U(M) Undergraduate Math Club
Winter 2021

Unless otherwise indicated, the Math Club meets from 4:00 until 4:50 pm on Thursdays; we will meet virtually for the Winter 2021 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).

January 21
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Steven Miller, aka Coach Steve
Math Corps and Williams College
From the Manhattan Project
to Elliptic Curves
January 28
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Juliette Bruce
University of California, Berkeley
Tropical Geometry
February 4
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Joe Rabinoff
Duke University
Quaternions in everyday life
February 11
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Zach Norwood
U(M)
Colorful graphs and Fermat's Last Theorem mod p
February 18
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Samuel Hansen
U(M)
Can you tell me a story?
Why and How we should tell more stories in mathematics
February 25
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Caroline Davis
Indiana University
MC Escher: Tilings and Impossibility
March 4
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
Karol Koziol
U(M)
How to cut a square into triangles
March 11
Virtual meeting, 4pm EST
John Kilgore
Maxar
Computing pi
March 18
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Isabel Vogt
University of Washington
Counting real bi-tangents
March 25
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Rohini Ramadas
Brown University
Complex dynamics and
the Mandelbrot set
April 1
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
John Milnor
Stony Brook
Pasting together Julia sets
April 8
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Emily Riehl
Johns Hopkins University
Categorifying Cardinal Arithmetic
April 15
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Greg Muller
University of Oklahoma
Love and Math
April 22
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Bar Roytman
University of California, Los Angeles
The materials of mathematics
April 29
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Karl Godard, Xuyan Liu,
and Neel Moudgal
Directed Reading Program Presentations
May 6
Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT
Karen Uhlenbeck and members
of the Math Community at U(M)
A conversation with
Karen Uhlenbeck



Fall 2020 Schedule


Current Schedule


Fall 2021 Schedule


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