PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Colloquia
Up-Coming Colloquia Spring 2008:
October 2009
- Title: Accelerated Life Testing: Prediction and Tolerance Bounds
- Speaker: Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana, Associate Professor of Mathematics, PSU
Date: October 27
Time: 3.00 p.m.
Place: Yates 215
October 2009
- Title: How to Draw a Straight Line
- Speaker: Dr. Elwyn Davis, Professor of Mathematics, PSU
Date: October 27
Time: 3.00 p.m.
Place: Yates 215
Past Colloquia:
October 2009
- Title: Into the Pyramid
- Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Woodburn, Professor of Mathematics, PSU
May 2009
- 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
March 2009
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
November 2008
- 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
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,
February 2008
- Title: Square Root of 2
- Speaker: Dr. Bobby Winters
Professor, PSU Mathematics Department
November , 2007
- Title: Mathematical Genealogies
- Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Woodburn, Professor, PSU Mathematics
Department
October , 2007
- Title: Tha Amazing $15 Computer (No Electricity Needed)
- Speaker: Dr. Elwyn Davis, Professor, PSU Mathematics Department
April , 2007
March , 2007
- 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
February , 2007
- Title: Teaching the Teachers
- Speaker: Dr. Karla Childs
Date: March 8, 2007
Time: 2.00 p.m.
Place: Yates 215
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
August, 2006
May, 2006
April, 2006
February, 2006
November, 2005
April, 2005
April, 2005
March, 2005
- Title: Consulting verses Corporate Actuarial Practices, Pricing Transplants and Disease Management Evaluation
- Speaker:
Steele Stewart, FSA
BCBS of Kansas
- Date:
March 31, 2005
March, 2005
December , 2004
December , 2004
November , 2004
October , 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
September , 2004
April, 2004
March, 2004
January, 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
December, 2003
December, 2003
December, 2003
October, 2003
- Title:
Actuarial Science
- Speaker:
Jim Roland FCSA
Allstate Insurance Company
- Date:
Tuesday, October 21
September, 2003
May, 2003
- Title:
Shifts, Graphs, and Entropy
- Speaker:
Dr. Bobby Winters
Professor
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday May1
April, 2003
March, 2003
- Title:
- Speaker:
Dr. Elwyn Davis
Professor
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday, March 13, 2003
March, 2003
- Title:
Romotely Controlled Students- a Case Study
- Speaker:
Dr. Bob Backes
Professor
Dept. of Physics
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
February, 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
January, 2003
- Title:
Pridictive Density Estimation Using Two Factors of Acceleration
- Speaker:
Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana
Assistant Professor
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday, January 30, 2003
December, 2002
- Title:
Moore-Penrose Generalized Inverses
- Speaker:
Dr. Gary McGrath
Professor of Mathematics
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday, December 05, 2002
November, 2002
- Title:
What does SL(2,R) look like?
- Speaker:
Dr. Bobby Winters
Professor of Mathematics
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday November 21, 2002
October, 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
October, 2002
- Title:
- Speaker:
Dr. Yaping Liu
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday October 17, 2002
September, 2002
- Title:
Understanding Islamic Art
- Speaker:
Dr. Gloria Sanok
Mathematisc Teacher, West Caldwell, N.J.
September, 2002
- 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
May, 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
April, 2002
- Title:
- Speaker:
Dr. David Surowski
Kansas State University
- Date:
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
March, 2002
- Title:
Computational Algebra Methods in Digital Signal Processing
- Speaker:
Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
February, 2002
- Title:
Using Academic Systems to Teach Online Courses
- Speaker:
Dr. Kerry Johnson
Missouri Southern State College
- Date:
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
November, 2001
- Title:
Eiganvalues, Eignavectors, and Eiganvalue Decomposition
- Speaker:
Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday, November 27, 2001
November, 2001
- Title:
Using Blackboard in Mathematics Classes
- Speaker:
Dr. Hazel Coltharp
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday, November 15, 2001
November, 2001
- Title:
Shape of Things
A mild introduction to Topology
- Speaker:
Dr. Bobby Winters
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday, November 1, 2001
September, 2001
August, 2001
April, 2001
April, 2001
March, 2001
February, 2001
December, 2000
November, 2000
October, 2000
September, 2000
May, 2000
- Title:
Poisson, Pearson and the Long Ball
- Speakers:
Justin Burchett and Brian Townsend
Pittsburg State University
- Date:
Thursday, May 4, 2000
April, 2000
March, 2000
- Title:
Cardano: Egregious Scoundrel
Speaker:
Dr. Ramon Figueroa, Department of Mathematics, PSU
Date:
Thursday, March 30, 2000
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Title:
All the Reid(emeister) Moves
Speaker:
Professor Bobby Winters
of Department of Mathematics,
Pittsburg State University
Date:
Thursday, March 2, 2000
February 2000
December 1999
October 1999
September 1999
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Title:
Grobner Bases Revolutionzing Commutative Algebra
Speaker:
Dr. Cynthia Woodburn
of Department of Mathematics,
Pittsburg State University
Date:
Tuesday, September 28, 1999
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Title:
The Java Jive
Speaker:
Professor Bobby Winters
of Department of Mathematics,
Pittsburg State University
Date:
Thursday, September 7, 1999
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