UConn Math Club
Fall 2004

Welcome! All students interested in mathematics are invited to attend the club's events. Usually the club listens to talks aimed at its members. Talks generally will not require a background beyond calculus and a little linear algebra. Free refreshments will be provided. Unless otherwise indicated, talks are in MSB 118.

Officers: This semester, the president is Scott D'Alessandri, the vice-president is Chris Collin, and the treasurer is Cheng Yu.

Interested in joining? To be put on a mailing list to hear about upcoming events (or to be taken off the mailing list), send email to the faculty advisor, Keith Conrad (kconrad at math dot uconn dot edu).

Interested in speaking? If you know something in mathematics (a result, an idea or method, some history) which would also interest undergraduates, come tell us about it! Please contact Keith Conrad by email (address above). When you prepare your talk, please include some references to the literature so students may read further on your topic later.

Interested in a topic? If you want to hear a talk about some part of mathematics, especially one which may not be in a regularly offered course, let us know and hopefully we can find a suitable speaker to address your interests.

Some links:

General information for undergraduates from the AMS (American Mathematical Society): contests, summer programs, study-abroad programs, graduate schools, links to other college math clubs, and more.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates are listed at the web sites of the AMS and the NSF.

Some interactive mathematics (proof of Pythagorean theorem, vector field flows, complex-valued functions, and so on).

Mathematical history.

Biographies of mathematicians.

The mathematics genealogy project.

Math for America, an organization aiming to improve public school math instruction.

Return to math club schedule for current semester.

Schedule of talks:

DATE and TIME  SPEAKER  TITLE 
Sept. 15 (Wed.) 
5:15-6:05 		 Keith Conrad  
(UConn) 		 Irrationality of π (Abstract) (Handout)  
Sept. 22 (Wed.) 
5:15-6:05 		 Sasha Teplyaev 
(UConn) 		 Analysis on fractals (Abstract)  
Sept. 29 (Wed.) 
5:15-6:05 		 Steve Conrad  
(Math Leagues) 		 Convergence tests made easy (Abstract)  
Oct. 6 (Wed.) 
5:15-6:05 		 Reed Solomon 
(UConn) 		 Goedel's Theorem (Abstract)  
Oct. 13 (Wed.) 
5:15-6:05 		 Chuck Vinsonhaler  
(UConn)  		 The Game of SET (Abstract)  
Oct. 20 (Wed.) 
5:15-6:05 		 Michael Korman  
(UConn)  		 Cryptographically Secure Electronic Voting (Abstract)  
Oct. 27 (Wed.) 
5:15-6:05 		 Jim Carlson  
(Clay Math Inst.) 		 The Mathematics of Google (Abstract)  
Nov. 3 (Wed.) 
5:15-6:05 		 Farshid Hajir  
(UMass) 		 What is the ABC Conjecture? (Abstract)  
Nov. 10 (Wed.)  
5:15-6:05 		 Steve Miller  
(Brown)  		 Benford's Law and Digit Bias: Applications from the
Fibonacci Numbers to the 3x+1 problem to the IRS
(Abstract) (Notes from the speaker)  
Nov. 17 (Wed.)  
5:30-6:20  
(Note the time!)   		Lance Miller  
(UConn)  		 Error-correcting codes (Abstract)  
Nov. 24 (Wed.)  
5:15-6:05 		  
 		 Thanksgiving Recess  
Dec. 1 (Wed.)  
5:15-6:05 		 Joe McKenna 
(UConn)  		 The Calculus of Variations (Abstract)  
Dec. 8 (Wed.) 
5:15-6:05 		 Ron Blei  
(UConn) 		 Independence (Abstract)  

Schedule of math club talks from previous semesters: Spring 2004.

Return to math club page for current semester.

Note: This page's format was shamelessly stolen from the Univ. of Michigan/Michigan State arithmetic seminar webpage, which was shamelessly stolen from the Univ. of Michigan algebraic geometry seminar webpage designed by Pasha Belorousski. For other shameless thefts of Pasha's work, see the bottom of the webpage for the Columbia algebraic geometry seminar.