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. 13 Dr. G. Edgar Parker JMU Some Unsettled Questions in the Theory of Polynomial Projection Sept. 21 Tues. Sean Droms University of Virginia How to Build a Manifold Sept. 27  Dr. Louis Gross University of Tennessee - Knoxville Space and Control in Natural Systems Oct. 4 Dr. Roger Thelwell JMU Ancient Greece: Odyssey of Discovery Oct. 11 Dr. Rebecca Field JMU Everything is Spheres! Oct. 18 Dr. Minah Oh JMU Commuting Smoothed Projectors in Weighted Spaces Oct. 23 Sat. Ravi Ramakrishna and Cliff Stoll Cornell University and Acme Klein Bottle Co. Invited talks at the SUMS Conference Nov. 1 Dr. Nusrat Jahan JMU A Modified Approach in Statistical Significance for Genome-Wide Studies Nov. 8 Dr. David Neel Seattle University Borges, Novels and Maths, Oh My! Nov. 15 Nov. 29 Dr. Gerald Buetow BFRC Services, LLC Real Applications of Quantitative Finance Dec. 6

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