MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
DEPARTMENT
Another successful and eventful year has gone by for the
department. The excellence of the faculty continues to be recognized
nationally. This year again, two members have received teaching awards: Colin
Adams was the recipient of the Robert Foster Cherry Great Teacher Award, given
by Baylor University every two years to a professor in the English speaking
world without regard to discipline; Ed Burger, while on sabbatical at the
University of Colorado at Boulder, received a Residence Life Academic Teaching
Award.
We are very pleased to welcome two new mathematics
faculty and a visiting statistician. Joining us will be Assistant Professors
Allison Pacelli and Kris Tapp, along with Visiting Assistant Professor Mike
Racz. Allison Pacelli comes from Brown University where she received her Ph.D.
and where she has been a Teaching Fellow. Pacelli’s research area is
algebraic number theory. Kris Tapp received his Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania and has taught at Haverford College. He was a VIGRE Postdoctoral
Fellow at SUNY Stony Brook and comes most recently from a Keck postdoctoral
position at Bryn Mawr College. Tapp’s research area is differential
geometry. Our visiting statistician is Mike Racz who did his doctoral work in
Biometry and Statistics at SUNY Albany. Racz is currently a research scientist
at the NYS Department of Health and SUNY Research Foundation and has taught at
Marist College. One additional arrival that put great smiles on everyone’s
faces was Elias Devadoss, born on May 20, 2003.
Three faculty members will be returning from sabbatical
year leaves. Ed Burger spent his year at the University of Colorado in Bolder.
Frank Morgan spent time all over the world, including the Newton Institute in
Cambridge England, Max Planck Institute in Leipzig Germany, the Renyi Institute
in Budapest Hungary, the University of Trento in Italy, and the University of
Granada in Spain. Cesar Silva stayed close to home in Williamstown, immersed in
research in ergodic theory. We are happy to see them return, as we were when
Victor Hill returned from his fall mini sabbatical in Oxford, England.
Going on leave will be Susan Loepp. She plans to
continue her research on Commutative Rings, but will spend the majority of the
year in Williamstown. Janine Wittwer will also be going for a year and will be
at Brown University as a Visiting Scientist in Mathematics.
We bid fond farewell to Misha Chkhenkeli who is leaving
the department and Williams College to move to an Associate Professorship at
Western New England College. Misha has been at Williams since 1996 and we will
miss his cheer, great humor and, not least of all, his teaching enthusiasm
always proclaimed with his characteristic booming voice. We wish good fortune
to him and to Ia and are glad that WNEC is not too far away.
We are very proud of the accomplishments of our
graduating seniors. The Rosenberg Prize for outstanding mathematics senior was
awarded to Philippa Charters ’03 and Eric Schoenfeld ’03. Samantha
Melcher ’03 and Jonathan Pahl ’03 received the Goldberg Prize for
best colloquium. Michael Biaocchi ’03, Jonathan Hatoun ’03 and
Edvard Major ’03 shared the Morgan Prize for Teaching and/or Applied Math,
while Eric Schoenfeld ’03 won the Witte Problem Solving Prize. Edvard
Major ’03 was applauded for the highest colloquium attendance. Two rising
junior majors were honored with the Benedict Prize: Stephen Mosely ’05 and
Jordan Rodu ’05.
The department is particularly appreciative of the hard
work put in by the members of the student advisory board, SMASAB (Students of
Mathematics and Statistics Advisory Board), each of whom were heavily involved
in the faculty hiring process. The members of SMASAB were Brian Katz ’03
and Edvard Major ’03, Sarah Iams ‘04, David Jensen ’04, Aaron
Magid ’04, Andrew Marder ’04, Mike Obeiter ’04 and Jordan Rodu
’05.
Congratulations go to Eric Katerman ‘02 who was on
the honorable mention list of the 2003 National Science Foundation’s
Graduate Fellowship Awards. Eric is at the University of Texas-Austin working
toward his Ph.D. in mathematics.
Without a doubt, all days spent with mathematics are
exciting and fun, but one day this year stood out in a special way: Friday,
March 14, particularly at 1:59 pm. That was the inaugural Pi Day Celebration:
3.14159, of course! The event, SMASAB’s idea and organized by the
department chair, included apple and pumpkin pies for well over a hundred
visitors who ate, reveled merrily and stayed for the Great Pi-e Debate. Two
giants of the department, Colin Adams and Tom Garrity, met head on and debated
masterfully for the superiority of Pi versus the great virtues of e. Each
argument brought down the house. SMASAB was in the difficult position of
choosing which argument swayed the day and, only by one vote, chose Pi. Of
course, the winner had to get a Pi in the face and Colin Adams took his with
great dignity.
