Elmhurst College
Department of
Mathematics & Department of Physics
Seminar Series - Fall 2010
September 29
Mr.
Charles Poole, Elmhurst College (REU at Northwestern University)
"Tuning the Optical and Electrical Properties of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) to
suit the Purpose of Plasmonic Devices"
October 6
Mr.
Ivan Christov, Northwestern University
"Mixing Things Up with Dynamical Systems"
October 13
Dr.
Kristen Schemmerhorn, Dominican University
"Game, SET, Math:
Mathematics of the game SET"
October 20
Ms.
Lisa Melanson, Northwestern University
"Numerical Modeling of Intracranial Aneurysms"
October 27
Professor
Erich Hauenstein, College of DuPage
"Exploring Chaos and Fractals as they occur in Newton's Method"
November 3
Career
Night (7:00 pm, Blume Board Room, Frick Center)
November 11
Dr.
Steven Krantz, Washington University in St. Louis
"Contemporary Issues in the Teaching of Mathematics" (5:00 pm)
"A Matter of Gravity" (7:00 pm)
Note:
These talks are Thursday evening ACCA talks at University of St.
Francis, San Damiano Hall.
Dinner (6:00 pm)
November 17
Mr.
Jim Kovac, Solar System Ambassador Program - NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sponsored
"The Universe -- Galaxies, Nebulas, and the Dark Side"
November 24
No
Seminar - Thanksgiving
December 1
Senior
Paper Presentations
December 8
Senior
Paper Presentations
All talks are on
Wednesday from 4:00-4:50 p.m. on the second floor of Daniel
s Hall (formerly called The Computer Science and Technology
Center) in Room 213, unless otherwise noted. Talks marked with an * are
especially appropriate for a general audience.
Please contact Dr. Catherine
Crawford at 630-617-3479 or email crawford@elmhurst.edu for more
information or if you would like to give a talk.
Updates to the schedule can be found at http://math.elmhurst.edu/Fall10.html