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.