UPS Math/CS Department Seminar

University of Puget Sound
Mathematics and Computer Science Department
Seminar Series

2012-13
October 1, 2012	Tom Edgar, Pacific Lutheran University	Rock the Vote or Vote the Rock
October 8, 2012	Robin Nichol, Hitachi Consulting	Business Intelligence: Oxymoron, or Competitive Advantage?
October 15, 2012	Fall Break, No Seminar	--
October 29, 2012	Joel Ross, University of Puget Sound	TBA
November 26, 2012	Christine Lind, University of Washington	TBA
February 7, 2013	Kyle Wenholz, UPS	TBA
March 5, 2013	Dewayne Derryberry, Idaho State University	TBA

2011-12
September 19, 2011	Assorted UPS mathematics undergraduates	Talks on summer research ( program )
September 26, 2011	Jason Preszler	What's special about 15015?
October 10, 2011	Lauren Middleton (UPS 10) and Harlan Smith (UPS 05)	Business Intelligence & Big Data Analytics: Turning Torrents of Data into Useful Information
November 7, 2011	Carl Toews	Complex Compositions: A talk about composition operators
November 21, 2011	Jane Butterfield	Games in Graphs: Avoiding Triangles
December 5, 2011	Michael Orrison	Generalizing the Condorcet Criterion
February 13, 2012	Lloyd Tabb	Conversation with a Tech Industry Entrepreneuer
March 26, 2012	DeWayne Derryberry, University of Idaho	AIC or BIC (or neither)? ( abstract)
April 2, 2012	David Roe, University of Washington	Awesome properties of -163
April 9, 2012	James Bernhard, University of Puget Sound	Linear algebra, geometry, and probabilistic models
~~April 23, 2012~~ POSTPONED!	Christine Lind, University of Washington	Mathematical Models for Molecular Motors: The Polymerization Ratchet ( abstract )
April 30, 2012	Shawn Poindexter	TBA

2010-11
September 13, 2010	Student Summer Research Presentations	Fabian Corrales UPS '11: Reducing Database Bitmap Index Using Variable Length Compression Joe Granville UPS '11: Embedding Binary Trees into Grids Using Genetic Algorithms Billy Wonderly UPS '12: Reverse-Engineering Linear Algebra
October 11, 2010	John Carter '94, Seattle University	Mathematical Theory of Water Waves
October 25, 2010	Jake Linenthal '08 and Harlan Smith '05, Hitachi Consulting	Making Sense of Large Amounts of Data: Visualization and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
December 6, 2010	Martin Cochran '03, Google	MapReduce: How Google Writes Code for Scale, and Why You Should, Too
March 21, 2011	Walt Jones, '01	Creating the impossible: the technology and artistry of Hollywood visual effects
March 28, 2011	Ksenija Simic-Muller	The Promise of Infinitesimals in Your Calculus Class and Elsewhere

2009-10
September 14, 2009	David Perkinson, Reed College	Sandpiles and Tilings
September 21, 2009	Student Summer Research Presentations	Stephanie Hatley UPS '10: Finding Efficient Tree Embeddings Computationally Using Genetic Algorithms Jessica Olsen UPS '10: Formal Groups and Their Endomorphisms Dylan Poulson UPS '10: A Formal Model of the Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic
September 28, 2009	Jake Linenthal '08, Hitachi Consulting	Math and Computer Science on the Front Lines
October 26, 2009	David Iverson '88, NASA Ames Research Center	From Puget Sound to NASA Mission Control: Data Mining for Space Mission Operations
November 2, 2009	Jason Sawin, University of Puget Sound	An Overview of Bitmap Indexing
November 23, 2009	Sigrun Bodine, University of Puget Sound	From Isaac Newton to William Trench: To Oscillate or Not to Oscillate: That is the Question
March 25, 2010	DeWayne Derryberry, Idaho State University	Spatial Relationships Between Breast and Prostate Cancer: Patterns and Possible Explanations
April 5, 2010	Ashlyn Munson, Pacific Lutheran University	Applications of Applied Statistics: Bioequivalence Testing with Topical Dermatological Drug Products
April 12, 2010	Justine Sherry, University of Washington	The Internet Measurement Toolbox
April 19, 2010	Tom Edgar, Pacific Lutheran University	Connecting the Dots: Posets and Inversion to Understand Finite Sums, Combinatorics, and Groups

