Past Seminars

Spring 2024 - Tuesdays at 12:30-1:30 pm in Vincent Hall 570

January 30 Social Hour and Introductions (with Board Games!!)

February 6 Math Talk: Lilly Webster  

February 13 LaTeX Workshop Day

February 20 Social Hour with Games

February 27 Speaker from Gallagher: Jon Delaney

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March 5 No meeting - Happy Spring Break!

March 12 The Map of Mathematics: Panel showcasing different areas of mathematics.

Panelist: 

March 19 Math Jeopardy 

March 26 Math Talk: Meagan Kenney (Elliptic Curves)

April 2 Workshop and Discussion: How to find Research?

April 9 SIAM - Integration Bee

April 16 Math Talk: Aaron Li

April 23 DRP Presentations

Fall 2023 - Tuesdays at 12:30-1:30 pm in Vincent Hall 570

Sept. 19 Social Hour and Introductions

Sept. 26 Math Talk - Robi Huq

Oct. 3 Board Games!!! 

Oct. 10 Math Talk - Lilly Webster

Oct. 17 Industry/Internship Panel

Oct. 24 Social Hour

Oct. 31 No meeting - Join Trig or Treat hosted by AMS!

Nov. 7 Graduate School Application Panel

Nov. 14 Game/Social Hour

Nov. 21 No meeting (Thanksgiving Break!)

Nov. 28 Math Talk - Kaelyn

Dec. 5 DRP Presentations

Dec. 12 Summer Opportunities / REU Panel

Fall 2020 - Thursdays at 12:20 pm on Zoom

December 10: TBA

December 3: TBA

November 19: REU Panel

November 12: TBA, Cole Jeznach

November 5: Social hour

October 29: TBA, Patty Commins

October 22: Spectral properties of the exponential distance matrix of graphs, Aaron Li

October 15: Career and Internship Info Session with Whitney Moore 

October 8: Introduction to Optimization on Smooth Manifolds, Casey Garner

October 1: Social event - Code Names

September 24: Graduate School Workshop

September 17: First Meeting of the semester, get to know you!


Fall 2019 - Thursdays at 12:20 pm in VinH 570

Thursday, November 14: Panel: Research Experiences for Undergraduates

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, November 7: Class Selection Workshop

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, October 31: De-Stress with Coco, Part 1

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, October 24: What is the biggest (finite) number?, Andy Hardt

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, October 17: LaTeX Workshop, Ashleigh Adams

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, September 26: Dynamics of Natural Patterns, Montie Avery

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570


Fall 2018 - Thursdays at 12:20 pm in VinH 570

Thursday, September 6: Welcome bAcK!

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570 

Thursday, September 13: Math Club Estimathon, Bruno Poggi

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570 

Thursday, September 20: Signal Analysis, Jimmy Broomfield

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570  

Thursday, September 27: Elliptic Curves and Where to Find Them ,Mahrud Sayrafi 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570 

Thursday, October 4: Combinatorial Complexity, Shelly Kandola

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VinH 570

Thursday, October 11: Grad Panal

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, October 18: Title TBA,Esther Banaian

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, October 25: Logic Puzzles

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VinH 570

Thursday, November 1: Undergrad Class Recs.

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VinH 570

Thursday, November 8: A tale of two models for foraging locusts, Jasper Weinrich-Burd 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, November 15: Why Mathematics students are a Great Fit for Quantitative Finance and the UMN's Master of Financial Mathematics (MFM), Laurie A. Derechin

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, November 29: Math Balderdash

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VinH 570

Thursday, December 6: Lost in the Crowd: How Mathematicians Model Really Dense Crowds, Sam Stewart

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VinH 570

Thursday, December 13: University Study Day

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VinH 570


Spring 2018 - Thursdays at 12:20 pm in VinH 570

Thursday, January 18: REU (summer research experience)

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VinH 570 

Thursday, January 25: Welcome back? To week 2 I guess

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VinH 570 

Thursday, February 1: Math Balderdash

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VinH 570  

Thursday, February 8: How to fail to prove the Riemann Hypothesis, Kim Logan

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VinH 570 

Thursday, February 15: Pi Mu Epsilon, Ryan Matzke

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VinH 570

Thursday, February 22: Gerrymandering and the redistricting problem, Jasper Weinburd

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VinH 570

Thursday, March 1: Math movieee

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VinH 570

Thursday, March 8: Forum: What is mathematics? Some historical perspectives., Bruno Poggi

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VinH 570

Thursday, March 22: Logic Puzzles

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VinH 570

Thursday, March 29: Title TBA(Related to Set the Game), Claire Frechette

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VinH 570

Thursday, April 5: Class Recs.

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VinH 570

Thursday, April 12:  Symmetry Through the Ages (Did I hear talk of a duel?), Jimmy Broomfield 

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VinH 570

Thursday, April 19: How to win your Bachelor Fantasy League, Sunita + Harini

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VinH 570

Thursday, April 26: The Mathematics of Origami: From the Ancient Greeks to Outer Space, Madeline Handschy

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, May 3: Day before last day of classes

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VinH 570

Fall 2017 - Thursdays at 12:20 pm in VinH 570

Thursday, September 7: Welcome Back!

