Schedule, Fall 2001

The talks which appear with a BLUE background have been approved as MC2 (Math Colloquium Credit) talks.

NOTE: This is a change - not all talks on this list are MC 2

WEEK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Week 1
Sept 24-Sept 28		     Thomas Banchoff
Brown University
``Beyond the Third Dimension''
4:10 pm 		  Dan Isaksen
University of
Notre Dame
"How to Kick a Field Goal"
4:10 pm at WMU
Week 2
Oct 1 - Oct 5 		      H. Bauschke
University of Guelph
``The Mathematics of JPEG'' 4:10pm at WMU 		 
Week 3
Oct 8 - Oct 12 		    David Rader
Rose-Hulman Institute
of Technology
``Optimal Cell Flipping
to Minimize Channel Density
in VSLI Design''
4:10 pm		 Sidney Nagel
University of Chicago
"Breaking Away: Selected Withdrawal
and Islets in the Stream"
11 am in OU 207
AND "Physics at the Breakfast Table"
8pm in 226 Dow		 M. Shillor
Oakland University
"Thermostats, Suspensions and
Noisy Brakes"
4:10 pm at WMU
Week 4
Oct 15 - Oct 19 		      Amy Courter
Valassis Corporation
"Solving Business Opportunites
Through Technology"
4:10-5pm		  
Week 5
Oct 22 - Oct 26 		        David Ross
Eastman Kodak and
Rochester Institute of Technology
"Mathemaics in Photography"
4:10 pm (1104 Rood Hall)
Week 6
Oct 29 - Nov 2 		    Ta-Pei Cheng
University of Missouri-St. Louis
"The Accelerating Universe"
4:10 pm 		  Triple Helix (a Piano Trio), Wellsley College
"Math and Music:
Intersecting Lines of Thought
a lecture-recital
2pm at WMU
(Lee Honors College Lounge)
AND
Michael Kinyon
Western Michigan University
"How to Add Vectors"
4:10 pm at WMU
Week 7
Nov 5 - Nov 9 		    Daniel Dugger
Purdue University
"Cycles, Homologies, and Intersections"
4:10 pm		   Michael Raines
Western Michigan University
"Graph Decompositions and Algebraic
Representations"
4:10 pm at WMU
Week 8
Nov 12 - Nov 16 		      Stephen Ahearn
DePauw University
"Baseballs, Doughnuts and Frogs:
An Introduction to Combinatorial Topology"
4:10 pm		  
Week 9
Nov 19 - Nov 23 		         
Week 10
Nov 26 - Nov 30		     Tamara and David Olson
Michigan Tech University
Title: TBA
4:10 pm		    

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