Math Club – Past Talks
The table below is of talks prior to Spring 2019.
Organizational Meeting
Relativistic Addition and Real Addition
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
The Impossibility of Trisecting Angles
Bill Wickless (University of Connecticut)
An Introduction to Elliptic Curves
David Pollack (Wesleyan)
Coin-flipping Over the Phone: an Introduction to
Provably Secure Two Party Computation
Alex Russell (University of Connecticut)
Why Suspension Bridges Sometimes Fall Down
Joe McKenna (University of Connecticut)
An Introduction to Topology
Ralph Kaufmann (Oklahoma State Univ.)
The Geometry of Quaternions
Obi Rej (University of Connecticut)
Orders of Infinity
Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut)
Random Thoughts (In Two Acts)
Davar Khoshnevisan (Univ. Utah)
The Banach−Tarski Paradox
Tom Weston (UMass Amherst)
Irrationality of π
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Analysis on fractals
Sasha Teplyaev (University of Connecticut)
Convergence Tests Made Easy
Steve Conrad (Math Leagues)
Goedel’s Theorem
Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut)
The Game of SET
Chuck Vinsonhaler (University of Connecticut)
Cryptographically Secure Electronic Voting
Michael Korman (University of Connecticut)
The Mathematics of Google
Jim Carlson (Clay Math Institute)
What is the ABC-conjecture?
Farshid Hajir (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Benford’s Law and Digit Bias: Applications from the
Fibonacci Numbers to the 3x+1 problem to the IRS
Steve Miller (Brown University)
Error-Correcting Codes
Lance Miller (University of Connecticut)
The Calculus of Variations
Joe McKenna (University of Connecticut)
Independence
Ron Blei (University of Connecticut)
The Principle of Maximum Entropy
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Knot Theory – What They Didn’t Teach You in Boy Scouts
Rachel Schwell (University of Connecticut)
Continued Fractions
Sonal Jain (Harvard)
Some Highlights of Combinatorial Game Theory
Alexander Russell (University of Connecticut)
Asymptotic Freedom: The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
What is it and Why Should Mathematicians Care?
Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut)
Financial Math: Little Assumptions/Big Money
James Bridgeman (University of Connecticut)
An Introduction to Complex Dynamics
Rob Benedetto (Amherst College)
Math for America/Newton Fellowships
Peter Garrity (Columbia University)
Prime Factorization and Solving Equations
Robert Pollack (Boston University)
The Mysterious Hexaflexagon
Sarah Glaz (University of Connecticut)
The Infinitude of Prime Numbers
Max Lieblich (Brown University)
Impossibility of Integrating exp(−x2)
Brian Conrad (University of Michigan)
The Mathematics of Rubik’s Cube
Bill Wickless (University of Connecticut)
Total Nonnegativity
Mark Skandera (Haverford)
Check Digits
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Using Mathematics to Improve Medical Treatments
Helen Moore (American Institute of Mathematics)
The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Jay Pottharst (Harvard)
The Mathematics of Origami
Tara Holm (University of Connecticut)
Beyond the Quadratic Formula
Michael Bush (UMass Amherst)
Cords: 3D Curve Primitives that Wrap Around Geometry
Karan Singh (University of Toronto)
Funny Functions: Rethinking the Derivative, An Illustrated Guide
Ben Mares (MIT)
Point-Line Duality
Abhijnan Rej (BU)
Straightedgular Algebra
Liz Yockey (University of Connecticut)
What is a Sphere?
Jesse Ratzkin (University of Connecticut)
The Platonic Solids and the Euler Characteristic
Bill Abikoff (University of Connecticut)
Pick’s theorem
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
How many points determine a curve?
