U(M) Undergraduate Math Club
Winter 2024

Unless otherwise indicated, the Math Club meets from 4:00 until 4:50 pm on Thursdays in East Hall room 1360.

Schedule of Talks

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

January 18
Mia Smith
Scheduling classes ... by coloring!
January 25
Sergey Fomin
Linear incidence geometry
February 1
Guanhua Sun
How a pencil rolls down a slope
February 8
Amichai Lampert
The math of juggling
February 15
Amir Vig
The Geometry of Billiards
February 22
Sarah Peluse
The sum-product problem
February 29
[No Meeting]
Have a great break!!
March 7
Alejandro Uribe
Rays, waves, and caustics
March 14
Caroline Davis
Indiana University
From GeoGuessr to the Mandelbrot set
March 21
Alex Wang
University of Washington
Factoring Prime Numbers
March 28
Hanna Bennett
Wallpaper Patterns
April 4
Amy Shell-Gellasch
Mathematical Devices at the Smithsonian:
An Insider’s View
April 11
Dick Canary
Sports in hyperbolic space
April 18
Mitchell Godek, Tia Scarsella,
and Albon Wu
Directed Reading Program
Presentations



Fall 2023 Schedule


Current Schedule


Fall 2024 Schedule