I vividly remember that talk.
People were great! Added bonus: the campus and the nature were amazing.
I could recover my abstract from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mathcolloquia/7/
So... about 27 years years ago:
Presentation Date 10-23-1997
Abstract A classical problem considered by Davenport asks for the number of occurrences of a certain pattern of quadratic residues and nonresidues among the set of integers modulo a prime p. We will take this problem as a starting point of an itinerary revealing the interplay between quasirandom structures over finite fields, definable subsets of finite fields, character sums and coding theory.
Additional Details Thursday, October 23, 1997 4:10 p.m. in MA 109 Coffee/Tea/Treats 3:30 p.m. in MA 104 (Lounge)
