Winter 2021 Schedule of Talks Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available). January 21Virtual meeting, 4pm EST Steven Miller, aka Coach SteveMath Corps and Williams College From the Manhattan Projectto Elliptic Curves January 28Virtual meeting, 4pm EST Juliette BruceUniversity of California, Berkeley Tropical Geometry February 4Virtual meeting, 4pm EST Joe RabinoffDuke University Quaternions in everyday life February 11Virtual meeting, 4pm EST Zach NorwoodU(M) Colorful graphs and Fermat’s Last Theorem mod p February 18Virtual meeting, 4pm EST Samuel HansenU(M) Can you tell me a story?Why and How we should tell more stories in mathematics February 25Virtual meeting, 4pm EST Caroline DavisIndiana University MC Escher: Tilings and Impossibility March 4Virtual meeting, 4pm EST Karol KoziolU(M) How to cut a square into triangles March 11Virtual meeting, 4pm EST John KilgoreMaxar Computing pi March 18Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT Isabel VogtUniversity of Washington Counting real bi-tangents March 25Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT Rohini RamadasBrown University Complex dynamics andthe Mandelbrot set April 1Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT John MilnorStony Brook Pasting together Julia sets April 8Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT Emily RiehlJohns Hopkins University Categorifying Cardinal Arithmetic April 15Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT Greg MullerUniversity of Oklahoma Love and Math April 22Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT Bar RoytmanUniversity of California, Los Angeles The materials of mathematics April 29Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT Karl Godard, Xuyan Liu,and Neel Moudgal Directed Reading Program Presentations May 6Virtual meeting, 4pm EDT Karen Uhlenbeck and membersof the Math Community at U(M) A conversation withKaren Uhlenbeck
