Schedule

Math Club Spring 2012 Schedule. All talks run 5:30-6:30 PM unless otherwise noted.

Date Speaker Topic
Wednesday, 2/1  Organizational Meeting
Wednesday, 2/8  Movie Night  N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös
Wednesday, 2/15 Julie Rana Working in the Symmetric Group
Wednesday, 2/22 Daniel Briggs Self-Similarity: Geometric Series, Games with Checkers, and the Golden Ratio
Wednesday, 2/29 Konstantinos Gourgoulias Does the fittest always survive?
Wednesday, 3/7 Elizabeth Drellich The Three Houses and Three Utilities Problem: on Earth and on a Torus
Wednesday, 3/14 Jennifer Koonz  The game Set
Wednesday, 3/21 None Spring Break
Wednesday, 3/28 Hans Johnston  Computational Fluid Dynamics
Wednesday, 4/4 Krista Gile Analysis of Social Networks
Wednesday, 4/11 Stephen Oloo Combinatorial rigidity and … unfolding robot arms?
Wednesday, 4/18
Wednesday, 4/25 Nathan Harman Fibonacci Numbers and Linear Algebra

Math Club Fall 2011 Schedule. All talks run 5:30-6:30 PM.

Date Speaker Topic
Wednesday, 9/21 Nico Aiello The Lady in the Lake
Wednesday,9/28 Jennifer Koonz Polygons and cluster algebras of finite type
Wednesday, 10/5*LGRT 1528* Holley Friedlander An introduction to Diophantine equations and elliptic curves
Wednesday, 10/12 Jeffrey Hatley Minesweeper and the Million-Dollar Math Problem
Wednesday, 10/19*LGRT 1528* Steven J. Miller (Williams College) Pythagoras at the Bat: An Introduction to Statistics and Modelling
Wednesday, 10/26 Tom Braden Graduate School in Mathematics
Wednesday, 11/2 Tobias Wilson Telling Knots Apart: Knots and Knot Invariants
Wednesday, 11/9 Alden Gassert  Opening Parrondo’s Paradox
Wednesday, 11/30 Mary Ellen Liseno Job Searching for Math Majors
Wednesday, 12/7 Ray Bai  Linear Programming

See the Spring 2011 schedule here.

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