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Junior Colloquium

The Mathematics Department of the University of Minnesota welcomes you to the Junior Colloquium! When school is in session, the Junior Colloquium is held every Tuesday at 3:20 P.M. in Vincent Hall 16, with refreshments served at 3:00 P.M. in Vincent Hall 120. Talks are intended to be accessible and interesting to a broad audience, from undergraduate math students to faculty.

The current organizers of the Junior Colloquium are Prof. Richard McGehee, Walter Rusin, Francis Valiquette, and Alexander Hanhart. If you have questions about the seminar, or would like to recommend a speaker, please contact an organizer. Graduate students are especially encouraged to volunteer!

This Semester's Speakers

Fall 2008
Date Speaker Topic
September 16 Francis Valiquette Equivalence Problems
September 23 Prof. Carme Calderer Why a summer internship?
September 30 Antoine Choffrut From Euler's equations to Euler's equations
October 7 Tyler Whitehouse Discrete curvatures, least squares errors, and the ''quantitative geometry'' of measures
October 14 Walter Rusin The Banach-Tarski Paradox in 20 Slides
October 21 Alexander Miller TBA
October 28 Nathan Williams TBA
November 4 TBA TBA
November 11 TBA TBA
November 18 Benjamin Rosenfield TBA
November 25 Guoyi Xu TBA
December 2 Stephen McIntyre TBA
December 9 Andrew Berget TBA

Previous Semesters' Speakers


For questions about the web page please contact Francis Valiquette.

The ATaC seminar

The Junior Colloquium evolved from the ATaC seminar -- an acronym for "All Topics Are Considered," previously "Algebra, Topology and Combinatorics." [The name is due to Dr. Peter Webb.]

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Last Modified September 25, 2008
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