Ferris State University

Mathematics Department

MATH COLLOQUIUM

As general rule, colloquia are held on Thursdays at 11:15 am with refreshments at 11:00 am.
There are exceptions, so be alert. To suggest, or if you would like to give a talk, contact Dr. Siddikov

Thursday, October 11, 2001, Dr. Bahodir Siddikov (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Numerical Simulation of the Active Magnetic Regenerative Refrigerator , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Tuesday, November 27, 2001, Dr. Hengli Jiao (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan, Global Existence and Blow-up for Semilinear Wave Equations in High Space Dimensions , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, February 14, 2002, Robert McCullough (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Wright Stuff - The Mathematics of the Wright Brothers , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, March 21, 2002, Dr. Griffith Nyuydinkong (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Some Inequalities for the Polar Derivative of a Polynomial , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, April 25, 2002, Dr. Lakshmi Mukundan (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Fre'chet Differentiability of the Substitution Operator in the space H1=H1/P(T), where H1 ia a Sobolev Space and P(T) is the Set of all Periodic Functions of Period T , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, September 26, 2002, Art Sherwood (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) MATH 'Ala Mode' or 'Enhancements to Teaching 100 level Math' , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, October 24, 2002, Dr. Joseph Tripp (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Some Characteristics of a Radically Reformed College-Level Mathematics Course , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, November 21, 2002, Dr. Kent Sun (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) A Tree Grows in Big Rapids: an Introduction to the Statistical Method of Recursive Partitioning , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, February 06, 2003, Dr. Vaclav Konecny (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Solution to the Problem Published in Crux Mathematicorum, 28: No 4, May 2002, p. 245 , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Friday, February 21, 2003, Dr. James Marshall (Mathematics Department, Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois) The Development and Implementation of a Mathematics Placement Program , 3:00 pm, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, March 20, 2003, Frances Allegretto (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Case Against Using Calculators in the Classroom , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Friday, April 25, 2003, Dr. Glenn Appleby (Mathematics Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California) Fields of Dreams: Early Calculus and Infinitesimals , 3:00 pm, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, September 18, 2003, Dr. Bahodir Siddikov (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Development and Implementation of a Web-Based Method of Instruction for Applied Calculus , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, October 9, 2003, Dr. Zhengfang Zhou (Mathematics Department, Michigan State University, Michigan) Some Recent Results and Applications of Nonlinear Heat Equations , 11:00 am, Room Starr 136.

Thursday, October 16, 2003, Dr. Griff McTume (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Some Extensions of the Enestrom-Kakeya Theorem , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, November 13, 2003, Robert McCullough (Mathematics Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) An Investigation Into the Mathematical Principles Underlying Hypersonic Velocity and Ion Propulsion , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, November 20, 2003,Prof. James Walker (Humanities Department, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Geometry of Renaissance Art. , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, February 12, 2004, James Howard (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Generalizations of the Counterfeit Coin Problem. , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, March 25, 2004,Prof. Glenda Lappan (Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, Michigan) The Challenge of Teaching Mathematics so that Students Learn to Think Mathematically. , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, April 15, 2004,Prof. Daniel Mihalko (Department of Statistics, Western Michigan University, Michigan) Credit Scoring Methodology in Banking. , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, September 23, 2004, Adam Jensen (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Sharpening the Knife: A Bayesian Approach to Eliminating Spam (Junk E-mail). , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, October 21, 2004,Dr. Enoch Lee (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Voice over IP (VoIP) over wireless. , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004, Alice Chichisan (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Journey through Maple. , 4:00 PM, Room Starr 137.

Thursday, November 18, 2004, Dr. Michael Dekker (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) A Brief Tour of Topology , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, March 17, 2005, Mr. Jonny Oaks (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Popularity of Optimization in the World , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, April 7, 2005, Prof. Edward Aboufadel (Department of Mathematics, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan) Wavelets, Secret Messages, and Spam , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, April 21, 2005, Dr. Hengli Jiao (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The WebWork Homework System , 11:00 am, Room Starr 105.

Thursday, October 06, 2005, Dr. Vaclav Konecny (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Solution of the Problem Published in Crux Mathematicorum, No 7, Vol. 30, November 2004, p.429 , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, November 10, 2005, Elizabeth Miller (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) A Continuous Model of Gene Expression , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, February 09, 2006, Dr. Michael Dekker (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) College Geometry as an Online Course , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, March 16, 2006, Dr. Vytaras Brazauskas (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Robust Statistical Methods for Actuarial Modeling. , 11:00 AM, Room: Starr 138.

Thursday, April 20, 2006, Dr. Akbarali Rasulov (Vice President for Academic Affairs, Tashkent University of Information Technology at Ferghana) The Structure and Principles of the Higher Education System of Uzbekistan. , 11:00 AM, Room: Starr 138.

Thursday, September 21, 2006, Dr. Hengli Jiao (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The New Online Course for Math-117 "Contemporary Mathematics" , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, October 5, 2006, Arthur Sherwood and Bahodir Siddikov (Department of Mathematics, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The New Online Courses for Math-126 "Algebra and Analytic Trigonometry" and Math-116 "Intermediate Algebra and Numerical Trigonometry" , 11:00 am, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, November 2, 2006, Dr. Glenn Appleby (Mathematics Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California) What's the Point?: Maximal Structures in Mathematics. , 11:00 AM, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, November 16, 2006, Dr. Steven Butt (Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan) Experiences in Operations Research. , 11:00 AM, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, February 08, 2007, Michael Dekker, Harvey Hanna, Holly Schalk, and Kent Sun (Department of Mathematics, Feris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) A Discussion on Collaborative Testing , 11:00 AM, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, February 22, 2007, Dr. Yaron Felus (Surveying Engineering Department, Feris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Errors in all Variables Approach: The Case Study of Mapping Geological Lineaments in the South Pole , 11:00 AM, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, September 27, 2007, Dr. Vaclav Konecny (Mathematics Department, Feris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Solution to the Problem #3126 Published in Crux Mathematicorum, Vol.32: 2006, p. 171, 174; corrected Vol. 32: 2006, p.303, 306 , 11:00 AM, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, October 4, 2007, Robert McCullough (Mathematics Department, Feris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) Sputnik - 50 years later. , 11:00 AM, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, November 8, 2007, Dr. J. F. Nystrom (Mathematics Department, Feris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) On the Design of Diffusion Constants for Random Walks of Squares, Triangles and Cubes. , 11:00 AM, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, March 27, 2008, Dr. Hengli Jiao (Mathematics Department, Feris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) View Elementary and Secondary Mathematics Education in China through Examinations , 11:00 AM, Room Starr 138.

Thursday, May 1, 2008, Dr. Vaclav Konecny (Mathematics Department, Feris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan) The Solution to the Problem #3258* published in Crux Mathematicorum, Vol. 33: 2007, p. 298. , 11:00 AM, Room Starr 138.