Elmhurst College


Departments of Mathematics,
Computer Science, and Physics
Seminar Series - Spring 2014



*Feb. 26 Dr. Jon L. Johnson, Elmhurst College
"Problem Solving - a Hands-on Experience"

March 5 No Seminar - MTH 400 Library session

March 12 Dr. Christopher Shaw, Columbia College Chicago
"G?del's Incompleteness Theorem"

March 19 No Seminar -- ACCA talk during Spring Break on Monday, March 24

March 24 (Monday) ACCA Mathematics Talks - at Aurora University
5:00 and 7:00 talks Speaker TBA.

*April 2 Dr. Evans Afenya, Elmhurst College
"In Honor of Mathematics Awareness Month ... We Model in the Service
of Science and Society!"

April 9 Dr. Jaclyn Murawska, North Central College
"Preservice Teachers' Conceptual Understanding of Place Value: Developing
Unitization, Flexibility, and Reversibility"

April 16 Division Seminar - Illinois Hall - Speaker TBA

*April 23 Dr. Allen Rogers, Elmhurst College
"The Series of Prime Reciprocals"

April 30 Dr. Nicole Moore, Elmhurst College
"Using Rays to Model Waves: Challenges and Successes"

May 7 Senior Paper Presentations- Note: This session will go from 3:30 - 5:00
Room 113 of Daniels Hall.

May 13 Senior Paper Presentations- Note: This session will go from 3:30 - 5:00
Room 113 of Daniels Hall.


All talks are on Wednesday from 4:00-5:00 p.m. on the second floor of Daniels Hall in Room 213, unless
otherwise noted in Bold. Talks marked with an * are especially appropriate for a general audience. Please
contact Dr. Jon Johnson at 630-617-3571 or at jonj@elmhurst.edu for more information or if you would like
to give a talk next semester.



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