Week of October 8, 2007
The Putnam Exam
Every year, thousands of students in the U.S. and Canada take an exam in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition. This year's exam will take place on Saturday, December 1 in 408 Carver Hall. Interested students may pick up an application from Elgin Johnston (396C Carver) by noon on Tuesday, Oct. 9. Practice sessions will be held on Thursdays, 4:00 to 5:30, beginning October 18.
External Review
A five-member team will be visiting the department on Thursday, October 11 and Friday, October 12. Please watch for emails regarding the external review.
Miller Distinguished Lecture
October 11, 3:30 p.m., Howe Hall Details
Deadlines
- October 12 at 11:00 a.m. Midterm grades due to WebCT or AccessPlus
- October 22 submissions for Congressional Funding Requests due in the Mathematics Department office by 5:00 p.m.
In the classroom
Students enrolled in Christian Roettger's Math 297 class, Intermediate Topics for School Mathematics, study topics in geometry including coordinates, congruence, similarity, and transformations. Data analysis, mathematical reasoning, probability, and use of technology to learn and teach mathematics. Above, Roettger answers questions for a group preparing a presentation; below, a group makes a presentation to classmates.
Colloquium this week
Tuesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 150
Chris Godsil, University of Waterloo, on "Association schemes and type-II matrices "
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Richard Kramer on "Consequences of the product rule for derivations"
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Zhongming Wang on "Superposition of multi-varied solutions in high frequency wave dynamics "
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 074
Colloquium replaces seminar.
Probability
Wednesday 12:10 p.m. Carver 232
Sunder Sethuraman on "On fractional Brownian motion limits in a simple exclusion random walk particle system"
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 232
Tim Huber on "Introduction to q-series: Basic tools and techniques "
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Melanie Erickson on "Forms and paperwork "
