These are scheduled to be held Tuesdays at 1:30pm in PIGT 308 and Thursdays at 3:15pm in Bannan 407, May 4th - May 18th. Usually 2 or 3 students will speak on mathematical subjects of particular interest to them. If you have any questions about them, please contact Professor David Neel at neeld@seattleu.edu. For Colloquium questions contact organizer Jeff Boersema at boersema@seattleu.edu.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | TBD | TBD |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Apr. 20, 2023 | Bernard Deconinck, U of W | Water Waves |
| Apr. 13, 2023 | Abigail Wacher, Seattle U. | Math Models of a Wave Energy Converter |
| Apr. 6, 2023 | Panel of SU Math Grads | Career Opportunities |
| Jan. 26, 2023 | Kiana Ehsani of the Allen Institute for A.I. | Intelligence through the Lens of Interaction |
| Jan. 19, 2023 | Erin Griffin, Seattle Pacific University | What's the Deal with Solitons? |
| Jan. 12, 2023 | Anastassiya Semenova, University of Washington | Water Waves: Through the Lens of Interaction |
| Oct. 27, 2022 | Brian Fischer, Ariana Mendible & McLean Sloughter, Seattle U. | Meet Your Data Science Faculty |
| Oct. 21, 2022 | Elizabeth Gillaspy, University of Montana | Volterra's Function & Other Counterexamples |
| Oct. 20, 2022 | Frank A. Farris, Santa Clara University | Lovely Tangles: Fourier Series for Mathematical Art |
| Oct. 13, 2022 | Henrik Kalisch, University of Bergen | Ocean Waves in a Changing Climate |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Jeff Boersema, Seattle University | The Banach-Tarski Paradox |
| March 3, 2022 | David Neel, Seattle University | An Introduction to the Mathematical Philosophy of Alain Badiou |
| March 5, 2020 | Brandy Wiegers, Central Washinton U. | Mathematical Tiling & Circles |
| February 27, 2020 | David Neel, Seattle University | Saccheri / Fano / Plane |
| February 20, 2020 | Diego Arcas, NOAA | Tsunami Forecasting |
| February 13, 2020 | Ksenija Simic-Muller, PLU | Real-World Problems |
| January 30, 2020 | Nikolaos Eptaminitakis, U of W | Radon Transform |
| January 16, 2020 | Wesley Magee, The Plaster Group | Data Visualization |
| January 9, 2020 | Cathy Hsu, University of Bristol | The Mathematics of SET & Beyond |
| November 21, 2019 | Erik Tou, U of W Tacoma | Making Juggling Mathematical |
| November 14, 2019 | Ruth Vanderpool, U of W Tacoma | A Concrete Example of Incompleteness |
| November 7, 2018 | Bennet Goeckner, U of W | Graphs & Their Matching Complexes |
| October 31, 2019 | Eric Bahuaud, Seattle University | Flying Canoes, Cusps & Black Holes |
| October 24, 2019 | Grads Panel Discussion | Graduate School Application Process & Studies |
| October 17, 2019 | Toby White, Seattle University | How to Become an Actuary |
| October 10, 2019 | Steven Klee, Seattle University | Counting Spanning Trees with Linear Algebra |
| May 2, 2019 | Connor Ahlbach, University of Washington | The Sliding Game |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Brian Fischer, Seattle University | How To Give a Good Talk |
| Mar 7, 2019 | Gwen Spencer, Smith College | Influence Maximization in Networks |
| Feb 28, 2019 | Mehmet Vurkac, Seattle U Electrical Engineering | Deterministic Uncertainty In Sets, Numbers & Inference |
| Feb 21, 2019 | Tom Shelly, Edmonds Community College | Scheming to Compute Knot Polynomials |
| Feb 7, 2019 | Allison Henrich, Seattle University | A Knotty Exploration of Magic & Math |
| Jan 31, 2019 | J. McLean Sloughter, Seattle University | The Gauntlet Talk: The Law of Large Numbers |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Kamaldeen Olatunde, Arizona State University | Mathematical Models of Malaria Transmission |
| Jan 17, 2019 | Jim Humphreys, Seattle University | Math & Music Theory 301 |
| Dec 6, 2018 | Matthew Stamps, Yale-NUS | Accidental Mathematics |
| Nov 29, 2018 | Panel Discussion | Quantitative Careers: On Working In the Mathematical & Data Sciences |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Whitney Sheehan, Bewilderness Puzzles | Analytics, Entrepreneurship, & Standing at the Crossroads of Should & Must |
| Nov 8, 2018 | Cait Berry, KiloWatts for Humanity | The Mess of Working with Real World Data |
| Nov 1, 2018 | A.J. Stewart, Seattle University | When Robots Draw, Do They Trace Out Rational Curves? |
| Oct 25, 2018 | Maureen Kennedy, University of Washington | Modifying Wildfire Severity |
| Oct 18, 2018 | Joey Chemis, Microsoft | Time Series Forecasting Using ARIMAX Modeling |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Camille Minogue | A Brief Introduction to Property & Casualty Insurance |
| Oct 4, 2018 | Os Keyes, University of Washington | Encoding Gender: Bodies, Data & Identity in the Age of AI |
| Mar 8, 2018 | Jessica Sklar, Pacific Lutheran University | Money! Mystery! Murder! Madness! Metaphor! (& Mathematics) |
| Mar 1, 2018 | J. McLean Sloughter, Seattle University | Middles: Mean, Median, Metrics & Other Things That Start with M |
| Feb 22, 2018 | Dylan Helliwell, Seattle University | The Gauntlet Talk: Brouwer Fixed-Point Theorem |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Jeff Boersema, Seattle University | The Banach-Tarski Paradox |
| Feb 8, 2018 | Nicole Persson, Aon Hewitt | Actuarial Work in Healthcare Consulting |
| Feb 1, 2018 | Dan Shumow, Microsoft Research | Cryptographic Random Number Generators: From Number Theory to Snowden |
| Jan 25, 2018 | Ksenija Simic-Muller, Pacific Lutheran University | Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice: The Promise & the Practice |
| Nov 30, 2017 | Wesley Magee, Senior Tableau Consultant at Plaster Group, LLC | Data Visualization: What is Mathematical Storytelling? |
| Nov 16, 2017 | Valerio Proietti, University of Copenhagen | Line Bundles On the Sphere |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Lily Silverstein, UC Davis | Certainty from Uncertainty: The Probabilistic Method |
| Nov 2, 2017 | Julie Eaton, UW Tacoma | Polynomials & Their Critical Points |
| Oct 26, 2017 | Nicholas Scoville | Digital Topology: A Smooth Introduction |
| Oct 19, 2017 | John Carter, Seattle U | Modeling Tsunamis Using Mathematics |
| Oct 12, 2017 | Jonathan Nolis, Director of Insights & Analytics at Lenati | On Finding Good Math Industry Jobs |
| Oct 5, 2017 | Tristram Bogart, U. de los Andes | Determinants, Permanents, & Algebraic Complexity |