Marist College Mathematics Seminar
S
pring 2002 Schedule

January 25 NO SEMINAR
February 1 BRENT CARSWELL - University of Michigan
"
Beurling's Theorem and Related Results"
  8 ALAN ALEWINE - Vanderbilt University
"Riemann Revisited: An Introduction to the Kurzweil-Henstock
Integral"
  15 MARY KREMBS - Vice President of Technology, Harte-Hanks Interactive
"Mathematics in Industry: Examples and Algorithms"
20 MIKE RACZ - Marist College
"Estimation of a Population Proportion for a Two-Stage Cluster Sample: An Approach using Bayesian Predictive Inference"

(Please note:  This talk was originally scheduled for Friday, 22 February, at 3:30PM.  It has been moved to Wednesday, 20 February, at 12:30PM.  The talk will still be held in Lowell Thomas 207.)
  22 NO SEMINAR
March 1 DAN KING - Sarah Lawrence College
"Paradoxes of Prediction and Cooperation: Newcomb's Problem
and the Prisoner's Dilemma"
  8 NO SEMINAR
  15 NO SEMINAR
  22 JONATHAN KEITER - University of Connecticut
"A New Approach to Normal Surface Theory"
29 NO SEMINAR - Spring Recess
April 5 SAL ANASTASIO - SUNY, New Paltz
"Not Enough Ado about Nothing: The Background to a Wonderful Proof by the Young Vito Volterra"
  12 KEVIN BLOUNT - Boston College
"
May I Take Your Order? An Introduction to Mathematical Orderings: Posets and Lattices"
  19 DAVID ROBBINS - Trinity College
"Buffon's Needle and Buffon's Noodle"
[Please Note:  This talk is scheduled for 4:00 PM]
  26 JEFF A. LIBBY and BART D. STEWART - USMA at West Point
"Visual Learning 'Excel'lence: Capitalizing on the Interactive Environment"
May 3 SCOTT GREENLEAF - Boston University 
"Polynomials and the Action of S_3"

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