This week our speaker is Julie Rana. Her talk will be on “Working in the Symmetric Group or: How to talk about gift lists, spider webs, and the Rubik’s cube all at the same time.” As usual we will meet in LGRT 1634 at 5:30 PM. Pizza and soda will be served.
Abstract:
Groups are math objects that appear all over the place, from clocks to
calendars to snowflakes and of course, the Rubik’s cube. In this talk,
you’ll learn what a group is and we’ll describe a few fun examples.
We’ll then talk about my favorite example the symmetric group, and the
fact that it gives us a way to discuss all groups at once. Have a
Rubik’s cube? Bring it so we can play with it during the talk!