2012-2013 Schedule

We meet for a social with the speaker from 3:30 to 4:00 in the Math & Computer Science Department Lounge (Ruffner 300A). Presentations are from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in Ruffner 356. Please join us!

 

6 September: Shortest paths, soap films, and mathematics

Dr. Michael Dorff
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Brigham Young University

25 September: Weather and Retailing

Kim (Bowman) Bradbury '07
Business Meteorologist
Planalytics, Inc.

15 November: How does that user interface make you feel?

Carter Dewey '10
Software Engineer
Horizon Performance, LLC

31 January: Patterns, Proofs, and Purity

Dr. Laura Taalman
Professor of Mathematics
James Madison University

19 February: Routing Meals on Wheels Drivers in the Shenandoah Valley:  A Genetic Algorithm Approach

Dr. Nathan Axvig
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Virginia Military Institute

14 March:   π = 4

Dr. M. Leigh Lunsford
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Longwood University

16 April: The Evolution of Euler Characteristic (& Why There Are Five Platonic Solids!)

Dr. Camillia Smith Barnes
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Sweet Briar College