First of all, here's a syllabus for our course.
Schedule of talks: speakers, titles, and abstracts
- Wednesday, January 23rd. Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University: How the ropelength of a knot relates to glueballs
- Wednesday, January 30th. Richard Klima, Appalachian State University, Explaining the Impossible: Kenneth Arrow's Nobel Prize Winning Theorem on Elections
- Wednesday, February 6th. Darren Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology and University of South Carolina: Applications of Graph Theory to 3-D Surface Reconstruction,
Telecommunication Networks, and WWW Cybercommunities.
- Wednesday, February 13th. Mark McClure, University of North Carolina, Asheville: The Mathematics of Google's pagerank algorithm
- Wednesday, February 20th. Patrick Bahls, University of North Carolina, Asheville: A Cornucopia of combinatorial conundra
- Wednesday, March 19th. Student talks: John Hillman: Statistical analysis of home runs, and Elizabeth King: The game of SET
- Wednesday, March 26th. Student talks: Paige Shy: Variations of the classical derangement problem, and M. Scott Wells: Differentiation shortcuts á la Descartes
- Wednesday, April 2nd. Student talks: Rachel Brommer: Magic squares, and Cooper Cunliffe: Game theoretic analysis of the Monty Hall Problem
- Wednesday, April 9th. Student talks: Megan Stone: Asheville air quality, and Adam Persia: The mathematics behind photographic lenses
- Wednesday, April 16th. Student talks: K.J. Garland: Rating teams with unbalanced schedules, and David Lambe: The Hadamard Conjecture
- Wednesday, April 23rd. Student talks: Tonya Fleming: On running in the rain, and Sam Powell: Prime numbers: how big? how many? how do we know?
Course schedule: important dates
- January 23rd. Talks by faculty begin.
- February 20th. Brief report on three project topics due.
- February 27th. Final choice for project made.
- March 5th. Spring Break: no class!
- March 12th. Rough draft of project abstracts due. Here is a handout detailing the
gentle art of abstract writing.
- March 19th. Student talks begin.
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