Resources

Lecture Series

Date	Topic	Speaker
Apr. 23, 2015	Introduction to Pricing Financial Options	Robert Wooster The College of Wooster
Apr. 13, 2015	Fishing for an Unexpected Expectation	Khanh Le Ohio Wesleyan University
Feb. 26, 2015	The Math behind Rhythms and Neuronal Networks	Lakshmi Chandrasekaran Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Feb. 25, 2015	Interpreting population dynamics using Mathematics	Lakshmi Chandrasekaran Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Feb. 24, 2015	Spherical Harmonics and a Metric for 3D Shape Perception	Josh Lesperance
Feb. 23, 2015	Geometric Roots of -1	Josh Lesperance
Feb. 20, 2015	Dynamics on Graphs (with applications to Chemical Reaction Modeling)	Matthew Johnston University of Wisconsin, Madison
Feb. 19, 2015	Recent Results in the Modeling of Chemical Reaction Systems	Matthew Johnston University of Wisconsin, Madison
Feb. 17, 2015	Modeling Insect Olfaction	Pamela Fuller Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Feb. 17, 2015	Young love is unpredictable... Or is it?	Pamela Fuller Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan. 29, 2015	Modeling disease spread on networks with a new notion of distance	Karly Jacobsen The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Nov. 6, 2014	Modeling Cancer Cell Lineage and Radiation-Induced Dedifferentiation	Kim Fessel The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Oct. 30, 2014	Cubing the Pyramid: or, Why We Need Calculus (and Measure Theory!)	Kevin Woods Oberlin College
Apr. 16, 2014	If Sherlock Holmes Were a Mathematician: A Brief Introduction to Geometric Data Analysis	Elin Smith Kenyon College
Mar. 3, 2014	Subthreshold somatic voltage in neocortical pyramidal cells can control whether spikes propagate from the axonal plexus to axon terminals: a model study	Erin Munro RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Mar. 3, 2014	Independent neural sources reveal two different slow oscillations	Erin Munro RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Feb. 27, 2014	Eye spy (only one image at a time)	Lucy Spardy The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Feb. 27, 2014	A dynamical systems analysis of afferent control in a neuro-mechanical model of locomotion	Lucy Spardy The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Feb. 24, 2014	Mathematical Modeling in Biology	Deena Schmidt Case Western Reserve University
Feb. 24, 2014	Measuring edge importance for random processes on graphs	Deena Schmidt Case Western Reserve University
Feb. 20, 2014	Ellipses, Polynomials, and a Most Marvelous Theorem	Elizabeth Wolf University of Wisconsin, Madison
Feb. 20, 2014	A Stochastic Model for Biochemical Networks: Computing Means and Parameter Sensitivities	Elizabeth Wolf University of Wisconsin, Madison
Feb. 6, 2014	Effects of Dendritic Properties on the Firing Dynamics of Neurons	Michael Schwemmer The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Feb. 6, 2014	Rational Analysis in Task Switching	Michael Schwemmer The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Jan. 29, 2014	The Hatchet Planimeter and Its Entrails	Andrew Gard Ohio Wesleyan University
Dec. 5, 2013	Phase locking in chains of half-center oscillators: an analysis of coordinated crayfish swimming	Lucy Spardy The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Dec. 5, 2013	The neural mechanism underlying coordination in crayfish swimming	Lucy Spardy The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Nov. 5, 2013	Understanding Tipping Points in Climate and Sustainability	Mary Lou Zeeman Bowdoin College
Oct. 22, 2013	Climate models from a dynamical systems point of view	Jim Walsh Oberlin College
Sep. 23, 2013	On Quantum Computing	Cameron Burger Ohio Wesleyan University
Apr. 24, 2013	New Ideas in Algebraic Geometry	Susan Colley Oberlin College
Apr. 18, 2013	Using Mathematical Models to Study Sleep-Wake Regulation	Deena Schmidt Case Western Reserve University
Mar. 28, 2013	Response to environmental hypoxia by planktivorous fish in Lake Erie	Paul Hurtado The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Mar. 6, 2013	Do Dogs Know Calculus? Bifurcations at the Beach	Tim Penning Hope College
Nov. 12, 2012	Why Axioms?	Mike Westmoreland Denison University
