https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Mrjulian&feedformat=atomUW-Math Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T05:58:18ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.5https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=16252Madison Math Circle2018-10-22T03:33:47Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2018 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e9WdAs2SXNurWFD '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of your information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of professors and graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:Betsy.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Prof. Betsy Stovall]<br />
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File:juliettebruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~juliettebruce/ Juliette Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2018=<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| September 17, 2018 || Sun Woo Park || Why are Donuts and Cream Puffs "different"?<br />
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| September 24, 2018 || Ben Bruce || Three Cottages Problem<br />
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| October 1, 2018 || Kit Newton || How to calculate Pi if all you can do is throw things<br />
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| October 8, 2018 || Connor Simpson || TBD<br />
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| October 15, 2018 || Jean-Luc Thiffeault || TBD<br />
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| October 22, 2018 || Patrick Nicodemus || Formal Systems in Computer Science and Logic<br />
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| October 29, 2018 || Moisés Herradón Cueto || Order and chaos in population sizes (mostly chaos)<br />
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| November 5, 2018 || Christian Geske || Josephus Problem<br />
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| November 12, 2018 || TBD || TBD<br />
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| November 19, 2018 || TBD || TBD<br />
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=Off-Site Meetings=<br />
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We will hold some Math Circle meetings at local high schools on early release days. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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| October 29th || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || TBD || TBD <br />
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| December 3rd || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || TBD || TBD<br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Abstracts]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=14510Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-11-05T21:27:06Z<p>Mrjulian: /* November 6 2017 */</p>
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle Main Math Circle Page]<br />
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== September 18 2017 ==<br />
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Abstract: At the Madison Math Circle, we aim to give a flavor for the creative type of thinking that goes into mathematical research. In this week's interactive activity, students will explore questions related to Mobius strips, developing their own conjectures.<br />
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== September 25 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Betsy Stovall'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Math is a game!'''<br />
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When mathematicians are working to solve a theoretical problem, it often helps to imagine that we are playing a game: What could our opponent do to make our job as difficult as possible, and what is our strategy to defeat them no matter what move they make? In this session, we will try this out by playing several games and trying to come up with winning strategies. <br />
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== October 2 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Rachel Davis'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Thinking outside the box'''<br />
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Abstract: We will try some geometric puzzles related to area, volume, and dimension using techniques such as drawing diagrams, looking at special cases, using symmetry, and changing perspective.<br />
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== October 9 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Solly Parenti'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Hackenbush'''<br />
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Abstract: I come from an alien world where we spend all of our time playing a game called hackenbush. I'd like to introduce y'all to this game so you don't embarass yourself if you come visit my planet.<br />
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== October 16 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Mihaela Ifrim'''<br />
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Abstract: We wish to find an invariant (an invariant is a quantity that doesn't change no matter how the process plays out). By playing couple of games will help us find some! The main game we will play is Escape of the Clones! Promise you will like it!<br />
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== October 23 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ryan Julian'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Recursion for Fun and Profit'''<br />
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Abstract: Beginning with the classic Towers of Hanoi puzzle, we'll explore several puzzles whose solutions can often be found by thinking recursively. We'll also discover how recursion and related methods of simplifying problems can be used to create efficient algorithms to solve a variety of practical problems.<br />
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== October 30 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''John Wiltshire-Gordon'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Euler Characteristic'''<br />
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Abstract: The most important invariant associated to a collection of featureless points is their number, which can be found using a process called "counting". We explain a generalization of counting that works for other, more interesting shapes. For example, we will count a circle and a sphere. We recall typical counting arguments, and try to apply them to shapes.<br />
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== November 6 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Wanlin Li'''<br />
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Abstract: A common problem in a state test is given a sequence of numbers like 4, 9, 16, 25, 36... ask what the next number to expect. I used to dislike these problems up until a teacher taught me a cool trick. In this talk, I want to share this trick and discuss the math behind this.<br />
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== November 13 2017 ==<br />
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I'll discuss the motion of little mathematical bugs: they hop around the positive integers, flipping direction arrows as they go. How many such bugs drop off the line at -1, and how many escape to infinity? Next, we tackle a similar problem in the plane, and discover beautiful geometrical patterns, known as Propp Circles.<br />
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== November 20 2017 ==<br />
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== January 29 2018 ==<br />
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== February 5 2018 ==<br />
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== February 12 2018 ==<br />
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== February 19 2018 ==<br />
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== February 26 2018 ==<br />
