By Dr. Valey Kamalov Abstract: This is what I do for a living: build submarine fiber optic cables. It is a fascinated business, and I want to share with you my experience. My most recent engagement with 95 students from 30 countries last summer was very positive, click here for more info; I will tell […]
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Feeling spooky? Come out to our Halloween Bash on October 30th at 7-9:30! Costumes are optional but recommended (all of the officers will be dressing up, so we promise you won’t be singled out). We will be playing the Spanish horror film Fermat’s Room (yep, it’s a horror film about math)!
UMS will be hosting an event for (prospective) math majors looking for student-to-student advice on their spring semester schedules. We will have upperclassmen with varying backgrounds available during the session to help students devise a schedule and answer questions regarding mathematics electives, ‘tracks,’ related minors, etc. The event will take place in Turlington room 2342 […]
By Dr. Kevin Knudson Abstract: Drawing the boundaries of voting districts to maximize a party’s likelihood of keeping control has a long history on both sides of the partisan divide. Technological advances have taken this to new levels, generating maps with oddly-shaped, meandering districts that appear unreasonable. Can mathematics come to the rescue? In this […]
By Dr. Arnaud Marsiglietti Abstract: What does a ball or a cube look like in high dimension? How is the mass of a ball distributed in high dimension? In this talk, we will answer these questions and see that our intuition of mathematical objects of low dimensions is flawed when working in high dimension.
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By Dr. Richard Newman Abstract: Nearly 30 years ago, Michael Rabin published his Information Dispersal Algorithm, with applications in redundant storage and networking. Another way of formulating his invention is as a very short erasure correcting code with very large symbols. Remarkably, the IDA is very efficient, allowing recovery of loss of any r parts […]
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By Dr. Jesse Thorner Abstract: Prime numbers are the building blocks for the positive integers; in particular, every integer n ≥ 2 can be expressed uniquely (up to ordering) as a product of primes. I will give several proofs that there are infinitely many primes. The proofs touch on ideas from number theory, set theory, […]
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Update: Here are the slides and examples used in the presentation: LaTeX Slides Pt1 Latex Slides Pt2 Article Demonstration TeX File Overleaf Demonstration TeX File General Info: The Graduate Mathematics Association and the University Math Society will be hosting a LaTex Seminar on Thursday, October 10, 4:05 – 6:00 p.m. (location Little 237). Note: this […]
By Andrew Kreihn Abstract: The recognition of hyperbolic geometry as a valid geometry was a pivotal step in launching the study of geometry to its modern form. Yet for being both historically significant as well as closer to Euclidean geometry than every other geometry, it is often not taught. We’ll try to get an overview […]