Talks from the 2008-2009 academic year:

• 9/10/08: Meet and Greet the Math Department Faculty
• 9/24/08: Sarah Luttman (Augsburg, '00), Lead Financial Analyst for Finance Leadership Development Program: "From Math to Business"
• 10/1/08: Pavel Belík, Augsburg College Department of Mathematics, "Applications of numerical mathematics in industry and natural sciences"
• 10/15/08: Student research presentations (Michael Janas & Ashley Gruhlke)
• 10/22/08: Focus on actuarial science (Brian Bocklund)
• 10/29/08: Mary Schwarz, Development Analyst, LSS Data Systems, "Careers in user interface design"
• 11/12/08: Professor Kristina Garrett, St. Olaf College, "MIT vs Harvard: The Mathematics of Good Will Hunting"
• 11/19/08: Dr. Olivier Dubois, Institute for Math and its Applications, "My research experience with ExxonMobil, or why was the gas price so high last year?"
• 12/3/08: Student research presentations (Andrew Bergeson, "Carbon uptake of a forest" & Al Garver, "An Econometric Analysis of Student Achievement in Minnesota")
• 1/21/09: Prof. Michael Axtell, University of St. Thomas, "Zero Divisors - the Horror and the Joy!"
• 2/4/09: Dr. Matt Schrag, Northwest Airlines, "Optimizing an Airline"
• 2/11/09: Dr. Mike Tveite, Boston Scientific CRM, "Statistics and the World We Live In"
• 2/25/09: Dr. Vlad Vas'ko, Seagate Technology, "Applied Math for Hard Drive Development"
• 3/11/09: Dr. Will Merrill, 3M Corporation, "Mathematical Models as a Path to Innovation: The `Parabolic' Tenter"
• 3/25/09: Prof. Sarah Jahn, Concordia University - Saint Paul, "Modular Arithmetic and Internet Security"
• 4/1/09: Prof. John Zobitz, Augsburg College, "Mathematics and Climate"
  

Here is a list of the talks from the 2007-2008 academic year:
Wednesday, April 16, 2008: Michael Conklin, Advanced Analytics

Wednesday, April 2, 2008: Trevor Floren & Billy Helm, Augsburg College
"Gender and money in tennis" & "Art by numbers"

Wednesday, March 12, 2008: Michael Weimerskirch, St. Olaf College
"How to bake the real numbers from scratch: an introduction to surreal analysis"

Wednesday, February 27, 2008: Matthew Haines, Augsburg College
"An Introduction and Application of Voting Theory and Apportionment"

Wednesday, December 5, 2007: Urmila Malvadkar, St. Olaf College
"Using differential equations to bridge the divide between conservation and economics"

Wednesday, November 28, 2007: Fermat's Last Theorem -- The Nova Special

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: Fred Hulting, General Mills

Wednesday, October 24, 2007: James Hodges, University of Minnesota
"Life in biostatistics: Can Pre-Term birth be reduced by treating peridontal disease?"

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007: John Zobitz, Augsburg College
"Carbon cycling in a high-elevation forest"

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007: Kenneth Kaminsky, Augsburg College
"Odd-boiled Eggs"

Here is a list of the talks from the 2006-2007 academic year:
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007: Daniel Kaplan, Macalester College
"Practically Effective Statistics"

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007: Lava K.C., Augsburg College
"Two Player Bulgarian Exchange"

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007: Cory Nathe, Augsburg College
"Disambiguation of the DBLP Database."

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007: Adam Roesch, Ing Group
"A few actuarial problems (other than interest and death)."

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007: William Cooper, University of Minnesota
"How do Airlines Set Ticket Prices?"

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007: Aaron Luttman, Bethany Lutheran College
"Using Video to Understand Leaf Breathing"

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006: Richard Järvinen, Winona State University & NASA
"Reliability in N-Dimensional Aerospace: Orbit Determination"

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006: Tracy Bibelnieks, Augsburg College
"Lowland Elves Shop for Mathematics? Why not!"

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006: Matt Haines and Ken Kaminsky, Augsburg College
"A Geometric Approach to Voting Theory"
"Why is it so hard for elves to get health insurance?"

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006: Loren Larson, St. Olaf College
"Knights Tours using Euler's Method"

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006: Amelia Taylor, Colorado College
"From Fish to Polynomials"

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006: Huseyin Coskun, Augsburg College & School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
"Ameboid Cell Motility: A Model and Inverse Problem, with an Application to Live Cell Imaging Data"

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006:
"The Augsburg Mathematics Department presents itself"

Here is a list of the talks from the 2005-2006 academic year:

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006: Danrun Huang, St. Cloud State University,
"Honeybees and Fibonacci Identities"

Wednesday, March 15, 2006: Cindy Kaus, Metro State University,
"Differential Forms: What are they and how can we apply them in physics?"

