Mathematics Colloquium

Calendar of upcoming talks available here

The Mathematics Colloquia is a series of talks by the Willamette University Math Department and visiting speakers. These talks are aimed at faculty and undergraduate math students and will introduce the audience to fun, interesting applications of undergraduate mathematics, as well as more advanced topics in mathematics research. Unless otherwise noted, Colloquium talks will be held Thursdays at 4:00pm in Ford Room 102. Refreshments will be provided. We hope you can join us! If you would like more information, please contact Prof. Erin McNicholas.

Colloquium Schedule 2012-2013

Thursday, October 3rd, Ford 102, 4:10p-5:10p

Yumi Li

Math Major

Put Your Thinking CAPS On
(Exploring Finite Geometry in the Card Game SET®)

Besides being a great card game, SET® serves as an excellent model for the ﬁnite geometry AG(n,3). Using the SET® cards as a visual representation, we will explore the structure of maximal caps and how we can manipulate them to discover new properties and substructures of AG(n,3). This work was done at the Research Experience for Undergraduates program at Lafayette College.

Abstracts Archive

Past 2013-14 Talks

September -

9/19 Ryan Wright, Janrain Inc.
Computing the Coming Robot Apocalypse: The math behind Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mathematics