ARCHIVE: THE LIST OF PAST EVENTS

Summer 2012

 

July 18, 2012, Professor Peter Winkler, Mathematics/Computer Science Department

·         A Cop and Robber Solve the Kakeya Needle Problem

 

July 25, 2012, Professor Thomas Shemanske, Mathematics Department

·         Local-Global Correspondences: From trivial to million dollar prize problems in number theory

 

August 1, 201, Professor Dorothy Wallace, Mathematics Department

·         Patch SIR Models on the k-Regular Graph

 

August 8, 2012, Professor Carl Pomerance, Mathematics Department

·         Seeing Stars

 

August 15, 2012, Danny Crytser (GR), Mathematics Department

·         What is a Commutative C*-Algebra?

 

Spring 2012

May 2, 2012, Professor Craig Sutton, Mathematics Department, Dartmouth College

  • Vibrating drums, Cayley graphs and isospectral surfaces

 

April 18, 2012, Professor Vladimir Chernov, Mathematics Department, Dartmouth College

  • Refocusing of light rays in spacetimes

Winter 2012

February 20, 2012, Professor Rosa Orellana, Mathematics Department, Dartmouth College

  • “From Braids to Knots: An introduction to representation theory.”

 

February 6, 2012, Bob Drake, Dartmouth College

  • “The Stupid Number(s): A Folk Mathematical Adventure.”

 

January 23, 2012, Emily Eisner ’14, Mathematics Department

  • “A Turning Class Algebra for Sign Permutations.”

 

Fall 2011

 

November 14, 2011, Paul Kinson, Liscord, Ward & Roy Inc.

·         I want to be an actuary!

 

November 7, 2011, Professor Alex Barnett, Mathematics Department

·         The fast Fourier transform: an algorithm that has changed your life

 

October 31, 2011, Professor Andrew Yang, Mathematics Department

·         A brief introduction to Sage

 

October 24, 2011, Professor Peter Doyle, Mathematics Department

·         1986: the year of the pentagon

 

October 10, 2011, Professor Vladimir Chernov, Mathematics Department

·         Causality and causally simple spacetimes

 

 

Spring 2011

 

May 23, 2011, Natasha Komarov (GR)

  • A Survey of Results About Random Walks on Graphs.

 

May 9, 2011 Professor Rosa Orellana

  • Young Tableaux 

 

April 25, 2011, Asa Levi (GR)

  • An Introduction to Spacetime and Some of its Paradoxes.

 

 

Winter 2011

March 2011, Paige Rinker (GR)

  • Analysis of Rank Data: A Combinatorial Approach

 

March 5, 2011

  • Field trip to the SUMS Symposium for Undergraduates in Mathematical Sciences at Brown University, Providence RI

 

February 21, 2011, Paul Kinson ‘81

  • Actuary Profession

 

February 7, 2011, Professor Rebecca Weber

  • On the Uses of Linear Algebra

 

January 24, 2011, Professor Johanna Franklin

  • Unwrapping the riddle of the Enigma

 

Fall 2010

November 29, 2010, Professor Andrew Yang

  • A brief history of primes

 

November 15, 2010 "Cube"
  • Math Movie Night 

 

November 1, 2010, Professor  Thomas Shemanske
  • Pythagorean Triples, Congruent Numbers and Rational Points on Curves

 

October 25, 2010, Lola Thompson GR and Jennifer Shellenbarger GR

  • Math REU/Graduate School Panel

 

October 18, 2010, Professor  Alex Barnett

  • Computing waves in photonic crystals

 

October 11, 2011, Professor Devin Balkcom, Computer Science

  • Robots and geometry: robot geodesics, pushing string, and grasping cloth

 

October 4, 2011, Professor  Vladimir Chernov

  • Smooth structures on spacetimes

 

 

Spring 2010

May 26, 2010, Professor Marcia Groszek

  • The Unsolution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem

 

May 19, 2010, Professor Erik van Erp

  • What is Non-Commutative Geometry?

