UConn Math Club
Spring 2004

Welcome! All students interested in mathematics are invited to attend the club's events. Usually the club listens to talks aimed at its members. Talks generally will not require a background beyond calculus and a little linear algebra. Free refreshments will be provided. Unless otherwise indicated, talks are in MSB 118.

Interested in joining? To be put on a mailing list to hear about upcoming events (or to be taken off the mailing list), send email to the faculty advisor, Keith Conrad (kconrad at math dot uconn dot edu).

Interested in speaking? If you know something in mathematics (a result, an idea or method, some history) which would also interest undergraduates, come tell us about it! Please contact Keith Conrad by email (address above). When you prepare your talk, please include some references to the literature so students may read further on your topic later.

Interested in a topic? If you want to hear a talk about some part of mathematics, especially one which may not be in a regularly offered course, let us know and hopefully we can find a suitable speaker to address your interests.

Some links:

General information for undergraduates from the AMS (American Mathematical Society): contests, summer programs, study-abroad programs, graduate schools, links to other college math clubs, and more.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates are listed at the web sites of the AMS and the NSF.

Mathematical history.

Biographies of mathematicians.

The mathematics genealogy project.

Schedule of talks:

DATE and TIME  SPEAKER  TITLE 
Feb. 4 (Wed.) 
4:30-5:30 		  
 		 Organizational Meeting (Abstract)  
Feb. 11 (Wed.) 
5:00-5:50 		 Keith Conrad  
(UConn) 		 Relativistic Addition and Real Addition (Abstract) (Handout)  
Feb. 18 (Wed.) 
5:00-5:50 		 David Pollack 
(Wesleyan) 		 An Introduction to Elliptic Curves -- POSTPONED UNTIL MAR. 3  
Feb. 25 (Wed.) 
5:00-5:50 		 Bill Wickless 
(UConn) 		 The Impossibility of Trisecting Angles (Abstract)  
Mar. 3 (Wed.) 
5:00-5:50 		 David Pollack 
(Wesleyan) 		 An Introduction to Elliptic Curves (Abstract)  
Mar. 10   
 		 Spring Break 
Mar. 17 (Wed.) 
5:00-5:50 		 Alex Russell 
(UConn) 		 Coin-flipping Over the Phone: an Introduction to Provably Secure
Two Party Computation (Abstract)  
Mar. 24 (Wed.) 
5:00-5:50 		 Joe McKenna 
(UConn) 		 Why Suspension Bridges Sometimes Fall Down  (Announcement)
(Room Change: MSB 311)
Mar. 30 (Tues.) 
12:30-1:15 		 Ralph Kaufmann 
(Oklahoma State Univ.) 		 An Introduction to Topology (Abstract)  
Mar. 31 (Wed.) 
5:00-5:50 		 Obi Rej 
(UConn) 		 The Geometry of Quaternions (Abstract) (Photo of Talk) (Group Photo)  
Apr. 7 (Wed.) 
5:00-5:50 		 Reed Solomon 
(UConn) 		 Orders of Infinity (Abstract)  
Apr. 15 (Thurs.) 
5:00-5:50 		 Davar Khoshnevisan 
(Univ. of Utah) 		 Random Thoughts (In Two Acts) (Abstract) (References)
(Article by Stan Wagon)  
Apr. 21 (Wed.) 
5:00-5:50 		 Tom Weston 
(Amherst College) 		 The Banach−Tarski Paradox (Abstract)  

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Note: This page's format was shamelessly stolen from the Univ. of Michigan/Michigan State arithmetic seminar webpage, which was shamelessly stolen from the Univ. of Michigan algebraic geometry seminar webpage designed by Pasha Belorousski. For other shameless thefts of Pasha's work, see the bottom of the webpage for the Columbia algebraic geometry seminar.