Professors Colin Adams and Tom Garrity argue the
virtues of Pi and e passionately in the great Pi-e Debates, held on 3/14 at
1:59:26. Aaron Magid '03 looks on with awe.
All of the members of the faculty had a busy and
productive year. Highlights of the year’s activities are as
follows.
In summer 2003, Professor Colin Adams ran a weeklong
Mathematical Association of America knot theory workshop to help college
teachers learn how to teach a course on knot theory and how to do research with
students. He will repeat the workshop in summer 2003. He gave a variety of
talks over the year, including an invited lecture at Mathfest in Burlington in
August. An earlier article, co-authored with Joey Shapiro when she was a
Williams student, was reprinted in Italian in Le Scienze, Feb. 2003. He
continues as a member of the Council of the American Mathematics Society, chair
of the subcommittee on undergraduate research for the Mathematical Association
of America and as humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer. In
addition to research papers, he is currently working on a math comic book
entitled “Why Knot?” to be published by Key Curriculum Press, and a
textbook entitled Applied Topology to be published by Prentice Hall.
In the spring, it was announced that Colin Adams is the
recipient of the Robert Foster Cherry Great Teacher Award, given by Baylor
University every two years to a professor in the English speaking world without
regard to discipline.
Professor Ollie Beaver finished her final year as Chair
of the department. She gave a pair of invited addresses at the National Meeting
of Math Department Chairs in Washington D.C. She again served as Chair of the
National Science Foundation graduate fellowship panel that decides on recipients
of NSF graduate fellowships in the Mathematical Sciences. At Williams, Beaver
served on several college committees.
In September 2002, Beaver organized the daylong event,
MathBlast!, a program of math
activities for high school aged students and their teachers. Over a hundred
students and teachers attended from the surrounding New England area. The
keynote address of the program was Tom Noddy, “The Bubble Guy,” who
gave an audience-thrilling show of bubbles within bubbles, forming cubes,
tornadoes and caterpillars. Frank Morgan completed the program with some
mathematical background of bubbles. Enthusiastic children and townsfolk filled
Bronfman Auditorium.
Beaver gave a department faculty seminar on
Orthomodularity and Relational Algebras, a recently renewed thread of research
in Quantum Logics. With Tom Garrity, she finished the paper “A
Two-Dimensional Minkowski ?(x) Function”. She attended the annual 2003
Joint Meetings of the American Mathematics Society in Baltimore. She continued
her long association with the Summer Science Program for Williams pre-firstyears
who are traditionally underrepresented in science. In this Program, Beaver
again coordinated and taught the mathematics component. In the fall, Beaver
taught for the first time in Williams’ Quantitative Studies Program. She
substantially revised the QS100 offering, introducing students to mathematical
reasoning from a non-traditional approach.
Professor Ed Burger spent the 2002–2003 academic
year on sabbatical at the University of Colorado at Boulder as the Ulam Visiting
Professor of Mathematics, where in the fall he received a Residence Life
Academic Teaching Award.
This year, Burger, in collaboration with Michael
Starbird, completed the Second Edition of their text, “The Heart of
Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking”. In addition, he
co-authored with Robert Tubbs a book entitled “Making Transcendence
Transparent: An intuitive approach to classical transcendental number
theory” to be published by Springer-Verlag. Both books will appear in
2004.
Professor Burger gave numerous lectures throughout the
country including Polya Lectures at the Mathematical Association of America
meetings in Southern California, Oklahoma-Arkansas, Missouri, and Virginia. (The
complete list of talks is given at the end of this section.) In addition, he
was a speaker at the Alumni Development Breakfast during Alumni Week in June
2002 and delivered lectures to the Williams Alumni Associations of both Portland
and Seattle.
Professor Mikhail Chkhenkeli continued his research in
Four Dimensional Topology and Gauge Theory. He investigated the problem of
determining quadratic forms that occur as intersection forms of smooth
4-manifolds, and the problem of determining the genera of homology classes of
4-manifolds and representing them by smoothly embedded 2-spheres.
