Talks and Presentations

Coffee and cookies are served before each talk. The talks are designed for everybody, students as well as faculty members. Some talks may be more challenging than others. Some talks will be related to technology and its use in the teaching of mathematics.

Unless specified otherwise, all talks are on Thursdays, 12:30 - 1:45, in CL 2003

• Monday April 28, 2008.
  • Title: Math Night
  • Location: CL 1009
  • Time: 05:00 - 07:00
  Wednesday April 23, 2008.
  • Title: Math Night
  • Location: CL 1009
  • Time: 05:00 - 07:00
• Thursday April 10, 2008.
  • Title: Introduction to SAS Enterprise Miner — a Software for Data Mining
  • Speaker: Dr. Xuelei (Sherry) Ni
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday April 3, 2008.
  • Title: Grand, Hadamard, Rotating Matrices and Applications
  • Speaker: Dr. Du
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday March 27, 2008.
  • Title: A Surprisingly Radical Problem
  • Speaker: Drs Garner, Ledford and Teachy
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday March 20, 2008.
  • Title: Fourier series
  • Speaker: Dr. Philippe B. Laval
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
  • Slides of the talk
  • Complete Notes
• Thursday March 13, 2008.
  • Title: A Probabilistic Look at Dr. Ellermeyer's Crease Length Problem
  • Speaker: Dr. Lewis VanBrackle
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday February 28, 2008.
  • Title: Role of Axiomatization in Mathematics & Mathematics Education
  • Speaker: Dr. Michael de Villiers
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday February 21, 2008.
  • Title: Modeling Age Structure Via Delay Differential Equations
  • Speaker: Dr. Sean Ellermeyer
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
  • Slides of the talk
• Wednesday February 14, 2008.
  • Title: Researching Middle and High School Mathematics Teachers' Professional Development
  • Speaker: Dr. Aina Appova
  • Location: CL 1009
  • Time: 02:00 - 03:00
• Wednesday February 06, 2008.
  • Title: Using Multiple Representations to Develop Mathematical Understanding
  • Speaker: Dr. Amy Hillen
  • Location: CL 1009
  • Time: 01:00 - 02:00
• Monday January 28, 2008.
  • Title: Understanding a Teacher's Learning Community
  • Speaker: Dr. Na Young Kwon
  • Location: CL 1009
  • Time: 02:00 - 03:00
• Thursday January 24, 2008.
  • Title: Choice, Immortality and Zorn's Lemma
  • Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Lewin
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday January 17, 2008.
  • Title: Transformations of distributions of random variables: an example with simulations
  • Speaker: Dr. Anda Gadidov
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
  Thursday November 15, 2007.
  • Title: 3/2 Stability
  • Speaker: Dr. Bo Yang
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday November 08, 2007.
  • Title: Some critical comments on Mathematics Education Research
  • Speaker: Dr. Michael de Villiers
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday November 01, 2007.
  • Title: Come Be Inspired by the TI-Nspire
  • Speaker: Dr. Nicole Ice & Dr. Nikita Patterson
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday October 25, 2007.
  • Title: Using Improvisational Comedy in your Math Teaching
  • Speaker: Dr. Meghan Burke
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday October 18, 2007.
  • Title: Breaking Vegas
  • Speaker: Dr. Joseph DeMaio
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday October 04, 2007.
  • Title: Modified Jacobi Iterative Methods
  • Speaker: Dr. Joshua Du
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday September 27, 2007.
  • Title: Flatland the Movie
  • Speaker: Dr. Josip Derado
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday September 20, 2007.
  • Title: How to Make Inspired Choices in Our Random World
  • Speaker: Dr. Ana-Maria croicu
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday September 13, 2007.
  • Title: Mathematical Applications, Modeling and Technology.
  • Speaker: Dr. Michael de Villiers
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday September 6, 2007.
• Title: Creating Online Documents or Video Material to Help Students Study
• Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Lewin
• Location: CL 2003
• Time: 12:30 - 01:45