2008-09
September 15	Student Summer Research Presentations	Jessica Olsen, UPS '10: Flexagons Peter Ott, UPS '09: Homothetic Space Curves and the Curve Shortening Flow Dylan Poulsen, UPS '10: Asymptotic Behavior of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales
October 6	Manley Perkel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Puget Sound	Embedding Complete Binary Trees into Grids
March 11	Peter Otto, Willamette University	We Always Say What You Learn in Class Will Pay Off... Sometimes It Pays Off Big
March 25	DeWayne Derryberry, Idaho State University	A Rationale for the Robustness of t-Procedures Based on the Central Limit Theorem
April 27	Paul Allen '01, University of Washington - Tacoma	The Mathematics of Modeling Large-Scale Structure in our Universe

2007-08
September 10	Student Summer Research Presentations	Mark Shoemaker, UPS '08: Applying homology to protein-protein interaction networks Alex Twist, UPS '08: Product Calculus: Limits, Integration, and Series Andrew M. Zimmer, UPS '08: The Minimum Semidefinite Rank of Graphs with Small Cut Sets
September 17	Student Summer Research Presentations	Steve Canfield '08: Tardy Boat: Analyzing delays in the Washington State Ferry System Walker Lindley '08: Redistricting Utopia Jake Linenthal '08: Long and Short Term Learning in Content-Based Image Retrieval
October 1	Axel Mainzer Koenig, Koenig & Associates, Inc.	Simple Design Methods for 2-D Airfoil Profiles via the Joukowsky Transformation
November 5	Kevin Hutson, Department of Mathematics, Furman University	Hungry Ants, Insane Bus Drivers, and Kevin Bacon
November 27	Naiomi Cameron, Department of Mathematics, Lewis & Clark College	A Variation on the Tennis Ball Problem
February 11	David Molnar, University of Puget Sound	Continued fractions, Diophantine approximation, and ergodic theory
February 25	Donald A. Lutz, San Diego State University	On some exponentially asymptotically constant difference equations
February 27	Anita Bateman, Senior Certified IT Architect, IBM Corporation	Software Engineering using the IBM Cell Broadband Engine™
April 2	Werner Balser, Universität Ulm, Germany	Why are divergent power series useful?
April 8	William Stein and Emily Kirkman ‘08, University of Washington	SAGE: Creating a Viable Free Open Source Alternative to Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, and Magma?
April 21	Dr. Michael Aristidou, DigiPen Institute of Technology	Quaternions: Their Interesting Algebra and Some Applications
May 5	Student Research Presentations	Walker Lindley '08, Stefan Moluf '08, and Steven Canfield '08: Tanks and Teapots or how we learned to stop worrying and love middleware Jake Linenthal '08, Alex Twist, and Andy Zimmer A Crisis to Rival Global Warming: Sudoku Puzzle Generation. This was from their MCM project.

2006-07
September 6	Mike Spivey, Dept. of Math/CS, University of Puget Sound	A Product Calculus
September 27	Student Summer Research Presentations	Asa Scherer, UPS '07: Determinants and the Matching Polynomial Walker Lindley, UPS '08: Redistricting Utopia: Using Computers for Impartial Redistricting Jake Linenthal, UPS '08: Learning to Make Decisions in a Hostile and Uncertain Environment: How I taught my computer to play Texas Hold 'em
October 18	James Bernhard, Physics Department, University of Puget Sound	Statistics in the Ongoing Biological Revolution
October 25	Iva Stavrov, Dept. of Mathematics, Lewis & Clark College	Riemannian Geometry of the Octonionic Projective Plane
November 8	Nathan Roberts, Josh Kendol, and Chelsea Zarnowski (Boeing)	Math and Statistics in the Working World: A Presentation and Panel Discussion
February 28	Jennifer Quinn, Executive Director of the Association for Women in Mathematics and Visiting Associate Professor, UPS	Determinants via Determined Ants
March 21	Jessica Sklar, Department of Mathematics, Pacific Lutheran University	Defeating the Robot and Unlocking Doors: Mathematical Solutions to Computer Game Puzzles
April 11	William J. Melanson, Department of Philosophy, University of Puget Sound	The Philosophical Search for Mathematical Objects: Semantics, Ontology, and Epistemology: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics
April 18	Amy Ryken and John Woodward, School of Education, UPS	Understanding Calculus or Becoming Quantitatively Literate?

