EIU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Department Colloquium

Every semester the department offers a variety of talks in different areas of mathematics, mathematics education and computer science. Talks are given by department faculty, invited speakers, and current or former students.

Once a year, the department also offers the Perry Lecture which a talk or series of talks by a prominent academic in the field. This event is sponsored by William Perry, past president of Eastern.

Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2023 

• Thursday, February 2 at 3:00 
  Speaker: Dr. Genival Francisco Fernandes da Silva Jr (EIU)
  Title: The Hodge Conjecture, a million dollar problem!
  

• Thursday, February 24 at 3:00 (OM 2210)
  Speaker: Dr. Amanda Welch (EIU)
  Title: Toggling Interval Closed Sets

• Wednesday, March 8 at 4:00 (OM 2231)
  Speaker: Dr. Andrew Mertz (EIU)
  Title: Capturing Flags, More Fun, More Profit?

• Thursday, March 23 at 3:00 (OM 2210)
  Speaker: Dr. Tyler Billingsley (Rose-Hulman)
  Title: Communication and Cryptography: the Mathematics of Error-Correcting Code

Interested in giving a talk? Please contact the Colloquium Organizer.

You can find selected previous colloquia here.