Winter 2019

Schedule of Talks

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

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January 10

Jesse Wolfson
UC-Irvine

Braids, polynomials, and Hilbert’s 13th problem

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January 17

Martin Strauss
University of Michigan

Polynomial interpolation tricks

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January 24

Maxim Scott
Indiana University

Visualizing 3-manifolds

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January 31

[Talk Postponed]
Stay Warm!

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February 7

Luke Edholm
University of Michigan

Visualizing complex functions with phase plots

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February 14

Trevor Hyde
University of Michigan

Exploring the topograph

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February 21

Steven Karp
University of Michigan

The Taylor series of sec(x) and tan(x)

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February 28

Sandrine Daurat
Toulouse

Let’s get chaotic!

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March 7

[No Meeting]
Have a great break!

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March 14

Kannappan Sampath
University of Michigan

Pi is transcendental

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March 21

David Speyer
University of Michigan

Number theory and linear algebra in the land of trig functions

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March 28

Eloísa Grifo
University of Michigan

Slicing a square pizza

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April 4

Ben Orlin
Math with bad drawings

Elvis, the dog who knew calculus

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April 11

John Wiltshire-Gordon
Wisconsin-Madison

Jellybean arbitrage and Smith normal form

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April 18

Carsten Peterson
University of Michigan

Crofton’s formula, Buffon’s needle, and the isoperimetric inequality