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== March 5 2018 ==<br />
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== March 12 2018 ==<br />
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== March 19 2018 ==<br />
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== April 2 2018 ==<br />
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== April 9 2018 ==<br />
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= Off-Site Meetings =<br />
== October 2 2017 (East High School) ==<br />
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Abstract: In the distant planet of Zubenelgenubi 4, we live our life without numbers. I know, how do we pass our time if we can't construct a smartphone without numbers? The answer is that we have invented an extremely violent sport about chopping down trees called Hackenbush, and playing this game is an essential social skill in Zubenelgenubi 4. I will teach you how to play the pen and paper version of Hackenbush, and hint at how learning this game leads to a kind of math that is highly illegal in 254,233 planetary systems.<br />
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== November 2 2017 (WID) - 1 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fractals, Fractions and Fibonnaci.'''<br />
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Abstract: Let’s go on a history tour! We’ll visit some math objects that intrigued generations of mathematicians and explore connections between them. We'll observe something that happens a lot in modern mathematics: discovering connections among seemingly unrelated things! Through this talk I hope to introduce you to how vital it is for mathematicians today to be able to effectively communicate with and teach each other even if they work in very different branches of mathematics.<br />
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== November 2 2017 (WID) - 2 ==<br />
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Abstract: Computers perform all sorts of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Even weirder, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
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== November 2 2017 (Whitewater) ==<br />
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Abstract: As a high schooler I occasionally got bored, would zone out, and doodle on my paper. Often repeatedly tracing around something on my paper creating doodles like this:<br />
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In this bored state my mind would often wandered, and I would wonder about important things like "Will I have a date for prom?" or "What is the cafeteria serving for lunch?", but germane to this talk were my wonderings about, "What’s happening to the shape of this doodle?" It turns out that these idle daydreams and doodles provide a good taste for how mathematicians "do" math. We will start by doodling and asking questions, and then we'll see where these lead us mathematically.<br />
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== November 3 2017 (KM Global) ==<br />
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Abstract: So much wonderful and useful mathematics was discovered centuries ago that it can seem as though we must know everything by now. To the contrary, thousands of research mathematicians around the world are working to develop new mathematical theories every day. I will talk about some exciting recent discoveries in math and some tantalizing unsolved problems. To make matters more concrete, students will develop a solution to the Erdős Discrepancy Problem, which was only completely solved in 2015, in a simple case.<br />
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== December 11 2017 (East High School) ==<br />
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Abstract: We take as axiomatic the usual laws of arithmetic, along with a new law: 7=0. Evidently, this new law challenges certain widespread intuitions about numbers. Will all of mathematics crumble?<br />
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</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=14509Madison Math Circle2017-11-05T21:26:08Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eD09FBmDhEbWcYZ '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of your information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of professors and graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:Betsy.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Prof. Betsy Stovall]<br />
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File:juliettebruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~juliettebruce/ Juliette Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| September 18, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_18_2017 Welcome to the Madison Math Circle!] <br />
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| September 25, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_25_2017 Math is a game! ] <br />
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| October 2, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~rdavis/ Rachel Davis] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017 Thinking outside the box] <br />
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| October 9, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~sparenti/ Solly Parenti] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_9_2017 Hackenbush] <br />
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| October 16, 2017 || Mihaela Ifrim || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_16_2017 Escape of the Clones! ] <br />
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| October 23, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_23_2017 Recursion for Fun and Profit]<br />
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| October 30, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_30_2017 Euler Characteristic ] <br />
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| November 6, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/site/uwwanlin/ Wanlin Li] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_6_2017 How to Outsmart a State Test? ] <br />
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| November 13, 2017 || Jean-Luc Thiffeault || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_13_2017 Goldbug Variations ]<br />
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| November 20, 2017 || Ethan Beihl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_20_2017 ] <br />
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|January 29, 2018 || Brandon Boggess || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_29_2018 ] <br />
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| February 5, 2018 || Ben Wright || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_5_2018 ] <br />
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| February 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_12_2018 ] <br />
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| February 19, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_19_2018 ] <br />
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| February 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_26_2018 ] <br />
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| March 5, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_5_2018 ] <br />
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| March 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_12_2018 ] <br />
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| March 19, 2018 || No Meeting - (Spring Break) || <br />
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| March 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_26_2018 ] <br />
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| April 2, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_2_2018 ] <br />
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| April 9, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_9_2018 ] <br />
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=Off-Site Meetings=<br />
