Math Club Events, Spring 2012
- Thursday, January 12, at 5:00 pm Avery 347: Talk by Dr. Marta Lewicka (U. Pittsburg)
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Title: How to understand shapes of leaves and flowers through Mathematical Analysis and Geometry
Abstract. In certain circumstances, growing tissues such as leaves, flowers or some small marine invertebrate organism develop curious wavy-like patterns, resembling curves and ruffles at the edge of a thorn plastic sheet. It turns out that 'morphogenesis by growth' can be rigorously studied through a mathematical model, in which the distances between points (e.g. cells) are measured in a non-standard way. In this elementary talk, I will try to explain what Mathematical Analysis, Algebra and Geometry have to do with this business.
Preceded by a Brown Bag Lunch with the speaker in Avery 348, 12:30 - 2 pm.
Everyone is welcome! Come to socialize and enjoy the refreshments and sandwiches (first-come, first-served)!
This event is sponsored by the Nebraska Math Scholars program. - January 27-29, 2012
- 14th Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.
- Thursday, February 2, at 5 pm in Avery 108: Talk by Charles Larrieu (UNL senior math major)
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Title: A Friendly Discussion of Light, Space, the Universe, and Everything...And Groups!
Abstract. This talk is mostly meant to be a justification for the statement, "REU's and other Undergraduate Research Experiences are awesome." To this effect, I will speak very generally about some of the mathematical ideas that I studied in the REU on Geometry through Lie Groups last summer at the University of Utah. These ideas include group actions, smashing shapes with textbooks, Cayley Graphs, living in non-Euclidean universes, and light in Einstein's universe. - February 9-13, 2012
- Mathematical Contest in Modeling
- Thursday, February 16, 2012
- Thursday, February 23, 2012
- Thursday, March 1 at 5:00 pm in Avery 106: Talk by graduate student Ashley Weatherwax Johnson
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Title: Math in the Future(ama)
Abstract. If you look closely, mathematics appears often in popular culture. In this talk we will look into some appearances of mathematics (and related fields) in the television show Futurama. Knowledge of the show is not a prerequisite for this talk. - Thursday, March 8, 2012
- Thursday, March 15 at 5:00pm in Avery 19: Course Preview for Fall 2012
- Want to know what course to take in the Fall? Come to the preview of upper-level math courses offered in Fall 2012. Faculty teaching these courses will describe the course contents, format, and prerequisites, and answer questions. Pizza served!
- Thursday, March 29, 2012
- Thursday, April 5 at 5 pm in Avery 106: Talk by graduate student Derrick Stolee
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Title: Symmetry, Groups, and Graphs
Abstract. Symmetry is something that everyone understands intuitively, since we see it so frequently in art, nature, and ourselves. We will explore a mathematical version of symmetry called group actions. In particular, we will investigate symmetries of combinatorial objects called graphs. Graphs have many practical purposes, but mostly we find that every type of symmetry imaginable can be encoded into a graph. - Thursday, April 12 at 5 pm in Avery 106: Talk by senior math undergraduate Adam Azzam
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Title: Sperner's Lemma and its Continuous Corollaries
Abstract. In this talk I will present a celebrated mathematical result known as Sperner's Lemma. While it originated in the context of combinatorics and graph colorings, it also has surprisingly powerful applications to analysis and topology. In particular, I'll use Sperner's Lemma to prove the Intermediate Value Theorem, the Brouwer and Kakutani Fixed Point Theorems (with applications to nonlinear equations), and establish the existence of Nash Equilibria for n-person games with mixed strategies. - Thursday, April 19, 2012
- Saturday, April 21 2012: Missouri River Valley Undergraduate Math Conference
- Thursday, April 26, 2012
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