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
Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems John Byrum University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “The concepts and proofs for some of Godel’s work will be explored. Common consistent axiomatic systems contain statements which are true but are not provable.”
Solving the Basel Problem using the Poisson Summation Formula Preston Walker University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “We learn that series like these converge in Calculus, but not what it equals. In this talk we will discuss... Read More
Heterogeneous Chaos Dr. James A. Yorke University of Maryland Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology (IPST) Distinguished University Research Professor of Mathematics and Physics “Models help us understand reality. Models of chaos usually have quite uniform behavior, unlike reality. My goal... Read More
A Minimal Time Solution to the Firing Squad Synchronization Problem with Von Neumann Neighborhood of Extent 2 Kathryn Boddie University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “Cellular automata provide a simple environment in which to study global behaviors. One... Read More