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Speakers expose students to professionals from other parts of the country giving them insights beyond those of our own faculty, and helps connect NMU to the global academic community. Talks by colleagues start discussions on issues of importance, and provide an opportunity to give visibility to scholarly work being done here.

Join us for interesting and informative seminars on mathematics and computer science topics.

Meet guest speakers from across the country representing universities, industry and mathematical and computing organizations.

Abstracts of each talk are available as well as the time and location.  Simply click on the speaker's name for information. 

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Fall 2009 Semester
schedule of speakers

Speaker Information

Colloquium Title Time and Place

Jeff Horn
NMU Mathematics and Computer Science

Solving Sudoku Using Parallel Simultaneous Constraint Satisfaction via Species Selection

Thursday, November 19, 2009
4:00 p.m.
NSF 1205
Don Faust
NMU Mathematics and Computer Science
The Structure of the Syntax and Semantics of Languages of 1st-order Predicate Logic Thursday, November 12, 2009
4:00 p.m.
NSF 1205
Mathematics and Computer Science
Student Presentations
Various Student Research Projects Thursday, November 5, 2009
4:00 p.m.
NSF 1205
John Sarkela
Lead Software Engineer
 Cincom Systems

Distinction, Representation and the Evolution of Signal: Computation in Smalltalk

Thursday, October 29, 2009
4:00 p.m.
NSF 1205
J.D.Phillips
NMU Mathematics and Computer Science
Abelian Inner Mapping Groups and Nilpotency in Loops Thursday, October 22, 2009
4:00 p.m.
NSF 1205
Ken Culp
NMU Mathematics and Computer Science
Make Your Life Easier! Thursday, October 15, 2009
4:00 p.m.
New Science Facility 1205
Sien Deng
Northern Illinois University
Weak Sharp Minima:  Theory and Applications Thursday, October 8, 2009
4:00 p.m.
New Science Facility 1205
Brenda Marshall
Wolfram Research, Inc.
Mathematica® 7 in Education and Research Thursday, October 1, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Mead Auditorium, West Science