The new social hour for undergraduates who want some food with a little math spread on top
Mondays 4-5 PM in SEO 300
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April 20th, 2015 - Nathan Lopez: Infinnnnn...ity, and more! April 6th, 2015 - Vladimir Finkleshtein: The Stable marriage problem It's hard to find someone you're content with for the rest of your life, so why not apply math to solve the problem? I'll discuss how to find a "good" match in marriage and some other life situations. March 30th, 2015 - Tori Noquez: Counting and Cards Not to be confused with counting cards! In this talk we'll go over some of the fundamental principles and techniques in combinatorics, the study of counting. We'll use these to calculate some probabilities of different hands of cards being dealt from a shuffled deck, and time permitting there will be a short demonstration. March 16th, 2015 - Jake Herndon: False Proofs, Logical Fallacies, and Other Mathematical Abominations Be careful and don't be fooled! In this talk we'll be "proving" the outrageous: that one equals zero, that every triangle is isosceles, and that a cat has nine tails. Use your logical prowess to find the false step! March 9th, 2015 - Yen Duong: The perfect three-person committee Let's say you want to make a committee of three people. To make sure no one is left out, you either want all three to be strangers to each other, or all of them to have worked together in pairs previously. How many people do you need to go through to make sure that you can make such a committee? No joke, the speaker has used this problem to pick up people. It's a great party trick... for certain kinds of parties. March 2nd, 2015 - Nathan Lopez: Two Mathematicians and A Lie Geniuses of all fields tend to be eccentric, and mathematics is no exception. In this installment of Math and Snacks, I will talk about three interesting (and somewhat crazy) individuals, two of whom will be actual mathematicians while the third will be fictitious. It will be your job to figure out the fake! February 23rd, 2015 - Lou Kauffman: Knots! Knotting and weaving has been part of all cultures for thousands of years, but this subject was not studied mathematically until the middle of the 19th century. Knot theory is today an active part of mathematics, with many applications. We demonstrate problems and questions about knots by using rope, magic tricks and computer graphics. Be prepared to be tied in knots. February 16th, 2015 - Edgar Bering: Picture hanging puzzles and the shape of space An old puzzle asks: "Can you hang a picture on two pegs so that if you remove either peg the picture falls?" We'll explore a solution. February 9th, 2015 - Jeremy Kun: Encrypting your info online What does it mean, mathematically, to encode a secret message? What does it mean for an encoding to be "secure"? How have ideas from number theory revolutionized the field of cryptography? I'll show how the RSA cryptosystem works, and discuss why it's not commonly used anymore. February 2nd, 2015 - Michael Hull: Futurama in your brain! When Amy and Professor Farnsworth switch brains, but can't switch back, trouble ensues. They need more brains to get back to their bodies, but how many more? This problem, from the Futurama episode The Prisoner of Benda, uses some novel math to solve a real world problem. |