PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Colloquia

Up-Coming Colloquia Spring 2008:

April 2012

Title: Mapping Return Values of Extreme Wind Speeds
Speaker: Dr. Adam Pintar
Mathematical Statistician
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Date: April 5, 2012

Time: 2.00pm

Place: Yates 226

Up-Coming Colloquia Spring 2008:
April 2012

Title: How does the normal distribution sound like? Lesson plan for a high school statistics class. (Postponed)

Speaker:Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana

Date: April 3, 2012

Time: 2.00pm

Place:

Past Colloquia:
March 2012

Title: Tiny Circles: A look into the life of an "anti-hacker"

Speaker: Mr. Ben McBride, Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia national Lab

December 2011

Title: Tiny Circles: Seeing the Non-measurable Set

Speaker: Dr. Bobby Winters, PSU

Date: December 6, 2011

Title: Exploring Bivariate Data

Speaker: Dr. Ananda Jyawardhana, PSU

Date: December 1, 2011

November 2011

Title: The Electronic Revolution in Teaching Statistics and Mathematics

Speaker: Dr. Larry Marsh Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame

Date: November 17, 2011

Title:Using a trig substitution to solve a functional equation

Speaker:Dr. Tadek Dobrowolaki, Professor of Mathematics

Date:November 10, 2011

October 2011

Title:Discrete Mathematics and Tuples

Speaker:Dr. Douglas Youvan, The Youvan Fondation

Date: October 27, 2011
September 2011

Title:Apocalypse 2012: What Do Mayan Calendars & Mathematics Tell Us?

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

Date:September 15, 2011
April 2011

Title:Mapping Class Groups

Speaker:Dr. Leah Childers, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, PSU

Date: April 28,2011
April 2011

Title:The Semi Ring of nxn Lohman Matrices

Speaker:Mr. Ben Buttler, Graduate Student, PSU

Date: April 5, 2011
March 2011

Title:Napolion and Mathematics: A Case Study of the Interplay Between Mathematics and History

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

Date:March 30, 2011
March 2011

Title: Can "Pi" be there?

Speaker: Dr. Yaping Liu, Professor of Mathematics, PSU

Date: March 14, 2011
February 2011

Title: Testing for Normality in Introductory Statistics Courses

Speaker: Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana, Associate Professor of Mathematics, PSU

Date: February 8, 2011
November 2010

Title: Statistical Methods Applied to Medicine, Biology, Genetics, and Other Areas of Interest

Speaker: Dr. Michael Brimacombe, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, KUMC

November 2010

Title: Introducing Math Majors to Statistics

Speaker: Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana, Associate Professor of Mathematics, PSU

October 2010

Title: The Harr Discrete Wavelet Transform

Speaker:Dr. Jeremy wade, Asst. Professor of Mathematics, PSU

February 2010

Title: Octahedron

Speaker: Dr. John Diamantopoulos, Professor, MUST

November 2009

Title: Accelerated Life Testing: Prediction and Tolerance Bounds

Speaker: Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana, Associate Professor of Mathematics, PSU

October 2009

Title: How to Draw a Straight Line

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

September 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

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

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

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,

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

Title: Laying the Foundation for a Rewarding Actuarial Career
Speaker:Jim Rowland, FCAS, MAAA

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

Title: Smart Teaching with Smart Board
Speakers:
Date: August 29, 2006

May, 2006

Title: Credibility Theory
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Date: May 8, 2006

April, 2006

Title: Extensive Use of Small Groups in Teaching a General Education Mathematics Course
Speaker:
Date: April 5, 2006

February, 2006

Title: The Sudoku Craze: Where's the Math?
Speaker:
Date: Febraury 28, 2006

November, 2005

Title:The Way I teach Elementary Statistics
Speaker:
Date: November 10, 2005

April, 2005

Title: A Report on the ADVANCE Leadership Institute for Senior Women
Speaker:
Date: April 26, 2005

April, 2005

Title: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Bivariate Censored Data Evaluating Screening Mamography
Speaker:
Date: April 19, 2005

March, 2005

Title: Consulting verses Corporate Actuarial Practices, Pricing Transplants and Disease Management Evaluation
Speaker:
Date: March 31, 2005

March, 2005

Title: Experience with Teaching "Great Theorems in Mathematics"
Speaker:
Date: March 29, 2005

December , 2004

Title: Impact of Euler's Early Work on Undergraduate Mathematics
Speaker:
Date: December 7, 2004

December , 2004

Title: Applicatin of Predictive Density Estimation in Accelerated Life Testing to Quality Control
Speaker:
Date: December 2, 2004

November , 2004

Title:Multiple Outcome Research Overall Tests Verses Individual Tests
Speaker:
Date: November 30, 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
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September , 2004

What I learnded Teaching Quantitative Analysis in Business School
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Date: September 7, 2004

April, 2004

Title:How Big is Infinity?
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Date: April 14, 2004

Title:Public Key Encryption
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Date: April 12, 2004

March, 2004

Title:Teaching by the Moore Method: A Personal Reflection
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Date: March 31, 2004

Title:Capture-Recapture Method
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Date: March 18, 2004

January, 2004

Title: One Teacher's Experience with the Moore Method in a Foundations Course, and in a Second Semester Calculus Class
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Date: January 29, 2004

December, 2003

Title: Covering by Convex Bodies and Inscribed Balls
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Date: December 11, 2003

December, 2003

Title: Big "O" Little "o" and Twiddle
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Date: December 04, 2003

December, 2003

Title: Bailey's Minimum Bias Procedure: Statistics or Actuarial Science?
Speaker:
Date: Tuesday, December 2

October, 2003

Title: Actuarial Science
Speaker:
Date: Tuesday, October 21

September, 2003

Title: Andrei Kolmogorov-the Greatest Soviet and Russian Mathematician
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Date: Thesday, September 2

May, 2003

Title: Shifts, Graphs, and Entropy
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Date: Thursday May1

April, 2003

Title: The Formal Propositional Logic and Truth Tables
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Date: Thursday, April 17

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Date: Thursday, March 13, 2003

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Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2003

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Date: Thursday, January 30, 2003

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Date: Thursday November 21, 2002

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Date: Thursday, November 27, 2001

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Date: Thursday, November 1, 2001

September, 2001

Title: There is this problem....................
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Date: Thursday, September 13, 2001

August, 2001

Title: Design of multi-dimensional multirate systems and multi-dimensional wavelets
Speaker:
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2001

April, 2001

Title: The Role of Idle Curiosity in Mathematics
Speaker:
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2001

April, 2001

Title: Special Cases of Factoring Polynomial Matrices
Speakers:
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001

March, 2001

Title: An Introduction to the Actuarial Profession
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Date: Thursday, March 8, 2001

February, 2001

Title: SELF-COMPLEMENTARY GRAPHS
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Date: Thursday, February 8, 2001

December, 2000

Title: Mathematics and Music: A symphony of Connections
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Date: Thursday, December 7, 2000

November, 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?
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Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2000

Title: From Archimedes to Bernoulli, that's A to B
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Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2000

October, 2000

Title: Robust Product Design Using Design of Experiments
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Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000

September, 2000

Title: The Geometry of Space-time
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Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2000
Title: The Mathematics of Identification Numbers
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Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000

May, 2000

Title: Poisson, Pearson and the Long Ball
Speakers:
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2000

April, 2000

Title: Actuarial Math and Employee Benefit Careers: Perspective from an Actuary and a non-Actuary
Speakers:
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

February 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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