MCSP Conversation Series Talks

Spring 2015

All sessions will be in Massengill unless otherwise noted.
Date & Time Speaker Title Intended Audience

Tuesday, January 27th @ 5:00 p.m.

Mr. Frank Patane, 
University of Florida

"Sums of Squares and Beyond"

Everyone

Tuesday, January 27th @ 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Natalia Toporikova,
Washington and Lee University

"Regulation of Rhythmic Prolactin Secretion:
Combined Mathematical and Experimental Study

Everyone

 Thursday, January 29th @ 5:00 p.m.

Ms. Margaret Rahmoeller,
North Carolina State University

"Combinatorial Representation Theory of Lie Algebras"

Everyone

Tuesday, March 10th @ 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Don Levy, Copenhaver Scholar, Siena Research Institute and Survey Center

"Using data to change the world:  Community service, health communities and social change"

Everyone

Wednesday, April 1st @ 7:00 p.m.

Dr. David Taylor
Roanoke College

"Mathematics in Board Games: "Making Better Decisions"

Everyone

Thursday, April 9th @ 5:00 p.m.

Dr. Ben Keen
Western Michigan University

"InBi Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy"

Everyone

Thursday, April 9th @ 7:00 p.m.
Trexler Hall, Room 372

Mr. Timothy Balint
Roanoke College Alumnus

"Making Cortana's Friends: Embodying Video Game Characters?"

Everyone

Tuesday, April 14th @ 5:00 p.m.
Trexler Hall, Room 372

Mr. Nathan Tompkins
Brandeis University

"How the Leopard got its spots" (Testing Turing's Theory of Morphogenesis in Chemical Cells)

Everyone

Thursday, April 16th @ 5:30 p.m.

Dr. Jonathan Cook
Washington and Lee University

Title:  "It's Complicated!  Modeling Complex Systems"

Everyone

Thursday, April 16th @ 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Hannah Robbins
Roanoke College

" Nice Properties of the Integers, or You Don't Know What You've got 'til it's gone"

Everyone

Monday, April 20th @ 7:00 p.m.
Trexler Hall, Room 372

Mr. Brian Ruane
Roanoke College

Title:  TBA

Everyone


 
 
For more information, please contact Dr. Dan Robb at (540) 375-5250 or robb@roanoke.edu.