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We will hold some Math Circle meetings at local high schools on early release days. Our schedule for 2017-2018 has not yet been determined. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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| October 2nd || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~moises/ Moisés Herradón] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017_.28East_High_School.29 How to make it as a Hackenbush player in the planet Zubenelgenubi 4] <br />
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| November 2nd || 9:30am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~rzachariah/ Alisha Zachariah] || <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_2_2017_.28WID.29_-_1 Fractals, Fractions and Fibonnaci.]<br />
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| November 2nd (Canceled) || 11:00am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://zachcharles.wordpress.com Zach Charles] || <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_2_2017_.28WID.29_-_2 1+1 = 10 or "How does my computer do anything?"]<br />
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| November 2nd || 6:00pm || Whitewater High School - Whitewater, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/juliettebruce Juliette Bruce] || <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_2_2017_.28Whitewater.29 Doodling Daydreams]<br />
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| November 3rd || 10:30am || KM Global - Wales, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] ||<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_3_2017_.28KM_Global.29 Recent discoveries in mathematics]<br />
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| November 27th || 2:45pm|| JMM High School - Madison, WI || TBD || Topic TBD <br />
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| December 11th || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] ||<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_11_2017_.28East_High_School.29 What if seven is zero?]<br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Abstracts]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=14465Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-10-27T05:28:58Z<p>Mrjulian: /* October 30 2017 */</p>
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle Main Math Circle Page]<br />
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== September 18 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
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Abstract: At the Madison Math Circle, we aim to give a flavor for the creative type of thinking that goes into mathematical research. In this week's interactive activity, students will explore questions related to Mobius strips, developing their own conjectures.<br />
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== September 25 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Betsy Stovall'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Math is a game!'''<br />
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When mathematicians are working to solve a theoretical problem, it often helps to imagine that we are playing a game: What could our opponent do to make our job as difficult as possible, and what is our strategy to defeat them no matter what move they make? In this session, we will try this out by playing several games and trying to come up with winning strategies. <br />
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== October 2 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Rachel Davis'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Thinking outside the box'''<br />
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Abstract: We will try some geometric puzzles related to area, volume, and dimension using techniques such as drawing diagrams, looking at special cases, using symmetry, and changing perspective.<br />
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== October 9 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Solly Parenti'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Hackenbush'''<br />
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Abstract: I come from an alien world where we spend all of our time playing a game called hackenbush. I'd like to introduce y'all to this game so you don't embarass yourself if you come visit my planet.<br />
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== October 16 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Mihaela Ifrim'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Escape of the Clones!'''<br />
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Abstract: We wish to find an invariant (an invariant is a quantity that doesn't change no matter how the process plays out). By playing couple of games will help us find some! The main game we will play is Escape of the Clones! Promise you will like it!<br />
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== October 23 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ryan Julian'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Recursion for Fun and Profit'''<br />
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Abstract: Beginning with the classic Towers of Hanoi puzzle, we'll explore several puzzles whose solutions can often be found by thinking recursively. We'll also discover how recursion and related methods of simplifying problems can be used to create efficient algorithms to solve a variety of practical problems.<br />
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== October 30 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''John Wiltshire-Gordon'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Euler Characteristic'''<br />
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Abstract: The most important invariant associated to a collection of featureless points is their number, which can be found using a process called "counting". We explain a generalization of counting that works for other, more interesting shapes. For example, we will count a circle and a sphere. We recall typical counting arguments, and try to apply them to shapes.<br />
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== November 6 2017 ==<br />
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== November 13 2017 ==<br />
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|-Jean-Luc Thiffeault<br />
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I'll discuss the motion of little mathematical bugs: they hop around the positive integers, flipping direction arrows as they go. How many such bugs drop off the line at -1, and how many escape to infinity? Next, we tackle a similar problem in the plane, and discover beautiful geometrical patterns, known as Propp Circles.<br />
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== November 20 2017 ==<br />
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== January 29 2018 ==<br />
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== February 5 2018 ==<br />
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== February 12 2018 ==<br />
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== February 19 2018 ==<br />
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== February 26 2018 ==<br />
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== March 5 2018 ==<br />
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== March 12 2018 ==<br />
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== March 19 2018 ==<br />
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== April 2 2018 ==<br />
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== April 9 2018 ==<br />
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= Off-Site Meetings =<br />
== October 2 2017 (East High School) ==<br />
