UM Undergraduate Math Club
Winter 2012

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).

January 12, 4:10-5 pm
Mattias Jonsson
Logistical Chaos
January 19, 4:10-5 pm
Alex Mueller
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
January 26, 4:10-5 pm
Paul Siegel
(Penn State University)
The DNA Inequality
February 2, 4:10-5 pm
Daniel Forger
A Model for Happiness  
February 9, 4:10-5 pm
Daniel Erman
The Sylvester-Gallai Theorem
February 16, 4:10-5 pm
Thomas Lam
Tiling Regions with Dominoes
February 23, 4:10-5 pm
Cynthia Vinzant
Solving Cubics with Paper and Turtles
March 1, 4:10-5 pm
[No Meeting]
Winter break
March 8, 4:10-5 pm
Alejandro Uribe
Rays, Waves and Caustics
March 15, 4:10-5 pm
Jinho Baik
Eigenvalues of Random Symmetric Matrices
March 22, 4:10-5 pm
Anna Gilbert
Sudoku: Can you solve it?
March 29, 4:10-5 pm
Brian McCartin
(Kettering University)
Mysteries of the Equilateral Triangle
(Undergrad Math Colloquium)
April 5, 4:10-5 pm
Ari Shnidman
Counting Points on Elliptic Curves
April 12, 4:10-5 pm
Chris Lyons
Back to our Primitive Roots



Fall 2011 Schedule


Current Schedule


Fall 2012 Schedule


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