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 2007

• Thursday April 26, 2007.
  • Title: What to do when little Bobby doesn't show up for the math test?
    or estimating parameters of the Rasch Measurement Model in the presence of missing data
  • Speaker: Dr. Mary Garner
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:45 - 01:45
• Thursday April 19, 2007.
  • Title: Generalization as a problem solving & proving strategy
  • Speaker: Dr. Michael de Villiers
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:45 - 01:45
• Thursday April 12, 2007.
  • Title: A non-stochastic introduction to stochastic control
  • Speaker: Dr. Ana-Maria Croicu
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:45 - 01:45
• Thursday April 05, 2007.
  • Title: MyMathLab
  • Speaker: Conrad Cantrell from Addison Wesley
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:45 - 01:45
• Thursday March 29, 2007.
  • Title: What to do when little Bobby doesn't show up for the math test?
    or estimating parameters of the Rasch Measurement Model in the presence of missing data
  • Speaker: Dr. Mary Garner
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:45 - 01:45
• Tuesday March 27, 2007.
  • Activity: Math Nights
  • Location: CL 1009
  • Time: 05:00 - 07:00
• Thursday March 22, 2007.
  • Title: Homework Management Made Easy with MathZone– New Solutions for Instructors and Students
  • Speaker: A representative from McGraw-Hill
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:45 - 01:45
• Thursday March 15, 2007.
  • Title: Some Geometric Examples of the Discovery Function of Proof
  • Speaker: Dr. Michael deVilliers
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:45 - 01:45
• Thursday March 1, 2007.
  • Title: A non-stochastic introduction to stochastic control
  • Speaker: Dr. Ana-Maria Croicu
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:45 - 01:45
• Thursday February 15, 2007.
  • Title: Everything you always wanted to know about topology but were afraid to ask
  • Speaker: Dr. Frederic Mynard
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:45 - 01:45
• Thursday February 1, 2007.
  • Title: Detectability of Convex Sets with Gaussian Noise
  • Speaker: Dr. Xuelei Ni
  • Location: CL 1010
  • Time: 12:30 - 02:00
• Thursday November 16, 2006.
  • Title: Some Topics from the History of Number Theory
  • Speaker: Dr. Marian Fox
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 02:00
• Thursday November 9, 2006.
  • Title: The Basic Four and Fractions: Pattern Blocks Build Operation Concept
  • Speaker: Dr. Teresa Banker
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 02:00
• Thursday November 2, 2006.
  • Title: Reciting Formulae Is Not Enough: Deriving Area Formulae Meaningfully
  • Speaker: Dr. Tad Watanabe
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 02:00
• Thursday October 26, 2006.
  • Title: Part 1: My life as a TA. Part 2: Inequalities - A senior capstone presentation
  • Speaker: Sarah Donovan
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 02:00
• Thursday October 19, 2006.
  • Title: The Gambler's Ruin Problem and the Exchange Paradox
  • Speaker: Dr. Anda Gadidov
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 02:00
• Thursday October 12, 2006.
  • Title: ICBLs in Mathematics: An electrifying and chilling talk
  • Speaker: Dr. Wendy Sanchez
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday October 5, 2006.
  • Title: The nine-point circle theorem and its generalizations
  • Speaker: Dr. Michael de Villiers
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday September 28, 2006.
  • Title: The impact of host age-structure on coexistence of several pathogen variants
  • Speaker: Dr. Sergei Pilyugin
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday September 21, 2006.
  • Title: Multivariate Analysis Methods in Vitamin D Clinical Trials
  • Speaker: Dr. Becky McNeil
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 01:45
• Thursday September 14, 2006.
  • Title: A Modified Likelihood Method for Marker-Genetic Trait Association Studies
  • Speaker: Dr. Ellie He
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 02:00
• Thursday September 7, 2006.
  • Title: The Role & Function of Experimentation in Mathematics
  • Speaker: Dr. Michael de Villiers
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 02:00
• Thursday August 31, 2006.
  • Title: TI Smartview and TI Interactive are Great Teaching Tools
  • Speaker: Dr. Barbara Ferguson
  • Location: CL 2003
  • Time: 12:30 - 02:00