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Abstract: In the distant planet of Zubenelgenubi 4, we live our life without numbers. I know, how do we pass our time if we can't construct a smartphone without numbers? The answer is that we have invented an extremely violent sport about chopping down trees called Hackenbush, and playing this game is an essential social skill in Zubenelgenubi 4. I will teach you how to play the pen and paper version of Hackenbush, and hint at how learning this game leads to a kind of math that is highly illegal in 254,233 planetary systems.<br />
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== November 2 2017 (WID) - 1 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker: Alisha Zacharia'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fractals, Fractions and Fibonnaci.'''<br />
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Abstract: Let’s go on a history tour! We’ll visit some math objects that intrigued generations of mathematicians and explore connections between them. We'll observe something that happens a lot in modern mathematics: discovering connections among seemingly unrelated things! Through this talk I hope to introduce you to how vital it is for mathematicians today to be able to effectively communicate with and teach each other even if they work in very different branches of mathematics.<br />
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== November 2 2017 (WID) - 2 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1+1 = 10 or "How does my computer do anything?"'''<br />
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Abstract: Computers perform all sorts of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Even weirder, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
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== November 2 2017 (Whitewater) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker: Juliette Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Doodling Daydreams'''<br />
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Abstract: As a high schooler I occasionally got bored, would zone out, and doodle on my paper. Often repeatedly tracing around something on my paper creating doodles like this:<br />
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In this bored state my mind would often wandered, and I would wonder about important things like "Will I have a date for prom?" or "What is the cafeteria serving for lunch?", but germane to this talk were my wonderings about, "What’s happening to the shape of this doodle?" It turns out that these idle daydreams and doodles provide a good taste for how mathematicians "do" math. We will start by doodling and asking questions, and then we'll see where these lead us mathematically.<br />
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== November 3 2017 (KM Global) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker: Betsy Stoval'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Recent discoveries in mathematics'''<br />
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Abstract: So much wonderful and useful mathematics was discovered centuries ago that it can seem as though we must know everything by now. To the contrary, thousands of research mathematicians around the world are working to develop new mathematical theories every day. I will talk about some exciting recent discoveries in math and some tantalizing unsolved problems. To make matters more concrete, students will develop a solution to the Erdős Discrepancy Problem, which was only completely solved in 2015, in a simple case.<br />
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== December 3 2017 (East High School) ==<br />
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</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=14464Madison Math Circle2017-10-27T05:28:04Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eD09FBmDhEbWcYZ '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of your information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of professors and graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:Betsy.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Prof. Betsy Stovall]<br />
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File:juliettebruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~juliettebruce/ Juliette Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| September 18, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_18_2017 Welcome to the Madison Math Circle!] <br />
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| September 25, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_25_2017 Math is a game! ] <br />
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| October 2, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~rdavis/ Rachel Davis] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017 Thinking outside the box] <br />
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| October 9, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~sparenti/ Solly Parenti] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_9_2017 Hackenbush] <br />
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| October 16, 2017 || Mihaela Ifrim || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_16_2017 Escape of the Clones! ] <br />
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| October 23, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_23_2017 Recursion for Fun and Profit]<br />
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| October 30, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_30_2017 Euler Characteristic ] <br />
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| November 6, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/site/uwwanlin/ Wanlin Li] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_6_2017 ] <br />
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| November 13, 2017 || Jean-Luc Thiffeault || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_13_2017 Goldbug Variations ]<br />
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| November 20, 2017 || Ethan Beihl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_20_2017 ] <br />
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! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2018<br />
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|January 29, 2018 || Brandon Boggess || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_29_2018 ] <br />
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| February 5, 2018 || Ben Wright || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_5_2018 ] <br />
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| February 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_12_2018 ] <br />
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| February 19, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_19_2018 ] <br />
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| February 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_26_2018 ] <br />
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| March 5, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_5_2018 ] <br />
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| March 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_12_2018 ] <br />
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| March 19, 2018 || No Meeting - (Spring Break) || <br />
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| March 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_26_2018 ] <br />
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| April 2, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_2_2018 ] <br />
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| April 9, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_9_2018 ] <br />
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=Off-Site Meetings=<br />
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We will hold some Math Circle meetings at local high schools on early release days. Our schedule for 2017-2018 has not yet been determined. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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| October 2nd || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~moises/ Moisés Herradón] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017_.28East_High_School.29 How to make it as a Hackenbush player in the planet Zubenelgenubi 4] <br />
