U(M) Undergraduate Math Club
Winter 2020

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 16
Sergey Fomin
What is enumerative combinatorics?
January 23
Joanne Dong
Impossible Problems
January 30
Yiwang Chen
Lattice polygons
February 6, 4-5:30pm
Weiser 10th floor
Liliana Borcea delivers a
Special Lecture
Mathematical and Computational
Aspects of Imaging with Waves
February 13
Tony Bloch
Mathematics, Dynamics, and Mechanics
February 20
Zhan Jiang
Why is there no quintic formula?
February 27
Yunus Zeytuncu
Can two different drums sound the same?
March 5
[No Meeting]
 Have a great break!
March 12
Jenny Wilson
This event is canceled.
Sunday, March 15
2:30pm in the Math Atrium
Integration Bee!
This event is canceled.
March 19
Amy Shell-Gellasch
This event is canceled.
March 26
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Jenny Wilson
Classical cryptosystems & codebreaking
April 2
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Martin Strauss
This abstract contains errors
April 9
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Olivia Walch
Tackling gerrymandering with math
April 16
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Faye Jackson, Yuqing Liu
Xiaoqi Peng, Zihong Yi
Directed Reading Program Presentations
April 23
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Becca Winarski
Polynomials, dynamics, and trees
April 30
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Steven J. Miller
Williams College
From C to shining sea: complex dynamics
from combinatorics to coastlines



Fall 2019 Schedule


Current Schedule


Fall 2020 Schedule


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