UM Undergraduate Math Club
Fall 2010

Unless otherwise indicated, the Math Club meets from 4:10 until 5 (pm) on Thursdays in the 2nd floor Nesbitt Common Room. As always, Pizza and Pop are free.

Schedule of Talks

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

September 16, 4:10-5 pm
Location: 1360 East Hall
Al Worden
 Space Chat, with a scholarship presentation to David Montague
September 23, 4:10-5 pm
Location: Alumni Center, Founders Room
Robert Lazarsfeld
 Singularities in Algebraic Geometry: How Many Times Does a Polynomial Vanish at a Point?
September 30, 4:10-5 pm
Jesse Kass
 Counting Conics
October 7, 4:10-5 pm
M Cap Khoury
 π! : Extending the Factorial Function
October 14, 4:10-5 pm
Hyman Bass
 Counting cells in n-dimensional buildings
October 21, 4:10-5 pm
Robert Griess
 The E8-Lattice, the Leech Lattice and Beyond
October 28, 4:10-5 pm
Joseph Marker
 Property-Casualty Insurance: Placing a Price on Risk
November 4, 4:10-5 pm
Sudarshan Balakrishnan
 Global Cooling in the 1940's
November 11, 4:10-5 pm
Angela Kubena
 Tiling More Than Kitchen Floors
November 18, 4:10-5 pm
Shawn Henry
 How Random is Random?
November 25, 4:10-5 pm
No meeting
Thanksgiving
December 2, 4:10-5 pm
Emily Clader
 Finite Topological Spaces
December 9, 4:10-5 pm
Sam Altschul
 The Google Search Algorithm



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