Chkhenkeli gave talks at Western New England College,
North Park University, Oxford College of Emory University, Armstrong Atlantic
State University, and St. Joseph’s University. At Williams he developed
and taught a new course “Counterexamples in Topology.” The course
was part of the Critical Reasoning and Analytical Skills initiative. He was one
of the organizers of MathBlast! 2002 - a Math event for High school
students.
In the summer of 2002, Chkhenkeli taught accelerated
courses in Mathematical Reasoning and Game Theory at the summer program
organized by the Center for Talented Youth and the Institute for the Academic
Advancement of Youth (The Johns Hopkins University). In the summer of 2003, he
has been invited by the CTY/IAAY to teach courses in Mathematical Logic,
Probability Theory, and Game Theory.
In his first year here at Williams, Professor Satyan
Devadoss was filled with joy. He received NSF funding to represent Williams
College at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China in
August 2002. Along with giving various talks at Williams, he was invited to
speak at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, and at the AMS
conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Devadoss continued his research on configuration spaces
and compactifications. He received a three-year NSF grant, along with a course
load reduction, on Computational and Algorithmic Representation of Geometric
Objects (CARGO) for his work on Geodetic Surfaces. He will offer a course next
spring based on this material. His work on the space of cyclohedra appeared in
the journal of Discrete and Computational Geometry.
Professor Devadoss also had a great time getting to know
the students here. He organized the Green Chicken and Putnam math contests here
at Williams, and helped Professor Wittwer with the Hudson River Valley Math
Conference at Union College, where he gave a talk. Devadoss also designed a
senior seminar course in the fall on Geometric Group theory. Eric Engler
’04 worked with him on relations between braid groups and juggling; Steve
Winslow ’04 started to design a program to model particle collisions on
1-manifolds; Brent Yorgey ’04 began to reorganize the Geometric Group
theory course into a student manual. Furthermore, new investigations by his
first-year class of Discrete Math students (Math 251) enabled him to produce
original research on truncations of cubes and simplices.
Professor Richard De Veaux returned from his sabbatical
in Toulouse, France where he finished work on his book,
Intro Stats, which was published in May
2003. The book is co-authored with Paul Velleman of Cornell University. An AP
version of the book, for high school, Stats:
Modeling the World, with additional author Dave Bock of Ithaca High
School will be published this summer.
De Veaux continued his research and presentations
throughout the US and the world on data mining, including keynote speeches at
conferences in Paris and Dubrovnik, Croatia. He delivered the Arlin Feyerherm
Lecture at Kansas State University in March. His paper with Paul Solomon and
several thesis students on the ineffectiveness of Ginkgo Biloba for memory
enhancement was published in JAMA in
August 2002. He published several other papers that listed in the faculty
publications section.
De Veaux continued his service on the Data Mining Forum
of GlaxoSmithKline and served on the Committee on Meetings for the American
Statistical Association. He retired from his duties as associate editor of
Technometrics.
Professor Tom Garrity continued his research in geometry
and number theory. With Ollie Beaver, he finished the paper “A
Two-Dimensional Minkowski ?(x) Function”. With Sami Assaf, Li-Chung Chen,
Tegan Cheslack-Postava, Benjamin Cooper, Alexander Diesl, Mathew Lepinski and
Adam Schuyler, he finished the paper “A Dual Approach to Triangle
Sequences: A Multidimensional Continued Fraction Algorithm”. He learned a
great deal from his three thesis students: Mike Baiocchi, Edvard Major, and Mark
Rothlisberger. During the summer of 2002, he gave a two-hour workshop to area
high school teachers on number theory. In October, he led a similar workshop to
a number of teachers from Berkshire County. In November, he spoke to many
Williams staff members on his number theory research at the Williams College
Faculty Club. In March, he spoke to a few hundred middle-schoolers in the
Connecticut MathCounts state competition. He also spoke a number of times
within the department.
Victor E. Hill IV, Thomas T. Read Professor of
Mathematics, spent the fall semester on sabbatical leave in Oxford. While there
he completely revised his course Mathematical
Logic course, continued his
research on the group-theoretic aspects of change ringing, and began work on a
book derived from his Mathematics of
Finance course, under contract to Prentice Hall. On his return, he again
offered his English Winter Study, Fantasy
Novels of C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams.