Stu Sidney (University of Connecticut)
SUMS conference at Brown
Many Speakers
The regular solids in dimensions 3, 4, and 5
Eric Sommers (UMass Amherst)
Games, Hats and Codes
Mira Bernstein (Wellseley)
Primes in arithmetic progression
Tom Weston (UMass Amherst)
The Quadratic Sieve
David Pollack (Wesleyan)
An introduction to Ramsey theory (and the probabilistic method)
Alexander Russell (University of Connecticut)
Art and Mathematics: A Dialogue
Daina Taimina (Cornell)
Preparing for mathematics graduate school
Math Dept. members (University of Connecticut)
The mathematics of internet security
Aggelos Kiayias (University of Connecticut)
The forward and inverse problem in geodetic surveying
Tom Meyer (University of Connecticut)
Collaboration between mathematicians: some personal anecdotes
Farshid Hajir (UMass Amherst)
Tips on effective math teaching in grades 7—12
Steve Conrad (Roslyn HS (ret.))
Calculus of Finite Differences
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Proofs that Count
Tom Roby (University of Connecticut)
An Introduction to Cryptography
Avraham Bourla (University of Connecticut)
The Joy of Hex
Joe Miller (University of Connecticut)
How to Divide a Cake in Three
Kiran Kedlaya (MIT)
The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula
Nick Flowers (Morgan Stanley)
Equations, Cubics, and Complex Numbers
Paul-Jean Cahen (Univ. Marseille)
Number theory with polynomials
Mike Rosen (Brown)
Exploring space in two dimensions and beyond!
Jesse Kass (Harvard)
Current issues in clinical trials methodology for evaluating drug safety
Robert Makuch (Yale)
Fractals and Fixed Points
Monique Ethier (University of Connecticut)
Irreducibility Tests for Polynomials
James Chernesky (University of Connecticut)
Lemniscatic Trigonometry
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Closing the Educational Achievement Gap
Audrey Giesler (Teach for America)
Random Thoughts on Brownian Motion
Masha Gordina (University of Connecticut)
Google’s Pagerank Algorithm and Stochastic Matrices
Matt Cecil (University of Connecticut)
Chaotic Dynamical Systems
Michelle Manes (Brown)
The 3-Square Theorem
Brian Conrad (Michigan/Columbia)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
Approximating Real Numbers by Rational Numbers
David Pollack (Wesleyan)
Mathematics in Image Processing
Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut)
Hyperplane Arrangements
Nick Proudfoot (Columbia)
Outer billiards, unbounded orbits, and self-similar tilings
Rich Schwartz (Brown)
The Probability Integral
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
A Tribute to Euler
Bill Dunham (Muhlenberg College)
Strange Loops in Mathematics and the Mind
Greg Huber (University of Connecticut)
Pythagorean Triples, Trig Identities, and Integrals
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Ramanujan Graphs
Paul Gunnells (UMass Amerst)
Irrationality
Vicentiu Pasol (University of Connecticut)
Causation and Biostatistics
Joseph Hogan (Brown)
Preparing for graduate school in mathematics
Faculty and Graduate Students (University of Connecticut)
Curves
Luke Rogers (University of Connecticut)
SNEAKERS
Movie Screening
The Fibonacci Numbering System
Ira Gessel (Brandeis)
Billiards on Hyperbolic Triangles
David Fried (BU)
Rational Recurrences Arising from Cluster Algebras
Michael King (Boston College)
Introduction to Topology (a.k.a. What is Math 250?)
