Bi-Co Math Colloquium

��ճԹ� and Haverford College run a weekly joint colloquium that alternates in location between the ��ճԹ� and Haverford mathematics departments. All are welcome to attend! Talks are usually on Monday afternoons from 4:15-5:15 p.m. A reception usually precedes the talk at 4:00 p.m.: in PSB 361, Math Lounge (��ճԹ�) / Foyer outside Hilles 109 (Haverford).

Talks: 4:15 p.m. in PSB 245 (��ճԹ�) / Hilles 109 (Haverford)

For more information, please contact Lisa Traynor (��ճԹ�) or (Haverford).

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Feb 5	Dr. Joseph Nakao Swarthmore College	*"Balancing Efficiency, Physics, and Robustness: What Goes into Designing a Good* Algorithm?"**	��ճԹ�
Feb 12	Dr. Ila Varma University of Toronto	"Counting Number Fields and Predicting Asymptotics"	Haverford
Feb 19	Dr. Annalisa Crannell Franklin and Marshall College	"The Moon Tilt Illusion and Perspective Geometry"	��ճԹ�
Feb 26	Leah Leiner Temple University	“An Introduction to Flows on Hyperbolic Manifolds”	Haverford
Mar 4	Dr. Victor Donnay ��ճԹ�	“Examples of Finite Genus Surfaces Embedded in R³ with Anosov Geodesic Flow”	��ճԹ�
Mar 5 (Tuesday)	Yuxuan Sun (HC '23) University of Minnesota	“Quotients of Special Classes of Positroids”	Haverford, Hilles 108
Mar 11	SPRING BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Mar 18	Dr. Carolyn Reinhart Swarthmore College	"The Game of Cops and Robbers on Graphs"	Haverford
Apr 1	Dr. Yoichiro Mori University of Pennsylvania	“Mathematical Modeling of Cell Volume Control and Electrolyte Balance”	Haverford
Apr 8	Dr. Bülent Tosun Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the University of Alabama	"From Unknotted Curves on Seifert Surfaces to Contractible 4-manifolds"	��ճԹ�
Apr 15	Abdullah Malik Florida State University	"Coloring Graphs and Beyond"	Haverford
Apr 22	Dr. Richard Green University of Colorado, Boulder	"Positivity Properties for Orthogonal Sets in Lattices"	Haverford

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk	Location
Sep 18	Dr. Rebecca R.G. (BMC AB/MA 2011) George Mason University	“Canonical Forms of Neural Ideals”	��ճԹ�
Sep 25	Dr. Michael Fisher West Chester University	"Olympic Games: Three Impartial Games with Infinite Octal Codes"	��ճԹ�
Oct 2	Dr. Andrew J. Bernoff Harvey Mudd College	"Agent-Based and Continuous Models of Locust Swarms"	Haverford
Oct 11 WED	Dr. Leqi Liu '17 BMC/HC Alum Princeton's Center for Language and Intelligence	"Human-Centered Machine Intelligence"	Haverford (Lutnick Library 200)
Oct 13	EDGE CONFERENCE		��ճԹ�
Oct 16	FALL BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Oct 23	Dr. Maia Fraser University of Ottawa	"Mathematics and Machine Learning"	��ճԹ�
Oct 30	Brandis Whitfield Temple University	"An Invitation to Mapping Class Groups and Low-dimensional Topology and Geometry"	Haverford
Nov 6	Dr. Darij Grinberg Drexel University	“The Redei--Berge Symmetric Function of a Directed Graph”	Haverford
Nov 13	Dr. Marissa Loving University of Wisconsin-Madison	“From Dimension 2 to 3 and Back Again”	��ճԹ�
Nov 20	THANKSGIVING WEEK	NO COLLOQUIUM
Nov 27	Dr. Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem Applied Math Team at DOD	“Using Mathematics to Unravel the Complexities Associated to Malaria Transmission Success, following a Human-Parasite-Mosquito Interaction in a Built Environment”	��ճԹ�
Dec 4	Dr. Mohammad Nooranidoost Florida State University	“Mathematical Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Biofilm Structure”	Haverford