Senior Liberal Arts Mathematics
Capstone Talks
Fall 2011
Presentation Schedule:
(all talks held in SCP 229)
Monday, Dec. 5:
11:30 – “Nonlinear Systems and Limit Cycles,” Michael Stefanelli (Prof. Gevertz)
11:55 – “Compactifications of Hausdorff spaces,” William Franczak (Prof. Curtis)
Tuesday, Dec. 6:
11:30 – “Laminar Definition of Effective Conductivity,” R.J. Leiser (Prof. Clark)
11:55 – “How to Factor The LLL Algorithm and its Applications to Cryptography and Factoring,” Shane Mullin (Prof. Hagedorn)
Thursday, Dec. 8:
11:30 – “Bifurcation Diagrams of First Order Differential Equations,” Katharine Pelican (Prof. Gevertz)
11:55 – “Computing Transition Probabilities with Markov Chains,” Anastasia Pastino (Prof. Navard)
Friday, Dec. 9:
11:30 – “An Introduction to the Calculus of Variations,” Robert Moore (Prof. Clark)
11:55 – “The Expectation Maximization Algorithm,” Julie Melzer (Prof. Navard)
Capstone Talks are expository presentations by seniors on topics in higher mathematics. All students, especially first-year, sophomore, and junior mathematics majors, are encouraged to attend.