Schedule

• Date: Thursday, January 4, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Melissa Vellela
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: Informational Meeting
  


• Date: Thursday, January 11, 12:30pm
  Speaker: William Stein, Associate Professor of Mathematics, UW
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: SAGE: Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation
  Organizers: Melissa Vellela
  


• Date: Thursday, January 18, 12:30pm
  Speaker: David Reiss, Institute for Systems Biology
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: Modeling the pathways and regulatory dynamics of the salt-loving extremophile Halobacterium NRC-1
  Organizers: TBA
  


• Date: Thursday, January 25, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Matt Kahle, Graduate Student, UW Mathematics Department
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: Sphere Packing and Error Correcting Codes
  Organizers: Melissa Vellela, Julie Eaton
  


• Date: Thursday, February 1, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Jonathan Claridge, Graduate Student, UW Applied Mathematics Department
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: Finite Difference Methods
  Organizers: Melissa Vellela, Julie Eaton
  


• Date: Thursday, February 8, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Toby White, Graduate Student, UW Statistics Department
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: Becoming an Actuary
  Organizers: Melissa Vellela
  


• Date: Thursday, February 15, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Joseph Hua Tien, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: Modeling an autocatalytic enzyme
  Organizers: Melissa Vellela
  


• Date: Thursday, February 22, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Jacob Lewis, Graduate Student, UW Math Department
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: Discriminants and their newton polytopes
  Organizers: Melissa Vellela
  


• Date: Thursday, March 1, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Pascale Lelong, Senior Research Scientist, NorthWest Research Associates
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: Problems in geophysical fluid dynamics and the mathematical tools we use to solve them
  Organizers: Melissa Vellela, Julie Eaton
  


• Date: Thursday, March 8, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Jim Morrow, UW Mathematics Professor
  Place: DEN 304
  Title: Inverse Problems for Electrical Networks: The REU Program at the University of Washington
  Organizers: TBA
  
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