Colloquia Series
Mathematics
Inquiry Learning at Kutztown (MILK) Lectures are is funded by the generous
support of the Academy for Inquiry-Based Learning,
The
Educational Advancement Foundation, and Mr. Harry Lucas, Jr.
Spring 2012
11:00 a.m. Thursday, February 16, 2012 Lytle Hall
228:
“From Finite Geometries to Translation
Planes,”
Dr. Craig Culbert, Assistant Professor of
Mathematics Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
11:00 a.m. Thursday, February 23, 2012 Lytle Hall
228:
“Research Experience for Undergraduates – Research
Report,” A MILK - URP Lecture
Mr. Clinton Watton, Class of
2014 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Mathematics Major
11:00 a.m. Thursday, March 1, 2012 Lytle Hall 228:
“On Cardinality of Sets: What Does 'Big' or 'Small'
Really Mean?” A MILK - URP Lecture
Mr. John Paul Jablonski,
Class of 2014 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Mathematics Major
11:00 a.m. Thursday March 8, 2012 Lytle Hall 228:
“On the Collatz Conjecture,” A MILK - URP Lecture
Mr. Patrick Wiltrout, Class
of 2011 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Mathematics Graduate
5:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Boehm Hall 261:
title TBA \
Dr. E. Lee May, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at
Salisbury University speaking on "The Moore Method,"
A
MILK Lecture
The 5th annual Thomas L. Pirnot Lecture in Mathematics
Future Speakers:
Dr. Anke Walz, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania speaking on a topic of her choice in Geometry.
Dr. Robert Vallin, Professor
of Mathematics Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania speaking on some
interesting research problems in Real Analysis.
Dr. Jackie Jensen, Associate Professor of Mathematics Sam Houston
State University speaking on Inquiry-Based Learning.
Previous Semesters:
Fall 2011
11:00 a.m. Thursday, October 6, 2011 Lytle Hall 228:
“Using Math to Make Games Fun,”
Dr. Ryan Gantner, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. John
Fisher College
11:00 a.m. Thursday, October 20, 2011 Lytle Hall 228:
“Research Experience for Undergraduates – Research
Report,” A MILK - URP Lecture
Ms. Ashley Dougerty, Class of 2012 Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania Mathematics Secondary Education Major
11:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Lytle Hall 228:
“Chomp, Chomp, Bechewy Chomp: Math and Games.”
Dr. Alex
Meadows, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
5:00 p.m. Tuesday, November
8, 2011 Boehm Hall 260:
“Thoughts on a Modified Moore Method Course in Undergraduate
Analysis,” A MILK Lecture
Dr. Alex Meadows,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
11:00 a.m. Thursday, November 17, 2011Lytle Hall 228:
“Aspects of Some Intersting
Sets: A Primer,”
Dr. Padraig McLoughlin, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2011
11:00
A.m. Friday, April 22, 2011 Lytle hall 214:
"An Exordium of Self-Intersecting Polygons,"
Mr. Nicholas Owad, 2010,
BS-Physics and BS-Mathematics major at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (DVI)
11:00 A.m. Thursday, April 14, 2011
Lytle hall 228:
"On the Rudiments of Linear Regression
Analysis,"
Mr. Shawn M. Santo, 2011,
BSBA-Finance and BS-Mathematics major at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (DVI)
3:30 p.m. Thursday, February 17,
2011 Boehm Hall 260:
"An Introduction to Fractals,"
Professor Randy Schaeffer,
Associate Professor of Mathematics Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
11:00 A.m.
Thursday, March 3, 2011 Lytle hall 214:
The 4th annual Thomas L. Pirnot Lecture in Mathematics
"Solving
Differential Equations Numerically Using Steepest Descent,"
Dr. W. Ted Mahavier, Professor of Mathematics, Lamar
University of Texas
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (DVI)
5:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 3, 2011 Boehm hall 261:
"Inquiry-Based Learning in
Mathematics: Work Hard, Have Fun,"
A MILK Lecture
Dr. W. Ted Mahavier, Professor
of Mathematics, Lamar University of Texas
Fall 2010
3:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Boehm Hall 260:
“Grits
and Group Theory at Your Local Cracker Barrel”
Dr. Jennifer Schaefer, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (DVI)
5:00 p.m. Thursday, October 14, 2010 Boehm Hall 261:
"An Invitation to a Journey in
Inquiry-Based Learning" A MILK Lecture
Dr. Stan Yoshinobu, Associate Professor of Mathematics
California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (DVI)
3:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 Boehm hall 261:
"The Moore Method: An
Introduction," A MILK Lecture
Dr.
