Student Feedback: "I Just Want to Have Fun" Now is one of the most challenging points in the academic year. How do we combat the post-spring-break lull, student and instructor burnout, and the “is the semester over yet!?!?” mentality? While …
A Short Course in Spectral Graph Theory Prof. Steve Butler Morrill Professor of Mathematics Iowa State University Graphs are used to model relationships (edges) between objects (vertices). A graph's structure can efficiently stored in an array format. We can go …
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“My Instructor Was Kind of a Computer”: Rethinking Faculty–Student Interactions in Calculus Dr. Kevin Palencia Infante Assistant Professor & Calculus Coordinator Northern Illinois University While computers and AI are playing a growing role in education, faculty remain essential to teaching …
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Statistical Modeling of Control of Animal Motion in Three Dimensions This manuscript gets ahold of the control aspect of how Daphnia magna move through their surroundings in a control-type environment with still water and with no external stimuli. We present …
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The combinatorics of seaweed algebras Seaweed algebras form a class of Lie algebras for which a number of algebraic invariants can be computed combinatorially. One such invariant is the index, an important algebraic invariant which is notoriously difficult to compute. …
SIMPLE CLOSED GEODESICS ON HYPERBOLIC SURFACES Many of the 21st century spectacular advances in geometry and topology involve the study of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces (Thurston, Mirzakhani, etc). I will tell you about one difficult little aspect of …
From Polyominoes to Fibonacci and Catalan Numbers Polyominoes are simple geometric objects that lead to many interesting and sometimes surprisingly difficult problems in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. In this talk, I will introduce polyominoes and discuss two classical …