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| November 2nd || 10:30am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~rzachariah/ Alisha Zachariah] || <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_2_2017_.28WID.29_-_1 Fractals, Fractions and Fibonnaci.]<br />
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| November 2nd (Canceled) || 11:00am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://zachcharles.wordpress.com Zach Charles] || <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_2_2017_.28WID.29_-_2 1+1 = 10 or "How does my computer do anything?"]<br />
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| November 2nd || 6:00pm || Whitewater High School - Whitewater, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/juliettebruce Juliette Bruce] || <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_2_2017_.28Whitewater.29 Doodling Daydreams]<br />
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| November 3rd || 10:30am || KM Global - Wales, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] ||<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_3_2017_.28KM_Global.29 Recent discoveries in mathematics]<br />
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| December 11th || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] || Topic TBD <br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2018<br />
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! Date !! Time !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic <br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Abstracts]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=14412Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-10-23T02:30:47Z<p>Mrjulian: /* October 23 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle Main Math Circle Page]<br />
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== September 18 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Welcome to the Madison Math Circle!'''<br />
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Abstract: At the Madison Math Circle, we aim to give a flavor for the creative type of thinking that goes into mathematical research. In this week's interactive activity, students will explore questions related to Mobius strips, developing their own conjectures.<br />
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== September 25 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Betsy Stovall'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Math is a game!'''<br />
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When mathematicians are working to solve a theoretical problem, it often helps to imagine that we are playing a game: What could our opponent do to make our job as difficult as possible, and what is our strategy to defeat them no matter what move they make? In this session, we will try this out by playing several games and trying to come up with winning strategies. <br />
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== October 2 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Rachel Davis'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Thinking outside the box'''<br />
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Abstract: We will try some geometric puzzles related to area, volume, and dimension using techniques such as drawing diagrams, looking at special cases, using symmetry, and changing perspective.<br />
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== October 9 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Solly Parenti'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Hackenbush'''<br />
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Abstract: I come from an alien world where we spend all of our time playing a game called hackenbush. I'd like to introduce y'all to this game so you don't embarass yourself if you come visit my planet.<br />
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== October 16 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Mihaela Ifrim'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Escape of the Clones!'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: We wish to find an invariant (an invariant is a quantity that doesn't change no matter how the process plays out). By playing couple of games will help us find some! The main game we will play is Escape of the Clones! Promise you will like it!<br />
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</center><br />
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== October 23 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ryan Julian'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Recursion for Fun and Profit'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: Beginning with the classic Towers of Hanoi puzzle, we'll explore several puzzles whose solutions can often be found by thinking recursively. We'll also discover how recursion and related methods of simplifying problems can be used to create efficient algorithms to solve a variety of practical problems.<br />
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== October 30 2017 ==<br />
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== November 6 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
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== November 13 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
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== November 20 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
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== January 29 2018 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
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== February 5 2018 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
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== February 12 2018 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
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== February 19 2018 ==<br />
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== February 26 2018 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
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== March 5 2018 ==<br />
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== March 12 2018 ==<br />
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== March 19 2018 ==<br />
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== April 2 2018 ==<br />
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== April 9 2018 ==<br />
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= Off-Site Meetings =<br />
== October 2 2017 (East High School) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to make it as a Hackenbush player in the planet Zubenelgenubi 4'''<br />
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Abstract: In the distant planet of Zubenelgenubi 4, we live our life without numbers. I know, how do we pass our time if we can't construct a smartphone without numbers? The answer is that we have invented an extremely violent sport about chopping down trees called Hackenbush, and playing this game is an essential social skill in Zubenelgenubi 4. I will teach you how to play the pen and paper version of Hackenbush, and hint at how learning this game leads to a kind of math that is highly illegal in 254,233 planetary systems.<br />
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</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=14411Madison Math Circle2017-10-23T02:22:38Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eD09FBmDhEbWcYZ '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of your information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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[[File: Helencwhitemap.png|400px]]</div><br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of professors and graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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<gallery widths=480px heights=240px mode="packed"><br />
