Elementary Matrix Operations on a Napkin Dr. Bogdan Nica Assistant Professor Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Atmospheric science provides excellent opportunities for encouraging student interest in all fields of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math). A model outreach program (“Chasing... Read More
Representations of the Natural Numbers Using Box Arrangements Mr. Joakim Jakovleski PhD Student University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Natural numbers can be presented as sums of numbers in boxes, where we are subject to certain rules about how we generate... Read More
Encouraging Student Interest in STEM in Elementary, Middle and High School Classrooms Mr. Bart Adrian Senior Lecturer in Atmospheric Science & Mathematics / STEM Outreach Specialist University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Atmospheric science provides excellent opportunities for encouraging student interest in all... Read More
Games, Winning, and Nimbers Mr. John Museus PhD Student University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee The Nimbers are a particularly peculiar Field which arises naturally when studying the winning strategies of Impartial Games. In this talk, we will give a brief... Read More
Combinatorial Resolutions of Monomial Ideals Dr. Selvi Kara Assistant Professor of Mathematics Bryn Mawr College One of the central problems in commutative algebra concerns understanding the structure of an ideal in a polynomial ring. Abstractly, an ideal’s structure can be... Read More
Sandpile Group For Cones Over Trees Dorian Smith PhD Student University of Minnesota Twin Cities The sandpile group $K(G)$ of a graph $G$ is a finite abelian group, isomorphic to the cokernel of the reduced graph Laplacian of $G.$ We... Read More
A Mechanochemical Model of Cell Migration in Confined Environments Dr. Emmanuel Asante-Asamani Assistant Professor of Mathematics Clarkson University Eukaryotic cells can move in confined environments by using pressure driven protrusions of their cell membrane, a motility mechanism known as blebbing.... Read More
On the Lucky and Displacement Statistics of Stirling Permutations Dorian Smith PhD Student University of Minnesota Twin Cities Stirling permutations are parking functions. We investigate two parking function statistics in the context of these objects: lucky cars and displacement. Among... Read More
The Dynamical view of Free-by-Cyclic Groups Dr. Jean Pierre Mutanguha Instructor Princeton Free-by-cyclic groups can be defined as mapping tori of free group automorphisms. I will discuss various dynamical properties of automorphisms that turn out to be group invariants of... Read More