UM Undergraduate Math Club
Winter 2018

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).

January 11, 4:10-5 pm
David Speyer
Seeing the unsolvability of the quintic
January 18, 4:10-5 pm
Takumi Murayama
Knot theory and the Jacobian conjecture
January 25, 4:10-5 pm
Bobbie Wu
A Simplest High-order Numerical Method
February 1, 4:10-5 pm
Felix Janda
Fulton-MacPherson's Compactification
February 8, 4:10-5 pm
Benjamin Krakoff
The Matrix-Tree Theorem
February 15, 4:10-5 pm
Trevor Hyde
An introduction to p-adic numbers
February 22, 4:10-5 pm
Jonathan Gerhard
Pattern Avoidance and Combinatorial Statistics for Set Partitions and RGFs
March 1
[No Meeting]
Winter Break
March 8, 4:10-5 pm
Phil Tosteson
Cutting and Pasting: Rethinking Size
March 15, 4:10-5 pm
Carsten Peterson
Cohn's Irreducibility Criterion
March 22, 4:10-5 pm
Alex Kapiamba
Chaos and the Logistic Map
March 23, 12:10-1 pm
Drew Armstrong, University of Miami
Where is the cone?
March 29, 4:10-5 pm
David Fernandez Breton
What does "infinitely many" mean?
April 5, 4:10-5 pm
Rachel Webb
Moduli Spaces: study the forest, not the trees
April 12, 4:10-5 pm
Sarah Koch
Shuffling cards with the Mandelbrot set



Fall 2017 Schedule


Current Schedule


Fall 2018 Schedule


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