Stuart Lathrop has been awarded a CLAS Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowship for this year. Mr. Lathrop, who is a senior math major, won the $1400 fellowship for his proposal entitled Contributions to the Foundations of the Theory of Transcendental Numbers. He is writing an extensive survey on the theorem of Gelfand and Schneider asserting […]
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The annual Québec/Maine Number Theory Conference took place on the weekend of September 29-30. The conference was co-organized by number theorists at the Unversity of Maine and at Laval University in Québec City. This year, the conference was dedicated to the memory of UMaine mathematician Ali Ozluk, who passed away last year. Prof. Peter Sarnak, […]
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Pi Mu Epsilon / Pizza Pi talk Thursday, April 5, 2012, 11:30am-12:30pm. Neville 421 Pizza at 11:30 am, Talk 11:50-12:30. Dr. Eisso Atzema, University of Maine Math Department Lessons on Train Schedules: From String Charts to Teaching Tools. The early 20th-century was a time of major reforms in the teaching of mathematics all across the […]
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Ali Erhan Özlük, Professor of Mathematics, 1952-2012 Our dear colleague, Professor Ali Özlük, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Bangor on March 1, 2012. Prof. Özlük was born Sept. 13, 1952, in Denizli, Turkey. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree from Bogazici University in Bebek/Istanbul in 1974, he attended graduate school at the […]
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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Undergraduates Emma Strubell and Avner Maiberg each received an Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowship from the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for work they are doing with Associate Professor of Mathematics David Hiebeler. They will be developing computer simulations of the spread of internet worms, with the goal of developing strategies […]
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