Overview

The California State University, Fullerton Mathematics Colloquium is intended for a broad mathematical audience of undergraduate majors and faculty in applied mathematics, mathematics education, pure mathematics and statistics. The talks cover subjects of general interest and do not assume the audience has previous background on the topic. Two of the current themes include the "Meet the New Faculty" series which introduces the new faculty and the "Mathematicians Outside of the Classroom" series which highlight that mathematicians have fun inside and outside the classroom. To see some snapshots of the colloquium see the pictures page.


Fall 2009

Date Title Speaker Location Time
Nov 6, 2009 The Game of Life (and Sudden Death):
Predicting Cardiac Instabilities at Multiple Scales with Nonlinear Stochastic Models
Dr. Robert Rovetti
LMU Math Department
MH 468 1-2:00 pm
Oct 16, 2009 The Secret Life of Decimals Dr. Harriet Edwards
CSUF Math Department
MH 468 1-2:00 pm
Sept 11, 2009 Teaching Numerical Analysis in Cambodia Dr. Angel Pineda
CSUF Math Department
MH 468 1-2:00 pm


Spring 2009

Date Title Speaker Location Time
April 10, 2009 An Introduction to Geometric Data Analysis and its Possible Applications Dr. Jen-Mei Chang
CSULB Department of Mathematics and Statistics
MH 480 1-2:00 pm
March 6, 2009 Calculus Students' Understandings of the Concepts of Function Transformation, Function Composition, Function Inverse, and the Relationships Among the Three Concepts Dr. Patrick Kimani
CSUF Math Department
MH 480 1-2:00 pm
Feb. 6, 2009 From Mathematics to Mountaintops Dr. Scott Annin
CSUF Math Department
MH 682 1-2:00 pm


Fall 2008

Date Title Speaker Location Time
Nov. 21, 2008 The Applied Math Project in 2008
(The Mathematics of Imaging Blood Flow)
Atousa Sarcon, Nasser Abbasi and Angel Pineda
CSUF Math Department
MH 238 1-2:00 pm
Oct. 24, 2008 Feature Extraction and its Applications
in Satellite Imaging, Cancer Detection, and Stock Return Maximization
Dr. Charles H. Lee
CSUF Math Department
MH 238 1-2:00 pm
Sept. 26, 2008 Voting, Linear Algebra, and the Symmetric Group Dr. Michael Orrison
HMC Math Department
MH 238 12-1:00 pm

Spring 2008

Date Title Speaker Location Time
May 2, 2008 The straight line is not the shortest way:
An introduction to geodesics
Dr. Alfonso Carriazo
University of Seville, Spain
Department of Geometry and Topology
MH 682 1-1:40 pm
April 25, 2008 Paint by Numbers:
Constructing a Map That Needs Nineteen Colors
Dr. Todd CadwalladerOlsker
CSUF Math Department
MH 682 2-3 pm
March 21, 2008 A History of Calculus Reform in France Dr. Stephen Lancaster
CSUF Math Department
MH 682 1-1:40 pm
Feb. 15, 2008 My Peace Corps Experience:
Not how I changed the world, but how the world changed me
Dr. Susan Martonosi
HMC Math Department
MH 682 1-1:40 pm

Fall 2007

Date Title Speaker Location Time
Nov. 30, 2007 Cyber Pickpockets! The Science of Cryptography:
Is the Personal Information You Supply Over the Internet Really Secure?
Dr. Scott Annin
CSUF Math Department
MH 682 1-1:40 pm
Oct. 26, 2007 To Bin or not to Bin?
Using Mathematics to Improve CAT scans
Dr. Angel Pineda
CSUF Math Department
MH 682 1-1:40 pm
Sept. 21, 2007 The Quest for a 200+ Horsepower Miata Dr. Stephen Goode
CSUF Math Department
MH 457 1-1:40 pm

Spring 2007

Date Title Speaker Location Time
May 9, 2007 A Trace Formula for a Family of Jacobi Matrices Dr. Alain Bourget
CSUF Math Department
MH 480 2:30-3:30 pm
April 25, 2007 Mathematical Problems of Decision Making Dr. Tyler McMillen
CSUF Math Department
MH 480 2:30-3:30 pm
April 11, 2007 Auditory Transforms and Applications Dr. Jack Xin
UCI Math Department
MH 480 2:30-3:30 pm
March 21, 2007 Students’ Understanding of Related Rates Problems in Calculus Dr. Nicole Engelke
CSUF Math Department
MH 480 2:30-3:30 pm