August

8/16 - Andrew Granville, "Prime number races"

8/21 - Jason Cantarella, "How much rope does it take to tie a knot?"

8/23 - Ming-Jun Lai, "Wavelet analysis and applications to image processing"

8/28 - Jo Hoffacker, "Time scales: What are they good for?"

8/30 - Bill Graham, "Introduction to flag varieties"

September

9/4 - Malcolm Adams, "How I spent my summer vacation: A VIGRE research experience for undergraduates on the exploration of special solutions to the three body problem"

9/6 - Organizational meeting for VIGRE research projects

9/13 - Mitch Rothstein and Michael Geller, Introduction to quantum computing

9/18 - Markus Hunziker, "Quantum games and quantum algorithms"

9/25 - Ming Lai, "Bivariate splines for surface design"

October

10/2 - Aaron Abrams, "Braids, groups, and robots"

10/4 - Eric Rawdon (Duquesne University), "Computing and optimizing the energies of polygonal knots"

10/11 - Sylvia Bozeman (Spelman College), "Survival and advancement in graduate school"

10/16 - Jim Solazzo, "Hilbert spaces and positive maps"

10/30 - Nancy Wrinkle, "The algebra and topology of braids"

November

11/15 - Rob Ghrist (Georgia Tech), "Go with the flow - an introduction to Morse theory"

11/20 - Nathan Ng, "Chebyshev's bias, Galois groups, and L-functions"

11/27 - Rope length (Cantarella) research group report

11/29 - Time scales (Hoffacker) research group report

December

12/4 - Flag varieties (Graham) research group report