2004-05
September 8	Steve Swanson '99, University of Washington	Abandoning the Sinking Chip: The Case for a New Class of Microprocessors
September 20	Bethany Fisher, University of Puget Sound	The Sphere Packing Problem
September 28	Carol (Boyd) Overdeep, '84, Western Oregon University	Markov Chains That Go Boom!
October 5	DeWayne Derryberry, University of Puget Sound	Popperian Philosophy of Science Meets Statistical Inference
February 2	Rob Beezer, University of Puget Sound	Platonic Solids from Paper Plates
February 9	William Heuett, University of Washington	A Model of Testosterone Oscillations in Men
March 7	David Neel, '95, Seattle University	What is a Graph, and How Complex is It?

2003-04
October 1	Nathan Roberts (UPS '98), Boeing Inc.	Comparison Shopping: A case for Applied Statistics
October 14	Horst Holstein, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK	Robust one-to-correspondence through binary space partition trees: An application in the interpretation of real-world human motion capture data"
October 29	Michael Casey, University of Puget Sound	The Scenario Generation Algorithm: A New Algorithm for Solving Stochastic Optimization Problems
November 24	Martin Jackson, University of Puget Sound	Your chance at a million dollars may be slipping away: Ricci flow and the Poincaré Conjecture
February 9	James Bernhard, University of Puget Sound	Hearing the shape of a drum
TBA	Bob Matthews, University of Puget Sound	TBA

2002-03
September 19	Steve Bleiler, Portland State University	Quit Work, Play Poker, Sleep Till Noon
September 26	Robert Sacker, University of Southern California	Bifurcation of Maps and Cycling in Genetic Systems
October 7	John Riegsecker, University of Puget Sound	A Mathematical Journey: From de Bruijn Sequences to DNA Sequences
October 23	Jeff Stuart, Pacific Lutheran University	Tournament Matrices: Separating the winners from the losers!
November 6	Constance Reid	E. T. Bell and the University of Washington
November 7	Constance Reid	The Pulitzer Prize Play PROOF - in Real Life
January 29	Marc Olson, Microsoft Corporation	Building Software for 300 Million People: Creating Microsoft Office
April 2	Michael Casey, University of Puget Sound	Probability Density Estimation: Statistics, Optimization and Wavelets
April 9	Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College	Four Kinds of Graph (and Map) Coloring
April 30	Tom Schauer, Trust Consulting & Compliance	"Last Month We Stole Millions of Dollars Worth of Information, Then We Gave It Back!"

2001-02
September 25	David Scott, University of Puget Sound	A Mathematician in Industry
October 30	Kerrie Paige, NovaSim	Simulating Business Success
November 13	Tom Judson, University of Puget Sound	The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
February 19	David R. Ferguson, Boeing Company	The Use of Splines and B-Splines in Industry: An Introduction
March 12	Staurt Boersma, Central Washington University	A Mathematician's Look At Foucault's Pendulum
April 2	Steven Murray, Frank Russell Company	Stochastic Programming
April 30	Bruce Lind, University of Puget Sound	Niels Henrik Abel: The Man, His Times and (some of) His Mathematics

2000-01
September 19	Bob O'Malley, University of Washington	How to Renormalize Your Way Past Divergence
October 2	David Neel, Truman State University	Matroids and the Idea of Independence
November 14	Jeremy Gulley, Microsoft Corporation	Developing Worldwide Software
December 4	Bob Matthews, University of Puget Sound	A Child of Lorainne, The Early Childhood of Henri Poincare
February 5	Tony de Sam Lazaro, St. Martins College	Handling Imprecision in Data
March 26	Don Lutz, San Diego State University	How are Difference Equations Different?

1999-2000
March 27	Zelda Zabinsky, University of Washington	Stochastic Methods for Practical Global Optimization
April 10	Nancy Neudauer, Pacific Lutheran University	Transversal Presentations of the Bicircular Matroid of a Graph
April 17	Stephen Keeler, Boeing Company	Getting Math Off the Ground
May 2	Rob Beezer, University of Puget Sound	Uniquely Four-Colorable Planar Graphs

UPS Math/CS Department

Last Updated: September 21, 2010
math@pugetsound.edu
http://www.math.ups.edu/activities/seminar.html