Day 2, Mat194: Mathematical Sciences Seminar

Today:

Announcements
- The Text: everyone got it?
- Homework for next time (due Wed, 1/27):
  - Visit Ivars Peterson's page of Math Treks (here are some more archived)
  - Type up a well-written one-page summary of a topic of your choice. Describe how you might turn this into a poster presentation.
  - Also: mock up a one-page "poster" packed with information from our text's infinity unit. Draw it as if it were an 8 1/2 x 11 photo of the poster.
Today:
- Questions that I should have answered last time?
- Talks and events:
  - Reminder: You will want to write well on this form. You may want to write a rough draft, and then submit the more polished version.
  - Consider attending this Friday's seminar: Demos in Mathematica (Professors Krug, Holden, & Wilkinson)
  - Math club is going to the basketball game on Thursday -- meet for dinner at 6:30 (by the student lounge, I believe)
  - There will also be opportunities at the Celebration of Student Research and Creativity:
    NKU's Celebration of Student Research and Creativity will be held April 5-8, 2010. The poster session will be in the SU Ballroom, Thursday, April 8.
    As in past years, students have an opportunity to show their excellent work in posters, interactive or oral presentations and performances of various kinds. The deadline for abstracts to appear in the program will be.
    The website http://celebration.nku.edu/ is now ready for registration, as well as providing further information.
    The deadline for students to submit abstracts to appear in the program is Friday, February 12.
  - By the way, if you want to attend an event that I've not noticed, that will be okay -- so long as there's some mathematical component! Good to check in advance, of course....
- A little snippet of reviews of Grayson's talk from last time
  - First of all, the reviews were very useful for him. Thank you!
  - A few notes on how you conducted the evaluations....
  - (Who wants to interview him, and report back?)
- Poll of topics in the text: let's "vote"!
- Infinity! (you were to read the section on Infinity (p. 28) for discussion today)
  - What's the message?
  - What are the tools?
  - Some fun games based on one-to-one correspondence: the Hotel Infinity

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