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MSCS typically hosts a Colloquium on Mondays and a Research Seminar on Fridays. Below you will find upcoming talks and videos will be posted after the talk. Please note to view the videos you must be signed into your St. Olaf Google Account.<\/em><\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – March 23, 2026
Parts and Wholes: Decoding Fraction Processing Insights from EEG Brain Signals<\/a><\/em>
Brian Rivera, Visiting Professor of Psychology, St. Olaf College<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – March 9, 2026
Mortality Estimation in Data-Sparse Settings<\/i><\/a>
Taylor Okonek, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Macalester College<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – March 2, 2026
Doing Geometry in a Tropical Climate!<\/i><\/a>
Kaelyn Willingham, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – February 10, 2025
Digging for Roots of Unity<\/i><\/a>
Paul Zorn, MSCS Emeritus, St. Olaf College<\/p>\n

MSCS Research Seminar – November 4, 2024
One Person, One Vote: The Electoral College, Gerrymandering, and the Mathematics of Optimization<\/i><\/a>
Steven McKelvey, MSCS Emeritus, St. Olaf College<\/p>\n

MSCS\/Biology Research Seminar – October 28, 2024
Counting Creatures: The Statistical Science Behind Wildlife Ecology<\/i><\/a>
Martha Zillig, Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College<\/p>\n

MSCS Research Seminar – October 18, 2024
Recent Advances in Linear Dynamics<\/a><\/em>
David Walmsley, Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – October 7, 2024
“Which is better, one or two? Three… or four?: Viewing Educational Measurement Through Multiple Lenses”<\/em><\/a>
Carlos Chavez, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – September 30, 2024
How Many Ways Are There to Juggle?<\/em><\/a>
Matthew Wright, Associate Professor, St. Olaf College<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – May 6, 2024
Computational Techniques and Tools to Improve Genetic Testing in the Clinic<\/a><\/em>
Getiria Onsongo, Associate Professor, Macalester College<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – April 29, 2024
On the Data of Images<\/a><\/em>
Lori Ziegelmeier, Associate Professor, Macalester College<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – March 18, 2024
Gorenstein Rings and the Chicken McNugget Problem<\/a><\/em>
Janet Page, Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University<\/p>\n

MSCS TLC Lecture – March 11, 2024
Patterns in Permutations<\/a><\/em>
Lara Pudwell, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Valparaiso University
(The slides don’t show up well in the video linked above, but Dr. Pudwell gave nearly the same talk at MAA MathFest 2023, with a better video available here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – May 1, 2023
Still Working when the warehouse burns down: Mathematics of storing data<\/em><\/a>
Mckenzie West ’11, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – March 20, 2023
Advances in Spatial Point Process Models for Urban Policing<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Claire Kelling, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Carleton College<\/p>\n

MSCS TLC Lecture – March 13, 2023 – Video<\/a>
Voting and Linear Algebra: Connections and Questions<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
Michael Orrison, Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College<\/p>\n

MSCS Research Seminar – March 10, 2023 – <\/em>Video<\/a>
Discrete Frames for High-Dimensional Data<\/a>
Kristopher Hollingsworth, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, MN State University, Mankato
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MSCS Research Seminar – March 3, 2023 – Video<\/a>
Fibonacci Numbers, Catalan Numbers and the Super FiboCatalan Numbers<\/strong><\/em>
Kendra Killpatrick, Professor of Mathematics, Pepperdine University<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – February 20, 2023 – Video<\/a>
Applied Mathematics and Bad Intuition: Two Examples<\/strong><\/em>
Steve McKelvey, St. Olaf Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science<\/p>\n

