Fall 2003
Date	Speaker	Topic
September 9	James Swenson	2, 12, 1112, 3112, 132112, 1113122112, ...: Conway's Audioactive Chemistry
September 16	John Hall	The Slope Problem
September 23	Michael Weimerskirch	Balanced incomplete block design and how to schedule a doubles tournament
September 30	Postponed due to grad-school informational meeting
October 7	Dan Drake	Dirty children, unfaithful husbands, and numbers on your forehead
October 14	Dr. Raja Sridharan	On Feynman's proof of Kepler's laws
October 21	Dr. Paul Garrett	Dangerous and illegal operations in calculus
October 28	Will not meet
November 4	Dr. Joan Hutchinson (Macalester College)	The mathematics and music of English change ringing on tower and handbells
November 11	Catalin Turc	Kakeya's problem
November 18	Javier Zuniga	The nerve of fat cats
November 25	Vasfiye Hande Tuzel	Signaling Pathways in Dictostelium discoideum
December 2	Oleg Alexandrov	Shape optimization using the level set method
December 9	Dr. Jeremy Martin	The notorious 15-puzzle