Translation-like Actions of Nilpotent Groups Dr. Mark Pengitore Ohio State University Zassenhaus Assistant Professor “Whyte introduced translation-like actions of groups which as a geometric generalization of subgroup containment. He then proved a geometric reformulation of the von Neumann conjecture by... Read More
How Do Calculators Calculate? Dr. Bruce Haven Edwards University of Florida Professor of Mathematics “What happens when you press the sine key on your calculator? How does the calculator quickly produce the values of trigonometric functions? You might be surprised... Read More
Discrete Dynamical Systems Mr. John Jurkiewicz University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “We will discuss discrete-time dynamical systems, giving definitions and some examples. We will culminate by stating without proof Sarkovsky’s Theorem on the periodicity of points... Read More
Allocations of Risk Capital: A Not So Simple View From the Simplex Dr. Jianxi Su Purdue University Assistant Professor of Actuarial Science “In this talk, we connect the allocation of risk capital to a general class of Dirichlet distributions defined... Read More