September 2003
- 1, Monday, math placement meeting in McConnell Auditorium (103),
8:00 - 8:45 am
- 4, Thursday, first day of classes
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300
colloquium: Jim Henle, "Mathematics is Just a Game", Burton 307
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 8, Monday, special department meeting on staffing, Burton 307, 4:10 pm
- 10, Wednesday, faculty meeting, Alumnae House, 4:10 pm
- 11, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Mike Albertson, "P = NP? : A
Million Dollar Question", Burton 307
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 17, Wednesday, department meeting, Burton 307, 4:10 pm
- 18, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Jim Callahan, "The Four-Vertex
Theorem", Burton 209
3:50 Department tea, Forum
22, Monday, Department seminar: Jim Callahan, "The curl", 4:10
pm, Burton 307
23, Tuesday, Games/Movie night, ("Good Will Hunting") 9:30 pm,
Burton Forum
25, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Mike Albertson, " Symmetry
Breaking in Graphs: How do you tell your keys apart?, Burton 307
3:50 Department tea, Forum
29, Monday, Department seminar: Jim Callahan, "The curl", part
2, 4:10 pm, Burton 307
October 2003
- 2, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Jim Callahan, "Special
relativity: Einstein's first revolution", Burton 209
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 6, Monday, department seminar: Mike Albertson, "The Perfect
Graph Theorem", 4:10 pm, Burton 307
- 8, Wednesday, department meeting, Burton 307, 4:10 pm
- 9, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Jim Callahan, "Geometry of
spacetime: continuing Einstein's revolution", Burton 209
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 13-14, Monday - Tuesday, Autumn Recess
- 16, Thursday
3:30 pm, Tea, Math Forum (third floor, Burton Hall)
4:00 pm, Dickinson Lecture: Joe Buhler, Reed College,
"Unexpected Coin Flips", Seelye 101
6:00 pm, Dinner, Hunan Gourmet
- 20, Monday, department seminar: Pau Atela, "Visualization and
computer graphics in teaching", 4:10 pm, Burton 302
- 22, Wednesday, faculty meeting, Alumnae House, 4:10 pm
- 23, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Marjorie Senechal, "What is that
statue in the lobby?", Burton 209
3:50 Department tea, Forum
5:00 - 6:00 pm Presentation of the mathematics major, Forum,
third floor, Burton Hall, with Chinese dinner
- 25, Saturday, New England Isolated Statisticians, Burton 307,
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
- 27, Monday
4:10 Department seminar, Jim Henle, "Can CH (Continuum Hypothesis)
be settled? Hugh Woodin's attempt", Burton 307
5:00 - 7:00 pm Meeting for Majors and Faculty, with pizza, Math Forum
- 30, Thursday, Otelia Cromwell Day (no afternoon
or evening classes)
November 2003
- 3, Monday, Department seminar, Jim Henle, "Can CH be settled? Hugh
Woodin's attempt, part II", Burton 307, 4:10 pm
- 5, Wednesday, department meeting, Burton 307, 4:10 pm
- 6, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Katherine Halvorsen, "Hormone
Therapy: How could we get it so wrong? Or did we?", Burton 307
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 10-21, (Monday - Friday), two-week advising and course
registration period
- 12, Wednesday, faculty meeting, Alumnae House, 4:10 pm
- 13, Thursday
3:30 - 4:00 Department tea, Forum
4:00 - 5:00 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth
College, "Prime numbers: what we know and what we don't"; Seelye 101
5:30 - 7:00 Dinner
7:30 - 8:30 McCoy Lecture Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth
College, "Recent developments in primality testing"; McConnell 404
- 24, Monday, Department seminar, Mike Albertson,
"Simultaneously coloring vertices and faces in embedded graphs",
Burton 307, 4:05 pm
- 26-28, Wednesday - Friday, Thanksgiving recess
December 2003
- 3, Wednesday, department meeting, Burton 307, 4:10 pm
- 7, Sunday, POSTPONED: Alumnae Panel, Campus Center, Room
104, noon
Participants will include Susan Cole, '86; Marla
Markowski, '91; Marylea Ryan, '02; Holly Tang, '95.
- 11, Thursday, last day of classes
- 17, Wednesday, faculty meeting, Alumnae House, 4:10 pm
- 16-19, Tuesday - Friday, exams
- 20, Saturday, beginning of Winter Recess
January 2004
- 8, Thursday, fall semester grades due
- 26, Monday, Classes begin
- 28, Wednesday, faculty meeting, Alumnae House, 4:10 pm
February 2004
- 2, Monday, Department seminar: Jim Callahan, "When the second
derivative test fails...", 4:10 pm, Burton 307
- 5, Thursday
3:00 Department tea, Forum
4:00 - 4:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Colin Adams, Williams College
7:00 Undergraduate Connecticut Valley Colloquium (UCVC), Colin
Adams, Williams College
- 9, Monday, Department seminar: Jim Callahan, "When the second
derivative test fails...; part 2", 4:10 pm, Burton 307
- 11, Wednesday, department meeting, Burton 307, 4:10 pm
- 12, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Joseph O'Rourke, Computer
Science Department, "A Geometry Theorem on Protein Folding", Burton
307
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 16, Monday, Department seminar, Katherine Halvorsen, "Hands-on
Classroom Activities in Math and Stat," 4:10 pm, Burton 307
- 18, Wednesday, Rally Day, no classes
- 23, Monday, Department seminar: Yoonjin Lee, "Computing
fundamental units of cubic function fields," 4:10 pm, Burton 302
- 24, Tuesday, Game/Movie Night: The film is "Pi".
