U(M) Undergraduate Math Club
Fall 2018

Unless otherwise indicated, the Math Club meets from 4:00 until 4:50 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 6
Jenny Wilson
One hundred names in one hundred boxes
September 13
Trevor Hyde
The Blockchain
September 20
John Kilgore
Can a 60 degree angle be trisected with a straight-edge and compass?
September 27
Mattias Jonsson
Convexity
October 4
Jonathan Gerhard
Does the bouncing DVD logo ever hit the corner?
October 11
Camelia Karimian Pour
Frieze Patterns
October 18
Thomas Koberda, UVA
Lost Theorems of Geometry
October 25
Gil Cheong
Some statistics in linear algebra
October 26
room EH1360
Toni Bluher, NSA
Wilson-like theorems
November 1
Katie Mann, Brown University
Proof by board game
November 8
Jeffrey Rauch
The Fary-Milnor Theorem
November 15
Harry Richman
The square tile problem
November 22
[No Meeting]
 Happy Thanksgiving!
November 29
Alex Wright
How many evenly-curved once punctured tori are there?
December 6
Rishi Sonthalia
Go with the flow



Winter 2018 Schedule


Current Schedule


Winter 2019 Schedule

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