Colloquia are held on selected Wednesdays throughout the term starting at 3:30 PM in Moody 202 (unless otherwise noted). Talks generally last about 50 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions at the end. 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) Wednesday, Jan. 29th Minah Oh James Madison University - Mathematics and Statistics One Year without Teaching Monday, Feb. 10th Doug Ensley Shippensburg University - Department of Mathematics The MAA Instructional Practices Guide: A Resource for Change Monday, Feb. 24th Akos Nagy Duke University - Department of Mathematics An Advanced Look at 2nd Derivatives: The Birth of Curvature Monday, Mar. 2nd Ilarion Melnikov James Madison University - Department of Physics and Astronomy Some Studies in String Complementarity and Duality Wednesday, Mar. 18th Nawar Shara Medstar Health Research Institute - Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics ANOVA or Articial Intelligence and Machine Learning? Applications in Healthcare Management - Canceled Wednesday, Mar. 25th Sam Rhodes James Madison University - Mathematics and Statistics The Impact of Problem-Solving Discussions on Students' use of Heuristics when Problem Solving - Canceled Wednesday, April 1st Paul Boisen National Security Agency - Mathematics and Data Science Applications of the Singular Value Decomposition - Canceled Wednesday, April 15th Beth Burroughs Montana State University - Department of Mathematical Sciences To Be Determined - Canceled Wednesday, Apr. 22nd Current JMU Students James Madison University - Current Students To Be Determined - Canceled

Colloquia Schedules from Previous Terms