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VinH 570 

Thursday, September 14: What is a mathematical concept?, Craig Corsi

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VinH 570 

Thursday, September 21: Title TBA, Cora Brown

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VinH 570  

Thursday, September 28: Bingo + Bingo, Austin Tuttle

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VinH 570 

Thursday, October 5: On the Topology of Digital Images, Shelley Kandola

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, October 12: Grad Panel

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VinH 570

Thursday, October 19: Topic TBA, Greg Michel(grad student)

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VinH 570

Thursday, October 26: Logic Puzzles

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VinH 570

Thursday, November 2: Career Topic TBA, Whitney Moore

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VinH 570

Thursday, November 9: Undergrad Class Recs.

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VinH 570

Thursday, November 16: Board Games

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VinH 570

Thursday, November 30: q-binomials, Galen Dorpalen-Barry

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VinH 570

Thursday, December 7: Math Balderdash.

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VinH 570

Spring 2017 - Thursdays at 12:20 pm in VinH 570

Thursday, January 19: 1st Week Jam

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VinH 570 

Thursday, January 26: Counting to Cosine, Eric Stucky

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VinH 570  

Thursday, February 2: Group Testing and Error Correcting Codes, Alex Gutierrez

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VinH 570 

Thursday, February 9: Proofs Without Words, Bryan Felix

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, February 16: Probabilities and Paradoxes, The Team

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VinH 570

Thursday, February 23: Career Services, Amy Barton(CLA Career Counselor)

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VinH 570

Thursday, March 2: Logic Puzzles, Harini Chandramouli

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VinH 570

Thursday, March 9: Touring Tori, Greg Michel

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VinH 570

Thursday, March 23: Board Games, EVERYONE

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VinH 570

Thursday, March 30: p-adic Numbers and Applications, Harris Ismail

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VinH 570

Thursday, April 6: Talk TBA

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VinH 570

Thursday, April 13: Imitation Game (day 1)

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VinH 570

Thursday, April 20: Imitation Game (day 2)

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VinH 570

Thursday, April 27: Imitation Game (day 3)+follow-up

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Fall 2016 - Thursdays at 12:20 pm in VinH 570

Thursday, September 8: Welcome to the Club 

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VinH 570 

Thursday, September 15: Resume Workshop 

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VinH 570  

Thursday, September 22: Discovering Mathematics, Greg Michel (Grad Student UMN)

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570 

Thursday, September 29: Who is guilty?

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VinH 570

Thursday, October 6: Should you go to Grad School? (Panel) 

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VinH 570

Thursday, October 13: The Art Gallery Theorem, Vic Reiner (Prof. UMN)

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, October 20: The Hungarian Approach to Learning Mathematics (BSME), Ryota Matsuura (Prof. St. Olaf)

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, October 27: Math Balderdash 

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VinH 570

Thursday, November 3: Fearful Symmetry, Craig Corsi (Grad Student)

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH 570

Thursday, November 10: Summer Panel( REU, Summer schools)

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VinH 570

Thursday, November 17: Fun Math and Stuff, Austin Tuttle

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VinH 570

Thursday, December 1: Movie Night (Start Flatland)

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VinH 570

Thursday, December 8: Year in Review/Balderdash

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VinH 570

Spring 2016 - Thursdays at 12:20 pm in VinH 570

Thursday, January 28: Zeroing in on the Best Subsets: The Maximum Size of $(k,0)$-sum-free Sets, Ryan Matzke 

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VinH570 

Thursday, Febuary 4: SageMath and Combinatorics, Emily Gunawan 

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VinH570 

Thursday, Febuary 11: Massively Multiplayer Mathematics, Eric Stucky 

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VinH570 

Thursday, Febuary 18: Movie! 

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VinH570 

Thursday, Febuary 25: Capturing the effects of complex network topologies on the dynamics of neuronal networks , Prof. Duane Nykamp 

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VinH570 

Thursday, March 3: How to cut a cake, Derek Olson 

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VinH570 

Thursday, March 10: Pi -4/100 day Celebration , Dr. Pi(e) 

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VinH570 

Thursday, March 24: Logic Puzzles , The Riddler 

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VinH570 

Thursday, March 31: Dynamic Active Subspaces for a Long Term Model of HIV , Tyson Loudon 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH570 

Thursday, April 7: Undergrad Honors Program + TBA , Steven Sperber 

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VinH570 

Thursday, April 14: Distribution of points on a sphere, Dmytro Bilyk 

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VinH570 

Thursday, April 21: Potential flow and Why does an airplane fly? , Matthias Maier 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH570 

Fall 2015 - Thursdays at 12:20 pm in VinH 570

Thursday, September 17: Math Balderdash 

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VinH 570 

Thursday, September 24: The Mathematics of Juggling, 

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VinH 570 

Thursday, October 1: Should you apply for apply for graduate school in math, and, if so, how?, Richard McGehee 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH570 

Thursday, October 8: On the Optimal Control of the Multiphase Stefan Problem ,Bruno Poggi

Thursday, October 15: The Mathematics of Futurama,Michael Lacey (Ordway visitor) 

Georgia Tech

VinH570 

Thursday, October 22: The Tamari Lattice and Beyond, Al Garver (University of Minnesota) 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH570 

Thursday, October 29: Rational Points on Elliptic Curves, Heidi Goodson 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH570 

Thursday, November 5: TBA, Jasmine Foo 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH570 

Thursday, November 12: Mathematical Contest in Modeling, SIAM student chapter 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH570 

Thursday, December 3: TBA, Andrew Steyer 

University of Kansas

VinH570 

Thursday, November 10: REU stuff, Grad students 

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

VinH570