Abstract: Suppose that you have n kids sitting around a round table, each with a bowl of cereal in front of him/her. As soon as the teacher turns away, each kid steals half of the cereal of his neighbor to the right and half of the cereal of his neighbor to the left, putting it…Continue Reading Advanced Talk: Using Symmetries to Solve Problems: An Introduction to Representation Theory
Small Group Discussions
We will be grouping up into small groups of 3-4 people, each group led by an e-board member. Groups will work on problems or riddles as a fun exercise to think about math and interact with and meet the other members of the club. After breaking into groups, each group will: 1. Introduce yourselves each…Continue Reading Small Group Discussions
Grad Student Talk: An Infinite Family of Triangles
Abstract: This will be a gentle discussion about my favorite theorem, Poncelet’s Porism. My goal is to provide intuition about the content of this theorem by focusing on a special case involving triangles. I’ll introduce spherical and hyperbolic geometry and discuss an application of the Porism in spaces of constant curvature. I will also explain…Continue Reading Grad Student Talk: An Infinite Family of Triangles
Activity: Reading What Was Written
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T-Shirt Competition
Instructions: 1. Create a T-shirt design for Math Club using CustomInk’s Design Lab. 2. Make sure to use Math Club’s logo somewhere in your deign. 3. Save your design, copy the sharable link, and submit the form below. 4. Competition closes on October 31. 2020. 5. There will be one winner. Voting happens the first…Continue Reading T-Shirt Competition
Activity: Quiz Bowl
Join us as we run a math-themed quiz bowl-ish event! The rules of the competition will be laid out by our secretary Marc at the start, followed by a trial round. We will then proceed to three rounds of questions, each round more difficult than the last, each correct response giving 15, 30, and…Continue Reading Activity: Quiz Bowl
Activity: Where Children’s Drawings Lie
Join our Vice President Julian Michele as he walks us through some math related to his thesis. The activity will be accessible to everyone, and everyone is welcome to join!…Continue Reading Activity: Where Children’s Drawings Lie
Faculty Talk: The Rationality of Irrationals
Abstract: When I was in my freshman year at Stony Brook, a friend of mine was perplexed by an interesting question. Suppose we enumerate the rationals on the interval [0,1] in the “standard” way in which the denominators increase: 0, 1, 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 3/4, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, 1/6, 5/6, 1/7, … Suppose…Continue Reading Faculty Talk: The Rationality of Irrationals