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The Undergraduate Seminar is a lecture series targeting undergraduate math majors and first year graduate students, though anyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. The goal of the seminar is to present topics outside the standard curriculum to introduce a research area, to solve an interesting problem, or just to reveal the beauty of math. The talks should not require a technical background much beyond calculus, some exposure to methods of proof, and the ability to sit through a 45-minute math talk.

All talks will be held in Hilbert Space at 12:00pm unless specified otherwise.

Spring Quarter, 2009

Date Speaker Title
March 31 None Organizational Meeting
April 7 Dylan Rupel Using Group Theory to Solve the Rubik's Cube
April 14 Tyler Kloefkorn Gershgorin Circle Theorem
April 21 Sammy Black Knots and the Jones Polynomial
April 28 Sammy Black The Jones Polynomial and the Tait Conjectures
May 5 Chad Giusti Knot Groups and the Alexander Polynomial
May 12 AJ Stewart Graph Theory: Euler to Erdos
May 19 Rob Fisette Pi/5 and the Regular Pentagon
May 26 Andy Conner The Art Gallery Theorems
June 2 Elizabeth Henning A categorical approach to limits, or, limits for people who hate analysis

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If you are interested in speaking in this seminar, please contact Jeremiah Bartz at jbartz@uoregon.edu.


Last updated: May 25, 2009