Department of Mathematics
Departmental Colloquia
Please check back soon for information on upcoming colloquia for the 2008–2009 Academic Year.
Previous Colloquia given in the 2007–2008 Academic Year
On Thursday, October 4, 2007, Mr. Eric Bynum, Technical Support Manager for Wolfram Research, presented a seminar entitled Mathematica 6, Up Close and Personal.
This presentation is available online at http://mediasite.towson.edu.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2008, Dr. Peter Alfeld, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah, gave a colloquium entitled Multivariate Splines and the Bernstein-Bezier Form of a Polynomial.
On Thursday, November 1, 2007, Dr. Qiao Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, presented a colloquium entitled Special values of L-functions--why and how they are so special?.
On Thursday, November 15, 2007, Dr. John Grant, Professor of Mathematics at Towson University, presented a colloquium entitled Active Logic Semantics.
On Thursday, December 6, 2007, Dr. Michael A. Jones, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Montclair State University, gave a colloquium entitled Sports Trilogy: The Application of Mathematics to Football, Golf, and Horse Racing.
On Thursday, January 31, 2008, Dr. David Rawn, Professor of Chemistry at Towson University, presented a colloquium entitled Delaunay Tessellation and the Protein Folding Problem.
On Thursday, March 27, 2008, Dr. Marius Zimand, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University, gave a colloquium entitled Exposure-resilient extractors and some applications.
On Thursday, April 10, 2008, Dr. Larry L. Schumaker, Stevenson Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, presented a colloquium entitled The Impact of Mathematics: A Case Study. This colloquium was part of the Towson University Visiting Scholar Lecture Series.
On Friday, April 11, 2008, Dr. Larry L. Schumaker, Stevenson Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, presented a colloquium entitled Capturing the Geometry in Formulae
for Dimension of Spline Spaces.
On Friday, April 25, 2008, Dr. Ted Hurley, Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Ireland, Galway, gave a colloquium entitled Algebras and Communications.
On Thursday, May 1, 2008, Dr. Arthur B. Powell, Department of Urban Education, Robert B. Davis Institute for Learning, Rutgers University, will present a colloquium entitled “Where’s the cheese?”: Learners’ Mathematical Inscriptions and Reasoning in Interactive Problem Solving on Online.
The Department of Mathematics at Towson University also encourages your participation at other local area college and university mathematics colloquia and at the University of Maryland College Park. Links to these other colloquia are found below:
Department of Mathematics
7800 York Road, Room 316 (campus map)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone: 410-704-3091
Fax: 410-704-4149
E-mail: math@towson.edu
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