Day 3, Mat194: Mathematical Sciences Seminar

We begin with a visitor and math department colleague, Gina Foletta, who will spend a few minutes informing you about a few programs (and opportunities for you!): PRIME/Noyce opportunities. PRIME web site: http://prime.nku.edu/

• Let me collect your homework:
  • One-page summary of Math Trek topic of your choice. Describe how you might turn this into a poster presentation.
  • 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.
  • I'll also collect any evaluations of talks that have taken place this past week.
• New Homework:

  Wed

  1/27

  The end of infinity

  For next time: Visit the library, and look over some recent copies of the College Math Journal Find one article, cite it appropriately, and type up a one-page summary, describing what is interesting to you about the topic. [Could it become the inspiration for a poster?] Figure out which of the topics we vote on today should be called the top five. Use a rational scheme, which you could explain.

• Upcoming talks and events:
  • 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....
  • Consider attending this Friday's seminar: Test of Multivariate Normality (Dhanuja Kasturiratna)
  • Fred Roberts who graduated from NKU in computer science back in 1984 is the College of Informatics Outstanding Alumni Award Winner for 2010 and will give a presentation next week on Thursday, February 4, from 6:15 to 7:30 in SU 107. The title of his presentation is "How to Find a Job--How to Keep One. Flyer with more details.
  • The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is now taking applications for an 8-week long summer research program for undergraduates (REU) and veterinary students (REV) interested in work at the interface between biology and mathematics. The program will take place June 7- July 30, 2010. Undergraduate majors in biology, math, and related fields will live and work in teams with UTK faculty. Disease modeling, population dynamics, biodiversity and climate change are among this years research topics. Some teams will include veterinary students or high school teachers. Stipend and housing is provided along with some funding for travel support.

    To apply to the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), go to http://nimbios.org/education/reu

    To apply to the Research Experience for Veterinary Students (REV), go to http://nimbios.org/education/rev

    To read about the experiences of past participants, go to http://www.nimbios.org/press/Reu_Profiles

    For more information about NIMBioS, go to http://www.nimbios.org or contact Sarah Duncan, NIMBioS Education and Outreach Coordinator, at sduncan7@utk.edu. or Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS Associate Director of Education, Outreach and Diversity, NIMBioS, lenhart@math.utk.edu

    Application Deadline: February 19, 2010

1. number systems
2. Fibonacci numbers and golden rectangles
3. proofs
4. chaos
5. e
6. fractals
7. genetics
8. codes
9. i
10. money math

• Rank them ALL
• Which is the winner?
• How do we select the top 5?
• Here's the vote data.

• What's the message?
• What are the tools?
• Some fun games based on one-to-one correspondence: the Hotel Infinity
• So -- all infinities are the same size?
• The diagonalization proof of Cantor