Ning Khamsemanan (University of Connecticut)
Teach for America Information Session
David Brown (Teach for America)
Power Series vs. Fourier Series
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
A Surprising Theorem
Oscar Levin (University of Connecticut)
Rigid Motions, Measuring Distance, and Hyperbolic Geometry
Perry Susskind (Connecticut College)
Symmetry in Algebra and the Quadratic Formula
Aaron Silberstein (Harvard)
Math vs. Cancer: Mathematically Modeling Leukemia and its Treatment
Ajay Shenoy (University of Connecticut)
Constructibility Problems in Classical Geometry
Neal Lima (University of Connecticut)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
Hilbert’s Third Problem
Adam Gamzon (UMass Amherst)
Applications of the Compactness Theorem of Logic
Cameron Freer (Harvard)
Graphs, Euler’s Polyhedra Theorem, and the Coloring of Maps
Avraham Bourla (University of Connecticut)
The Polish School of Mathematics and Its Greatest Discovery – Stefan Banach
Joseph Pomianowski
Guarding Art Galleries
Ed Taylor (Wesleyan)
Experiences Teaching Math
Recent UConn Alumni (University of Connecticut)
Wolfgang Doeblin, a mathematician rediscovered
Marc Yor (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
The Method of Descent
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Generating Functions: Power Series You Can Count On
Tom Roby (University of Connecticut)
The Golden Ratio
Steve Miller (University of Connecticut)
Not a Proof of the Four Color Theorem
Oscar Levin (University of Connecticut)
Knot Theory Invariants
Paul Ellis (University of Connecticut)
Coin Tossing
Richard Bass (University of Connecticut)
Is Differential Calculus a Dead Subject?
Warren Johnson (Connecticut College)
Master Leonardo ”Bigollo” and a 2000-year old unsolved problem
Alvaro Lozano-Robledo (University of Connecticut)
How CD Players Deal with Scratched Discs
Caleb Shor (Western New England College)
The Newton Polygon
Oleg Mikitchenko (Connecticut College)
Splendor in the Graphs
Jennifer Beineke (Western New England College)
Voting and Apportionment
Dan Bochicchio (E. O. Smith High School)
The 15 Puzzle and Rubik’s Cube
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Graphs and Fractals
Ben Steinhurst (University of Connecticut)
Almost All Numbers are Normal
John Haga (University of Connecticut)
Euler and the Basel Problem
Paul Ellis (University of Connecticut)
Recurrence and Transience in Random Walks
Iddo Ben-Ari (University of Connecticut)
The Vigenere Cipher
Jeremy Teitelbaum (University of Connecticut)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
Benford’s Law
Ander Steele (BU)
Connecting the Dots: the Art of Interpolation
Glenn Stevens (BU)
Bachet’s Equation: Its Arithmetic and Geometry
Russell Prime (University of Connecticut)
Disease Detection and the Distance Formula
Rachel Schwell (Central Conn. State Univ.)
Experiences Teaching Math
UConn Alumni
A Mathematician’s Dream: From Idea to Company – The Adventure of Following Your Dream
Thomas J. McCabe (McCabe Software)
The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
The Apollonian gasket revealed
Avraham Bourla (University of Connecticut)
Knots and the Fourth Dimension
Constance Leidy (Wesleyan)
The Riemann Rearrangement Theorem
Paul Ellis (University of Connecticut)
Preparing for Graduate School in Math
Math Department Members (University of Connecticut)
Projective Space
Amanda Beeson (Williams)
The Pigeonhole Principle and Ramsey Theory
Stu Sidney (University of Connecticut)
Unsolved mysteries of mathematics: the rank of an elliptic curve
Christine McMeekin (University of Connecticut)
Depleted harmonic series and a neat theorem about primes
John Haga (University of Connecticut)
Pick’s Formula
Milena Hering (University of Connecticut)
Bernoulli Numbers and Their Applications
Li-Mei Lim (Brown)
Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and applications
Erin Terwilleger (University of Connecticut)
Bezout’s Theorem
Arend Bayer (University of Connecticut)
The Complex Square Root Function
Jay Pottharst (Boston College)
Some Aspects of the Cross Product
Ryan Kinser (University of Connecticut)
Points, Links, and Surfaces
Jason McGibbon (UMass Amherst)
Envelopes of Families of Curves
Chris Kurth (University of Connecticut)
Math Grad in the Real World: A Job in Remote Sensing
Marisa Gioioso (Atmospheric and Environmental Research)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
Mathematics in Biology and Medicine: an Introduction to Free Boundary Problems
Fabiana Cardetti (University of Connecticut)
Queueing Theory Applied to Business
Harold Schwenk (BGS Systems (Ret.))
