MC^2 Schedule, Fall 1999

The following talks have been approved for MC^2 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 20-Sept 24		        
Week 2
Sept 27 - Oct 1 		        Walter Turner
Western Michigan University
"Magic Squares"
4:10-5 pm at WMU
Week 3
Oct 4-Oct 8 		    John Fink
Kalamazoo College
"How Likely is it that
AB=BA?"
4:10-5 pm		   Ed Moylan
Ford Motor Company
"Mathematical Mindsets
and Toolsets"
4-5pm at WMU
Week 4
Oct 12-Oct 15 		      Arthur White
Western Michigan University
"Modelling Finite Geometries
on Surfaces"
4:10 - 5 pm at WMU 		Thomas Hales
U of Michigan
"The Kepler Conjecture"
4-5 pm at WMU
Week 5
Oct 18-Oct 22 		    Mary Porter
Saint Mary's College
"What Kinds of 'Proofs'
do Math Majors
Find Convincing?"
4:10-5pm		 James Serrin
University of Minnesota
"What do Tornadoes
Look Like?"
4:10-5 pm at WMU 		 
Week 6
Oct 25-Oct 29 		         
Week 7
Nov 1-Nov 5 		    Ed Packel
Lake Forest College
"Symbolic Dynamics:
A Mathematica(l) Window
to Chaos"
4:10-5 pm		   Frank Morgan
Williams College
"The Soap Bubble Geometry
Contest: Questions, Answers,
Demonstrations and Prizes"
4-5 pm at WMU
Week 8
Nov 8-Nov 12 		         
Week 9
Nov 15-Nov 19 		      Kenneth Pothoven
University of South Florida
"The Interesting Dynamics
of a Simple Model"
4-5pm at WMU 		Mark Crawford and Oscar Neal
(students) from WMU
"Using the Right Directions
to Find Trees, Stars,
and Other Interesting Objects"
4-5 pm at WMU
Week 10
Nov 22-Nov 26