Pat McLoughlin, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Kutztown University of
Pennsylvania
3:30 p.m.Thursday, September 30, 2010 Boehm Hall
260: "The
Moore Method: An Introduction" A MILKLecture
Dr. PadraigMcLoughlin,
Associate Professor of Mathematics KutztownUniversity
of Pennsylvania
Abstract (PDF) Abstract (DVI)
Spring 2010
3:30
p.m. Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Lytle Hall228:
"The Randy Johnsons of Abstract Algebra
and Fields of Dreams,"
Dr. Eric Landquist,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
3:30p.m. Tuesday, March 30,
2010 Lytle Hall 228:
“Some Mathematics Can Be Mental”
Dr. Paul Ache, III, Associate Professor and
Chairman of Mathematics Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
3:30
p.m. Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Lytle Hall 228:
"A Tribute
to Euler"
The 3rd Annual Thomas L. Pirnot Lecture in Mathematics
Dr. William Dunham, the Truman Koehler Professor of Mathematics, Muhlenberg
College,
Abstract (PDF)
Fall 2009
3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Boehm Hall 260:
“Limits in Metric Spaces,”
Dr. Larry Mugridge, Professor
of Mathematics Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
3:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Boehm Hall 260:
"The Stable Marriage
Problem"
Dr. Ju Zhou, Assistant Professor
of Mathematics Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
3:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Boehm Hall 262:
"The Riemann Hypothesis: A
Million Dollar Problem Turns 150"
Dr. Eric Landquist, Assistant
Professor of Mathematics Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2009
3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Lytle Hall 228:
“Making Valid Inferences in Observational Studies Using
Propensity Score Analysis,”
Dr. Michael Posner, Associate Professor of
Mathematics and Statistics, Villanova University
11:00 a.m. Thursday, February 26, 2009 Lytle Hall 228:
”Oh
the Places You’ll Go: From a MapQuest to a MATHquest,”
Dr. Jennifer Gorman, Assistant Professor of
Mathematics, Gannon University
3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Lytle Hall 228:
“Mathematical Cranks”
Dr. Lyn Phy, Associate
Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
9:00 a.m. Friday, March 20, 2009 Lytle
Hall 228:
“Cracking Cryptography, Curves, Card Tricks, and Kangaroos!”
Dr. Eric Landquist, Assistant
Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois
3:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 14, 2009 Lytle Hall 228:
The 2nd annual Thomas L. Pirnot Lecture in
Mathematics
“Ramsey's Theorem: The Extremal Limits of Party Planning”
Dr. Michael Picollelli, Assistant Professor of
Mathematics, University of Delaware
11:00 a.m. Thursday, April 2, 2009 Lytle Hall 228:
“The Topology of Links and Knots: Or How I Learned to Enjoy
Math”
Dr. Valentina
Joukhovitski, Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
University of Michigan
11:00 a.m. Thursday, April 9, 2009 Lytle Hall 228:
“Linear Approximations”
Dr. Ju
Zhou, Assistant Professor of
Mathematics, Bridgewater State University
Fall 2008
3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Boehm Hall Room 260:
“Real Statistics in
the Real World,”
Professor James Bobeck,
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Boehm Hall Room 262:
“Public Key Crypto Systems,”
Professor Deepak Khanna,
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (postponed from Spring of 2008 due to
illness)
3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Boehm Hall Room 262:
"The Physics of
Astro-Mathematics"
Dr. Patrick Gorman, Kutztown University of
Pennsylvania
Abstract (PDF) Abstract (PS) Abstract (DVI)
Spring 2008
3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Academic Forum Room 103:
“Reducts of Countably Categorical Graphs,”
Dr. Amy Yun Lu, Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania
3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Boehm Hall Room 260:
“An Introduction to General Relativity Theory: A Mathematical
Approach,”
Dr. Amadou Guisse, Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania
3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Boehm
Hall Room 260
The 1st
Annual Thomas L. Pirnot Lecture in Mathematics
"A Weierstrass Quartet:
Four Ideas from the Father of Modern Analysis"
Dr. Jerry King, Professor
Emeritus, Lehigh University
Fall 2007
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 20, 2007 Lytle Hall 218:
“A Mathematical Model of Gasses (Gasses are Beautiful, Too!
),”
Dr. Perry Lee, Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (DOC)
Abstract (DVI)
Abstract (PS)
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 18, 2007 Lytle Hall 218:
"How to Write Mathematics on the Web,"
Dr. Kunio Mitsuma, Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (DVI)
Abstract (PS)
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 15, 2007 Lytle Hall 218:
“Euler's Equation, the Completeness Axiom and Period Three as
Models of Ontological Reality: A Philosophy of Mathematics,”
Dr. Bradley Slonaker,
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (DVI)
Abstract (PS)
Spring 2007
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 1, 2007 Lytle Hall 214:
“Combining Statistics and Mathematical Programming to Develop
Coal Blends for Optimum Cokemaking and Blast Furnace Operation,”
Dr. Francis J. Vasko,
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (PS)
Abstract (HTML)
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 12, 2007 Lytle Hall 214:
“Math is Beautiful,”
Chistopher Godblaut, Lehigh
University
Abstract (PDF)
Abstract (PS)
Abstract (DVI)
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