MSCS Research Seminar – February 17, 2023 – Video<\/a>
Network Embedding for Potential Energy Landscapes
<\/strong><\/em>Paula Mercurio, St. Olaf Visiting Mathematics Professor<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – October 24, 2022 – Video<\/a>
Painful Regressions: Probability and Statistics in Clinical Medicine and Pain Management<\/strong><\/em>
Dr. Akshar Rambachan ’12, Physician-investigator and Assistant Professor, UCSF<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – April 11, 2022 – Video<\/a>
Q-Q plots: To de-trend, or not to de-trend<\/strong><\/em>
Adam Loy, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Carleton College<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – March 7, 2022 – Video<\/a>
A year in the life of a logistics data scientist<\/em><\/strong>
Joe Benson, Data Scientist for CH Robinson<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – November 29, 2021 – Video<\/a>
Untangling the Global Supply Chain: Modeling the International Economy of Things
<\/strong><\/em>Steve McKelvey, St. Olaf Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – October 4, 2021 – Video<\/a>
A Statistical Approach to Glacier Measurement Uncertainty<\/em><\/strong>
Laura Boehm-Vock ’08, St. Olaf Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – May 3, 2021 – Video<\/a>
What is \u2018Customer Success Management,\u2019 and what does it have to do with math, anyway?<\/strong><\/em>
Dr. Vijay Mehrotra Professor of Business Analytics & Director of Customer Success Management Initiative University of San Francisco, School of Management<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – April 26, 2021 – Video<\/a>
Designing Clinical Trials…During a Pandemic<\/strong><\/em>
David Vock \u201807, Associate Professor of Biostatistics University of MN School of Public Health<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – April 19, 2021 – Video<\/a>
A Day in the Life of a Lead Technologist<\/strong><\/em>
Aaron R. Lloyd, Rally Lead & Global Capability Specialist at Broadcom<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – Marth 29, 2021 – Video<\/a>
Take what you have gathered from coincidence: Understanding – and Using – Randomness
<\/strong><\/em>Matthew Richey, St. Olaf Hardy Distinguished Professor of Science and a member of the Department of
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – Marth 22, 2021 – Video<\/a>
Freedom Isn’t Free: Mathematical Modeling of the Costs of Freedom of Choice
Steve McKelvey, St. Olaf Professor of Math, CS & Stats and Data Science<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – March 15, 2021 – Video<\/a> – Links<\/a> provided during talk
Visualizing the Whole Wide World on the World Wide Web – <\/i><\/b>Computer Graphics in the Geospatial Industry
<\/i><\/b>Omar Shehata \u201818 – St. Olaf Computer Science and Mathematics Major<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – March 8, 2021 – Video<\/a>
Hey, that really came in handy!
<\/i><\/b>Alyssa Frazee \u201810 – St. Olaf Mathematics Major<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium –\u00a0 November 9, 2020 – Video<\/a>
Sharing Secrets
<\/strong><\/em>Adam Wood ’16 – Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – November 2, 2020 – Video<\/a>
One Function to Rule Them All
<\/strong><\/em>David Walmsley, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – October 26, 2020 – Video<\/a>
Data to Inform Policies to Reduce Gun Violence Involving Civilians and Police
<\/i><\/b>Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – October 5, 2020 – Video<\/a>
Mayo COVID-Plasma project team: Challenges and day to day work as statisticians
<\/i><\/b>David Hodge & the Mayo COVID-Plasma Project Team<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – September 14, 2020 – Video<\/a>
A Raspberry Pi Platform to Teach Parallel Computing – <\/i><\/b>Tanaka Khondowe ’22 and George Kokalas ’22
Kubernetes:\u00a0 Creating a St. Olaf Computer Science Local Cloud – <\/i><\/b>Eliott Cassidy ’22 and George Kokalas ’22
The Effects of Interference on Multi-Robot Exploration<\/i><\/b> – <\/b>Dagmawe Haileslassie ’22, Sean Daly ’21,
and Hope Moran ’22<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – April 9, 2018 – Video<\/a>
The Case of the Missing Vertex
<\/strong>Suzanne Doree, Professor of Mathematics Augsburg University<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – February 19, 2018 – Video<\/a>
Color me combinatorial: beauty from statistical mechanics<\/strong><\/em>
Kaisa Taipale, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – December 11, 2017 – Video
<\/a>How Connected Are Your Bones? A Novice’s Guide to Bone Micro-architecture
<\/em><\/strong>Lisa Langsetmo, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – December 4, 2017 – Video<\/a>
The Computer Science Senior Capstone Seminar
Cell Phones in the Theater: Wht if you came to a theater show that asked you to keep your cell phone on, and use it, rather than turn it off?<\/strong>
<\/em>Deandre Bauswell, David Ellenberger, Elija Verdoom
Expanding to the Cloud<\/strong>
<\/em>Josh Becker, Jesus Caballero, Andrew Lee, Scott Nesbit
Exploring the Fourth Dimension: What does a 4D cube look like?<\/strong>
<\/em>Justin Pacholec, Tian Tian Pang, Joe Peterson, Omar Shehata<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – October 9, 2017 – Video
<\/a>The Power of Mathematics Teaching in an Age of Alternative Facts<\/em><\/strong>
MSCS & Music Department Visiting Speaker Evening Talk – Video<\/a>
Harmonious Equations: an Exploration of Math & Music<\/em><\/strong>
David Kung, Professor of Mathematics, St. Mary’s College of Maryland<\/p>\n

MSCS Colloquium – September 25, 2017 – Video<\/a>
Not All Fun & Games: Challenges of Professional Game Development<\/strong> – <\/em>Omar Shehata
Tests and Containerized Deployment for HiPerCiC 3 Applications<\/strong> – <\/em>Hugo Valent
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