MC2 Schedule, Fall 2000

The following talks have been approved for MC2 credit (Math Colloquium Credit). We will add talks to this list as they become scheduled, but this is the basic schedule for this quarter.

WEEK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Week 1
Sept 18-Sept 22		         Robert Osserman
Stanford University
"The Shape of the Universe"
3:14 pm at ALBION COLLEGE
Week 2
Sept 25 - Sept 29 		    Ed Aboufadel
Grand Valley State University
"Discovering Wavelets"
4:10 pm		   Robert Rogers
SUNY at Fredonia
"Calculus Before Calculus"
4pm at WMU
Week 3
Oct 2-Oct 6 		          John Petro
Western Michigan University
"The Intriguing Sierpinski Triangle"
4pm at WMU
Week 4
Oct 9-Oct 13 		        Stephen Eick
Visual Insights Corporation
``Understanding Website Activity''
4:10pm
Week 5
Oct 16-Oct 20 		         
Week 6
Oct 23-Oct 27 		    Jonathan Hodge
Western Michigan University
"Trouble in Democracy:
The Separability Problem
in Referendum Elections"
4:10pm		   Keith Devlin
St. Mary's College (CA)
"How Mathematical Ability
Evolved
4pm at WMU (1104 Rood Hall)
Week 7
Oct 30-Nov 3 		William Barker
Bowdoin College
``From Euclid to Einstein''
4:10 pm		   Nathan Anderson
``Mathematics at Work:
The Life of an Actuary''
4:10 pm		    
Week 8
Nov 6-Nov 10 		    Myron Ginsberg
``Increasing the Half-Life
of a Computer Scientist''
4:10 pm		 Myron Ginsberg
``The Status of High-Performance
Computing in the World
Automotive Industry''
4 pm at WMU 		Kristen Moore
University of Michigan
``The Collapse of the
Tacoma Narrows Bridge:
Modeling Motion in a
Nonlinearly Suspended Beam''
4pm at WMU
Week 9
Nov 13-Nov 17 		    Douglas Shier
Clemson University
``Some Gems of Linear Algebra''
4:10 pm		    
Week 10
Nov 20-Nov 24		          

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