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Spring 2011


Spring 2011
All sessions will be in Massengill unless otherwise noted.
Date & Time Speaker Title

Tuesday,
Jan. 25,
5:00 p.m.

 Dr. Hannah Robbins,
Wake Forest University 		Coping with Zero Divisors, or, How Big Is Your Assassinator?

Thursday,
January 27,
6:00 p.m.

 Dr. Anne Sinko,
Kenyon College 		Colorings: How Graph Theory Explains What You've Known Since Kindergarten
 Tuesday,
February 1,
5:00 p.m.
 Mr. Dan Shifflet,
Bowling Green State University 		Is the game Show "Deal or No Deal" Cheating Its Contestants?
 Wednesday,
February 2,
7:00 p.m.
 Dr. Bruce Torrence,
Randolph-Macon College 		It's Lights Out for Linear Algebra
Thursday,
February 3,
5:00 p.m.
 Dr. Brian Sutton,
Randolph-Macon College 		The Non-Electric Slide
 Wednesday,
March 23,
5:45 p.m.
 Dr. Matt Fleenor,
Roanoke College 		Counting Planets: How Astonomers Discover Extrasolar Planets and What Makes Them Count
Wednesday,
March 30,
7:00 p.m.
Sutton Student Center (Pickle)
Dr. Greg Morrisett,
Harvard University 		Can We Build Trustworthy Software?
Thursday, 
April 7,
7:00 p.m. 
 Dr. Durell Bouchard and Timmy Balint,
Roanoke College 		Microsoft Kinect and Motion Capture
Thursday,
April 14,
7:00 p.m. 		Brennan Kraje,
Roanoke College 		Life Beyond Academia - An Aerospace Perspective
Tuesday,
April 19,
7:00 p.m. 		Dr. David Taylor,
Roanoke College 		Mathematics in Card and Board Games
Thursday,
April 21,
7:00 p.m. 		Dr. Jason Rosenhouse, James Madison University The Monty Hall Problem, Reconsidered
Sponsored by the RC Student Chaper of the MAA