The lectures begin on Wednesday, September 15. We'll normally meet at my office every Wednesday at 12:15 PM.
Schedule:
Wednesday, Sept. 15: Prof. Arthur Benjamin (Harvey Mudd College), The Magic
of Numbers, at Williams College
Wednesday, Sept. 22: Brett Hammond, Optimal Blackjack Strategy with "Lucky
Bucks", at Williams College
Wednesday, Sept. 29: Charles Baschnagel, Another Graphical Proof of Arrow's
Impossibility Theorem, at Williams College
MONDAY, Oct. 4: Jason Zimba, Entropy, Probability, and Rationality, at
Williams College
Wednesday, Oct. 6: Mel Slugbate, Real Estate in Hyperbolic Space: Investment
Opportunities for the New Millennium, at Williams College
Wednesday, Oct. 20: Christina Sormani, Ricci Curvature and the Poincare
Conjecture, at Williams College
Wednesday, Oct. 27: Samson Ampofo, Bribing and Second Price Auctions,
at Williams College
Wednesday, November 3: Bioequivalency Testing, at Williams College
Tuesday, November 16: Glen Van Brummelen, Computing without Computers,
at Middlebury College
Wednesday, December 1: Ringing the Changes, at Williams College
Friday, December 10 - Monday, December 13: CMS Winter Meetings, Montreal, PQ
Links:
Syllabus
Williams College Mathematics
Department. See the link on the left for weekly events/math-stat bulletin,
which contains notices of upcoming talks.
Last modified: Dec. 6, 2004 / Glen Van Brummelen
Office: Dickinson 213. Phone numbers: (w) 440-4467; (h)
440-8142.