From Triangles to Elliptic Curves
Bill McCallum (University of Arizona)
A Hands-On Exploration of Non-Euclidean Geometries
Karen Edwards (Diablo Valley College)
Counting the Rationals
John Haga (University of Connecticut)
Euclidean Geometry and the Complex Plane
Paul Ellis (University of Connecticut)
The Symmetric Function Theorem
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Diophantine Approximation for the Masses
Avi Bourla (University of Connecticut)
Subspace Arrangements
Ryan Kinser (University of Connecticut)
Fourier Series and the Isoperimetric Inequality
John Haga (University of Connecticut)
Geometry and the Complexity of Computation
Jessica Sidman (Mount Holyoke College)
The Basics of Fractal Geometry
Dan Kelleher (University of Connecticut)
The geometry behind solution formulas
Arend Bayer (University of Connecticut)
Grad school discussion panel
Various people (University of Connecticut)
Eigenvalue data on the Sierpinski Carpet
Matt Begué (University of Connecticut)
Mathematical modeling and leukemia
Andy Stein (Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research)
Truth, Provability, and Counting: What is mathematical logic all about?
Paul Ellis (University of Connecticut)
***Talk rescheduled due to inclement weather***
Ryan Kinser (University of Connecticut)
***Talk rescheduled due to inclement weather***
Benjamin Salisbury (University of Connecticut)
The Hopf Fibration
Benjamin Salisbury (University of Connecticut)
Counting, Infinity, and Cantor
Lucas David-Roesler (University of Connecticut)
Benford’s law
Ryan Kinser (University of Connecticut)
Algebra and Graph Theory
Janet Striuli (Fairfield University)
Catalan numbers and generating functions
Steven Pon (University of Connecticut)
An introduction to variational methods
Ian Tice (Brown)
Recurrence and Transience in Random Walks
Iddo Ben Ari (University of Connecticut)
Bidding games
Sam Payne (Yale University)
The Open Dual Ramsey Theorem
Joshua Katz (University of Connecticut)
Hitori and Random Matrices
Ryan Mullen (Sacred Heart University)
Commuting Polynomials
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Investigating Randomness
Johanna Franklin (University of Connecticut)
Lagrange Multipliers — Why?
Patrick Dragon (University of Connecticut)
An Introduction to Elliptic Curves
David Pollack (Wesleyan)
Bijective Proofs
Steven Pon (University of Connecticut)
Rational parametrizations
Michael Joseph (University of Connecticut)
The Strong Pseudoprime Test and the iPhone
Jeremy Teitelbaum (University of Connecticut)
Formulas for π
Jared Weinstein (BU)
Sandpiles and Dominos
David Perkinson (Reed College)
Egyptian Fractions
Konstantina Christodoulopoulou (University of Connecticut)
Bhargava’s Generalized Factorials
Rebecca Torrey (Amherst College)
Convexity Methods in Analysis
Iddo Ben-Ari (University of Connecticut)
The Sum of the First n Integers
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
The Fabricius-Bjerre Formulas
Pat Dragon (University of Connecticut)
The Role of Randomization in Modern Data Mining
Sujit Nair (United Technologies)
Our Natural Statistician: Friend or Foe?
Brian Hartman (University of Connecticut)
Geometric Counting Problems
Moon Duchin (Tufts)
Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues in Engineering
Amit Savkar (University of Connecticut)
SUMS conference at Brown
Many Speakers
Continued Fractions and Applications
Andy Haas (University of Connecticut)
Farey Fractions and Plane Geometry
Noah Snyder (Columbia)
The Geometry of Projective Space
Jonathan Hanke (Univ. Georgia)
Making a Divergent Series Converge
Michelle Manes (Univ. Hawaii)
Preparing for Math Graduate School
Panel Discussion
Reflections on Reflections
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Reflections and Pythagorean Triples
Gabriel Feinberg (University of Connecticut)
Counterintuitive Functions
John Baber (University of Connecticut)
Disasters Caused by Bad Numerics
Dmitriy Leykekhman (University of Connecticut)
Art and Mathematics: Escher, Lenstra, and ‘The Print Gallery’
James Stankewicz (Wesleyan)
Master Leonardo “Bigollo” and a 2000-year old unsolved problem”
Álvaro Lozano-Robledo (University of Connecticut)
Hyperbolic Geometry
Ovidiu Munteanu (University of Connecticut)
Special Values of Zeta-Functions
Ander Steele (Boston University)
Liouville’s Theorem and Gradients
Damin Wu (University of Connecticut)
Nonstandard Analysis
Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut)
The Weierstrass Approximation Theorem
Thomas Laetsch (University of Connecticut)
What is Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, and what does it mean?
