Western Carolina
University
Department of Mathematics and
Computer
Science
Colloquium Series, 2002-2003
The following dates are tentative. Check this
webpage often.
September
October
** Friday, October 25, 3:00 PM, Ronnie
W. Smith, East Carolina University
--"Multimodal Spoken Natural Language
Dialog
for a Battlefield Information System"
** Tuesday, October 29, 3:00 PM, Benjamin
Shults, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, WCU
--"Industrial-Strength Data Structures"
November
** Thursday, November 7, 3:00 PM, Mark MacLean, Department of
Mathematics,
UNC-Asheville
-- "An Introduction to Distance-Regular Graphs"
December
** Wednesday, December 4, 3:00PM, Dennis Murphy, Franklin, NC
-- "Secrets of Success and Happiness as a Computer Scientist or
Engineer"
January
** Friday, January 31, 3:00 PM, Douglas
Reeves, Department of Computer Science, NC State University
-- "Promise and Perils of Peer-to-Peer
Computing"
February
** Friday, February 21, 4:00 PM, Jane
Hawkins, Department of Mathematics, UNC- Chapel Hill
March: Focus
on the History of Mathematics
** Wednesday, March 26, 4:00 PM, Room 302, Stillwell, Adrian
Rice, Department of
Mathematics, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
-- "Inexplicable? The status of complex
numbers
in Britain, 1750-1850"
** Friday, March 28, 4:00 PM, Room 302, Stillwell, Karen
Parshall, Departments
of History and Mathematics, University of Virginia
--“Historical Contours of the American Mathematical Research Community”
April
** Thursday, April 10, 3:15 PM, Shan Manickam, Department of
Mathematics
and Computer Science,
Western Carolina University
-- ``Every 1(mod 3) prime is of the form x^2 + 3y^2"
May
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