2022-2023 Meetings

4/17/2023: Math Club put together tier lists of math adjacent majors and math classes.
4/24/2023: Math Club Officers prepared the annual report, and other members socialized and solved math problems.

4/10/2023: Elections for Math Club Officers were held.

4/3/2023: Elections for THON Chair positions were held. Afterwards, member were given a list of Putnam questions to work through collaboratively.

3/27/2023: A movie night was held where we watched A Beautiful Mind.

3/20/2023: Dr. James Kowalski gave a talk titled: Generating Functions, Chicken Nuggets, and Complex Analysis.

3/13/2023: A round of Math Jeopardy was played.

2/27/2023:Professor Diane Henderson will give a talk about and give a tour of the WG Pritchard Fluids Lab located in the basement of McAllister Building.

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2/13/2023: Professor Alberto Bressan gave a talk titled “Optimal shapes of tree roots and branches. A Mathematical Perspective.”

2/6/2023: A team math competition was held where ten tricky problems were presented and the team which solved the most in 30 minutes was the winner.

1/30/2023: Dr. Oceanu gave a talk on the Octacube sculpture which is located in McAllister Building.

1/23/2023: For the first meeting of the semester we had brief introduction followed by some Math Duels. Members wrote down 5 math problems then swapped with another member, trying to solve as many of their opponents problems as they could.

12/5/2022: The last meeting of the semeter was a casual one with people socializing and math videos playing on the projector.

11/28/2022: Math club watched “Flatworld: The film” during movie night.

11/14/2022: A graduate student panel was held where students were able to gain insight into what exactly grad school is like.

11/7/2022: Dr. Krishnaswami Alladi from the University of Florida gave a talk on the Mobius Function and its connection to the Prime Number Theorem and Riemann-Zeta Function.

10/31/2022: A Halloween party was held where club members were encouraged to wear a costume and share any “spooky” math they found with the members.

10/24/2022: Dr. Victoria Sadovskaya gave a talk on “Fractals in Complex Dynamics”.

10/17/2022: A math trivia competition was held.

10/10/2022: Dr. Sergei Tabachnikov gave a talk on the many different methods to prove the theorem: If a rectangle is tiled by rectangles, each which has an integer side, then the tiled rectangle has an interger side.

10/3/2022: An integral bee was held featuring very difficult integrals to be solved.

9/26/2022: A Post Doc and Math Club Alumna Nikki Sanderson gave a talk about using homology to detect regime shifts.

9/19/2022: A set of math problems were given to be solved as a little competition.

9/12/2022: Dr. Mark Levi gave a presentation on how to use physical interpretations to solve math problems. Some of these problems included why V – E + F = 2 using electricity and Kirchhoff’s law and how to open a cork bottle with a book.

8/29/2022: Math Club officers introduced themselves after which members paired up and competed in Math 24.