Professor Hill continues his work as a professional
harpsichordist, also serving the Association of Anglican Musicians as its
Archivist, a member of the Editorial Board, and the sole reviewer of recordings
for the Journal of the
Association.
Professor Stewart Johnson continued his research in
dynamical systems, modeling, and optimal control with a focus on optimal
periodic switching strategies. Given two independent actions and a measure of
performance, the question is how to switch between those actions to optimize
performance. Johnson has established generic conditions in two-dimensional
systems for the existence of micro cycles, and that performance behaves smoothly
even as these cycles tend to zero. These results have been submitted to SIAM
Journal on Control and Optimization. Johnson is currently working on extending
these results to three or more dimensions.
Johnson has acted as a statistical consultant for
research conducted at Neurological Consultants of Bennington by Dr. Keith
Edwards, ’69. This research is an ongoing effort to establish the safety
and efficacy of Galantamine as treatment for dementia with Lewy bodies.
Professor Johnson remains active in the college-wide
Quantitative Formal Reasoning program with the goal of assuring that every
Williams student can engage basic quantitative reasoning with clarity and
confidence.
Professor Susan Loepp continued her research in
commutative algebra. Professor Loepp co-authored a paper published in the
Proceedings of the American Mathematical
Society and had a paper accepted in the
Journal of Algebra. Loepp attended the
annual Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore Maryland in January. In May, she
gave an invited talk on her current research in the special session on
Commutative Algebra at a sectional American Mathematical Society meeting in San
Francisco, California.
Loepp advised the research of two senior honors thesis
students this year, Brian Katz ’03 and Philippa Charters whose research
represented outstanding and original work.
In fall 2002 Loepp team-taught the interdisciplinary
course Protecting Information: Applications
of Abstract Algebra and Quantum Physics with W. Wootters (Physics). They
are currently writing a textbook based on the material from the course.
Professor Frank Morgan, during his sabbatical year,
visited Peru, the Newton Institute in Cambridge England, Argentina, the Max
Planck Institute in Leipzig Germany, the Renyi Institute in Budapest Hungary,
the University of Trento in Italy, and the University of Granada in Spain. He
gave mathematical talks on his recent proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture and
popular talks on soap bubbles and mathematics, about 35 in all, including seven
talks in Spanish in Peru, Argentina, and Spain, and one joint talk in Italian in
Italy. While in Peru he did the famous four-day hike on the Inca Trail to the
long-lost city of Machu Picchu.
Milestone papers of his undergraduate research Geometry
Group were published this year, including the proof of the double bubble
conjecture in four-dimensional space (Pacific
Journal of Mathematics) and extensions to spherical and hyperbolic spaces
(International Journal of Mathematics and
Applications of Mathematics). Four other student papers were submitted
or accepted for publication. This summer Neil Hoffman ’04 and Stephen
Moseley ’05 will join the work.
Morgan himself published two research papers and has ten
others in the works. He served on the visiting committee for the Harvey Mudd
College Mathematics Department.
Professor Cesar Silva was on sabbatical during the
2002-03 academic year. At the beginning of his leave, he taught in the Summer
Science Program and was director of the SMALL summer research program. As part
of SMALL, he supervised a group in ergodic theory consisting of Sarah Iams
’04, Brian Katz ’03, Brian Street (Virginia ’03), and Kirsten
Wickelgren (Harvard ’03).
In August, Silva completed the final revisions of a paper
with A. del Junco that was accepted for publication in the journal
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.
In the fall, he completed a paper from SMALL ’01 with Kate Gruher (Chicago
’03), Fred Hines ’02, Deepam Patel (Brandeis ’02), and Robert
Waelder (Berkeley ’02); this paper recently appeared in the
New York Journal of Mathematics. In
January, Kate Gruher, one of the coauthors of this paper, was awarded the
Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman by the
Association for Women in Mathematics. In October, Silva gave a talk at the
meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Boston, and later completed a
paper with John that was submitted for publication in the spring. He also had a
paper with O. Ageev accepted for publication in
Topology Proceedings.
During Winter Study, Silva sponsored one student in a
photography independent study and was second sponsor of another independent
study.
In winter, he worked on the last version of a paper with
Darren Creutz ’01 that was later accepted for publication in
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.
He also gave a talk on this topic at the spring dynamics meeting at the
University of Maryland. The final version of the SMALL ’02 paper was
completed and submitted for publication in the spring. In June, he gave a talk
at the Canadian Mathematical Society Meeting in Edmonton, Alberta. During the
late spring and early summer, Silva worked on his book “Invitation to
Ergodic Theory” which, in preliminary versions, he has used to teach his
senior seminars at Williams.
