Longwood University

Mathematics & Computer Science Colloquium Series

Academic Year 2008/09 Schedule


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As usual, we will meet for a social with the speaker from 3:30 to 4:00 in the Math & Computer Science Department Lounge (Ruffner 300A).  The presentation will be from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in Ruffner 356.  Please join us!

To view the colloquium series schedules from previous academic years please click here!  Interested in being a colloquium speaker or just want more information?  Then please contact your friendly colloquium coordinators (a.k.a. the "Colloquium Committee"):  Dr. Leigh Lunsford or Dr. David Shoenthal.

Date

Speaker

Title of Presentation

(With Link to Abstract

& Presenter Bio)

4 September

(Thursday)

Ms. Kristin Yvonne Rozier
Formal Methods Group

Safety Critical Avionics Systems Branch

NASA Langley Research Center

On Formal Methods

23 September

(Tuesday)

Mr. Todd A. Phillips

Department of Mathematics

Mills E. Godwin High School

Richmond, VA

Dr. Strangelove:  or How I Stopped Resisting and Learned to Love Education

9 October

(Thursday)

Dr. Paul F. Hemler

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Hampden Sydney College

Personal Robots in Computer Science Education

30 October

(Thursday)

Fretting—The Math Behind It

18 November

(Tuesday)

Dr. Brian Lins

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Hampden Sydney College

Nonnegative Matrices

27 January

(Tuesday)

Dr. Nicholas Robbins

Assistant Professor, Mathematics - Sciences

Department of Mathematics

Gettysburg College

Pleading the Fifth: Euclid's Parallel Postulate

17 February

(Tuesday)

Dr. David Bernstein

Professor of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science

James Madison University

Getting from Here to There

5 March

(Thursday)

Dr. Stephen Morse

Retired Consultant

Adjunct Faculty Member

George Mason University

How Five Regular Solids Turned into Seventy-five

2 April

(Thursday)

Mr. Brandon Taylor

Instructor of Mathematics

Lord Botetourt High School

Daleville, Virginia

What They Don’t Teach You About Secondary Education