The Game of NIM and Dots and Boxes Adam Buck University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “We will discuss games of perfect information. I will share some trivia about popular games (Chess, Checkers, Connect Four, Mancala, and Go). We will... Read More
Satellites, Radiosondes, and Numerical Weather Prediction: 20th Century Advances Enabling Today’s 21st Century Weather Forecasters Bart Adrian University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Senior Lecturer “Three short narratives will be presented, chronicling the evolution of three great 20th century advances in meteorology: the... Read More
Emmy Noether: Symmetry and Conservation Laws Alexander Heaton University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “Whenever the laws of motion of some physical system have a symmetry, there is some corresponding conserved quantity. For example, an asteroid tumbling through outer space... Read More
The Probability that Two Lines Meet Four in F_q P^3 Adam Buck University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “In projective 3-space over ℝ, there are exactly two lines which meet four “random” lines with probability 1. If we change ℝ... Read More
Birthday Paradox Prayagdeep Parija University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “We revisit the celebrated birthday paradox(in a group of more than 23 people, there is at least a 50% chance that 2 people share the same birthday) and look at... Read More
Golden Cantor Set Mr. Mark Carthon III University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “What is it that makes the Golden Ratio so interesting? For mathematics, the Golden Ratio gets its interest from its amazing collection of self-reproducing properties. We will... Read More
Is ax+b a Unimodular Group? Mrs. Jinchun Chen University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student - Dissertator “In this talk, we will answer this question by talking about Haar measure on a locally compact group. In the process, we will give... Read More
Cayley Graphs of the Integers with Infinite Generating Sets Daniel Gulbrandsen University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student - Teaching Assistant “A question of Richard Schwartz asks: Are the metric spaces (Z,d_2) and (Z,d_3), where d_g denotes the word metric associated... Read More
Braid Groups Alex Heaton University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “We will discuss the simplest examples of braid groups and try to figure out how they work.”
A Unified Proof For The Convergence Of Jacobi And Gauss-Seidel Methods Zhen Chao University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Fellow “We introduce a unified proof for the convergence of both the Jacobi and the Gauss–Seidel methods for solving systems... Read More