Spring 2009
Regular time and location: Fridays from 4pm to 5pm in 317 Kerchof Hall (pizza arrives at 3:45)
January 23
Speaker: Lawrence Thomas (UVa Mathematics)
Life of a research problem
January 30
Speaker: James Simmonds (UVa Civil Engineering)
Modules: A New Way to Study Complex Variables
February 6
Speaker: Steven Stern (UVa Economics)
Marriage, divorce, and asymmetric information
February 13
Speaker: Gianluca Guadagni (UVa Mathematics)
Cutoff phenomenon in Markov chains
February 20
Speaker: William Saslaw (UVa Astronomy)
Thinking big: Statistical mechanics of the distribution of galaxies in our Universe
February 27
No meeting - last day before spring break
March 6
Spring break
March 13
Speaker: Kai-Uwe Bux (UVa Mathematics)
Random stuff
March 20
Speaker: Dorina Mitrea (U Missouri Mathematics)
Fun, ingenious, and unusual math
March 27
Speaker: Thomas Kriete (UVa Mathematics)
The calculus of variations
April 3
Speakers: Middle School MathCounts Teams from the Charlottesville Area
MathCounts Countdown Rounds
April 10
Speaker: Donald Ramirez (UVa Mathematics)
Fitting a straight line to observed data
April 17
Speaker: Katherine Heller (UVa Mathematics)
A Jigsaw puzzle: splitting rectangles into squares and an introduction to continued fractions
Student president: Audrey Lackner
Faculty organizers: Malek Abdesselam and Irina Mitrea
Past semesters:
[Fall 2008]
[Spring 2008]
[Fall 2007]