Erick Knight (Harvard)
Generating Functions: Power Series You Can Count On
Tom Roby (University of Connecticut)
The infinitude of the primes
Harris Daniels (University of Connecticut)
Math and Music
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Numerical Semigroups and Partitions
Nathan Kaplan (Harvard)
The Mandelbrot Set: Dynamics and Fractals
Jackie Anderson (Brown)
Boundary Conditions for the Wave Equation
Geri Jennings (UMass Amherst)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
Pre-Pi Day Talk: Analogues of π
Trevor Hyde (Amherst College)
Fixed Points and Invariants: Why It’s Good that Some Things Don’t Change
Jay Wilkins (University of Connecticut)
The Icosahedron and the General Quintic
Dustin Clausen (MIT)
The Random Graph
Robert Heffernan (University of Connecticut)
Deriving Properties of Functions by Calculus
Michael Pruitt (University of Connecticut)
Preparing for Math Graduate School
Panel Discussion
Applications of the divergence of the harmonic series
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
The Mathematics of Elections and Voting
Myron Minn-Thu-Aye (University of Connecticut)
Elimination and Implicitization
Chris Rasmussen (Wesleyan)
Climbing (or Finding Paths) through Trees
Karen Lange (Wellesley)
Congruent Numbers and Elliptic Curves
Ruthi Hortsch (MIT)
Stirling’s Formula
Matt Lamoureux (University of Connecticut)
Integral-valued polynomials
Darij Grinberg (MIT)
A Pictorial Introduction to General Relativity
Alan Parry (University of Connecticut)
Introduction to Knot Theory
Elizabeth Sheridan-Rossi (University of Connecticut)
Living with Mathematics
Maryann Hohn (University of Connecticut)
Why are soap bubbles round?
Lan-Hsuan Huang (University of Connecticut)
Euler’s constant
Jon Judge (University of Connecticut)
The normal distribution and physics
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Music and Fourier Series
Karen Edwards (Diablo Valley College)
Graphs in Facebook Friendships: How Connected Are We?
Megan Heenehan (ECSU)
Random Walks
Joe Chen (University of Connecticut)
The volume of the unit ball in n dimensions
Phanuel Mariano (University of Connecticut)
Geometric Constructions in Number Theory
Harris Daniels (Amherst College)
Points and Conics
Asher Auel (Yale)
Which Axioms Do We Need?
Damir Dzhafarov (University of Connecticut)
Biostatistical Challenges in Public Health: Examples from Cancer Research
Jennifer Sinnott (Harvard)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
Preparing for math graduate school
Panel Discussion
The Gauss-Bonnet theorem
Damin Wu (University of Connecticut)
The Projective Plane
Brian Conrad (Stanford)
The Failure of Unique Factorization
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
How Can We Tell That the Earth Is Round?
David Constantine (Wesleyan)
Graph Coloring, Sudoku, and Algebraic Equations
David Cox (Amherst College)
Irrationality
Michael Chou (University of Connecticut)
Polyhedral Counting: How Many Ways Can Platonic Solids Be Colored?
