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) Sep 1 Edwin O'Shea James Madison Divisibility Tests Unified Sep 8 Jim Sochacki James Madison Are Fibonacci Numbers in Everything? Sep 15 Steve Lucas James Madison Numerically Evaluating Oscillating Infinite Integrals, and a Failed (of Course) Approach to the Riemann Hypothesis Sep 22 Hamid Semiyari James Madison Modified Picard Iteration Applied to Boundary Value Problems Sep 29 Carl Droms James Madison Continued Fractions Thurs Oct 2 James Sellers Penn State Numerous Results Related to m-ary Partitions Thurs Oct 2 6:45 Burruss 238 James Sellers Penn State Cool Results Involving Fibonacci Numbers and Compositions Pi Mu Epsilon Colloquium Oct 13 Hala A. H. Shehadeh James Madison Inverse Scattering, Imaging, and a Hybrid-Bremmer Series Approach Oct 20 Daniel Mintz Pedago Mathematics for History's Sake: A New Approach to Ptolemy's Geography Fri Oct 31 Math Ed Candidate -- Prospective Teachers' Experiences of an Inquiry-Oriented Mathematics for Elementary Teachers Course Thurs Nov 6 Math Ed Candidate -- Factors That Support and Constrain Mathematics Teachers Continuing Lesson Study After Infusion of External Resources Nov 10 Vijay Sookdeo Catholic University of America Integral Point in Orbit of Rational Functions Nov 17 Elizabeth Brown James Madison Set Theory in the Real World Wed Nov 19 Carla Martin NSA A Brief History of Cryptography and Careers at NSA Presented by the AWM Student Chapter Dec 1 Roger Thelwell James Madison Power Series and Nonlinear Differential Equations

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