Gail Potter	Estimating Social Contact Networks to Improve Influenza Simulation Models	BANN 201
February 17, 3:45 pm	Dr. Brian Fischer	Using Mathematical Models to Understand the Brain	BANN 402

 Fall Quarter 2010

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	Location
December 2, 2:30 pm	Sooraj Kuttykrishnam	Mathematical Models Applied to Biological Systems	BANN 503

Spring Quarter 2010

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	Location
April 20, 1:30 pm	Allie Dykes and Melanie Dolores	Square Matrices and the Tangent Function, Error Correcting Codes	BANN 401
April 27, 1:30 pm	Hao Nguyen and David Prigge	Higher-Order Three-Way Operator Splitting Techniques, Numerical Analysis of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation with Discontinuous Initial Data	BANN 401
May 4, 1:30 pm	Jason Foster and Max Walker	Random Matrix Theory and Financial Correlation Matrices, The Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Sequence	BANN 401
May 11, 1:30 pm	Bonnie Canion and Andrew Wu	Modeling the Aggregation and Scattering Properties of Soot Particles, Calculus of Variations	BANN 401
May 18, 1:30 pm	Thao Nguyen and Arman Birang	Matching in Bipartite Graphs, Math to Music: Transformational Theory and Other Applied Math	BANN 401
May 25, 1:30 pm	Tymon Silva and Natalie Shiels	The Gaussian Copula Function, Stability of the Soliton Solution of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation	BANN 401
May 26, 1:30 pm	Jennifer Yang and Sam Johnson	Game Theory: A focus on the Nash Equilibrium, Perturbation Theory and Quantum Chemistry	BANN 401

Winter Quarter 2010

Fall Quarter 2009

Spring Quarter 2009

Winter Quarter 2009

Fall Quarter 2008