In the spring, Silva was awarded a grant by the National
Research Council’s Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering program.
This grant will support the visit of his colleague A. Danilenko from Ukraine for
six weeks in the fall. An article that was the first result of their
collaboration had been accepted for publication in the
Journal of the London Mathematical
Society. Silva was also a reviewer for
Mathematical Reviews.
Professor Janine Wittwer attended the joint national
meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association
of America in Baltimore, held in January 2003. In March, she traveled to
Bloomington, Indiana to participate in the special session “Harmonic
Analysis in the 21st century”.
She is currently working on expanding a powerful mathematical method (the
“Method of Bellman functions”) to work in a more general setting
(Wavelets). This work is supported by a grant of the National Science
Foundation.
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIA
Colin Adams, Williams College
“How Many Different Ways Can You Generalize
Alternating Knots?”
“Blown Away: What Knot to Do When
Sailing”
“Decomposing Space into Little
Pieces”
“Meridians of Hyperbolic Knots”
Olga R. Beaver, Williams College
“Orthomodularity and Relational
Algebras”
Matthias Beck, SUNY, Binghamton
“The Coin-Exchange Problem of
Frobenius”
Nedret Billor, University of Iowa
“Can One Person’s Noise Be Another
Person’s Signal?: Outliers”
Greg Buck, St. Anselm College
“Physical Knot Theory”
Satyan Devadoss, Williams College
“Coxeter Groups and
Polytopes”
“Blowing Up Cubes: Making Your Mom
Proud”
Richard DeVeaux, Williams College
“Data Mining: A View from Down in the
Pit”
“Data Mining in the Real World: Where Did All the Data
Go?”
Susan Engel, Williams College
“How Much Is a Million? Teaching Math to
Elementary and High School Students”
Thomas Garrity, Williams College
“On Extending Functions via
Geometry”
“Renormalizing, Compactifying and Tauberian
Theorems”
Terje Hoim, Trinity College
“Mathematics in Our Lives: Exchange Economies and
Equilibrium Analysis”
Stewart Johnson, Williams College
“Cruising with Elmer: Further Thoughts on Farther
Travel”
Gabriel Katz, Bennington College
“Taut Maps
M3 →
S1 and the 2-Cycles, Realizing the
Thurston Norm”
Michelle Lacey, Yale University
“On Convergence Rates of the Neighbor-Joining
Method for Phylogeny Reconstruction”
Michael Larsen, University of Chicago
“Use of Latent Class Models in Census and Survey
Applications”
Gary Lawlor, Brigham Young University
“Proving Minimization by Multiple
Slicing”
Christopher Leary, State University of New York,
Geneseo
“On Number”
Susan Loepp, Williams College
“Troublesome Excellent
Rings”
“Completions of Excellent Integral
Domains”
“Generic Formal Fibers of Polynomial Ring
Extensions”
“Local Generic Formal Fibers”
Frank Morgan, Williams College
“Double Bubble Problems”
H. William Oliver, Williams College
“The New AKS Primality Test”
Allison Pacelli, Brown University
“Polynomials, Primes, and Fermat’s Last
Theorem”
Enrique Peacock-Lopez, Williams College
“Isolas, Mushrooms and Other Complex
Dynamics”
Steven Roberts, Stanford University
“Air Pollution Mortality Displacement”
Cesar Silva, Williams College
“On First Digits of Powers of Gelfand’s
Problem”
Linda Smolka, Duke University
“Prediction on the Stall of a Falling Drop of
Viscoelastic Fluid”
Kristopher Tapp, Bryn Mawr College
“Finiteness Theorems in Geometry”
Glen Van Brummelen, Bennington College
“Computing without Computers: Serving the Needs of
Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Islam”
Janine Wittwer, Williams College
“Bellman Functions for Wavelets”
MATHEMATICS STUDENT COLLOQUIA
Gabriel Anello ’03
“Two Team Sports Draft”
Jennifer Ashkenazi ’03
“117 Teams; 16 Weeks of Play; 12 Leagues; 27 Bowl
Games...1 National Champion. Who Really Is No. 1? The ranking of College
Football Teams”
Michael Baoicchi ’03
“An Examination of Outcome Sensitivity to Deception
in a Case-Control Study of Second-Hand Smoking or What to Do If Your Mom Lies
about Smoking”
Eileen Bevis ’03
“PRIMES Is in P?”