Food and games, too. 9pm, Burton Forum
- 25, Wednesday, faculty meeting, Alumnae House, 4:10 pm
- 26, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Leanne Robertson, "Three
Diophantine equations", Burton 307
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 29, Sunday, RESCHEDULED: Alumnae
Panel, Campus Center, Room 208, noon
Participants will
include Susan Cole, '86; Marla Markowski, '91; Marylea Ryan, '02;
Elizabeth Stuart, '97; Holly Tang, '95.
March 2004
- 2, Tuesday, Game/Movie Night: The film is "The Proof", a Nova
program about Andrew Wiles and the proof of Fermat's last theorem.
Snacks and games, too. 9pm, Burton Forum
- 8, Monday, Department seminar, Nick Horton, "Activities for
Linear Algebra using MATLAB", 4:10 pm, Burton 301
- 10, Wednesday, department meeting, Burton 307, 4:10 pm
- 16-20, Monday - Friday, Spring break
- 23, Monday, Department seminar: Jim Henle, "MTH 105 as a studio
art course", 4:10 pm, Burton 307
- 24, Wednesday, faculty meeting, Alumnae House, 4:10 pm
- 25, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Marcello Pagano, Professor of
Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, "Health surveillance
and bioterrorism: a historical development." (Abstract:
Statisticians have been concerned with surveillance from the early
days of the field to today. Timely counting is still today of great
importance. This talk will trace the development of surveillance
from its earliest to a very important application today, namely
disease surveillance, and relate this to biosurveillance. A little
history, a little counting, some graphics, some inference, and a
little detective work, all in all a day in the life of a
biostatistician.) Burton 307
3:50 Department tea, Forum
6:15 Refreshments, MCConnell B15
7:00 - 8:00 Special talk in Surveillance and Statistics
series: Marcello Pagano, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School
of Public Health, "Health surveillance and bioterrorism: use of
statistics to detect an outbreak." (Abstract: With the
very real threat of bioterrorism, the critical need for timely
detection of an outbreak has accelerated the time-frame for major
enhancements to the public health infrastructure. One of the
earliest developments produced by these efforts has been the
syndromic surveillance system. Healthcare utilization patterns are
monitored with the assumption that the first signs of a covert germ
warfare attack may be clusters of victims seeking health care. By
detecting a surge in visits of patients a public health authority
may get an early warning of an attack enabling prompt case
identification, treatment, containment, and prophylaxis. This talk
focuses on the use of statistics to increase the power of a
surveillance system designed to detect an outbreak (co-sponsored by
the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association).)
McConnell B15
- 30, Tuesday
5 pm Presentation of the Major, Burton Forum
6 pm (approximate) Dinner for majors, prospective majors, and faculty
7 pm (approximate) Meeting for majors and faculty
April 2004 - Mathematics Awareness Month
- 1, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Jim Henle, "The Big Story Behind
the Infinitely Small", Burton 307
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 5, Monday - 16, Friday, advising period
- 5, Monday, Department seminar: Ken Kleiman, Assistant Professor
of Biostatistics, Harvard Medical School, "Syndromic surveillance for
bioterrorism: why, how, what works?" (Abstract: In this talk
I summarize the course of anthrax and other possible organisms that
might be used for bioterrorism. The course reveals an opportunity
for early detection-- early enough to allow prophylaxis for many
patients who might otherwise have become symptomatic or required
hospitalization. However, the task is not simple. The data that can
be used for such surveillance is noisy and is subject to complex, if
predictable patterns, as well as real-world complications, such as
privacy protection, competing business interests, and bureaucratic
territoriality. I discuss a system that accommodates all of these
complications and describe the statistical techniques currently
employed in the system. The statistical tools employed include a
relatively straightforward application of Generalized Linear Mixed
Models, a brute-strength computational approach, and a synthesis of
the two. Finally, I describe a simulation study undertaken to
compare various approaches to the use of such data and discuss what
was learned.) 4:10 pm, Burton 302
- 12, Monday, department seminar, Pau Atela, "Pyllotaxis: the
work that never ends", Burton 301, 4:10 pm
- 14, Wednesday, department meeting, Burton 307, 4:10 pm
- 15, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Jim Callahan, "Protein
geometry", Burton 301
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 19, Monday, Department seminar, Renata Scheidler, Professor of
Mathematics and Computer Science, Centre for Information Security
and Cryptography, University of Calgary, "How to exchange secrets:
communication of cryptographic keys", 4:10 pm, Burton 301
- 22, Thursday
3:00 - 3:50 MTH 200-300 colloquium: Renate Scheidler Centre for
Information Security and Cryptography, University of Calgary, "Public
key cryptography: protecting our secrets and our identities",
McCconnell B-05
3:50 Department tea, Forum
- 28, Wednesday, faculty meeting, Alumnae House, 4:10 pm
- 30, Friday, last day of classes
May 2004
- 4-7, Tuesday - Friday, exams
- 10, Monday, senior grades due
- 13, Thursday, faculty meeting, Alumnae House, 10:00 am
- 15, Saturday, Reception for Alumnae and
Graduating Seniors and their Families, 1:00 - 3:00 pm in the Mathematics
Forum, third floor Burton Hall
- 16, Sunday, Commencement
- 17, Monday, grades due (for other than seniors)
June - July - August 2004