Math Mondays
Join the math and statistics department for a variety of stimulating math talks. We will meet "virtually" every Monday from 3:10 p.m. to 4 p.m. (unless otherwise noted). For those who are on our Math Monday distribution list, instructions on how to join our "Virtual" meeting will be sent to your Kenyon email. If you would like to be added to the distribution list, please email Connie Miller at millercm@kenyon.edu.
FALL 2020
| DATE | ACTIVITY | SPEAKER / DETAILS |
|---|---|---|
| September 7 | Student Research Talks "High Anticipation: Exploring Trends Between Public Perception and Player Value""Draft Decisions in Uncertain Times: Valuing and Simulating NHL Draft Picks" |
Fiona Dunn Meg Ellingwood |
| September 14 | Student Research Talks "The Search for Good Classical and Quantum Codes from Multi-Twisted Codes" "Polycycyclic Codes" |
Thomas Guidotti and Paul Liu Paul Liu and Bryan Yoshino |
| September 21 | Student Research Talks "Topological Data Analysis" "Adapting the Adaptive Partitioning Design Algorithm" |
Nick Babson Ryan Schultz |
| September 28 | Student Research Talks "My Remote Data Scientist Internship at 84.51°" "Digital Storytelling and Dissemination of Research Findings on Contributions of the Medieval Islamic Civilization to Mathematics and Sciences" |
Michaela Brydon Lynn Butzlaff |
| October 5 | Student Research Talk TBA |
Ryan Schultz and Prof. Jim Skon |
| October 26 | Invited Guest Speaker "Pythagoras’ Tuning Problem or ``Can You Hear Irrationals?’’ |
Chris Marx Associate Professor of Mathematics Oberlin College |
Check out all the events hosted in 2019-2020.
SPRING 2020
| DATE | ACTIVITY | SPEAKER / DETAILS |
|---|---|---|
| January 13 | Welcome Back! | No Math Monday |
| January 20 | Martin Luther King Day | No Math Monday |
| February 3 | "Illustrating Mathematics at ICERM: Interesting Problems, Visualization and Mathematical Art" | Judy Holdener Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics Kenyon College |
| February 13 Thursday 11:10 a.m. - noon TOM 101 |
"Multiple Comparisons for Ordinal Data With Applications to Education" Note: Special day, time and location |
Jillian Morrison Assistant Professor of Statistical & Data Sciences, Department of Mathematics & Computational Sciences, The College of Wooster |
| February 17 Hayes Hall 301 Student Lounge |
Declare Your Love For Math Day Note: Special location |
Whether you are considering declaring a Math major or a Math minor, or have already declared one, or just enjoy math and tasty treats, please join us. |
| February 24 | "Your Vote Counts! A Talk About Using Math To Analyze Election Outcomes" | Sarah Wolff Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Denison University |
| March 2 | Spring Break | No Math Monday |
| March 9 | Spring Break | No Math Monday |
| April 6 | Electronic Advising Party | Speaker/Details: The Math and Stat faculty are excited to talk with you about next year's mathematics, statistics, and scientific computing course offerings! You can find us during the regular Math Monday time on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/ |
Fall 2019
| DATE | ACTIVITY | SPEAKER / DETAILS |
|---|---|---|
| September 2 | Math Hike | Welcome Back! Join us for our first "Math Monday" of the new year as we head out on a "Math Hike." Plan to meet at the outside doors of Hayes Hall near the parking lot. |
| September 9 | No Math Monday Event | |
| September 16 | "Geršhgorin and Perron/Frobenius: Two Famous Theorems About Eigenvalues" | Helene Shapiro, Professor Emeritus Swarthmore College, Kenyon '75 |
| September 20 Friday |
"Graphs, Geometry, and Gerrymandering" Location TOM 101 |
Daryl DeFord, Postdoctoral Associate MIT - CSAIL |
| September 23 | KCSSSP - Student Talks "The Search For New Record-Breaking Codes" "Existence and Character of Solutions to the Erdős-Straus Equation" |
Thomas Guidotti `21 Paul Liu `22 Katerina Tang `21 |
| September 30 | KCSSSP - Student Talks "Parameter Estimation for Overlapping Poisson Count Data" "Correlation Functions for Gaussian Process Models of Computer Experiments with Qualitative and Quantitative Inputs" |
Michaela Brydon `21 Steven Lucas `21 |
| October 7 | "Recent Advances in Statistical Modeling of Elastic Functional Data" |
Sebastian Kurtek, Associate Professor Department of Statistics The Ohio State University |
| October 14 | “Research in Coding Theory: An Efficient Way to Mathematical Fame and a Promise for The Quantum Age” |
Noah Aydin Professor of Mathematics |
| October 21 | Graduate School Information Day | The Ohio State University Department of Statistics |
| October 28 | REU - Undergraduate Research Talks "Rational Preperiodic Points of z^d+c" "Long Term Behavior of the VoterModel on Bipartite Graphs" |
Emily Rachfal `20 Oliver VandenBerg `20 |
| November 4 | REU- Undergraduate Research Talks "Toepliz Operators and Berezin Transforms on Bergman Spaces" "Automatic Segmentation of Pediatric Chest Radiographs" |
Cameron Austin `20 Greg Holste `20 |
| November 11 | "Landing Interesting "Mathy" Internships" | Student Panel: Nathan Chandler `20 Dimitri Georgakopoulos `20 Scout Wilkins `20 Jake Zalenski `20 Lee Schott Career Development Office Kenyon College |
| November 14 Thursday |
"Computing The Partition Function" | Jeffrey Nunemacher Parrott Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Ohio Wesleyan University |
| November 18 | "Braids, Cables, and Cells: Representing Art and Craft with Mathematics and Computer Science" | Joshua Holden, Professor of Mathematics Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
| November 25 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| December 2 | Research Talk | Tenure Track Candidate for the Department of Mathematics & Statistics |
| December 6 Friday 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm |
Research Talk | Tenure Track Candidate for the Department of Mathematics & Statistics |
| December 9 | Research Talk | Tenure Track Candidate for the Department of Mathematics & Statistics |