Tracy Borawski ’03
“The 15 Puzzle: How to Stump Your Mom”
Philippa Charters ’03
“When “Nice” Differential Equations Go
Bad: The Lewy Example”
Adam Cole ’03
“Backwards Induction Is Not Robust or Why You
Can’t Always Trust Your Mom in a Truel”
Garrett DiCarlo ’03
“It’s Fourth and 4 on the 50: What Should
Coach Belichick Do?”
Jennifer Doleac ’03
“Analyzing Dichotomous Dependent Variables Using
Logistic Regression, or How to Predict Absolutely Anything about Your
Mom”
William Edgar ’03
“Throwing Darts with Your Mom, or, Is the Continuum
Hypothesis False?”
Robert Gonzalez ’03
“AES: The Best Way to Hide your Internet Movie
Collection from Your Mom”
Matthew Grunwald ’03
“RISKing It All”
Jonathan Hatoun ’03
“Modeling the Transmission of the HIV
Virus”
Thomas Hodgson ’03
“The Game of “Guess It” or How to Bluff
Your Mom Out of 30 Grand”
Rachel Horwitz ’03
“Unstable Democracy”
Cheng Hu ’03
“Transaction Processing: Theory of
Correctness”
David Isaacs ’03
“Card Shuffling and Randomness”
Teodora Ivanova ’03
“A Surprising Connection between Hamming Codes and
the Hat Problem”
Brian Katz ’03
“HOMFLY and Your Mom: Polynomials and
Braids”
Taimur Khilji ’03
“Picard’s Proof”
Daniel Klasik ’03
“The Banach-Tarski Paradox, or How to Turn Your Mom
into a Turkey”
Thomas Kramer ’03
“O.J. Simpson Was Innocent...Right?: Does the
Glove Fit You?”
Andrew Layng ’03
“Coloring Maps on Surfaces”
Robert Lopez ’03
“Probabilities and Numbers: What Is the
Probability That a Random Number Contains a Certain Property”
Edvard Major ’03
“On Voting Coalitions and Power Indices. Should
Your Mom Be a Politician?”
John Martino ’03
“Oh Number Pi, or Are the Digits of Pi an
Independently and Identically Distributed Sequence?”
Samantha Melcher ’03
“The abc Conjecture: A New Simple Question about
Numbers”
Karl Remsen ’03
“Why Chris Garvin’s Mom Had Trouble Tiling
Her Kitchen Floor with Unequal Equilateral Triangles”
Jonathan Pahl ’03
“Bagging and Boosting: Toward Additive Logistic
Regression”
Mark Rothlisberger ’03
“The Continuous Wavelet Transform: Wavelets and
Your Mom, or, rather, Their Mom”
Eric Schoenfeld ’03
“Can You Prove the Existence of Your Mom without
Offering a Construction? Algebraic Curves, Invariants, and Hilbert’s
Finite Basis”
Melissa Skeffington ’03
“Markov Chains and Margarita Madness”
Karn Tepvorachai ’03
“Surprise and Entropy”
Hiteshwar Walia ’03
“Many Classical Knot Invariants Are Not Vassiliev
Invariants”
OFF-CAMPUS
COLLOQUIA
Colin Adams
“Cleanliness of Geodesics in Hyperbolic
3-Manifolds”
AMS-UMI Joint Meeting, Pisa, Italy
“Mel Slugbate’s Real Estate in Hyperbolic
Space”
Wake Forest University
PREP Knot Theory Workshop
Wake Forest
University
“Using Class Time
Well”
“Attracting Majors to Mathematics”
Panelist,
Project NexT, Burlington, VT
“Generalizing Alternating
Knots”
Discrete Mathematical Methods Special Session, Mathfest,
Burlington, VT
“Blown Away: What Knot to Do When
Sailing”
MAA Student Lecture, Mathfest, Burlington, VT; Hampshire
Summer Math Program, Amherst, MA;
Middlebury College; University of
Connecticut; Duquesne University;
Southern Connecticut State University;
SUNY-Potsdam;
Pi Mu Epsilon Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, St.
John’s University; Allegheny College
“Hyperbolic Knots, Links and 3-Manifolds: A
Pictorial Introduction”
University of Connecticut
“Why Knot?”
