Join the Mathematics and Statistics Department for a variety of stimulating math talks. We will meet "virtually" every Monday from 3:10 p.m. to 4 p.m. (unless otherwise noted). For those who are on our distribution list, instructions on how to join each virtual meeting will be sent to your Kenyon email. If you would like to be added to the distribution list, please email Connie Miller at millercm@kenyon.edu.
Spring 2021
Date | Activity | Speaker / Details |
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February 8 | Invited Guest Speaker "Research Careers at the Federal Reserve" |
Ryotaro (Ryo) Tashiro '09 Senior Outreach Economist Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia |
February 15 | Invited Guest Speaker "Communities in Data" |
Katherine Moore `12, Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Mathematics & Statistics Wake Forrest University |
February 22 | Invited Guest Speaker "Going Backwards, Reconstructing Shapes From Topological Data Descriptors" |
Robin Belton `16, PhD Candidate Department of Mathematical Sciences Montana State University |
March 1 | Invited Guest Speaker "The Game of Cycles" |
Francis Su Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College |
March 15 | "Pi Day and Declare Your Love For Math Day" | Details to follow. |
March 22 | Faculty Research Talk "A DIY Project: Create Your Very Own Multiply Perfect Number!" |
Judy Holdener, Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Kenyon College |
March 29 | Faculty Research Talk Talk: TBA |
Adam Lizzi, Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Kenyon College |
April 12 | Invited Guest Speaker Talk: TBA |
Robin Dunn `16, PhD. Candidate Department of Statistics and Data Science Carnegie Mellon University |
April 19 | Invited Guest Speaker Talk: TBA |
Sarah J. Greenwald, Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences Appalachian State University |
April 26 | Invited Guest Speaker Talk: TBA |
Nathan Huey `13, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Biostatistics Harvard University |
May 3 | Invited Guest Speaker Talk: TBA |
Victor Barranca, Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics & Statistics Swarthmore College |
Fall 2020
Date | Activity | Speaker / Details |
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Sept. 7 | Student Research Talks![]() "Draft Decisions in Uncertain Times: Valuing and Simulating NHL Draft Picks" |
Fiona Dunn `22 Meg Ellingwood `21 |
Sept. 14 | Student Research Talks "The Search for Good Classical and Quantum Codes from Multi-Twisted Codes" "Polycycyclic Codes" |
Thomas Guidotti `21 and Paul Liu `22 Paul Liu `22 and Bryan Yoshino `21 |
Sept. 21 | Student Research Talk "Adapting the Adaptive Partitioning Design Algorithm" |
Ryan Schultz `22 |
Sept. 28 | Student Research Talks "My Remote Data Scientist Internship at 84.51°" |
Michaela Brydon `21 |
Oct. 5 | Faculty Research Talk "Computing Node Distances in Metric Spaces" |
Jim Skon, Professor of Mathematics & Scientific Computing, Kenyon College |
Oct. 12 | Student Research Talk |
Lynn Butzlaff `22 |
Oct. 19 | Faculty Research Talk "Intersections: Surprising Applications of Algebraic Geometry Concepts in Linguistics and Language Processing" |
Rebecca Black, Visiting Assistant Professor or Mathematics, Kenyon College |
Oct. 26 | Guest Speaker "Pythagoras’ Tuning Problem or 'Can You Hear Irrationals?'" |
Chris Marx, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Oberlin College |
Nov. 2 |
Faculty Research Talk |
Bob Milnikel, Professor of Mathematics, Kenyon College |
Nov. 9 | Faculty Research Talk "There Exist Infinitely Many Primes" |
Adam Lizzi, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Kenyon College |
Nov. 16 | Faculty Research Talk "Modeling the Effects of Temperature on Sleep Patterns" |
Pamela Pyzza, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Kenyon College |
Nov. 23 |
Guest Speaker |
Mike Ulrey `67, Boeing Company (Retired) |
Nov. 30 |
Faculty Research Talk |
Marie Snipes, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Kenyon College |