 

 

May 5, 2010, Prof. Carl Pomerance

  • Fibonacci Integers

 

Apr 21, 2010, Paul Kinlaw, PhD Candidate

  • Introduction to Lorentzian Geometry and Space-Time

 

Apr 7, 2010, Professor Carolyn Gordon

  • You Can't Hear the Shape of Drums

 

Winter 2010

Feb 10, 2010, Professor Robert Norman, emeritus

  • A Mathematician Looks at Voting Systems

 

Jan 27, 2010, Professor Thomas Shemanske

  • Polygonal Numbers and Additive Number Theory

 

Jan 13, 2010, Professor Vladimir Chernov

  • Introduction to Virtual Knot Theory

 

Fall 2009

Nov 23, 2009, Patricia Cahn, GR

  • Knots!

 

Nov 16, 2009, Lola Thompson and Elizabeth Gillaspy, GR

  • DMS-AWM Joint Info Session on REU and Grad Schools

 

Nov 12, 2009, Professor Alexander Barnett

  • Dartmouth Mathematics Department Colloquium
    "High-accuracy computation of photonic crystal bands and scattering of waves from polygons"

 

Nov 9, 2009, Lola Thompson, GR

  • Coefficients of Cyclotomic Polynomials

 

Nov 2, 2009, Paul Kinson '81

  • On Actuarial Professions

 

Oct 26, 2009, Professor Jody Trout

  • Mathematics and the Mythos: All the Wrong Angles

 

Oct 19, 2009, Professor Peter Winkler

  • Lessons from Vegas: On Probability and Intuition

 

Oct 12, 2009, Professor Alexander Barnett

  • Numerical methods for scattering and trapping of waves

  

Oct 5, 2009, Professor Peter Doyle

  • How to Tell Wallpaper

 

Spring 2009

May 14, 2009, Thomas Kern '09

  • Senior Thesis Talk

 

May 6, 2009, Professor Florian Luca (Instituto de Matemaicas UNAM Unidad Morelia)

  • On Sums of Powers of Primes

 

April 30, 2009, Professor Sarah Greenwald (Appalachian State University)

  • 09S Special Event #2: Mathematical Morsels from THE SIMPSONS and FUTURAMA

 

April 29, 2009, Professor Carl Pomerance

  • Sociable Numbers

 

April 22, 2009, Professor Georgia Benkart (President, AWM)

  • Determinants in Wonderland

 

April 18, 2009, Talks By: Yangyang Liu, '09; Thomas Kern, '09

  • 09S Special Event #1: Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (HRUMC), Union College

 

April 15, 2009, Yangyang Liu '09

  • Pattern-Avoiding Functions

 

April 8, 2009, Professor Vladimir Chernov

  • Causality and Linking

 

April 1, 2009, Thomas Kern '09

  • The Axiom of Choice?

 

Winter 2009

Feb 25, 2009, Dan Graham (Research Associate, Dartmouth College)

  • Vision and Mathematics

 

Feb 21, 2009

  • 09W Special Event #2: The Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament

 

Feb 11, 2009, Annalies Vuong, GR

  • A Special Topic on Graph Theory

 

Jan 16, 2009 - Jan 18, 2009

  • 09W Special Event #1: MIT Mystery Hunt

 

Jan 14, 2009, Thomas Kern '09

  • Spheres, Gnomes, and Rubber Bands: Some Really Big Hammers from BSM

 

Fall 2008

Nov 21, 2008, Talk By: Matthew Guay, '11

  • Trip to the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America Meeting (NES/MAA), Bentley University

 

Nov 19, 2008, Professor Lisa Fleischer (CS Department)

  • Routing Games

 

Nov 18, 2008, Professor Ken Ono (Department of Mathematics, UW-Madison)

  • Unearthing The Visions of a Master: The Legacy of Ramanujan's Last Letter

 

Nov 12, 2008, Professor Alexander Barnett

  • Singing in the Shower: New Ways to Compute Waves and Resonances

 

Nov 5, 2008, Professor Miles Blencowe (Physics Department)

  • Macroscopic Mechanical Systems Approaching the Quantum Regime

 

