U(M) Undergraduate Math Club
Fall 2019

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 12
Sara Lapan, UC Riverside
A snapshot of complex dynamics near a fixed point
September 19
Mark Conger
The mathematics of card shuffling
September 26
Igor Kriz
Polarized light and the Hopf fibration
October 3
Eric Canton
Long Division and Calculus for Integers
October 10
Jakub Witaszek
Algebraic curves and classical geometry
October 17
Charlie Doering
Nature's most important force - buoyancy
October 24
Chris Cunningham, Elgin Community College
Hackenbush and surreal numbers
October 31
?! Mystery Speaker ?!
Mathematical monsters and transfinite terrors
November 7
Roger Nelsen, Lewis & Clark College
Visualization in elementary number theory
November 14
Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
Horror of horoballs! The Möbiusville rational riddle
November 21
Hailun Zheng
The combinatorics of convex polytopes
November 28
[No meeting]
Happy Thanksgiving!
December 5
Jonathan Gerhard
Graphs from commutative rings



Winter 2019 Schedule


Current Schedule


Winter 2020 Schedule


Back to U(M) Math seminars page.