Fall 2021 Schedule of Talks Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available). September 9 Nate HarmanU(M) Polynomials, permutations,and the Paris metro September 16 Bradley ZykoskiU(M) The Long Line September 23 Jenny KenkelU(M) The King Chicken Theorems September 30 Martin StraussU(M) Slide rules rule! October 1 Steven MillerWilliams and Math Corps Inrtoduwtion to Erorr Dwtetcionand Czorrectmon October 7 Sunita ChepuriU(M) Totally Nonnegative Matrices and Networks October 14 Guanhua SunU(M) From Archimedes to Cheerios October 21 Charlotte ChanU(M) The Game of SET October 28 Ilesanmi AdeboyeWesleyan Contact Geometry andDifferential Equations November 4 Samuel HansenU(M) Our Social and Mathematical World:A Tale of Bidirectional Impacts November 11 Tim RyanU(M) How to (not) rig an election! November 18 Roger NatarajanU(M) All about money November 23 [No meeting] Happy Thanksgiving! December 2 Thomas AndersonU(M) Full credit for approximately correct? December 9 Yanjun Chen, Vishal Nayak,and Ashvin Pai Directed Reading Program Presentations