Oct 29, 2008, Professor Thomas H. Cormen (CS Department)

  • Stupid Columnsort Tricks

 

Oct 22, 2008, Professor Richard Granger (The Neukom Institute, Dartmouth)

  • Brain Circuit Algorithms

 

Oct 15, 2008, Professor Peter Winkler

  • Circular Food Puzzles

 

Oct 8, 2008, Mitsuo Kobayashi, GR

  • Perfect Numbers, Amicable Numbers, and Beyond: Studying the Distribution of Sociable Numbers

 

Oct 1, 2008, Professor Hany Farid (The Neukom Institute, Dartmouth)

  • Digital Forensics

 

Sep 30, 2008, Varun Jain ‘07

  • A DC Energy Presentation

 

Spring 2008

May 21, 2008 Mathematics Movie night, joint event of AWM and DMS

  • Mathematics Movie night

 

May 14, 2008 Professor Joseph Mileti

  • Polynomial Equations and the Noncomputable

 

Apr 30, 2008 Professor Sergi Elizalde

  • Permutation patterns and determinism vs. randomness

 

Apr 16, 2008 Professor Carolyn Gordon

  • Can you hear the shape of a drum?

 

Apr 2, 2008 Professor Marcia Groszek

  • Unsolvable Problems

 

 

Winter 2008 

 

Mar 5, 2008 Professor Craig Sutton

  • Exploring your Options: a Brief Overview of Derivatives Pricing

 

Feb 11, 2008 Research Experiences for Undergraduates panel

  • Presentation on the actuarial profession

 

Jan 30, 2008 Professor Carl Pomerance

  • The Covering Congruences of Paul Erdos

 

Jan 16, 2008 Michael Xiao, CIGNA

  • Presentation on the actuarial profession

 

Fall 2007

Nov 19, 2007, Kimball Halsey ‘03

  • Math Society Talk

 

Nov 7, 2007

  • AWM and Math Society Game (Sudoku) Night

 

Oct 31, 2007, Professor Jody Trout

  • Mathematics and the Mythos: All the Wrong Angles

 

Oct 17, 2007, Professor Peter Winkler

  • Games People Don't Play

 

Oct 11, 2007, Professor Walker White (Cornell), Mathematics Department Colloquium

  • Scaling Games to Epic Proportions

 

Oct 3, 2007, Professor Vladimir Chernov

  • Linking and Causality

 

Spring 2007

  

May 23, 2007, Chetan Mehta ‘08

  • Mathematical Puzzles

 

May 9, 2007, Craig J. Sutton (Dartmouth College)

  • Curvature & Topology

  

Apr 18, 2007, DMS

  • Meet-And-Greet Session With Prospies!

 

Apr 18, 2007, Thomas Kern ‘09

  • Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games

 

Apr 18, 2007, Yangyang Liu ‘09

  • Hypergeometric Sums

 

Apr 4, 2007, Professor Vladimir Chernov

  • Minimizing the Intersection of Loops on a Surface

 

Winter 2007

Mar 3, 2007, Joint with AWM

  • Study Break Before Finals Gathering

 

Feb 28, 2007, Kiran Parkhe ‘07

  • Bipartite Dessins D'enfants

 

Jan 31, 2007, Tom Kern ‘09

  • Linear Orderings: A Visual Approach

 

Jan 17, 2007, Jennifer Prairie ‘04

  • Opportunities in Oceanography

 

Jan 11, 2007, Joint with AWM

  • Mathematics Graduate School and Exchange Program Information Session

 

Fall 2006

Nov 17, 2006,  Talks By: Thomas Kern, ‘09; Yangyang Liu, ‘09

  • Field trip to theNortheastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America Meeting (NES/MAA), Sacred Heart University. Thomas Kern, ‘09; Yangyang Liu, ‘09; Yong Su, ‘09 win first place at the NES/MAA Collegiate Mathematical Competition. Congratulations!