File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:Betsy.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Prof. Betsy Stovall]<br />
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<gallery widths=500px heights=250px mode="packed"><br />
File:juliettebruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~juliettebruce/ Juliette Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| September 18, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_18_2017 Welcome to the Madison Math Circle!] <br />
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| September 25, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_25_2017 Math is a game! ] <br />
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| October 2, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~rdavis/ Rachel Davis] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017 Thinking outside the box] <br />
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| October 9, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~sparenti/ Solly Parenti] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_9_2017 Hackenbush] <br />
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| October 16, 2017 || Mihaela Ifrim || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_16_2017 Escape of the Clones! ] <br />
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| October 23, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_23_2017 Recursion for Fun and Profit]<br />
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| October 30, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_30_2017 ] <br />
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| November 6, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/site/uwwanlin/ Wanlin Li] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_6_2017 ] <br />
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| November 13, 2017 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_13_2017 ] <br />
|-<br />
| November 20, 2017 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_20_2017 ] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2018<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
|January 29, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_29_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
| February 5, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_5_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
| February 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_12_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
| February 19, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_19_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
| February 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_26_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
| March 5, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_5_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
| March 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_12_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
| March 19, 2018 || No Meeting - (Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_26_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
| April 2, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_2_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
| April 9, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_9_2018 ] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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</center><br />
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=Off-Site Meetings=<br />
<br />
We will hold some Math Circle meetings at local high schools on early release days. Our schedule for 2017-2018 has not yet been determined. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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<center><br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Time !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic <br />
|-<br />
| October 2nd || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~moises/ Moisés Herradón] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017_.28East_High_School.29 How to make it as a Hackenbush player in the planet Zubenelgenubi 4] <br />
|-<br />
| November 2nd || 10:30am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~rzachariah/ Alisha Zachariah] || Topic TBD <br />
|-<br />
| November 2nd || 11:00am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://zachcharles.wordpress.com Zach Charles] || Topic TBD <br />
|-<br />
| November 2nd || 6:00pm || Whitewater High School - Whitewater, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/juliettebruce Juliette Bruce] || Topic TBD <br />
|-<br />
| November 3rd || 10:30am || KM Global - Wales, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] || Topic TBD<br />
|-<br />
| December 11th || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] || Topic TBD <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2018<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Time !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic <br />
|-<br />
| Date TBD || Location TBD || Speaker TBD || Topic TBD ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
<br />
== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Abstracts]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=14371Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-10-16T02:51:47Z<p>Mrjulian: /* October 16 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle Main Math Circle Page]<br />
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<br />
== September 18 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Welcome to the Madison Math Circle!'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: At the Madison Math Circle, we aim to give a flavor for the creative type of thinking that goes into mathematical research. In this week's interactive activity, students will explore questions related to Mobius strips, developing their own conjectures.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== September 25 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Betsy Stovall'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Math is a game!'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
When mathematicians are working to solve a theoretical problem, it often helps to imagine that we are playing a game: What could our opponent do to make our job as difficult as possible, and what is our strategy to defeat them no matter what move they make? In this session, we will try this out by playing several games and trying to come up with winning strategies. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 2 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Rachel Davis'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Thinking outside the box'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: We will try some geometric puzzles related to area, volume, and dimension using techniques such as drawing diagrams, looking at special cases, using symmetry, and changing perspective.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 9 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Solly Parenti'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Hackenbush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: I come from an alien world where we spend all of our time playing a game called hackenbush. I'd like to introduce y'all to this game so you don't embarass yourself if you come visit my planet.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 16 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Mihaela Ifrim'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Escape of the Clones!'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: We wish to find an invariant (an invariant is a quantity that doesn't change no matter how the process plays out). By playing couple of games will help us find some! The main game we will play is Escape of the Clones! Promise you will like it!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 23 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 30 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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<br />
