Author: Kelly Cosgrove

Archived 2013 Announcements

Brian Hartmann

July 25, 2013

Professor Brian Hartmann of the University of Connecticut will speak.

Graduate School Panel

July 19, 2013

There will be a panel discussion on the process of applying to grad school, life as a graduate student and beyond.

Johanna Franklin

July 12, 2013

Professor Johanna Franklin of the University of Connecticut will speak.

Aaron Bailey – π, e and Other Irrational Numbers

July 9, 2013

Professor Aaron Bailey will give a talk based on the epinonimous 1986 paper of Alan Parks.

Chen-Yun Lin – Calculus of Variations

June 27 & 28, 2013

Professor Chen-Yun Lin will give a two part discussion of variational methods in optimization problems.

Daniel Kelleher – Infinite Dimensional Linear Algebra

June 21 & 25, 2013

Daniel Kelleher of the University of Connecticut will give a two part discussion of the complications that arise in concepts of linear algebra in infinite dimensional vector spaces.

Reed Solomon – The Continuum Hypothesis

June 18, 2013

Professor Reed Solomon of the University of Connecticut will give a talk.

Rebecca Tramel – Projective Space and Bezout’s Theorem

June 14, 2013

Rebecca Tramel of the University of Edinburgh will give a presentation about curves in the projective plane, and Bezout’s theorem concerning their intersection.

Keith Conrad – The ABC Conjecture

June 11, 2013

Professor Keith Conrad of the University of Connecticut will give a presentation on the current state of the ABC conjecture.

Introduction to Mathematica

June 7, 2013

Alex Baldenko will be conducting an introduction to the computer algebra system Mathematica.

Introduction to Latex

June 5, 2013

Gabe Feinberg will be conducting an introduction to the typesetting program LaTeX

Archived 2012 Announcements

Find a graduate program

The American Mathematical Society has a new website “Find a graduate program” which is a good central source for basic statistics on graduate programs in mathematics and related fields. This is a useful source when applying to graduate schools.

2012 Project page

The List of projects from the summer 2012 is live.

Summer Research Symposium at Mount Holyoke

August 2, 2012

At 2:30pm Jed Chou and Ben Whitney of our REU will present their research at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA.

UConn Summer Research Symposium

August 2, 2012

At 1pm REU students will participate in a poster session at UConn with the Chemistry REU where they will share their results from the summer.

Congratulations to Jed Chou for winning third prize for his presentation at the Young Mathematicians Conference!!!

Young Mathematicians Conference at Ohio State

July 27 – July 29, 2012

Three of the four groups will travel to Ohio State to give talks or present posters at this year’s Young Mathematicians Conference!

Sigma: “Arrow’s Theorem” by Lucas David-Roesler

July 20, 2012

Lucas David-Roesler will talk about Arrow’s Theorem.

Sigma: “Brownian Motion and Levy Processes” by John Haga

July 13, 2012

John Haga will talk about Brownian motion and Levy processes.

Sigma: “The Modular Group and the Upper Half Plane” by Harris Daniels

July 6, 2012

Harris Daniels will talk about the Modular Group and the Upper Half Plane.

Sigma: “Marvels in Mathematica” by Alex Baldenko

June 29, 2012

Alex will talk about the Mathematica.

Education Group Survey

July 6, 2012

At 12:15pm the Math Education group will be administering a survey as part of their project before the regularly scheduled SIGMA seminar.

4th of July Picnic!

July 3, 2012

At around 3:30pm we will meet in MSB118 and then drive to Mansfield Hollow for a holiday barbecue!

Sigma: “Fractal Dimension of the Universe” by Alexander Teplyaev

June 22, 2012

Alexander Teplyaev, of the University of Connecticut, will talk about the Fractal dimension of the Universe.

Sigma: “Grassmannians and Projective Space” by Rebecca Tramel

June 14, 2012

Rebecca will talk about Grassmannians and Projective space.

Sigma: “The Projective Plane” by Keith Conrad

June 8, 2012

Keith Conrad, of the University of Connecticut, will talk about the Projective Plane.

Sigma: Spectral Graph Theory

June 1, 2012

Dan Kelleher will be giving a seminar on Spectral Graph Theory.

Introduction to LaTeX

The typesetting language LaTeX. On Thursday, Gabe will be giving a short talk about the basics on Thursday at 10. The files to load LaTeX can be found here.

Introduction to Mathematica

Most of the projects this summer will make use of the CAS Mathematica. Wednesday morning at 10, Alex will be holding an introduction to mathamtica. Here is the notebook from the presentation.

Welcome to Storrs!!!

The program has begun!