Math 391: Colloquium

The Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium provides a weekly opportunity to hear presentations by students, faculty, and guests from industry and academia. The Colloquium meets most weeks during the academic semesters on Thursday afternoons from 3:05-3:55 p.m.

Colloquium faculty for 2025-2026 are Professors Pruim and Moseley.

Fall 2025 schedule

date	speaker
Thu 9/4	Moseley/Pruim Calvin University Note: organizational meeting
Thu 9/11	Mariah Birgen Wartburg College Modeling First: Exploring Calculus and Differential Equations through Epidemic Models and Beyond
Mon 9/15	Josh Reaves Samford University Chance: A Short Theological History Note: Monday @ 4pm in Chapel
Thu 9/18	Leszek Gawarecki Kettering University Teaching Math for Social Justice
Thu 9/25	Department Picnic!
Thu 10/2	Counted Out Note: 6:30pm in Bytwerk Theater
Thu 10/9	Landon Kavlie First Trust Portfolios Portfolio Optimization
Thu 10/23	Cole Persch Hope College Tools of Climate Scientists
Thu 10/30	Kaitlyn DenHaan Van Andel Research Institute Bioinformatics: An interdisciplinary quest to understand biological data and improve human health
Thu 11/6	Joyce Chew Calvin University Topic Modeling of Text Data with Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Thu 11/13	David Clark Grand Valley State University I’m thinking of a number… with lies
Thu 11/20	Kelsey Brouwer Aquinas College External Rays and Paper Fortune Tellers: An exploration of baby Julia sets and their Alterations
Thu 12/4	Priscilla Chen and Miriam Crisman Calvin University Data Consulting Hub summer research experience

Spring 2026 schedule

date	speaker
Thu 1/22	Moseley/Pruim Calvin University Organizational Meeting
Thu 1/29
Thu 2/5
Thu 2/12
Thu 2/19	TBD Handong University
Thu 2/26	Emma Schmidt Notre Dame
Thu 3/5
Thu 3/19
Thu 4/2
Thu 4/9
Thu 4/16
Thu 4/23
Thu 4/30	Awards Day