Washington and Lee University
"When you can't be with the one you love, take a slow bus to Budapest: A combinatorial look at arithmetic progressions in permutations.
Wayne M. Dymacek, W&L Mathematics Department
Time: 3:30pm, Wednesday, September 23*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
Careers in Actuarial Science
Presentation by Mercer
Time: 4:40, Wednesday, October 7*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
Spectral Pictures, Special Generators, and Infinite Checkerboards
Nathan Feldman, W&L Mathematics Department
Time: 3:30pm, Wednesday, October 21*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
W&L Student Presentations
Sarah Merritt & Cliff Gaddy, Neville Fogarty, and Kelsey Wright
Time: 4:40pm, Friday, October 30*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
Mathematics and Air Traffic Flow Management
Christy Spofford Bittle
Time: 3:30pm, Wednesday, November 4*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
Abstract: Demand in the National Airspace System is expected to double or triple by the year 2025. During this time, it is unlikely that airpsace infrastructure, such as new runways and airports, will alone be sufficient to meet the increased demand. Current avenues of research look to not only alleviate current congestion problems in the airspace but also to anticipate and address new problems that will arise with this increased demand. I will discuss some of these avenues of research, as well as how my background in mathematics relates to the research being done.
Cyclotomic polynomials, their gcd, and their resultants
Greg Dresden, W&L Mathematics Department
Time: 3:30pm, Wednesday, November 11*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
Abstract: Recall that the cyclotomic polynomials, which begin x - 1, x + 1, x^2 + x + 1, x^2 + 1, ... , are the irreducible factors of x^n - 1. We show that most of the time we can give a linear combination of two cyclotomic polynomials that is equal to 1, but sometimes we can only get p, a prime. We show how this lemma is related to the resultant.
*Refreshments 20 minutes before the talk begins in Robinson Hall, Room 2
Solving Graph Isomorphisms via Hyperdimensional Noise
with excursions into evolutionary game theory, computer science, cognitive neuroscience, and dynamical systems theory
Simon D. Levy, W&L Department of Computer Science and Program in Neuroscience
Time: 3:30pm, Thursday, April 30
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
But I Don't Want to be an Actuary!
An Alternative Choice for Math Majors Not Planning on Going into Academia
Meagan Clement, W&L Class of '02
Time: 4:40pm, Thursday, April 23*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
Dr. Clement earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2008 and currently works for Rho Inc., a contract research organization providing support to the pharmaceutical/biotech industry.
*Refreshments at 4:20 in Robinson Hall 2
On Sums of Powers of Primes
Florian Luca, Universidad Nacional Autónoma, De México
Time: 4:40, Tuesday, March 24*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
*Refreshments at 4:20pm in Robinson Hall 2
Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker
It was the quickest of times, it was the sameness of times
Steve Abbott, Middlebury College
Time: 4:30, Tuesday, March 17*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
*Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. in Robinson Hall 2
An Introduction to the Mystery of Fractals
Zoltán Buczolich, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Time: 4:40pm Thursday, February 26*
Place: Robinson Hall, Room 6
*Refreshments at 4:20 p.m. in Robinson Hall 2
