WSC Mathematics Seminar

 
 

The Mathematics Seminar is a compromise between a talk, a social gathering, a place to ask questions and place to find snacks. It is open to students, professors and visitors. The “talk” is usually about 15-20 minutes, then there is time for questions, comments and socializing. Anything that is interesting to you, is interesting to all of us. You just have to convince us :) We are meeting Tuesdays from 5 to 6 in Wilson 416. Please email me at cvonrenesse AT westfield.ma.edu if you are interested in giving a “talk”.


You can also use the seminar to practice your talk for HRUMC (Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference) or other conferences.


I will list the upcoming dates and topics on this page:


Fall 2011:

  1. Bullet9/13/2011     Ted Welsh: Number Theory meets Graph Theory meets LEGO bricks.

  2. Bullet9/20/2011     Emily DeHaro-Otero: Student beliefs and attitudes about learning mathematics 

                           in an inquiry-based learning classroom for liberal arts majors

  1. Bullet   9/27/2011     Marcus Jaiclin: MATH 153 and the Silly Card Game

  2. Bullet   10/4/2011     We will connect about the Foundations courses and the positive and ongoing

                            collaborations that have grown out of our Summer Foundations Workshops.

  1. Bullet   10/11/2011   Let’s rethink our mathematics major!

  2. Bullet   10/18/2011   Updating the Mathematics Webpage.

  3. Bullet   10/25/2011   Guest speaker Matt Noonan will be talking about teaching calculus with using limits.

  4. Bullet   11/08/2011   Phil Hotchkiss reports about his visit at the statewide meeting of campus leaders to discuss     

                            Massachusetts’ role in developing standards for college readiness growing out of the

                            Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) initiative.

  1. Bullet   11/15/2011   Discussion of our foundation courses 153 and 250.

  2. Bullet   11/29/2011   Brian Jennings: Semiclassical Analysis in a Hilbert Space of Analytic Functions

  3. Bullet   12/06/2011   Volker Ecke and Christine von Renesse: The Mathematics of Maypole dancing


Link to old page: http://www.westfield.ma.edu/renesse/seminars/seminar.html

 

HRUMC 2010