Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics
Seminar Series
Spring 2013
All talks are on Tuesday at 3:30 in McCormick 2314.
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March 12.
Mobile Development for Enterprise Applications.
Daniel Miller, The Hershey Company.
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March 26.
Xwords.
Kevin Ferland, Bloomsburg University.
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April 2.
eDiscovery and Cyber Security in the Business World.
Steven Rodi, Innovative Development LLC.
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April 9.
Moved Away But Stayed Close
and Pi Via Integrals.
John Riley, Bloomsburg University.
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April 16.
Problems from South America.
Paul Loomis, Bloomsburg University.
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April 23.
The Brutal Reality of Computer Incidents — Case Studies
of Vulnerable Companies.
Tom Sammel, Dell SecureWorks.
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April 30.
High-Level Parallel Programming on GPUs using the Thrust
Library.
Erik Wynters, Bloomsburg University.
Fall 2012
- September 18.
Happy Birthday, Alan Turing.
William Calhoun, Bloomsburg University.
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October 9.
Non-Parametric and Semi-Parametric Approaches
in ROC Analysis.
Dong Zhang, Bloomsburg University.
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October 23.
Hazard Assessment of Bloomsburg Floods.
Reza Noubary, Bloomsburg University.
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November 6.
Angle Preservation and Non-Inscribable Polyhedra.
Eric Kahn, Bloomsburg University.
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November 13.
Multitasking Research Software and Integration
of OpenGL with the .NET Framework.
John George, BU Computer Science major.
Spring 2012
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February 14.
E-Discovery.
William Calhoun and John Riley, Bloomsburg University.
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March 27.
The Diophantine Equation
arctan(1/x) + arctan(i/y) = arctan(1/k).
Konstantine Zelator, Bloomsburg University.
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May 1.
Class Presentations from Software Engineering.
- May 2.
Class Presentations from Software Engineering.
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May 3.
Class Presentations from Software Engineering.
Fall 2011
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September 6.
Trends in Information Security.
Rob Andrews, Cincinnati Bell Technology Services.
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October 18.
PPL Internship Program for CS Majors.
Representatives from PPL Corporation.
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October 25.
A Gentle Introduction to Association Schemes.
John Polhill, Bloomsburg University.
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November 4.
Integral Triangles with a 120° Angle.
Konstantine Zelator, Bloomsburg University.
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November 8.
Risk and Investment
Reza Noubary, Bloomsburg University.
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November 15.
Mac OS X and Linux Physical Memory Acquisition and Analysis.
Robert Roos, Bloomsburg University major in Computer Forensics.
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November 29.
A Taste of Computational Geometry
Erik Wynters, Bloomsburg University.
Spring 2011
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February 15.
Email Hacking.
Dan Balthaser, Bloomsburg University major in Computer Science.
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February 22.
Transforming Your Existing Assignments Into A
Technology Portfolio That Impresses Employers.
Nicole Snow, Manager, Oracle Education Initiatives.
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March 15.
Apple OS X and iOS Digital Forensics.
Ryan Kubasiak,
computer crime investigator, and Editor-in-chief of AppleExaminer.com.
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March 22.
Straight From Here to Here.
John Riley, Bloomsburg University.
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April 5.
What Kindergarten Didn't Teach Us About Spheres.
Eric Kahn, Bloomsburg University.
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April 12.
Computer Graphics in DirectX.
Rod Cano, Bloomsburg University major in Computer Science.
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April 19.
Software Engineering class presentations.
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April 20.
Software Engineering class presentations.
Fall 2010
- September 14.
When can you color a grid and not have any monochromatic
rectangles? Bill Gasarch, University of Maryland.
- September 28.
How Many Numbers are Friendly?
Paul Loomis, Bloomsburg University.
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October 12.
Euler Constants and Integrals of Fractional Parts.
Youmin Lu, Bloomsburg University.
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October 26.
I Didn't Know a Graphics Card Could Do That.
Erik Wynters, Bloomsburg University.
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November 9.
Cyberwarfare.
Brandon Bendigo, Bloomsburg University major in Computer Forensics
and Computer Science.
