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Spring 2003 Math Coffee Schedule
(click on an image at the left to view the Math Coffee announcement)
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January 23
CANCELLED
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Adam Dickey & Elizabeth Perez, Wake Forest University
A Liberal Arts Approach to Mathematical Modeling
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January 30
4--5 p.m.
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Come hear one of the candidates for our mathematics faculty position talk on
A Problem from the Game SET(TM)
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February 3
4--5 p.m.
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Come hear one of the candidates for our mathematics faculty position.
Improving on your Mistakes: solving linear equations iteratively
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February 5
4--5 p.m.
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Come hear one of the candidates for our mathematics faculty position.
Polynomials and Primes
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February 20
8--9 p.m.
Chambers 125
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Joe Rusinko, DC'01, University of Georgia
Want to Earn a Million Dollars?
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March 20
4--5 p.m.
Chambers 125
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Rob McLean, DC'03
Paths that Turn at a Constant Rate: Special Curves in the Hyperbolic Plane
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March 26
7--8 p.m.
Chambers 125
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Parul Karnik, DC'04, & Gregg Wallace, DC'05,
Brainwash: Automated Treatment Planning for Sterotactic Radiosurgery
Josh Layfield, DC'05, Alex Sibley, DC'04, & Katie Winter, DC'05
The Dumbo Jump: Cost Effective Protection for a Motorcycle Stuntman
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April 3
4--5 p.m.
Chambers 337
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April is Mathematics Awareness Month.
Professors Rich Neidinger and Donna Molinek lead us in an
exploration with this year's theme,
Mathematics and Art
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April 10
8--9 p.m.
Chambers 125
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John Harris, Furman University
Radio Colorings of Graphs
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April 17
4--5 p.m.
Chambers 125
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Ashley Alderman, DC'03, & Cindy Moore, DC'03,
Twizlers, Donuts, and Sunday Night TV
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May 1
4--5 p.m.
Chambers 125
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MAT 118 Poster Session:
Exploring Mathematical Ideas
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Fall 2002 Math Coffee Schedule
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August 29
4--5:30 p.m.
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Andy Schultz, DC'02
Oragami Workshop
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September 5
4--5 p.m.
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Dr. Helen Moore, Stanford University and the AIM Research Conference Center
Using Mathematics to Improve Medical Treatments
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September 12
4:30--5:30 p.m.
Dana 146
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Simon Tavaré, the University of Southern California
Primates and Dinosaurs, Statistical Inference from the Fossil Record
Refreshments at 4 p.m.
Jointly sponsored by the Biology and Mathematics Departments.
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September 19
7--8 p.m.
Chambers 125
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Rob McClean, DC'03
Crayola, Epidemiology, and Retarded Equations
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September 26
at
Furman University
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Field trip to hear
Furman University Clanton Lecturer
Prof. Frank Morgan of Williams College talk on The Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture
and The Soap Bubble Geometry Contest
at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., respectively, on Thursday, September 26,
on the campus of Furman University.
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September 30
8 p.m.
Smith 900 Room
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2002 Bernard Lecturer,
Professor Underwood Dudley,
DePauw University.
Why Teach Mathematics?
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October 3
7--8 p.m.
Sprinkle Room
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Maryann Loman, DC'01, Koren Cranford, DC'91, & Eric Hill of William M. Mercer
Careers in Actuarial Science
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October 10
7--8 p.m.
Chambers 125
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Professor Emeritus J.B. Stroud
Barnaby and the Purple Heptagon
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October 17
4--5 p.m.
Chambers 337
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Professor Rich Neidinger
DPGraph---3D Graphing Software
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October 24
4--5 p.m.
Sprinkle Room
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Sarah J Greenwald*, Appalachian State University, and
Andrew Nestler, Santa Monica College
The Simpsons Rule: Mathematical Morsels from "The Simpsons"
The Sprinkle Room is located on the fourth floor of the Alvarez College Union.
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October 30
11 a.m.--2 p.m.
Union Atrium
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There's no Math Coffee this week, but visit our table at the
Majors, Minors, and Concentrations Fair
Organized by your Davidson College Career's Office.
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November 7
4--5 p.m.
Chambers 125
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Professor Donna Molinek
The n-number Ducci game
(or how to have fun at a math talk you don't understand)
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November 14
4--5 p.m.
Chambers 125
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John Baxley, Wake Forest University
What's the Value of the Mean Value Theorem?
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November 21
4--5 p.m.
Chambers 125
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Adam Abele, DC'03, Brian Akin, DC'04,
Danielle Choi, DC'04, Parul Karnik, DC'04, David Moskowitz, DC'03
The Magical World of Microarray Data Analysis
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