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. Some of the talks, especially those early in the semester, are given by people interviewing for positions in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. For reasons of confidentiality, their names and institutional affiliations have been suppressed.

Date Speaker Home Institution Title, with link to abstract and bio Jan. 17 Tue. Additive Relationships and Directed Quantities Jan. 19 Thu. Future Teachers' Evaluations of Their Teaching Effectiveness in the Context of Specific Mathematics Jan. 23 3:00-4:00 What Are Homework Journals? And What Makes Them So Special? Jan. 23 4:15-5:15 A Poroelastic, Multiscale Model of Intestinal Edema Jan. 26 Thurs. 3:15-4:15 Generating Functions, Algorithms and the Two-Stamp Problem Jan. 26 Thurs. 4:30-5:30 The Missing Component of Mathematical Proficiency Jan. 30 4:00-5:00 How to Count Abelian Varieties Using Matrix Groups Feb. 6 Velocity Bounds for Soft Filaments in Fluids Feb. 9 Thurs. Modeling the Spread of Waterborne Disease: Incorporating Heterogeneity in Multiple Transmission Pathways Mar. 12 Mar. 19 Mar. 26 4:00-5:00 Dimplekumar Chalishajar VMI Controllability of Semi-Linear Neutral Functional Differential Equations Apr. 2 Dave Pruett JMU On the Shoulders of Giants: Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler Apr. 9 Ed Parker JMU Plus Ca Change; Plus C'est La Meme Chose Apr. 16 Carl Droms JMU TBA Apr. 23 JMU Student Research Presentations

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