Colloquia are held on selected Mondays throughout the term starting at 3:50 PM in Roop 103 (unless otherwise noted). Talks generally last about 50 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions at the end. Refreshments will be served beginning at 3:30 PM, also in Roop 103. Students, faculty, staff, and the mathematical public are all cordially invited to attend. Speakers, titles, and abstracts are updated throughout the semester as details become available.

Date Speaker Home Institution Title (with link to abstract and bio) Sep 3 Laura Taalman James Madison University 3D Printing for Math Geeks Sep 10 Dave Pruett James Madison University Emeritus Some of the Uses of Temporal Filtering for Fluid-Flow Simulations Sep 17 Roger Thelwell James Madison University How I Spent My Educational Leave Sep 24 Liz Arnold James Madison University Connecting Advanced Undergraduate Mathematics to School Mathematics Oct 1 David Duncan James Madison University Triangles and Princesses and Bears! Oh my! Oct 8 Neal Bushaw Virginia Commonwealth University Bootstrap Percolation in the Plane Oct 15 Zareen Rahman James Madison University College of Education Adjunct Instructors’ Opportunities for Learning When Implementing a Research-Based Mathematics Curriculum Oct 22 John Bowers James Madison University Computer Science What Do Circles on the Sphere, Polyhedra, and Space-Time Have to Do with One Another? Oct 29 Rebecca Field James Madison University Introduction to Group Cohomology and the Surprise Appearance of ZFC Nov 5 Yasmeen Shorish James Madison University JMU Libraries The Human Side of Data Science (Slides from the talk) Dec 3 Jenna Guenther Alexander McAllister Morgan Wolf James Madison University Current Students Student Research Presentations

Colloquia Schedules from Previous Terms

Pictures from Student Colloquia