Symposium in Honor of Professor David Scott
May 1, 2010
University of Puget Sound
All talks will take place in Thompson Hall, Room 391

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9:30 am - 9:40 am Words of Greeting
9:40 am - 10:20 am Jason Preszler
Wingate University
An Aperçu of Arboreal Galois Representations
10:20 am - 10:40 am Janet Beery
University of Redlands
Sums of Powers of Integers
10:45 am - 11:15 am Paul T. Allen
Lewis & Clark College
The initial value problem at singularities
11:15 am - 11:35 am Ashlyn Munson
Pacific Lutheran University
Critical Thinking in Introductory Statistics Courses
11:35 am - 1:00 pm Lunch at Wheelock Student Center on campus
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Tour of Harned and Thompson Halls
Science on Display (Rob Beezer)
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm Ramesh Gangolli
University of Washington
A Friend’s Remembrances
1:40 pm - 2:20 pm Noelle Conforti Preszler
Wingate University
Dynamics of Cancer: Multistage Models of Cancer Development
2:25 pm - 2:55 pm Daniel Heath
Pacific Lutheran University
A Parallel Development of Non-Euclidean Geometries
2:55 pm - 3:25 pm Chang-li Yiu
Pacific Lutheran University
The Lie Group and Differential Equations
3:25 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee break
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Tyler Sellon
VoiceBox Technologies
Hidden Markov Models: An Introduction to Speech Technology
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Martin Cochran
Google
Lagrange interpolation in cryptography
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Nathan Hwang, Dylan Poulsen, and Jeremiah Root
Puget Sound ’10
A Killer Weekend Project: Modeling Serial Criminals
6 pm Dinner at Gateway to India, 2603 6th Ave, Tacoma