Talks and Presentations
Coffee and cookies are served before each talk. The talks are designed for
everybody. Some may be more challenging than others. Some talks will be related
to technology and its use in the teaching of mathematics.
- April 24, 2002. Dr. Rolf Shimmrigk will talk about string theory. The title
of his talk is: "String theory
as applied pure mathematics"
- April 10, 2003. Dr. Dave Morgan will talk about some
interesting aspects of the logic theory.
- March 27, 2003. Beva Lincoln, McGraw- Hill will talk about "Assessment
and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS)".
- March 20, 2003. Dr. Jun Ji will talk about the interior point methods. The
title of the talk is "An
Introduction to the Affine Scaling Algorithms".
- February 27, 2003. Dr. Mary Garner will give a talk on Borges. The title
of her talk is: "Mathematical
Fictions and Fantasies by Borges"
- February 20, 2003. Ron Hoover and Joey Tyson will talk about Maple in the
classroom. The title of their talk is "Adding
a Little Maple Flavor to Calculus I"
- February 13, 2003. Dr Lewis VanBrackle talk is "Statistical
Properties of Dr. Ji’s slope mean".
- November 21, 2002. Dr. Jun Ji will speak about "Basic
Ideas of Karmarkar's Projective Scaling Algorithm"
- November 13, 2002. Dr. Chris Heil from Georgia Institute of Technology will
speak about "Frames: The Benefits
of Redundancy".
- November 7, 2002. Dr. Josip Derado will speak about "How
to Use Maple in Teaching and Studying"
- October 31, 2002. Dr. Bo Yang will speak about "Oscillation
Theory of ODE's"
- October 24, 2002. Dr. Josip Derado will speak about "The
Shannon Sampling Theorem"
- October 17, 2002. Dr. Philippe Laval will speak about "Motion
by mean curvature and some applications" (slides
of the talk)
- October 10, 2002. Dr. Joshua Du talk is about the "Mathematics
of Jet Engines"
- September 26, 2002. Dr. Jonathan Lewin speaks about "Technology as
Communications Media".
- September 19, 2002. Dr. Josip Derado speaks about "An Introduction
to Maple".
- September 12, 2002. Dr. Sean F. Ellermeyer speaks about "The Estimation
of Averages Over an Infinite Interval".