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November 16.
A Math Modeling Contest Problem in Criminology.
Undergraduate Math Modeling Team, Bucknell University.
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November 30.
An Interesting Operating System Modification
William Katsak. Rutgers University
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December 7.
Web Development for Mobile Devices.
Helmut Doll. Bloomsburg University.
Spring 2010
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February 2.
Examples from Probability and Statistics as Taught at Shandong
University of Technology.
Jim Pomfret, Bloomsburg University.
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February 16.
What Should Adorn Next Year's Math Contest T-shirt?
Kevin Ferland, Bloomsburg University.
- March 2.
Analysis of a Game of Table Tennis: Can Mathematics Help Me to Beat
My Chinese Colleagues? Reza Noubury, Bloomsburg University.
- March 16. A C++ Tree Template Class. Brandon McKenzie,
Bloomsburg University.
- March 30. Mathematics-Nspired. Steve Kokoska, Bloomsburg
University.
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April 13. Detecting Hidden Signals in MPEG Motion Vectors.
Steve Rhein, East Stroudsburg University.
- April 20. Careers In Mathematics — Being a Statistician in
2010. David Bennett, Bloomsburg University.
- April 26. Software Engineering class presentations.
- April 27. Software Engineering class presentations.
Fall 2009
- October 6. Using Version Control Software in a Group
Programming Course. Curt Jones, Bloomsburg University.
- October 20. Perfect Distance Stars mod m. Xianrui Meng,
Bloomsburg University.
- November 3. Enforcing Specifications for Hardware Interaction in
Operating Systems Code. Lea Wittie, Bucknell University.
- November 17. Elliptic Curves in Number Theory and Cryptography.
Ryan Evans, Bloomsburg University.
- December 1. Football and Mathematics: Could You Do It Better?
Eric Kahn, Bloomsburg University.
- December 8. Perfect Totient Numbers. Joe Perott, Bloomsburg
Spring 2009
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February 10. Oscillation Criteria for a Non-linear Second Order
Ordinary Differential Equation. Youmin Lu, Bloomsburg University.
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February 24. Conference Graphs and Paley Partial Difference
Sets. John Polhill, Bloomsburg University.
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March 10. What's the Problem? William Calhoun, Bloomsburg
Univerity.
- March 24. A General Method for Generalized p-value. Xinmin Li,
Shandong University.
- March 25. On Sums of Powers of Primes, Florian Luca, Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Morelia.
- April 7. Improved Genetic Algorithms for Small Sorting Networks.
Alex Paoletti, Bloomsburg University.
- April 20. Software Engineering class presentations.
- April 21. Software Engineering class presentations.
Fall 2008
- September 30. Square of Sum Equals Sum of Cubes.
Paul Loomis, Bloomsburg University.
- October 7. Earthquake Modelling: How to Do it Right.
Reza Noubury, Bloomsburg University.
- October 21.
Artificial Life, Actual Life and Conway's Game of Life.
Drue Coles, Bloomsburg University.
- October 28. Crawling Up a Funnel. John Riley, Bloomsburg
University.
- November 4. Python Programming for Non-Programmers.
Robert Montante, Bloomsburg University.
- November 11. Holistic Video Game Optimization.
Eric Preisz, Full Sail Institute.
- November 18. Use of Double Quadratic Polynomials for
Nonlinear Dose-Response Modeling in Biological Experiments.
Jason Elsinger, Bloomsburg University.
- December 2. Two Internet-Based Java Applications. BU Advanced
Java class.
Spring 2008
- February 26. Characterizing solutions to Burgers' equation using
integral representation. Upali Karunathilake, Bloomsburg University.
- February 28.
Using a Beowulf Cluster to model the shapes of asteroids.
Michael Shepard, Bloomsburg University.
- March 4.
What's in an 8.3 name?
A name by any other name is a forensics problem.
John Riley, Bloomsburg University.
- March 25. Difference sets, codes, and bent functions. Qing Xiang,
University of Delaware.
- April 8. Software Engineering class presentations.
- April 22.
Geometric group theory. Nicholas Koban, University of Maine.