Spring 2002 Brown Bag Seminar Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

Friday, January 18 Organizational Meeting (for students enrolled in Math 394)
Friday, January 25 Phil Gustafson, Mesa State College Bar Codes Decoded
Friday, February 1 Bill Tucker, HP GreeleyLessons in Operations Research: Examples of Multivariate Statistical Process Control
Friday, February 8 John McConnell, GJ Math & Science ExploratoriumTeaching Geometry and Shapes with Straws, Paper Clips and Bubbles
Friday, February 15 Ryan Lee, 3D SystemsUsing Stereolithography in the Manufacturing Process
Friday, February 22 Kim Schneider, Math FacultyThe Parallel Postulate
Friday, March 1 Charles Meyer, CDOTYou've Got to Find the Math
Friday, March 8 Cathy Bonan-Hamada, Math FacultyAn Introduction to Continued Fractions
Friday, March 15 Karl Castleton, CS FacultyThe Use of Computer Models in Decision Making
Friday, March 22 Spring Break
Friday, March 29 Dr. Duane Hrncir, NSM DeanChemical Applications of Group Theory
Friday, April 5 Don Metzler, U.S. Department of Energy - Program ManagerDealing with Contaminated Groundwater: Legacy of the Cold War
Friday, April 12 Becky Watt, StudentThe Cognition of Mathematics: An Analysis of Where Mathematics Comes From.
Friday, April 19 John Nelson

Duncan Thompson

Affine Linear Algebra

The Euler Characteristic for an n-complex

Monday, April 22Ron Mikluscak

Josh Ingerling

Topological Manifolds

A Stereoscopic Experiment

Friday, April 26David Crosman

Jeff Fowler

Investigations into Braess's Traffic Paradox

The Mandelbrot Set

Friday, May 3 Abigail Fleming

Melissa Malcom

Benford's Law : A Significant Digit Phenomena

Jordan Canonical Form

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