UM Undergraduate Math Club
Fall 2011

Unless otherwise indicated, the Math Club meets from 4:10 until 5 (pm) on Thursdays in the 2nd floor Nesbitt Common Room (East Hall 2851). As always, Pizza and Pop are free.

Schedule of Talks

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

September 15, 4:10-5 pm
Martin Strauss
How to Multiply
September 22, 4:10-5 pm
Jeff Lagarias
Hilbert's Space-Filling Curve
September 29, 4:10-5 pm
Michael Zieve
Square Values of Polynomials
October 6, 4:10-5 pm
Stephen DeBacker
The Frobenius Coin Problem
(East Hall 4488-Psychology Colloquium Room)
October 13, 4:10-5 pm
Andreas Blass
Information and Entropy
October 20, 4:10-5 pm
Ralf Spatzier
Finding Periodic Orbits
October 27, 4:10-5 pm
Alexander Barvinok
Cutting Tetrahedra with Scissors
November 3, 4:10-5 pm
Scott Schneider
Slaying the Hydra
November 10, 4:10-5 pm
Alexander Hahn
(Notre Dame)
Mathematics and the Sydney Opera
(East Hall 1360-Undergrad Math. Colloquium)
November 17, 4:10-5 pm
Kyle Hoffman
(NSA)
Finite Fields and Reed-Solomon Codes
November 24, 4:10-5 pm
[No Meeting]
  Thanksgiving
December 1, 4:10-5 pm
Sergey Fomin
(Robert M Thrall Collegiate Professor)
Counting the Ways
(Rackham Amphitheatre- 4th floor Rackham)
Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture)
December 8, 4:10-5 pm
E. Hunter Brooks
Finding Zeros of Functions by Iteration



Winter 2011 Schedule


Current Schedule


Winter 2012 Schedule


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