Nov. 1, 2012	Mathematical Models and Population Ecology	Paul Hurtado The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Nov. 1, 2012	How biology is changing mathematics and why all math is useful	Paul Hurtado The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Oct. 15, 2012	How grad school works and what life is like as a grad student	Sean McCulloch Ohio Wesleyan University
Oct. 10, 2012	Mountains and Muddy Wheels	Ben Letson Ohio Wesleyan University
May. 22, 2012	How the Classical Isoperimetric Inequality can be Reversed, and Why you Should Care	Andrew Gard The Ohio State University
Apr. 25, 2012	From Vibrating Strings to Quasicrystals: Floor Function and Irrationals	Geremias Encarnacion University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Apr. 23, 2012	Dynamics of Linear Maps	Joel Dreibelbis Rochester Institute of Technology
Apr. 11, 2012	Arctic Climate Change	David Bromwich The Ohio State University/Byrd Polar Research Center
Apr. 5, 2012	Exploring cholera dynamics and transmission pathways using identifiability and parameter estimation	Marisa Eisenberg The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Apr. 5, 2012	Algebraic Methods in Identifiability with Applications to Disease Dynamics	Marisa Eisenberg The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Mar. 5, 2012	Two Pretty Asymptotic Formulas	Jeff Nunemacher Ohio Wesleyan University
Feb. 20, 2012	My other summer project: Using game theory to design an AI for a football board game	Sean McCulloch Ohio Wesleyan University
Feb. 9, 2012	Are the ice sheets collapsing?	Ian Howat The Ohio State University/Byrd Polar Research Center
Dec. 5, 2011	Shared Shortest Paths on Graphs	Zeal Jaganatha Ohio Wesleyan University
Nov. 14, 2011	Circle-Squaring and other Geometric Puzzles	Pam Pierce The College of Wooster
Nov. 3, 2011	Algebraic theory for discrete models in systems biology	Franziska Hinkelmann The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Nov. 3, 2011	Discrete Models in Biological Systems and Cancer Research	Franziska Hinkelmann The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Oct. 10, 2011	Do Dogs Know the Trammel of Archimedes?	Mark Schwartz Ohio Wesleyan University
Apr. 18, 2011	Fraud, Geometric Progressions, and Probability	Moy Easwaran The Ohio State University
Mar. 31, 2011	Dynamical Systems for Mathematical Biology	Janet Best The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Mar. 31, 2011	The Dynamics of Sleep	Janet Best The Ohio State University/Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Mar. 1, 2011	Physics and mathematics of knots	Sergei Chmutov The Ohio State University
Feb. 21, 2011	Breaking The Code	Movie
Feb. 14, 2011	Breaking The Code	Movie
Dec. 6, 2010	Computational geometry and measuring fractal dimension	Marc Khoury The Ohio State University
Nov. 8, 2010	Applications of Artificial Neural Networks: Tires and Football	John David The College of Wooster
Oct. 25, 2010	On Bernoulli Numbers	Jeff Nunemacher Ohio Wesleyan University
Sep. 27, 2010	Modeling evolution using game theory	Craig Jackson Ohio Wesleyan University
Apr. 26, 2010	An Ant System for the Bin-Packing Problem	Laura Pickens Ohio Wesleyan University
Apr. 16, 2010	Sometimes Infinity is Close Enough for Government Work: Musings on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics	Mike Westmoreland Denison University
Mar. 1, 2010	Knot Theory and the Universe	Craig Jackson Ohio Wesleyan University
Jan. 25, 2010	On Drawing Stuff	Mark Schwartz Ohio Wesleyan University
Nov. 17, 2009	A Crystal Ball and the Crystal Trophy: Two Mathematical Ranking Systems in College Football	Drew Pasteur The College of Wooster
Oct. 26, 2009	Analyzing Skill Versus Chance in Poker	Sean McCulloch Ohio Wesleyan University
Sep. 24, 2009	Using Graphs to Find Disease Genes	Laura Kubatko The Ohio State University
Sep. 7, 2009	Building a Longer Line	Craig Jackson Ohio Wesleyan University

Department Contact Info

Location

Schimmel/Conrades Science Center
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015

P 740-368-3907
F 740-368-3999

Department Contact

Department Chair: Scott Linder
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Schimmel/Conrades Science Center 386
740-368-3660
rslinder@owu.edu

Academic Assistant: Judy Arlington
Schimmel/Conrades Science Center 201
740-368-3907
jaarlington@owu.edu