The Math Club is holding a fundraiser on Pi Day, 3/14, 4-6pm at OBC in Orono to raise funds for the club. We will be selling baked goods, including pies. Stop by for pie, pi-related activities, or just to hang out and kick off your spring break! You are welcome and encouraged to donate baked […]
Mathematics Colloquium Kamil A. Khan, McMaster University Recent advances in constructing convex relaxations for global optimization Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Refreshments at 3pm, talk 3:15 – 4:05 pm.
Title: High Dimensional Spheres Location: 204 Neville Hall In the spirit of pi day week, I will describe some counterintuitive features of spheres in higher dimensions. For example, if denotes the volume of the unit sphere in , i.e., the sphere of radius 1, then: These seem to be growing with n, but this is […]
