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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