Fall 2019

Schedule of Talks

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

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September 12

Sara Lapan
UC Riverside

A snapshot of complex dynamics near a fixed point

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September 19

Mark Conger
University of Michigan

The mathematics of card shuffling

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September 26

Igor Kriz
University of Michigan

Polarized light and the Hopf fibration

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October 3

Eric Canton
University of Michigan

Long Division and Calculus for Integers

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October 10

Jakub Witaszek
University of Michigan

Algebraic curves and classical geometry

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October 17

Charlie Doering
University of Michigan

Nature’s most important force – buoyancy

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October 24

Chris Cunningham
Elgin Community College

Hackenbush and surreal numbers

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October 31

?! Mystery Speaker ?!
University of Michigan

Mathematical monsters and transfinite terrors

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November 7

Roger Nelsen
Lewis & Clark College

Visualization in elementary number theory

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November 14

Spencer Dowdall
Vanderbilt University

Horror of horoballs! The Möbiusville rational riddle

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November 21

Hailun Zheng
University of Michigan

The combinatorics of convex polytopes

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November 28

[No meeting]

Happy Thanksgiving

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December 5

Jonathan Gerhard
University of Michigan

Graphs from commutative rings