Mathematics & Statistics

Thursday, December 1, 2011 Arielle Saiber, Associate Professor of Italian, Bowdoin College. “Niccolo’ Tartaglia’s Poetic Solution to the Cubic Equation” 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 421 Neville Hall. Click here for the abstract.

University of Maine mathematics master’s student Trevor Vadas will be speaking in Thursday’s seminar: “Irrational Rotations and Invariant Sets.”  The abstract for his talk is here. Thursday, November 17, 3:30 pm, in 108 Neville Hall. 

Mathematics Documentary! Tuesday, November 15, 12:30 – 1:30 P.M. 421 Neville Hall Cookies and drinks at 12:30, Video at 12:45 Dangerous Knowledge  (Part 2)  [Part 1 was shown the previous week.] In this BBC documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius […]

Pizza Pi! Tuesday, November 8, 12:30 – 1:30 P.M. 421 Neville Hall Pizza at 12:30, Video at 12:45 Dangerous Knowledge  (Part 1)  [Part 2 will be shown the following week when dessert will be served.] In this BBC documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan […]

University of Maine mathematics master’s student Emily Igo will be speaking in this week’s seminar: “An introduction to partition theory,” Thursday, November 3, 3:30 pm, in 108 Neville Hall. The abstract for her talk is here.

Thursday, October 27, 2011 Prof. Ali Abedi, UMaine Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “Smart Battery-Free Wireless Sensing” 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 100 Neville Hall. Battery-free wireless sensors developed at the University of Maine under a cooperative agreement with NASA enable a myriad of applications ranging from structural health monitoring to biomedical and space […]

The annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is a contest for undergraduate mathematics students. Students compete as individuals and as a team representing their university.  This year it will be held on Saturday, Dec. 3.   Interested students should contact Prof. Ali Ozluk on First Class.

Martin Gardner was a writer specializing in recreational mathematics.  His monthly column in Scientific American from 1956-1981 had a profound impact, attracting many young people into mathematics.  In celebration of what would have been Martin Gardner’s 97th birthday, there will be Celebration of Mind gatherings all over the world on Friday, October 21st. These events are […]

Thursday, October 20, 2011 Dr. Jonathan Farley, UMaine Dept. of Computer Science. “The Most Embarrassing Inequality of My Life” Matchings in the Permutation Lattice 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 421 Neville Hall. “Can you do it?” In the spring of 1997, Anders Björner, a visitor at Berkeley’s Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, sent me a handwritten […]