Matthew Willis (Connecticut College)
Infinitely Many Proofs of the Infinitude of Primes
Liang Xiao (University of Connecticut)
Public Secret Codes
Matthew Lamoureux (Boston College)
A Continuous Step Function
Shaun Benvie (University of Connecticut)
Integer Partitions
Tom Roby (University of Connecticut)
Knot Theory
Jonathan Bloom (MIT)
An Elementary Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem (for Polynomials!)
Álvaro Lozano-Robledo (University of Connecticut)
Elliptic curves and the congruent number problem
Nathan Jones (Univ. Illinois at Chicago)
Continued Fractions
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
An Introduction to Lie Algebras
Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Connecticut)
Steganography: The Unexpected Power of Rejection Sampling
Alexander Russell (University of Connecticut)
A New Angle on an Old Construction
Bob Milnikel (Kenyon College)
Universality of Random Matrices
Joe Chen (University of Connecticut)
The Exact Formula for Fibonacci Numbers
Sandi Xhumari (University of Connecticut)
Linear Regression
Jeremy Teitelbaum (University of Connecticut)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
Can a Classroom be Tiled Without any Repeating Pattern?
Ela Celikbas (University of Connecticut)
A Motivated Variant of the Euler-Maclaurin Summation Formula
Aaron Bailey (University of Connecticut)
LASSO, Elastic Net, and Ridge Regression
Brian Hartman (University of Connecticut)
Ramsey Theory
Steve Pon (University of Connecticut)
Preparing for math graduate school
Panel Discussion
Patterns that do not last
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey geometry
Alan Parry (University of Connecticut)
Introduction to game theory
Myron Minn-Thu-Aye (University of Connecticut)
Hilbert’s 17th Problem: it’s Positively Fascinating!
Anthony Rizzie (University of Connecticut)
e: Not just the fifth letter of the alphabet
Maree Jaramillo (University of Connecticut)
Identification Numbers and Check Digit Schemes
Stephen Zito (University of Connecticut)
An Introduction to Knot Theory
Adam Giambrone (University of Connecticut)
The Fibonacci numbers modulo p
Anna Medvedovsky (ICERM)
Lagrange Multipliers in Data Science
Matthew Lamoureux (University of Connecticut)
Combinatorial Triangles
Tom Roby (University of Connecticut)
Belyi Polynomials and the Marvels of Factoring
John Voight (Dartmouth/ICERM)
Mr. Schur’s neighborhood: a drunkard and an octopus
Joe Chen (University of Connecticut)
p-adic Numbers
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Defining sets and functions by transfinite recursion
Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut)
Counting Spanning Trees
Hugo Panzo (University of Connecticut)
Infinitesimals: Reviving the “Ghosts of Departed Quantities”
Eric Astor (University of Connecticut)
The Traveling Salesman Problem in Combinatorics and Analysis
Matt Badger (University of Connecticut)
The Leading Digit of Powers of 2
Behrang Forghani (University of Connecticut)
The Calculus of Finite Differences
Jon Judge (University of Connecticut)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
A Hands-On Exploration of Non-Euclidean Geometries
Karen Edwards (University of Connecticut)
The Poincare Recurrence Theorem
Filip Dul (University of Connecticut)
Grönwall’s Lemma: An Introduction to a Practical Analysis Tool
Fabiana Cardetti (University of Connecticut)
Puzzles and Permutations
Drew Jaramillo (University of Connecticut)
Preparing for math graduate school
Panel Discussion
Gaps in Function Spaces
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
The Quest for Large Primes and Perfect Numbers
Alvaro Lozano-Robledo (University of Connecticut)
A Combinatorial Interpretation of Continued Fractions
Ralf Schiffler (University of Connecticut)
Hilbert Spaces: Connecting Calculus with Linear Algebra
Erin Rizzie (University of Connecticut)
Curvature and a “most elegant theorem” of Gauss”
Ambar Sengupta (University of Connecticut)
Fourier Analysis and Applications
Vasilis Chousionis (University of Connecticut)
An Introduction to Random Walks, Brownian Motion, and the Mathematics of Stock Markets
Fabrice Baudoin (University of Connecticut)
Counterintuitive Probability
Alice Vatamanelu (University of Connecticut)
