Community of Practice: Let's Talk About OER (Open Educational Resources*) We will chat about the state of OER (Open Educational Resources*) within the Community and within the department. We'll discuss its pros and cons as well as opportunities and barriers. …
Some Things We Do and Don't Know About Knots Dr. Jason DeBlois Associate Professor University of Pittsburgh In this talk, “knot” will mean a circle embedded in three-dimensional space. These have been formally studied since the late 19th century. More …
Stirling Permutations to Increasing Plane Trees and Back Ariel Minakawa and Gavin Sayrs Undergraduate Students University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee A Stirling permutation is a permutation on the multiset {1,1, 2, 2, 3, 3, ... ,n, n} such that any numbers appearing …
How you think on a function defined on 0,1,…,N-1? Prof. Shamgar Gurevich Professor of Mathematics University of Wisconsin-Madison Between thousand to million times per day, your cellphone calculates the Fourier Transform (FT) of certain functions defined on 0,1,…,N-1, with N …
Generalized Linear Model Approach to the Prediction of the Outcome of Mixed Martial Arts Fights Jackson Thurmond Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Mixed martial arts is a complex combat sport that encompasses striking, grappling and submissions. In a sport where …
Quads, Finite Geometry, and Sidon Sets Dr. Lauren Rose Associate Professor of Mathematics Bard College Quads is a SET-like card game, produced by the AWM under the name “EvenQuads”. The cards can be represented as points in $\mathbb{Z}_2^6$​, where a …
Math Community of Practice: Let's Talk About Math Anxiety According to a March 2024 US News survey, most college students report struggling with mental health issues. Given that mathematicians are typically not mental health professionals, knowing how to address this …
Polynomial-time Computability of the Julia Set for Polynomial Skew Products of Two Complex Variables Dr. Suzanne Boyd Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Ingrained in the modern study of dynamical systems is the use of computer experiments for revelation and illustration. …
Homomesy: Theory, Applications, and Explorations Gregor Grote Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Homomesy is a phenomenon that occurs in combinatorial structures when the average value of a statistic over each orbit is the same. This talk explores the theory of …