Spencer Talks
We are proud to announce the eleventh annual Spencer and Spencer talk on
Monday, April 21, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
in the Century Rooms of the Millennium Student Center. (Building 4 on the
north campus map.)
This year our speaker is
Professor Hyman Bass from the University of Michigan.
whose talk is titled
"Improving U.S. Mathematics Education: Myths and Realities"
(abstract)
Prior Talks
| Name |
Topic |
Date |
| Dr. Richard Stallman |
"The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System" |
April 23, 2007 |
| Dr. Robert Hogg |
"Probability and Life" |
April 24, 2006 |
| Dr. William Dunham |
"A Tribute to Euler" |
May 5, 2005 |
| Dr. Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan |
"Large Interacting Systems and their Scaling Limits" |
May 5, 2004 |
| Dr. David Goldberg |
"The Design of Innovation: Lessons from and for Competent Genetic Algorithms" |
May 8, 2003 |
| Dr. Bruce Berndt |
"The Life and Notebooks of India's Greatest Mathematician, Srinvasa Ramanujan" |
May 7, 2002 |
| Dr. Thomas Banchoff |
"The Internet and the Fourth Dimension" |
April 23, 2001 |
| Keith Devlin |
"The Math Gene: How Did Human Acquire the Ability ot do Mathematics" |
May 4, 2000 |
| Constance Reid |
"The Life of Julia Robinson" |
May 4, 1999 |
| Dr. Philip Davis |
"The Spiral of Theodorus" |
May 6, 1998 |
Pictures
We also have some pictures from the talks in
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002,
2003,
2005, and
2006.