Antiderivatives and Linear Differential Equations Using Matrices Songpon Sriwongsa University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “The concepts of a basis as well as a matrix for a linear transformation relative to a basis are fundamental in linear algebra. In 1997,... Read More
Functional Derivatives Martin Vieten University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “The concept of the derivative of a single-variate function is one of the first concepts students are exposed to in elementary calculus. Typically, it is introduced using the 'classical' limit... Read More
How Does the Leopard Get Their Spots? Bill Langhoff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “In his 1952 paper "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis", Alan Turing described a mathematical model for how spatial patterns could arise out of a homogeneous... Read More
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