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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!