Allegheny College, Meadville
Area High School, Meadville, PA
“Mel Slugbate’s Real Estate in Hyperbolic
Space”
Allegheny College; Boston College; Brown
University;
Hansmann Lecture, Hamilton College; Texas Christian University;
University of Arkansas;
Pi Mu Epsilon Undergraduate Mathematics Conference,
St. John’s University
“Meridians for Hyperbolic
Knots”
University of Texas
Edward B. Burger
Pacific Northwest AMS/MAA Meeting, Invited Address
Project NexT Workshop, Invited Special Session (with M.
Starbird)
MAA Mathfest 2002, Invited MAA Minicourse (with M.
Starbird)
Kansas State University, Fall Undergraduate Lecture
Series
Kansas City Mathematics Technology EXPO, Keynote
Address
NCTM Conference, Boston, MA, Keynote Address
Eisenhower Professional Development Workshop
Southern California MAA Meeting, Harvey Mudd College,
Polya Lecture
Strategies in Mathematics Education Workshop
6th Annual
R.L. Moore Legacy Conference, The University of Texas, Austin, Invited
Address
Oklahoma-Arkansas MAA Meeting, Polya Lecture
Missouri Section MAA Meeting, Polya Lecture
Maryland, DC, Virginia MAA Meeting, Polya Lecture
32nd Annual
Mathematics Symposium, Frostburg State University, Keynote Address
Kansas State University
Lyman Briggs School Lecture Series, Michigan State
University
Lectures and Forums Series, Mesa State College
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
The Gordon Lectureship in Mathematics, Denison
University
Claremont Colloquium, Scripps College
Athenaeum Lecture, Claremont McKenna College
Spring 2003 Interdisciplinary Mathematics Lecture,
California State University at Fresno
Second Annual Hari Shanker Lecture, University of
Northern Iowa
Northern Illinois University
University of Colorado at Boulder
Colorado College
University of California at Northridge
Satyan Devadoss
“Associahedra and Products of
Simplices”
Joint Mathematics Meeting, Baltimore, MD
“Polyhedra in Tori and Projective
Spaces”
Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic
Geometry, Baton Rouge, LA
“Particle Collisions and Blowing Up
Cubes”
Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Union
College
Richard De Veaux
“Data Mining: Where Do We Start?”
ASA
JSM Overview Lecture, New York City
ITI Conference, Dubrovnik,
Croatia
“Using Data Mining Techniques to Harvest
Information in Clinical Trials”
ASA JSM, New York City
“Successful Data Mining in Practice – Where
Do We Start?”
Data Mining Summit, Paris; Kansas ASA Chapter,
Manhattan, KS; Northern Illinois ASA Summer Workshop
“We Had So Much Data – Where Did It
Go?”
Arlin Feyerherm Lecture, Kansas State University
“Ready, Tech, Go – If Technology Has
Revolutionized the Teaching of Statistics, Why Are We Teaching the Same Old
Course?”
Rhode Island Community College; Triton Community College;
Valencia Community College;
AMATYC, Phoenix, AZ; ICTCM, Orlando, FL; CMC3,
Anaheim, CA;
ARCOTS, East Tennessee State University; Grand Valley State
University; Harrisburg Community College
Susan Loepp
“Characterization of Completions of Excellent
Domains of Characteristic Zero”
American Mathematical Society
Sectional Conference, San Francisco
Frank Morgan
“La Pompa de Jabón
Doble”
Catholic University, Lima, Peru
“Soap Bubbles: Open Problems”
Frame
Lecture, MAA MathFest, Burlington, Vermont
“Planar Bubble Clusters”
Newton
Institute, Cambridge, England
“Double Bubbles in the
Three-Torus”
Newton Institute, Cambridge, England
“Instabilities” (with Ken Brakke)
Newton
Institute, Cambridge, England
Teaching Workshop
Columbia University
“The Soap Bubble Geometry
Contest”
University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Newton Institute,
Cambridge, England
“Proof of the Double Bubble
Conjecture”
Furman University, South Carolina; Princeton University
Analysis Seminar;
University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Connecticut Valley
Colloquium;
conference, St. Norbert
College, Wisconsin
“Double Bubbles: Past, Present, and
Future”
Connecticut Valley Colloquium
“Soap Bubbles”
Brigham Young University
Undergraduate Colloquium; Taylor Symposium, Rutgers University
“Soap Bubble Instabilities”
AMS meeting,
Salt Lake City
“Soap Bubble News and Open
Questions”
conference, St. Norbert
College, Wisconsin
“Soap Bubbles and
Mathematics”
Greifswald, Germany; ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary;
Exeter Academy;
Vermont Middle Schoolers; RUMBUS undergraduate mathematics
