| Date |
Event |
| Sept 12 |
First meeting of the semester! Minutes |
| Sept 19 |
Dr. George Andrews will speak about the state of mathematics education. Minutes |
| Sept 26 |
Dr. James Sellers will speak about partitions and compositions. Minutes |
| Oct 3 |
Dr. Gary Mullen will speak on candidates for the Next Fermat Problem. |
| Oct 10 |
Our club president Mike Springer will be giving a presentation on the mathematics of sudoku puzzles. |
| Oct 17 |
Dr. Sergei Tabachnikov will speak about the MASS program. Minutes |
| Oct 24 |
Dr. John Roe will be speaking about Even and Odd. Minutes |
| Oct 31 |
Halloween! - NO MONDAY MEETING.
We will be having a bowling outing Wednesday of this week (Nov 2). Details: Northland Bowling, 10-12pm, $10/person for all you can eat pizza and unlimited bowling. Email Lauren at lam439@psu.edu for more info. |
| Nov 7 |
Dr. Krishnaswami Alladi is a visiting professor from the University of Florida. In his talk, he will describe the remarkable life story of Ramanujan and show some slides of Ramanujan's home, the temple where he worshipped, the school he attended, and the new Ramanujan Center. Minutes |
| Nov 14 |
Our club advisor Dr. Ae Ja Yee will be speaking. We will begin with a set of problems that will shown to be equivalent. The solution to each problem is the same sequence of numbers called the Catalan numbers. In this talk, we will derive recurrence relations and explicit formulas for the numbers. Minutes |
| Nov 21 |
Dr. John Fricks, from the Statistics Department, will be giving a talk titled "Tracer Beads in Human Lung Mucus". Minutes |
| Nov 28 |
Dr. Arnold Shapiro will be speaking. Minutes |
| Dec 5 |
Last meeting of the semester = Math club party, possibly including an awesome math-y movie! |