Wednesday, Febuary 8, 2006: Terrance Hurley, University of Minnesota,
"Fermat’s Economists Are Scientists Too"

Wednesday, January 25, 2006: The NOVA Special,
"Fermat’s Last Theorem"

Wednesday, November 30, 2005: Sayra Smith, Richard Garnett & Julie Falbo
"Service Opportunities for Students"

Wednesday, November 9, 2005: Jennifer Geis, Augsburg College
"Option Pricing Made Cents"

Wednesday, October 26, 2005: Blake Boursaw, Augsburg College
"The Noble Path of Problem Solving"

Wednesday, October 12, 2005: Juan Pablo Trelles, University of Minnesota
"Service Learning in Action: The Peru Project"

Wed., Sep 28, 2005: Stephen Willson, Iowa State University
"Some mathematical issues in reconstructing evolutionary history from DNA"

Wed., Sep 14, Ken Kaminsky, Augsburg College:
"Kosher Eggs/Images of Spain "

 

Here is a list of the talks from the 2004-2005 academic year:

Wed., Apr 27, Danny Kaplan, Macalester College:
"The Dynamics of Heart Rate Variability "

Wed., Apr 13, Dr. Brenda Kroschel, University of St. Thomas:
"Extended Interlacing Intervals"

Wed., Apr 6, Matt Richey, Professory of Mathematics, St. Olaf College:
"Great Expectations or what to expect when watching a baseball game. "

Wed., Mar 7, Tracy Bibelnieks, Blake Boursaw, and Matthew Haines, Augsburg College:
"Three Slices of Pi "

Wed., Feb 23, Dr. Brian Loe, Lockeed Martin Corp.:
"Ocean Acoustics"

Wed., Feb. 9, Terrance Hurley, University of Minnesota:
"Math & Statistics: What makes economics the queen of the social sciences"

Wed., Jan. 26, Nicholas Coult, Augsburg College:
"Multiscale Mathematics"

Wed., Dec 15, Wendy Winkler & Bill Weaver, 3M Corp.:
"Calculus in the Real World"

Wed., Dec. 1, Dr. Radka Turcajova, University of St. Thomas:
"What's inside a digital camera and Photoshop? Mathematics!"

Wed., Nov. 10, Steve Fredlund, Thrivent Financial:
"Actuarial Modeling: Life in the Heels of an Actuary"

Wed., Oct. 27, Andy Mack, Telluride Asset Management:
"Reward Versus Risk and Portfolio Optimization"

Wed., Oct. 13, Kevin Anderson, Carlson Marketing Group
"Statistics and Analysis at Carlson Marketing Group -Using Quantitative Techniques to Drive Business Results"

Wed. Sep. 29, Dan Wolf, Augsburg College:
"Hot Southern Mathematics" (pdf, 408 KB)

Wed., Sep. 8, "Introduction to the Department and Colloquium."

Here is a list of speakers for the 2003-2004 academic year:

Wed., Apr. 14, Tim Bancroft, Augsburg College:
"Bulgarian Exchange: Where Does It End?"

Wed., Mar. 31, Su Dorée, Augsburg College:
"Euler's Extraordinary Evaluation of Σ 1/n²."

Wed., Mar. 3, Tom Sibley, St. John's University:
"Donut Coloring or Toroidal Chromography."

Wed., Feb. 18, Kevin Sanft ('02), Mayo Clinic:
"My Role as a Data Analyst and Advice for Math Majors."

Wed., Feb. 4, Mark S. Kaiser, Iowa State University:
"The Many Faces of Probability in Statistical Analyses."

Wed., Jan. 21, Ioanna Mavrea, Augsburg College:
"Forty thieves and other conundrums."

Wed., Dec. 3, Glen Medeen, University of Minnesota:
"What is the 'center' of an asymmetric distribution?"

Wed., Nov. 19, Randy Erdahl, Decision Intelligence, Inc.:
"Asset Allocation."

Wed., Nov. 5, Andrew Pole & Eric Bibelnieks Guest Research and Analytics for Target.Direct, Target Corporation:
"Learn how to earn fabulous discounts and offers from Target™"

Wed., Oct. 8, Gerrard Carlson, Guidant Corporation:
"Two-Dimensional Heart Rate Variability Footprint"

Wed., Sept. 24, Dan Wolf and Kailash Thapa, Augsburg College.
"Numerical Methods for Wave Modeling and Parallel Computational Techniques"

Wed., Sept. 10, Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College.
"Which maps (and graphs) need only two or three colors?"




Following is the list of talk from the 2002-2003 academic year:

Wed. Sept. 25 Anne Goldman, University of Minnesota
"Biostatistics and Stem Cell Transplantation Research."

Wed. Oct. 9 Steve McKelvey, St. Olaf College
"Transportation Network Design: Who Says Common Sense is Good Thing?"

Wed. Oct. 23 Jay Goldman, University of Minnesota
"Counting: Something Old - Something New."

Mon. Nov. 4 Ken Kaminsky, Augsburg College
"What is an Actuary?"

Wed. Nov. 20 Michael Kac, University of Minnesota
"Mathematics and Language."

Wed. Dec. 4 Loren Larson, Carleton College
"Wood Block Puzzles."

Wed. Jan. 29 Steve Morics, University of Redlands
"Mathematics Done Right, or How I Learned What a Genetic Decomposition Is."

Wed. Feb. 12 David Molnar, St. Olaf College
"To Infinity...and Beyond!"

Wed. Feb. 26 Tracy Bibelnieks, Augsburg College
"Using Operations Research to Lighten the Load of Your Friendly Neighborhood Postman(woman) ."

Wed. Mar. 12 Laura Chihara, Carleton College
"Mathematics and the Buckyball"

Wed. Mar. 26 Tracy Bibelnieks, Matt Haines, & Ken Kaminsky, Augsburg College
Preview of fall courses.

Wed. Apr. 9 Augsburg Students
Kirsten Halvorson and Jon-Erik Hokenson.