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