== November 20 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== January 29 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 5 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 12 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 19 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== February 26 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== March 5 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== March 12 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== March 19 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== April 2 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== April 9 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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<br />
= Off-Site Meetings =<br />
== October 2 2017 (East High School) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to make it as a Hackenbush player in the planet Zubenelgenubi 4'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: In the distant planet of Zubenelgenubi 4, we live our life without numbers. I know, how do we pass our time if we can't construct a smartphone without numbers? The answer is that we have invented an extremely violent sport about chopping down trees called Hackenbush, and playing this game is an essential social skill in Zubenelgenubi 4. I will teach you how to play the pen and paper version of Hackenbush, and hint at how learning this game leads to a kind of math that is highly illegal in 254,233 planetary systems.<br />
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|} <br />
</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=14368Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-10-14T23:46:51Z<p>Mrjulian: /* October 16 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle Main Math Circle Page]<br />
<br />
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<br />
== September 18 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Welcome to the Madison Math Circle!'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: At the Madison Math Circle, we aim to give a flavor for the creative type of thinking that goes into mathematical research. In this week's interactive activity, students will explore questions related to Mobius strips, developing their own conjectures.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 25 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Betsy Stovall'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Math is a game!'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
When mathematicians are working to solve a theoretical problem, it often helps to imagine that we are playing a game: What could our opponent do to make our job as difficult as possible, and what is our strategy to defeat them no matter what move they make? In this session, we will try this out by playing several games and trying to come up with winning strategies. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 2 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Rachel Davis'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Thinking outside the box'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: We will try some geometric puzzles related to area, volume, and dimension using techniques such as drawing diagrams, looking at special cases, using symmetry, and changing perspective.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 9 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Solly Parenti'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Hackenbush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract: I come from an alien world where we spend all of our time playing a game called hackenbush. I'd like to introduce y'all to this game so you don't embarass yourself if you come visit my planet.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 16 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Mihaela Ifrim'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Escape of the Clones!'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 23 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 30 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== November 20 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: TBD'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Abstract<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== January 29 2018 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Speaker'''<br />
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== February 5 2018 ==<br />
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== February 12 2018 ==<br />
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== February 19 2018 ==<br />
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== February 26 2018 ==<br />
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== March 5 2018 ==<br />
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== March 12 2018 ==<br />
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== March 19 2018 ==<br />
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== April 2 2018 ==<br />
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== April 9 2018 ==<br />
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= Off-Site Meetings =<br />
== October 2 2017 (East High School) ==<br />
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Abstract: In the distant planet of Zubenelgenubi 4, we live our life without numbers. I know, how do we pass our time if we can't construct a smartphone without numbers? The answer is that we have invented an extremely violent sport about chopping down trees called Hackenbush, and playing this game is an essential social skill in Zubenelgenubi 4. I will teach you how to play the pen and paper version of Hackenbush, and hint at how learning this game leads to a kind of math that is highly illegal in 254,233 planetary systems.<br />
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</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=14367Madison Math Circle2017-10-14T23:46:21Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eD09FBmDhEbWcYZ '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of your information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of professors and graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:Betsy.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Prof. Betsy Stovall]<br />
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File:juliettebruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~juliettebruce/ Juliette Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| September 18, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_18_2017 Welcome to the Madison Math Circle!] <br />
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| September 25, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_25_2017 Math is a game! ] <br />
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| October 2, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~rdavis/ Rachel Davis] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017 Thinking outside the box] <br />
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| October 9, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~sparenti/ Solly Parenti] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_9_2017 Hackenbush] <br />
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| October 16, 2017 || Mihaela Ifrim || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_16_2017 Escape of the Clones! ] <br />
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| October 23, 2017 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_23_2017 ]<br />
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| October 30, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_30_2017 ] <br />
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| November 6, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/site/uwwanlin/ Wanlin Li] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_6_2017 ] <br />
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| November 13, 2017 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_13_2017 ] <br />