conference, Boston University
“The Double Bubble Theorem”
Free
University, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany;
Renyi
Institute, Budapest, Hungary; GMT and Calculus of Variations workshop, Sardagna,
Italy
“El Teorema de la Pompa
Doble”
University of Cordoba, Argentina
“Pompas de Jabón y las
Matemáticas”
University of Córdoba, Argentina
“Soap Bubbles and Crystals”
Trento,
Italy
“Bolle di Sapone e la Matematica” (with
Ítalo Tamanini and Laura Pretti)
Trento, Italy
“Pompas de Jabón y
Matemáticas”
Granada, Spain; Málaga, Spain;
Jaén, Spain; Almería, Spain
“Double Bubble Problems”
First joint
meeting of American and Spanish math societies, Sevilla, Spain
Cesar E. Silva
“On Weak Mixing and Multiple Recurrence for
Infinite Measure-Preserving Transformations”
AMS Meeting, Boston,
MA
“Mixing on a Class of Rank One
Transformations”
Dynamics Conference, University of
Maryland
Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting
Janine Wittwer
“Wavelets and Bellman Functions”
Joint
AMS/MAA Meetings, Baltimore, MD; Harmonic Analysis Special Session, AMS Meeting,
Baltimore, MD
“Bellman Functions and
Wavelets”
University of Connecticut
POSTGRADUATE PLANS OF MATHEMATICS MAJORS
Gabriel Anello |
Working in Chicago. |
Jennifer Ashkenazi |
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Michael Baiocchi |
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Eileen Bevis |
Working as an English
Teaching Assistant in the Austrian Alps, courtesy of the Fulbright Commission,
while applying to graduate schools in Sociology. |
Tracy Borawski |
Working as an Assistant
CFO/Analyst/Administrative position at CCGrowth in Boston, MA, while
living in South Boston. |
Philippa Charters |
Pursuing a Ph.D. in
mathematics at the University of Texas, Austin. |
Adam Cole |
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Garrett DiCarlo |
Working as an Investment
Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers in New York City. |
Jennifer Doleac |
Research Assistant
in the Economics Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, in Washington,
DC. |
William Edgar |
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Robert Gonzalez |
Deciding what to do
while traveling the world. |
Matthew Grunwald |
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Jonathan Hatoun |
Teaching high school
math at the Kent Denver School in Denver, CO. |
Thomas Hodgson |
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Rachel Horwitz |
Fellowship in the Applied
Ocean Physics and Engineering Department with the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute in Woods Hole, MA, will be in San Diego, CA doing research
on surf zone wave dynamics. |
Cheng Hu |
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David Isaacs |
Investment Banking
at Barrington Associates in Los Angeles, CA. |
Teodora Ivanova |
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Brian Katz |
Pursuing a Ph.D. in
mathematics at the University of Texas, Austin |
Taimur Khilji |
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Daniel Klasik |
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Thomas Kramer |
Teaching second grade
at the American School of Guatemala. |
Andrew Layng |
Analyst in sales and
trading at Lehman Brothers in New York, NY |
Robert Lopez |
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Edvard Major |
Working in the Equity
Sales and Trading Program in the Equity Derivatives Division of JP Morgan
Chase in New York City, then pursuing a Ph.D. in economics, or an MBA
or Ph.D. in finance or a Ph.D. in statistics. |
John Martino |
Training this summer
at Carroll College in Helena, MT to be a Campus Missionary for the Fellowship
of Catholic University Students. |
Samantha Melcher |
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Jonathan Pahl |
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Karl Remsen |
Teaching outdoor education
at Colorado Outdoor Education Center in Florissant, CO. |
Mark Rothlisberger |
Teaching in the Computer
Lab at the Williamstown Elementary School, then attending graduate school
in math. |
Eric Schoenfeld |
Applying to math graduate
school in the fall. |
Melissa Skeffington |
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Karn Tepvorachai |
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Hiteshwar Walia |
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