Colloquium Fest 2016

The 2016 Math/Stat Colloquium Fest will be on Monday January 25, from 9am – 3pm in Bonfman 103-106.

Twenty-four Mathematics seniors give colloquium talks in four parallel sessions, with a pizza lunch break.

Please see below the full schedule, followed by the title of the talks (with the names of the speakers in alphabetical order). Meanwhile listen to Alex Kling comment on YouTube.

Bronfman 105
9-9:40 Radford
9:45-10:25 Timilsina
10:30-11:10 Savery
11:15 – 11:55 Mishkin
1:30-2:10 Moon
2:15-2:55 Finnie

Bronfman 106
9-9:40 Rahman
9:45-10:25 Wu
10:30-11:10 Stone
11:15 – 11:55 Jester
1:30-2:10 Chyou
2:15-2:55 Elgart

Bronfman 103
9:45-10:25 Flick
10:30-11:10 Siedem
11:15 – 11:55 Worthington
1:30-2:10 Raventos
2:15-2:55 Kling

Bronfman 104
9:45-10:25 Pino
10:30-11:10 Harlan
11:15 – 11:55 Potter
1:30-2:10 Berg
2:15-2:55 Goldstein

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Emily Berg
Mathematical Modeling of Consumer Behavior
1:30 – 2:10 pm
Bronfman 104

Kang-Yee Chyou
Strategy in Games
1:30 – 2:10 pm
Bronfman 106

Max Elgart
Fractals and The Contraction Mapping Theorem
2:15 – 2:55 pm
Bronfman 106

Gordon Finnie
The Uniqueness of Neural Networks
2:15 – 2:55 pm
Bronfman 105

Alexander Flick
The abc Conjecture
9:45 – 10:25 am
Bronfman 103

Eli Goldstein
The Kakutani Fixed Point Theorem and its Applications to Economic Theory
2:15 – 2:55 pm
Bronfman 104

Merritt Harlan
Modeling the Resiliency of Caribbean Coral Reefs
10:30 – 11:10 am
Bronfman 104

Logan Jester
Markov’s Monkeys
11:15 – 11:55 am
Bronfman 106

Alexander Kling
The log(2)/log(3) Dimension
2:15 – 2:55 pm
Bronfman 103

Pamela Mishkin
Elections on Graphs
11:15 – 11:55 am
Bronfman 105

David Moon
Circle Packing: From Cookie Cutting to Complex Analysis
1:30 – 2:10 pm
Bronfman 105

Priscilla Pino
Coexistence of Different Serotypes of Dengue Virus
9:45 – 10:25 am
Bronfman 104

Daniel Potter
The Mathematics of Change Ringing
11:15 – 11:55 am
Bronfman 104

Matthew Radford
Theory and Practice Behind Orthogonal Series Density Estimation
9-9:40 am
Bronfman 105

Shadman Rahman
The Old Japanese Theorem
9-9:40 am
Bronfman 106

Jose Raventos
Hamiltonian Graphs, Dirac’s Theorem and Applications
1:30 – 2:10 pm
Bronfman 103

Alexis Savery
Tetris is Hard
10:30 – 11:10 am
Bronfman 105

Amanda Siedem
Matching Medical School Graduates to Residency Programs: Can We Make Everyone Happy?
10:30 – 11:10 am
Bronfman 103

Michael Stone
Rating and Ranking With Incomplete Information
10:30 – 11:10 am
Bronfman 106

Diwas Timilsina
Gomory-Hu Trees and Their Applications
9:45 – 10:25 am
Bronfman 105

Francis Worthington
The First Sylow Theorem
11:15 – 11:55 am
Bronfman 103

Sarah Wu
Want to Spice Up Your Life? Why Not With Calculus…of Variations!
9:45 – 10:25 am
Bronfman 106