University of Puget Sound
Mathematics and Computer Science Department
Seminar Series

2004-05
September 8
Steve Swanson '99, University of Washington
Abandoning the Sinking Chip:  The Case for a New Class of Microprocessors
September 20
Bethany Fisher, University of Puget Sound
The Sphere Packing Problem
September 28
Carol (Boyd) Overdeep, '84, Western Oregon University Markov Chains That Go Boom!
October 5
DeWayne Derryberry, University of Puget Sound
Popperian Philosophy of Science Meets Statistical Inference
February 2
Rob Beezer, University of Puget Sound
Platonic Solids from Paper Plates
February 9
William Heuett, University of Washington
A Model of Testosterone Oscillations in Men
March 7
David Neel, '95, Seattle University
What is a Graph, and How Complex is It?
2003-04
October 1 Nathan Roberts (UPS '98), Boeing Inc. Comparison Shopping: A case for Applied Statistics
October 14 Horst Holstein, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK Robust one-to-correspondence through binary space partition trees: An application in the interpretation of real-world human motion capture data"
October 29 Michael Casey, University of Puget Sound The Scenario Generation Algorithm: A New Algorithm for Solving Stochastic Optimization Problems
November 24 Martin Jackson, University of Puget Sound Your chance at a million dollars may be slipping away: Ricci flow and the Poincaré Conjecture
February 9 James Bernhard, University of Puget Sound Hearing the shape of a drum
TBA Bob Matthews, University of Puget Sound TBA
2002-03
September 19 Steve Bleiler, Portland State University Quit Work, Play Poker, Sleep Till Noon
September 26 Robert Sacker, University of Southern California Bifurcation of Maps and Cycling in Genetic Systems
October 7 John Riegsecker, University of Puget Sound A Mathematical Journey: From de Bruijn Sequences to DNA Sequences
October 23 Jeff Stuart, Pacific Lutheran University Tournament Matrices: Separating the winners from the losers!
November 6 Constance Reid E. T. Bell and the University of Washington
November 7 Constance Reid The Pulitzer Prize Play PROOF - in Real Life
January 29 Marc Olson, Microsoft Corporation Building Software for 300 Million People: Creating Microsoft Office
April 2 Michael Casey, University of Puget Sound Probability Density Estimation:
Statistics, Optimization and Wavelets
April 9 Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College Four Kinds of Graph (and Map) Coloring
April 30 Tom Schauer, Trust Consulting & Compliance "Last Month We Stole Millions of Dollars Worth of Information, Then We Gave It Back!"
2001-02
September 25 David Scott, University of Puget Sound A Mathematician in Industry
October 30 Kerrie Paige, NovaSim Simulating Business Success
November 13 Tom Judson, University of Puget Sound The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
February 19 David R. Ferguson, Boeing Company The Use of Splines and B-Splines in Industry:
An Introduction
March 12 Staurt Boersma, Central Washington University A Mathematician's Look At Foucault's Pendulum
April 2 Steven Murray, Frank Russell Company Stochastic Programming
April 30 Bruce Lind, University of Puget Sound Niels Henrik Abel: The Man, His Times and (some of) His Mathematics
2000-01
September 19 Bob O'Malley, University of Washington How to Renormalize Your Way Past Divergence
October 2 David Neel, Truman State University Matroids and the Idea of Independence
November 14 Jeremy Gulley, Microsoft Corporation Developing Worldwide Software
December 4 Bob Matthews, University of Puget Sound A Child of Lorainne, The Early Childhood of Henri Poincare
February 5 Tony de Sam Lazaro, St. Martins College Handling Imprecision in Data
March 26 Don Lutz, San Diego State University How are Difference Equations Different?
1999-2000
March 27 Zelda Zabinsky, University of Washington Stochastic Methods for Practical Global Optimization
April 10 Nancy Neudauer, Pacific Lutheran University Transversal Presentations of the Bicircular Matroid of a Graph
April 17 Stephen Keeler, Boeing Company Getting Math Off the Ground
May 2 Rob Beezer, University of Puget Sound Uniquely Four-Colorable Planar Graphs

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