News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Please join the mathematics department in welcoming their next Math Colloquium speaker, Wanchunzi Yun of Arizona State University, on Monday, February 6, at 4 p.m., in Buckley Center room 103. Yun will present “Robust Dose-level Designs for Binary Responses.” Refreshments will be served.
For more information contact Carol Bruce, mathematics, at x7166 or bruce@up.edu.
Please join the math department on Thursday, February 4, at 4 p.m., in Shiley 123 for the next Math Colloquium. Speaker Jakob Kotas of the University of Washington will present “Dynamic and convex programming with Bayesian learning for response-guided dosing.” Refreshments will be served.
For more information contact Carol Bruce, mathematics, at x7166 or bruce@up.edu.
Please join the next Math Colloquium on Monday, January 25, at 4 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 231. Deborah Shutt of the Colorado School of Mines will present “Mathematical Modeling of HIV Dynamics.” Refreshments will be served.
For more information contact Carol Bruce at 7166 or bruce@up.edu.
The spring semester’s first Math Colloquium will take place on Monday, January 18, at 4 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 038. Speaker Anne Yust from Birmingham-Southern College will present “Predator-Prey Dynamics with Intraspecific Competition and an Allee Effect in the Predator Population.” Refreshments will be served.
For more information contact Carol Bruce, mathematics, at 7166 or bruce@up.edu.
The next Math Colloquium will take place on Thursday, September 24, at 4 p.m., in Shiley Hall room 319. UP faculty members will share tips for applying to grad school, gaining admission, letters of recommendation, funding, and more. For more information contact the math department at 7166 or bruce@up.edu or the Career Center at 7201.
This week’s Math Colloquium will be held on Monday, March 23, from 4 to 5 p.m., in Buckley Center room 310. Carrie A. Manore from Tulane University will present “Using Mathematical Models to Help Stop the Spread of Mosquito-borne Diseases.” Refreshments will be provided.
For more information contact Carol Bruce, mathematics, at 7166 or bruce@up.edu.
Michelle Ghrist, U. S. Air Force Academy, will present the next Math Colloquium on Monday, February 9, at 4 p.m., in Buckley Center room 310. She will present “Numerical Methods: A Triangular Teeter-Totter.” All are welcome and refreshments will be provided.
Next week’s Math Colloquium will welcome Emek Kose, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, presenting “Maps and Mirrors: A Mathematical View of Images,” Thursday, February 12, 4-5 p.m., in Buckley Center room 111.
For more information contact Carol Bruce, mathematics, at 7166 or bruce@up.edu.
Over the course of the next few weeks, the mathematics department is offering a number of colloquia on a variety of topics. The speakers are candidates for new University mathematics faculty positions beginning in fall 2015.
Faculty members are asked to consider announcing upcoming talks in their classes, especially those with students who may be considering math majors or minors.
• Julie Simons: Monday, February 2, from 4-5 p.m., Buckley Center room 310
• Scott Cook: Thursday, February 5, from 4:30-5:30 p.m., Buckley Center room 111
• Emek Kose: Thursday, February 12, from 4-5 p.m., Buckley Center room 111.
For more information contact the mathematics department at 7166 or bruce@up.edu.
The next Math Colloquium will be held on Thursday, October 30, from 4-5 p.m., in Franz Hall room 125. The speaker will be UP math professor Christopher Lee, who will present “The Dynamic Dead,” a talk which will focus on various mathematical models of a zombie outbreak. All are welcome and refreshments will be served; BYOB for zombies (“Bring Your Own Brains”). For more information contact Carol Bruce, mathematics, at 7166 or bruce@up.edu.
The next Math Colloquium will be held on Wednesday, October 8, from 4 to 5 p.m., in Franz Hall room 217, according to Carol Bruce, mathematics. The speaker will be Jack Green from Mt. Hood Community College, who will present “From the Classroom to Online and Back Again.” Refreshments will be provided. For more information contact Bruce at 7166 or bruce@up.edu.