Colloquia are held on selected Mondays throughout the term starting at 3:45 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, also in Roop 103. Students, faculty, staff, and the mathematical public are all cordially invited to attend. Colloquia, titles, and abstracts are updated throughout the semester as details become available.

Date Speaker Home Institution Title (with link to abstract and bio) Wed Jan 28 Len Van Wyk James Madison An Exploration of the Musical Pitch Class Group Feb 2 Minah Oh James Madison Finite Element Methods and Applications Feb 9 Mike Lam James Madison JMU alumnus Automated Floating-Point Program Analysis Feb 16 3:00 Andrew Dorsett Wolfram Wolfram Technologies for Teaching and Research Feb 16 Jeff Breeding Fordham Explicitly Computing Spaces of Paramodular Forms Feb 23 Eva Goedhart Bryn Mawr JMU alumna Minding My p's and q's: Using Continued Fractions to Solve a Diophantine Equation Mar 2 Luis Melara Shippensburg Optimization and Some Applications Mar 2 7 PM Burruss 31 Luis Melara Shippensburg An Introduction to Math Biology: From College Algebra to Differential Equations Mar 16 Room 404 Madison Union Carl Lee University of Kentucky visiting scholar The Place of Mathematics and the Mathematics of Place Tues Mar 17 Carl Lee University of Kentucky visiting scholar Counting Faces of Polytopes Mar 23 Xu Zhang Purdue Recent Progress on Immersed Finite Element Methods for Interface Problems Mar 30 Elizabeth Brown James Madison Bibliophilia! Summer Reading Send-Off! Apr 6 Rex Ford George Mason JMU alumnus Applying the Parker-Sochacki Method to Space Weather Physics Apr 13 Matthias Beck San Francisco State Parking Functions and Friends Apr 20 Marisa Draper Nick Granered Cassie Hartley Christophe Langouet Katelyn Thomas James Madison current students Student Research Presentations Apr 27 Will Traves US Naval Academy Motivating Intersection Theory with Counting Problems Tues Apr 28 Charles Wolgemuth University of Arizona When Leaders Don't Lead: Insights into Wound Healing and Cancer Metastasis from Mathematical Modeling

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