U(M) Undergraduate Math Club
Winter 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).

January 10
Jesse Wolfson, UC-Irvine
Braids, polynomials, and Hilbert's 13th problem
January 17
Martin Strauss
Polynomial interpolation tricks
January 24
Maxime Scott, Indiana University
Visualizing 3-manifolds
January 31
[Talk Postponed]
Stay Warm!
February 7
Luke Edholm
Visualizing complex functions with phase plots
February 14
Trevor Hyde
Exploring the topograph
February 21
Steven Karp
The Taylor series of sec(x) and tan(x)
February 28
Sandrine Daurat, Toulouse
Let's get chaotic!
March 7
[No Meeting]
 Have a great break!
March 14
Kannappan Sampath
Pi is transcendental
March 21
David Speyer
Number theory and linear algebra in the land of trig functions
March 28
Eloísa Grifo
Slicing a square pizza
April 4
Ben Orlin, Math with bad drawings
Elvis, the dog who knew calculus
April 11
John Wiltshire-Gordon, Wisconsin-Madison
Jellybean arbitrage and Smith normal form
April 18
Carsten Peterson
Crofton's formula, Buffon's needle, and the isoperimetric inequality



Fall 2018 Schedule


Current Schedule


Fall 2019 Schedule


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