U(M) Undergraduate Math Club
Fall 2020

Unless otherwise indicated, the Math Club meets from 4:00 until 4:50 pm on Thursdays; we will meet virtually for the Fall 2020 semester. If you have trouble logging in, please email Sarah Koch at kochsc@umich.edu.

Schedule of Talks

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

September 10
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Steven J. Miller
Math Corps and Williams College
Why I love monovariants: from Zombies to
Conway's Soldiers via the Golden Mean
September 17
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Drew Armstrong
University of Miami
All but finitely many finite simple groups
September 24
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Martin Weissman
UC Santa Cruz
Conway's topographs
October 1
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Michael O'Connor
Jane Street
Clever tiling proofs and when they no longer work
October 8
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Matt Baker
Georgia Tech
How Quadratic Reciprocity is like Dealing Cards
October 15
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Amanda Burcroff
Math Corps and Durham University
Thinking outside the polygon: Frieze patterns
October 22
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Chaya Norton
U(M)
Sprouts vs. Brussels Sprouts
October 29
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Jessica Fintzen
University of Cambridge and Duke University
On Numbers and Games
November 5
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Hy Bass
U(M)
Tiling rectangles and cutting cakes
November 12
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Heather Armstrong
Somewhere in North America
Analyzing Penney Ante with Conway's Algorithm
November 19
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Nate Harman
University of Chicago
Learning to code with FRACTRAN
November 26
[No meeting]
Happy Thanksgiving!
December 3
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Tim Goldberg
Lenoir-Rhyne University
You Spin Me Right Round, Baby:
The Conway-Radin Pinwheel Tiling
December 10
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Krista Hart, Cassandra Pokopowicz,
and Chang Wang
Directed Reading Program Presentations



Winter 2020 Schedule


Current Schedule


Winter 2021 Schedule


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