Curvature and the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem
Daniel Martin (University of Connecticut)
An Infinitude of Proofs of the Infinitude of Primes
Matthew Bradley (Wentworth Institute of Technology)
Transcendence
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
You Can’t Prove Everything: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Incompleteness Theorem
Damir Dzhafarov (University of Connecticut)
Bernoulli Numbers
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Platonic Solids and the Euler Characteristic
Liang Xiao (University of Connecticut)
When Knot Theory Meets Graph Theory
Adam Giambrone (University of Connecticut)
The Fermat Equation for Polynomials
Robert McDonald (University of Connecticut)
Hamiltonian Cycles and Their Uses
Voula Collins (University of Connecticut)
Solving Differential Equations with Probability
Phanuel Mariano (University of Connecticut)
Fair Dice
Michael Joseph (University of Connecticut)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
Strategy Complexity for Combinatorial Games
Shelly Stahl (University of Connecticut)
Error-Correcting Codes
Angelynn Alvarez (University of Connecticut)
Undecidability and the Tiling Problem
Linda Brown Westrick (University of Connecticut)
Infinitely small numbers
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Preparing for math graduate school
Panel Discussion (University of Connecticut)
The General Partial Fraction Decomposition
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Folding Cubes
Michael Biro (University of Connecticut)
The Probability Integral
Phanuel Mariano (University of Connecticut)
An introduction to Difference Equations
David McArdle (University of Connecticut)
The Mathematics of Encryption
Alvaro Lozano-Robledo (University of Connecticut)
The Game of Hex
Ben Russo (University of Connecticut)
The P vs. NP Problem
Alex Russell (University of Connecticut)
Hausdorff Dimension
Lisa Naples (University of Connecticut)
Oscillations of a Hanging Chain
Michael Rozman (University of Connecticut)
The Kakeya Needle Problem
Vasileios Chousionis (University of Connecticut)
Continued Fractions and the Fibonacci Numbers
Michelle Rabideau (University of Connecticut)
Applications of Divergence of the Harmonic Series
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
The Biggest Known Prime Number
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Using Polynomials to Study Knots
Adam Giambrone (University of Connecticut)
Solving the Game of Nim [POSTPONED]
Scott Zimmerman (University of Connecticut)
Conway-Coxeter Frieze Patterns
Emily Gunawan (University of Connecticut)
The Physics and Mathematics of Special Relativity
Arthur Parzygnat (University of Connecticut)
Counting Trees
Jeremy Teitelbaum (University of Connecticut)
The Probabilistic Method [POSTPONED]
Sean Li (University of Connecticut)
Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
Many Speakers
Using Linear Algebra in Data Science [CANCELED]
Matt Lamoureux (Travelers)
Using Linear Algebra to Study Knots
Katie Hall (University of Connecticut)
Solving the Game of Nim
Scott Zimmerman (University of Connecticut)
Random Walks
Behrang Forghani (University of Connecticut)
Preparing for math grad school
Panel Discussion
The Probabilistic Method
Sean Li (University of Connecticut)
Quaternions
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
A Simple Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Damir Dzhafarov (University of Connecticut)
Using Linear Algebra in Data Science
Matt Lamoureux (Travelers)
What are Manifolds?
Ovidiu Munteanu (University of Connecticut)
Measure Zero
Matthew Badger (University of Connecticut)
Webpage Ranking, Linear Algebra, and Probability
Sangjoon Lee (University of Connecticut)
Acceleration of Series Convergence
Anastasiia Minenkova (University of Connecticut)
Chebyshev Polynomials
Maxim Derevyagin (University of Connecticut)
Trick or Treat on a Graph
Brandon Alberts (University of Connecticut)
Clustering Data
Jeremy Teitelbaum (University of Connecticut)
Morse Theory: Describing Space Using Critical Points
Gianmarco Molino (University of Connecticut)
Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Mathematics
Panel Discussion