MATH 196 Undergraduate Student Colloquium

T 12:00pm-12:50pm, AP&M B402A

This is a series of talks by mathematicians and scientists who use mathematics in their research, designed to provide undergraduate math majors an entertaining, understandable, and informative introduction to what mathematics is like outside textbooks.

Attendance will be taken at each talk. Registered students may only miss one talk to receive credit.

Date	Presenter	Title
Oct. 3	Melvin Leok	Computational Geometric Mechanics: A Synthesis of Differential Geometry, Mechanics, and Numerical Analysis
Oct. 10	Stefan Llewellyn Smith	Generalizing Point Vortices
Oct. 17	John Eggers	The Compensating Polar Planimeter
Oct. 24	Jorge Cortes	Optimal Deployment of Robotic Swarms
Oct. 31	Jeff Rabin	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics: Differential Geometry and General Relativity
Nov. 7	Dan Wulbert	The Calculus Behind Ascending the Loop-of-Doom by Bicycle
Nov. 14	Alina Bucur	Size doesn't matter: heights in number theory
Nov. 21	Tarek Elgindi	The Calculus of Variations
Nov. 28	Rayan Saab	Blind Source Separation
Dec. 5	Ruth Williams	Queueing up for enzymatic processing