 

Nov 15, 2006, Paul Kinson ‘81 from Liscord, Ward & Roy Company

  • Career as an Actuary

 

Nov 8, 2006, Vedant Mehra ‘07

  • On Counting Labeled Trees

 

Oct 25, 2006, Yangyang Liu ‘09

  • Generatingfunctionology and its Applications in Counting Partitions and
    Permutations

 

Oct 8, 2006, Thomas Kern ‘09

  • How to Quickly Write a Sudoku Solver

 

Sep 27, 2006, Patrick Karas ‘08

  • An Introduction to Knot Theory

 

Summer 2006

 

Aug 9, 2006

  • Math Movie Night: "Good Will Hunting"

 

Spring 2006

May 24, 2006, Prof. Alex Barnett, Dartmouth College

  • Modes of a Drum, Quantum Chaos and Numerical Methods

 

May 17, 2006, Allison Henrich, GR

  • Introduction to Knot Theory?

 

May 3, 2006, Professor Jody Trout, Dartmouth College

  • The Fourth Dimension Across the Curriculum

 

Apr 19, 2006, Dominic Klyve, GR

  • How Many Twin Primes Are There?

 

Apr 8, 2006 Talks By: Thomas Kern, ‘09; Jonathan Huang, ‘06; Geoffrey Scott, ‘08;
Patrick Karas, ‘08; Laura Brill, ‘06; Vladimir Chernov

  • HRUMC XIII Westfield State College - UG Conference

 

Winter 2006

 

Feb 22, 2006, Geoffrey Scott ‘08

  • Flexagons

 

Feb 8, 2006, Thomas Kern ‘09

  • The Shape of Logic

 

Feb 1, 2006, Discussion

  • REU + Study Abroad

 

Jan 25, 2006, Kichul Kim ‘07

  • Integer Partitions

 

Jan 25, 2006, Sam Held

  • Teach for America: Why Teach for America?

 

Jan 11, 2006, Carlo Ordonez ‘06

  • Frame Fields for Curves

 

Fall 2005

Nov 17, 2005, Sarah Greenwald, Appalachian State University

  • Mathematical Morsels from "The Simpsons" and "Futurama"

 

Nov 16, 2005, Hunter Brooks ‘06

  • The Axioms of Choice and its Consequences

 

Nov 16, 2005 CIGNA

  • Job Recruitment

 

Oct 26, 2005 Thomas Kern ‘09

  • Surreal Numbers

 

Oct 20, 2005 Paul Pollack, Princeton University

  • Beyond Quadratic Reciprocity

 

Oct 12, 2005, Jonathan Huang ‘06

  •  Continuum Hypothesis

 

 

Spring 2005

May 25, 2005, Varun Jain ‘07

  • 0-1 Polynomials

 

May 11, 2005, Khan Do Ba ‘06

  • Problems in Probability

 

April 27, 2005, Jonathan Huang '06

  • Introduction: Octonians

April 13, 2005, Carlos Ordonez ‘05

  • Non-Standard Analysis

 

April 6, 2005, Jonathan Huang '06

  • How to Make Money: Statistical Arbitrage

 

Winter 2005

Feb 23, 2005, Kichul Kim ‘07

  • Number Theory
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Feb 2, 2005, Kiran Parkhe ‘08, Neelesh Tiruviluamala ‘05

  • Total Nonnegativity

 

Jan 23, 2005, "Numb3rs" show on CBS! For details, click here!

  • Numb3rs on CBS

 

Jan 19, 2005, Alex Dahlman '06, Bryan Davis '06, Will Osborn ??6

  • Nonperiodic Tilings of the Plane

 

Fall 2004

Nov 17, 2004, J. Matt Mahoney, GR

  • Solving the Quadratic by Iteration

 

Nov 3, 2004, Hunter Brooks '06

  • Temperley Lieb Algebra

 

Oct 20, 2004, Prof. Louis Shapiro, Haverford Unversity

  • Catalan Numbers

 

Oct 6, 2004, Jonathan Huang ‘06

  • Public Key Cryptography

 

Sep 29, 2004, Jonathan Huang ‘06

  • The Game of Hex

 

Summer 2004

Aug 17, 2004, Jonathan Huang ‘06

  • First Unofficial Meeting