Colloquia are held on selected Mondays throughout the term from 3:45-4:45 pm in Roop 103. Refreshments will be served at 3:30, also in 103. Occasional colloquia may be held at other times and/or locations.

Date Speaker Home Institution Title, with link to abstract and bio Sept. 24 Josh Ducey JMU The Amazing Smith Normal Form Sept. 29 Sat. Robert Bryant and Chuck Sonenshein Invited Presentations at SUMS Conference Oct. 8 Michael Dorff Brigham Young University Shortest paths, soap films, and mathematics Oct. 8 7:15pm Michael Dorff Brigham Young University What Can you Do with a Degree in Math? A Pi Mu Epsilon Event Oct. 15 Jim Sochacki JMU Two Mathematical Models for JMU Oct. 22 Sat Gupta Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro Randomized Response Models and Some Optimality Issues Oct. 24 Wed. Andy Norton Virginia Tech The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics Oct. 29 Stephen G. Penny University of Maryland Mathematics of Weather and Climate Forecasting Nov. 5 Robert Brown Mary Washington A Very Quick Look at the Galerkin Method for Poisson's Equation in One Dimension Nov. 12 Tao Lin Virginia Tech Immersed Finite Element Methods for Elasticity Interface Problems Nov. 26 Carolyn Yarnall University of Virginia Group Actions on Spheres: An Introduction to Equivariant Homology Dec. 3

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