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To sign up please provide your name and a title.  Abstracts are welcome but optional.
To sign up please provide your name and a title.  Abstracts are welcome but optional.


'''Seminar talks''':


September 24
==Spring 2013==
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|Speaker ||  Diane Holcomb
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|Title || The Probabilistic method (using probability to solve questions in other areas of mathematics)
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October 1
==Monday, January 28, Will Mitchell==
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|Speaker || Jean-Luc Thiffeault
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|Title || The mathematics of juggling (with no physical demonstration whatsoever)
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October 8
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|Speaker || Nicos Georgiou
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|Title ||  Growth models on the Quadrant
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October 15
Title: an unsolved graph isomorphism problem from plane geometry
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October 22
Abstract: A geometric 4-configuration is a collection of <math>$n$</math> lines and $n$ points in
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the Euclidean plane with the property that each of the lines passes through exactly four
|Speaker || Joel Robbin
of the points, and each of the points lies on exactly four of the lines. No
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illustration of a 4-configuration appeared in print until 1980.  The so-called
|Title ||  Parking a Car and Lie Brackets.
"celestial configurations" are a well-behaved family of these objects. After discussing
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the construction and nomenclature of the celestial configurations, I'll describe an open
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problem regarding their graph-theoretical properties.
This is an account of Ed Nelson's explanation of Lie brackets and car parking
on pages 33-36 of his 1967 book on Tensor Analysis
(see https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/books/ta.pdf).
It may become an exercise in Diermar Salamon's version
(see http://www.math.ethz.ch/%7Esalamon/PREPRINTS/diffgeo.pdf)
of my Differential Geometry course from 1982
(see http://www.math.wisc.edu/~robbin/0geom.pdf).
My current writeup is at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~robbin/parking_a_car.pdf.
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October 29
==Monday, February 4, Paul Tveite==
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|Speaker ||  Seymour Parter
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|Title ||  Life in a Closed City: Los Alamos, NM Circa 1951
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November 5
 
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Math and redistricting: Redrawing of congressional districts in the US is a
|Speaker || Silas Johnson
political process with interesting results. It's also an interesting
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mathematical problem. I'll introduce a couple measures of irregularity of
|Title || Arrow's impossibility theorem
districts and a couple algorithms for objectively drawing district lines.
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|Abstract ||
 
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==Monday, February 18, Diane Holcomb==
 
Title: The mathematics of apportionment
 
Abstract:  Every year the United States conducts a census and then gives out or apportions seats in the House of Representatives to each of the states according to its population, unfortunately the constitution doesn't provide much guidance on how exactly to do this. I'll go over a bit of the history of how the US has apportioned the seats in the House and some of the math behind the different methods. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==Monday, March 11, David Diamondstone==
 
Title: "pi" in different metrics
 
Abstract: In honor of pi day, we will explore the other values pi might have had, if we lived with a non-Euclidean metric. Examples include the universe of Carl Sagan's ''Contact'', surfaces of constant curvature, and metrics which arise from norms on '''R'''<sup>2</sup>.

Latest revision as of 18:24, 26 September 2014

General Information: Cookie seminar will take place on Mondays at 3:30 in the 9th floor lounge area. Talks should be of interest to the general math community, and generally will not run longer then 20 minutes. Everyone is welcome to talk, please just sign up on this page. Alternatively I will also sign interested people up at the seminar itself. As one would expect from the title there will generally be cookies provided, although the snack may vary from week to week.

To sign up please provide your name and a title. Abstracts are welcome but optional.


Spring 2013

Monday, January 28, Will Mitchell

Title: an unsolved graph isomorphism problem from plane geometry

Abstract: A geometric 4-configuration is a collection of [math]\displaystyle{ $n$ }[/math] lines and $n$ points in the Euclidean plane with the property that each of the lines passes through exactly four of the points, and each of the points lies on exactly four of the lines. No illustration of a 4-configuration appeared in print until 1980. The so-called "celestial configurations" are a well-behaved family of these objects. After discussing the construction and nomenclature of the celestial configurations, I'll describe an open problem regarding their graph-theoretical properties.

Monday, February 4, Paul Tveite

Math and redistricting: Redrawing of congressional districts in the US is a political process with interesting results. It's also an interesting mathematical problem. I'll introduce a couple measures of irregularity of districts and a couple algorithms for objectively drawing district lines.


Monday, February 18, Diane Holcomb

Title: The mathematics of apportionment

Abstract: Every year the United States conducts a census and then gives out or apportions seats in the House of Representatives to each of the states according to its population, unfortunately the constitution doesn't provide much guidance on how exactly to do this. I'll go over a bit of the history of how the US has apportioned the seats in the House and some of the math behind the different methods.





Monday, March 11, David Diamondstone

Title: "pi" in different metrics

Abstract: In honor of pi day, we will explore the other values pi might have had, if we lived with a non-Euclidean metric. Examples include the universe of Carl Sagan's Contact, surfaces of constant curvature, and metrics which arise from norms on R2.

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