Week of February 2 - 6, 1998

Monday, February 2

11:30 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Barbara Moses, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Von Glasersfeld radical constructivism"

 2:30 ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Curt Bennett, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Buildings: an introduction"

 3:30 STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES  - Room 459 MSC
      Jiahua Chen, University of Waterloo, visiting BGSU this semester
      "Empirical Likelihood Methods"

Tuesday, February 3

 2:30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Gordon Wade, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Introduction to dynamical systems"

 2:30 MAPLE WORKSHOP  - Scientific Computing Lab, MSC
      John Gresser, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
        A short sequel to our observation last week about algebraic
        numbers will be offered.  Then, as promised, new Maple
        commands will be discussed, in the context of mathematical
        examples you can bring to a calculus class.  Examples will
        cover differentiation, graphing, implicit differentiation, and
        integration.  Our point of view in a classroom should be
        mathematics, not software.

 3:30 FACULTY MEETING  - Room 459 MSC
      Discussion of the proposed Math 417 and the department's hiring plans

 6:00 KME EVENT  - Room 459 MSC
      Craig Zirbel, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Optimal stopping of Markov chains, or, How to play blackjack"
      Snacks will be provided.

Wednesday, February 4

11:30 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Barbara Moses, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Von Glasersfeld radical constructivism"
      
Thursday, February 5

 1:00 STATISTICAL COMPUTING SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Jim Albert, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "The EM algorithm"

Friday, February 6
      
 3:30 Coffee
 3:45 COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
      Christian Hirsch, Western Michigan University
      "Emerging secondary school mathematics curricula and their 
       implications for undergraduate mathematics"
      Abstract: The Core-Plus Mathematics Project(CPMP) is one of four
        comprehensive curriculum development projects that were
        awarded grants from the National Science Foundation to design,
        evaluate, and disseminate innovative high school curricula
        that interpret and implement the NCTM Standards. An overview
        of the design, implementation, and evaluation of the CPMP
        curriculum will be provided and the implications for placement
        in, and teaching of, beginning undergraduate mathematics
        courses will be examined. Implications for pre-service
        preparation of high school mathematics will also be addressed
        as time permits.

      Mathematics Education majors and graduate students are especially
      invited to attend.