Colloquia Schedule

2007-2008

"Price Optimization: A Fast Emerging Business Modeling Activity" by Robin Harbage, CoW '75, Senior Actuarial Consultant, EMB America

"A Mathematician Looks at the Game of SET" by Dr. Kathy Radloff, Ohio Wesleyan University, Department of Mathematics

"Codes on Vector Spaces: The Pleasures of Orthogonality" by Dr. Chuck LaBerge, Senior Principal Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace

"Pharmaceutical Powders in Experiment and Simulation: Towards a Fundamental Understanding" by Dr. Reuben Domike, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Practice (MIT) and Director of Wooster's Center for Creativity and Innovation

"Zeroing in on the Implicit Function Theorem" by Dr. Carol Schumacher, Professor of Mathematics, Kenyon College

"Reed-Solomon Codes: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Galois Fields" by Dr. Chuck LaBerge, Senior Principal Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace

2006-2007

"How the Wooster Independent Study Experience Prepares You for a Career in Consulting" by Mike Rulf, VP Advanced Engineering, USi, CoW '93

"Abstract Algebra on Mars? An Introduction to Algebraic Coding Theory" by Noah Aydin, Kenyon College

"Self-Similar Tilings of Nilpotent LIe Groups" by Jim Rohal, College of Wooster '07

"Curves of Constant Width " by Mark Schwartz, Ohio Wesleyan University

"Pythagorus and His Triangles" by President Stan Hales

"Are Actuaries Really Mathematicians?" by Richard Foster, '71, Chief Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Be Careful What You Write Down: It May Come Back to Haunt You! by Paul Bellis, National Security Agency, Ph.D. Rice University 1996, CoW '90

Introduction to Cellular Automata by Emily Gamber, CoW '01, Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute