• Title: How to Draw a Straight Line

• Speaker: Dr. Elwyn Davis, Professor of Mathematics, PSU
  

Past Colloquia:

• Title: Into the Pyramid

• Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Woodburn, Professor of Mathematics, PSU
  

• Title: Portfolios, Derivatives, and How to Price Derivatives Part I, May 5

• Speaker: Dusty Peterson, Graduate Student, PSU
  

• Title: Portfolios, Derivatives, and How to Price Derivatives Part II, May 7

• Title: A Hybrid Derivative System Based on Volatility and Return Forecasting

• Speaker: Dr. David Enke, Department of Finance and Operations Management, University of Tulsa
  

December 2008

• Title: Logic Crystallized: An Introduction to the Wachter Crystal

• Speaker: Dr. Don Viney, Professor of Philosophy, PSU
  

November 2008

• Title: Making an Impact at Commerce Bank-Developing and Analyzing Data

• Speaker: Mindi Walker, Commerce Bank, Kansas City
  

• Title: The Arctic Summer Cloud-Ocean Study

• Speaker: Cassie Wheeler, a PSU alumni, currently at the University of Colorado
  

October 2008

• Title: Title: Poetry, Dance Music, and Mathematics

• Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
  

September 2008

• Title: Is the Ratio of Development and Recapitulation Length to Exposition Length in Mozarts and Haydns Work  Equal to the Golden Ratio?

• Speaker: Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana, PSU
  

April 2008

• Title: Symmetries, Group Theory, and Depression Glass

• Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Woodburn, PSU
  

• Title: Technology Innovations in Statistics Education

• Speaker: Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana, PSU
  

• Title: Continuum Theory Problems: Fixed Point Property and Homogeneity

• Speaker: Dr. Janusz Prajs, California State University and UMR (MST)
  

March 2008

• Title: Recurrent Event Data: Modeling and Analysis

• Speaker: Dr. Akim Adekpedjou
  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Missouri University of Science and Technology,
  

• Title: Square Root of 2

• Speaker: Dr. Bobby Winters
  Professor, PSU Mathematics Department
  

• Title: Mathematical Genealogies

• Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Woodburn, Professor, PSU Mathematics Department
  
  

• Title: Tha Amazing $15 Computer (No Electricity Needed)

• Speaker: Dr. Elwyn Davis, Professor, PSU Mathematics Department
  
  

• Title: Laying the Foundation for a Rewarding Actuarial Career

• Speaker:Jim Rowland, FCAS, MAAA
  
  

• Title: Using Data to Implement Better Business Decisions-A Commerce Bank Perspective

• Speakers:
  Mindi Walker, AVP-RLPS Research & Database Marketing
  Jenny Lindsay, Team Lead-RLPS Research & Database Marketing
  Commerce Bank, Kansas City
  
  

• Title: Teaching the Teachers

• Speaker: Dr. Karla Childs
  

December , 2006

• Title: Visualizing Abstract Algebra: Using Pascal's Triangle and Group Theory in a Colorful Way

• Speaker: Casey Kuhn, Student PSU
  
• Date: Nov. 28

November, 2006

November , 2006

• Title: Using Minitab to Explain Probability Distributions and their Transformations

• Speaker: Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana, Associate Professor, PSU

  
  

• Date: Nov. 28

• Title: Smart Teaching with Smart Board

• Speakers:
  Mrs. Karla Childs, Dr. Cynthia Woodburn, and Dr. Hazel Coltharp, PSU Mathematics Faculty

• Date: August 29, 2006

• Title: Credibility Theory

• Speaker:
  Mr. Loren Karleskint
  Graduate Student, PSU
  

• Date: May 8, 2006

• Title: Extensive Use of Small Groups in Teaching a General Education Mathematics Course

• Speaker:
  Dr.Elwyn Davis
  Professor, PSU
  

• Date: April 5, 2006

• Title: The Sudoku Craze: Where's the Math?

• Speaker:
  Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
  Professor, PSU
  

• Date: Febraury 28, 2006

• Title:The Way I teach Elementary Statistics

• Speaker:
  Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana
  Professor, PSU
  

• Date: November 10, 2005

• Title: A Report on the ADVANCE Leadership Institute for Senior Women

• Speaker:
  Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
  Professor, PSU
  

• Date: April 26, 2005

• Title: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Bivariate Censored Data Evaluating Screening Mamography

• Speaker:
  Dr. Jonathan Mahnken
  Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
  

• Date: April 19, 2005

• Title: Consulting verses Corporate Actuarial Practices, Pricing Transplants and Disease Management Evaluation

• Speaker:
  Steele Stewart, FSA
  BCBS of Kansas
  

• Date: March 31, 2005

• Title: Experience with Teaching "Great Theorems in Mathematics"

• Speaker:
  Dr. Roman Dwilewicz
  Professor, University of Missouri-Rolla
  

• Date: March 29, 2005

• Title: Impact of Euler's Early Work on Undergraduate Mathematics

• Speaker:
  Dr. Gary McGrath
  Professor, PSU
  

• Date: December 7, 2004

• Title: Applicatin of Predictive Density Estimation in Accelerated Life Testing to Quality Control

• Speaker:
  Adam Pintar
  Graduate Student, PSU
  

• Date: December 2, 2004

• Title:Multiple Outcome Research Overall Tests Verses Individual Tests

• Speaker:
  Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana
  Pittsburg State University
  

• Date: November 30, 2004

• Title:Predicting Hearing Threshold in Non-responsive Subjects Using a Log-Normal Bayesian Linear Model in the Presence of Left Censored Covariates

• Speaker:
  Dr. Byron Gajewski
  University of Kansas Midical Center
  School of Allied Health and Nursing

• What I learnded Teaching Quantitative Analysis in Business School

• Speaker:
  Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
  Pittsburg State University
  

• Date: September 7, 2004

• Title:How Big is Infinity?

• Speaker:
  Dr. John Diamonthopolous
  Northeastern University of Oklahoma
  

• Date: April 14, 2004

• Title:Public Key Encryption

• Speaker:
  Dr. Dale Bachman
  Central Missouri State University
  

• Date: April 12, 2004

• Title:Teaching by the Moore Method: A Personal Reflection

• Speaker:
  Dr. Tom Ingram
  Baylor University
  

• Date: March 31, 2004

• Title:Capture-Recapture Method

• Speaker:
  Mr. Adam Pintar
  PSU

• Date: March 18, 2004

• Title: One Teacher's Experience with the Moore Method in a Foundations Course, and in a Second Semester Calculus Class

• Speaker:
  Dr. Robert Roe
  University of Missouri-Rolla

• Date: January 29, 2004

• Title: Covering by Convex Bodies and Inscribed Balls

• Speaker:
  Dr. Vladimir Kadets
  Kharkov National University
  Currently visiting at University of Missouri-Columbia

• Date: December 11, 2003

• Title: Big "O" Little "o" and Twiddle

• Speaker:
  Professor Bobby Winters
  Pittsburg State University

• Date: December 04, 2003

• Title: Bailey's Minimum Bias Procedure: Statistics or Actuarial Science?
• Speaker:
  Ananda Jayawardhana
  Assistant Professor
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, December 2

• Title: Actuarial Science
• Speaker:
  Jim Roland FCSA
  Allstate Insurance Company
  
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, October 21

• Title: Andrei Kolmogorov-the Greatest Soviet and Russian Mathematician
• Speaker:
  Mikhail Tchobanou
  Professor
  Moscow Power Engineering Institute
  
  
  
• Date: Thesday, September 2

• Title: Shifts, Graphs, and Entropy
• Speaker:
  Dr. Bobby Winters
  Professor
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday May1

• Title: The Formal Propositional Logic and Truth Tables
• Speaker:
  Dr. Gary McGrath
  Professor
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday, April 17

• Title:
  Non-planar Nearfields
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Elwyn Davis
  Professor
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday, March 13, 2003
  

• Title:
  Romotely Controlled Students- a Case Study
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Bob Backes
  Professor
  Dept. of Physics
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
  

• Title:
  Philately Mathematics: ABrief Tour of the History of Math via Stamps
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
  Associate Professor
  Pittsburg State University
• Date: Thursday, February 13, 2003
  

• Title:
  Pridictive Density Estimation Using Two Factors of Acceleration
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana
  Assistant Professor
  Pittsburg State University
• Date: Thursday, January 30, 2003
  

• Title:
  Moore-Penrose Generalized Inverses
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Gary McGrath
  Professor of Mathematics
  Pittsburg State University
  
• Date: Thursday, December 05, 2002
  

• Title:
  What does SL(2,R) look like?
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Bobby Winters
  Professor of Mathematics
  Pittsburg State University
  
• Date: Thursday November 21, 2002
  

• Title:
  Laying the Foundation for a Rewarding Actuarial Career
• Speaker:
  
  Mr. Jim Rowland, FCAS, MAAA
  Senior Actuary &Product Manager
  Allstate Insurance Company
  
  
• Date: Tuesday October 29, 2002
  

• Title:
  Is Option an Option?
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Yaping Liu
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday October 17, 2002
  

• Title:
  Understanding Islamic Art
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Gloria Sanok
  Mathematisc Teacher, West Caldwell, N.J.

• Title:
  Factoring Polynomial Matrices for Digital Filter Bank Design
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday,September 12 2002
  

• Title:
  What is a TI-CBL and where can I find one?
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Tim Flood
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2002
  

• Title:
  The Color of Your Hat
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. David Surowski
  Kansas State University
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
  

• Title:
  Computational Algebra Methods in Digital Signal Processing
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2002
  

• Title:
  Using Academic Systems to Teach Online Courses
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Kerry Johnson
  Missouri Southern State College
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2002
  

• Title:
  Eiganvalues, Eignavectors, and Eiganvalue Decomposition
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday, November 27, 2001
  

• Title:
  Using Blackboard in Mathematics Classes
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Hazel Coltharp
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday, November 15, 2001
  

• Title:
  Shape of Things
  A mild introduction to Topology
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Bobby Winters
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday, November 1, 2001
  

• Title: There is this problem....................
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Tadeusz Dobrowolski
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday, September 13, 2001
  

• Title: Design of multi-dimensional multirate systems and multi-dimensional wavelets
• Speaker:
  
  Prof. Mikhail K. Tchobanou
  Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia
  
  
  
• Date: Thursday, August 30, 2001
  

• Title: The Role of Idle Curiosity in Mathematics
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Nigel Kalton
  University of Missouri-Columbia
  
  
  
• Date: Thursday, April 19, 2001
  

• Title: Special Cases of Factoring Polynomial Matrices
• Speakers:
  
  Dr. Cynthia Woodburn and Tim Pierce
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
  
• Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001
  

• Title: An Introduction to the Actuarial Profession
• Speaker:
  
  Steele R. Stewart, FSA, MAAA
  Actuary
  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas
  
  
  
• Date: Thursday, March 8, 2001
  

• Title: SELF-COMPLEMENTARY GRAPHS
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Ramon M. Figueroa-Centeno
  Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
  
• Date: Thursday, February 8, 2001
  

• Title: Mathematics and Music: A symphony of Connections
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
  
• Date: Thursday, December 7, 2000
  

• Title: Paradoxical Decompositions of Subsets in Euclidian Spaces. Can we make two balls out of one ball? Can we make a square out of a circle?
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Witold Marciszewski
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  and
  Warsaw University, Poland.
  
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2000
  

• Title: From Archimedes to Bernoulli, that's A to B
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Gary McGrath
  Professor of Mathematics
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2000
  

• Title: Robust Product Design Using Design of Experiments
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Jim Hess
  Staff Vice President-Operations
  Leggett and Platt Incorporated
  Carthage, MO
  
  
• Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000
  

September, 2000

• Title: The Geometry of Space-time
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Bobby Winters
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2000
  

• Title: The Mathematics of Identification Numbers
  
• Speaker:
  
  Dr. Joseph Gallian
  MAA Distinguished Lecturer
  University of Minnesota-Duluth
  
  
• Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000
  

• Title: Poisson, Pearson and the Long Ball
  
• Speakers:
  
  Justin Burchett and Brian Townsend
  Pittsburg State University
  
  
• Date: Thursday, May 4, 2000
  

• Title: Actuarial Math and Employee Benefit Careers: Perspective from an Actuary and a non-Actuary
• Speakers:
  Bill Glasco
  FSA and VP of Defined Benefit Operations
  and
  Janet Schwenke
  CEBS and Defined Benefit Conversion Manager
  JP Morgan/American Century Retirement Plan Services
  
• Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000
  

March, 2000

• Title: Cardano: Egregious Scoundrel
  Speaker: Dr. Ramon Figueroa, Department of Mathematics, PSU
  Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000

• Title: Weighing Balls Guided by Information Theory
  Speaker: Professor David Surowski, Department of Mathematics, KSU
  Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000

• Title: An introduction to actuarial mathematics and a practical application to public pension plans
  Speaker: Danny White, Actuarial Analyst, (PSU Alumnus)
  Date: Friday, March 3, 2000

• Title: All the Reid(emeister) Moves
  Speaker: Professor Bobby Winters of Department of Mathematics, Pittsburg State University
  Date: Thursday, March 2, 2000
  

• Title: Twenty questions with lies + Introductions to Wavelets
  Speakers: Drs. Murad Ozaydin and Tomasz Prezebinda of Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma
  Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000
  

December 1999

• Title: What is the topology of the universe?
  Speaker: Professor Kevin Scannell of Department of Mathematics, Saint Louis University
  Date: Thursday, December 2, 1999
  

October 1999

• Title: A Mathematical Walk Down Wall Street
  Speaker: Dr. Yaping Liu of Department of Mathematics, Pittsburg State University
  Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999
  

September 1999

• Title: Grobner Bases Revolutionzing Commutative Algebra
  Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Woodburn of Department of Mathematics, Pittsburg State University
  Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999
  

• Title: The Java Jive
  Speaker: Professor Bobby Winters of Department of Mathematics, Pittsburg State University
  Date: Thursday, September 7, 1999
  

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