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Math Coffees
Math Coffees are weekly meetings of students and faculty to
hear a local or visiting speaker.
Check here frequently for updates!
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Hunter K. Monroe, DC '84, Senior Economist, IMF
Cancellation and the P versus NP Question
Or How to Win a Million Dollars with Pencil and Paper
3:30 p.m., Friday, April 23,
Chambers 2130
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The talk, accessible to non-majors, will examine
attempts that have been made to answer the unsolved P versus NP problem,
for which there is a prize of one million U.S. dollars from the Clay
Mathematics Institute. An answer to the P versus NP question, which asks
whether it is harder to find a proof than to check it, would have
implications for the intractability of thousands of problems in many
fields, ranging from cryptography (i.e. whether it is safe to give your
credit card on the Internet) to protein folding. The talk, to honor the
retirement of Dr. Richie King, will include a new result on when
cancellation is useful, and some observations on how the P versus NP
question might be answered.
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MAT 118 Poster Session
Exploring Mathematical Ideas
1:30 p.m.--2:30 p.m., Monday, April 26,
Common space outside the Math Offices, 3rd floor, North Chambers
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Explore with the students from Dr. Neidinger's
Mathematics 118 class, Exploring Mathematical Ideas.
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Spring 2004 Math Coffee Schedule
(click on an image at the left to view the Math Coffee announcement)
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February 12
4--5 p.m.
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Prof. Tim Chartier
Mathematical Art: the art of raytracing
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February 19
4--5 p.m.
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Dr. Van Emden Henson, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
A Big Kid's Playground: What Can You Do With Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and Thousands of Processors?
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February 26
4--5 p.m.
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Davidson College Mathematical Modeling Class
A Faster QuickPass System
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March 12
3:30--4:30 p.m.
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Prof. Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Alice in Numberland: Mathematics in the Writings of Lewis Carroll
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March 23
4--5 p.m.
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Prof. Rob Harger, High Point University
A Couple of Problems from Senior Seminar
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April 1
7:30 p.m.
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Joe Rusinko, DC '01 & University of Georgia
A Fool's Search
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April 8
7:30 p.m.
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Grey Wicker, DC '04
Seeing Outside the Trap
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April 18
7:30 p.m.
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Prof. Michael Starbird, University of Texas at Austin
Cutting Cake for Greedy People
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April 23
3:30 p.m.
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Hunter K. Monroe, DC '84, Senior Economist, IMF
Cancellation and the P versus NP Question
Or How to Win a Million Dollars with Pencil and Paper
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April 26
1:30 p.m.
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MAT 118 Students
Exploring Mathematical Ideas Poster Session
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Fall 2003 Math Coffee Schedule
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September 4
4--5 p.m.
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Kristen Nickel, DC '04
Purity, Mathematics, and Budapest (Tisztasag, Matematika, es Budapest)
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September 11
4--5 p.m.
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Alex Sibley, DC '04
Lyapunov Exponent Pictures of Composite Functions
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September 18
4--5 p.m.
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Prof. Larry Ligo, Davidson College Art Department
Gaining Perspective: The Influence of Mathematics and Science in Art
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September 25
4--5 p.m.
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Andy Shultz, DC '01 & Stanford University
Mathematical Evolution: a Tour through Paradox
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October 9
4--5 p.m.
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Prof. Rudy Horne, UNC-Chapel Hill
An Introduction to Optical Fibers: Light Pulse Interactions
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October 16
8 p.m.
Bernard Lecture
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Prof. Edward Scheinerman, Johns Hopkins University
Mathematics Through Games
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October 23
7:30--8:30 p.m.
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Prof. Heyer's MAT 340, Probability, class
Perplexing Probability Problems
A mathodrama in three acts
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October 30
4--5 p.m.
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Prof. Michael Mossinghoff, Davidson College
STOP! Are Regular Octagons Optimal?
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November 6
4--5 p.m.
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Prof. Ron Taylor, Berry College
The Difference Between a Small Infinity and a Big Zero
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November 13
7:30--8:30 p.m.
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Math and Games
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November 20
4:00--5:00 p.m.
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Prof. Eric Marland, Appalachian State University
Estimating Carbon Sequestration
(Jointly sponsored with the Biology Department)
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[Math Coffees for academic year 2002-2003]
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