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| November 20, 2017 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_20_2017 ] <br />
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! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2018<br />
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|January 29, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_29_2018 ] <br />
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| February 5, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_5_2018 ] <br />
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| February 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_12_2018 ] <br />
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| February 19, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_19_2018 ] <br />
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| February 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_26_2018 ] <br />
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| March 5, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_5_2018 ] <br />
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| March 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_12_2018 ] <br />
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| March 19, 2018 || No Meeting - (Spring Break) || <br />
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| March 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_26_2018 ] <br />
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| April 2, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_2_2018 ] <br />
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| April 9, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_9_2018 ] <br />
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=Off-Site Meetings=<br />
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We will hold some Math Circle meetings at local high schools on early release days. Our schedule for 2017-2018 has not yet been determined. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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! Date !! Time !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic <br />
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| October 2nd || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~moises/ Moisés Herradón] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017_.28East_High_School.29 How to make it as a Hackenbush player in the planet Zubenelgenubi 4] <br />
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| November 2nd || 10:30am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~rzachariah/ Alisha Zachariah] || Topic TBD <br />
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| November 2nd || 11:00am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://zachcharles.wordpress.com Zach Charles] || Topic TBD <br />
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| November 2nd || 6:00pm || Whitewater High School - Whitewater, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/juliettebruce Juliette Bruce] || Topic TBD <br />
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| November 3rd || 10:30am || KM Global - Wales, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] || Topic TBD<br />
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| December 11th || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] || Topic TBD <br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2018<br />
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! Date !! Time !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic <br />
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| Date TBD || Location TBD || Speaker TBD || Topic TBD ||<br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Abstracts]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=14291Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-10-04T01:39:26Z<p>Mrjulian: /* October 9 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle Main Math Circle Page]<br />
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== September 18 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
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Abstract: At the Madison Math Circle, we aim to give a flavor for the creative type of thinking that goes into mathematical research. In this week's interactive activity, students will explore questions related to Mobius strips, developing their own conjectures.<br />
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== September 25 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Betsy Stovall'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Math is a game!'''<br />
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When mathematicians are working to solve a theoretical problem, it often helps to imagine that we are playing a game: What could our opponent do to make our job as difficult as possible, and what is our strategy to defeat them no matter what move they make? In this session, we will try this out by playing several games and trying to come up with winning strategies. <br />
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== October 2 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Rachel Davis'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Thinking outside the box'''<br />
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Abstract: We will try some geometric puzzles related to area, volume, and dimension using techniques such as drawing diagrams, looking at special cases, using symmetry, and changing perspective.<br />
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== October 9 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Solly Parenti'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Hackenbush'''<br />
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Abstract: I come from an alien world where we spend all of our time playing a game called hackenbush. I'd like to introduce y'all to this game so you don't embarass yourself if you come visit my planet.<br />
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== October 16 2017 ==<br />
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== October 23 2017 ==<br />
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== October 30 2017 ==<br />
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== November 6 2017 ==<br />
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== November 13 2017 ==<br />
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== November 20 2017 ==<br />
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== January 29 2018 ==<br />
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== February 5 2018 ==<br />
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== February 12 2018 ==<br />
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== February 19 2018 ==<br />
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== February 26 2018 ==<br />
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== March 5 2018 ==<br />
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== March 12 2018 ==<br />
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== March 19 2018 ==<br />
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== April 2 2018 ==<br />
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== April 9 2018 ==<br />
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= Off-Site Meetings =<br />
== October 2 2017 (East High School) ==<br />
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Abstract: In the distant planet of Zubenelgenubi 4, we live our life without numbers. I know, how do we pass our time if we can't construct a smartphone without numbers? The answer is that we have invented an extremely violent sport about chopping down trees called Hackenbush, and playing this game is an essential social skill in Zubenelgenubi 4. I will teach you how to play the pen and paper version of Hackenbush, and hint at how learning this game leads to a kind of math that is highly illegal in 254,233 planetary systems.<br />
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</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=14274Madison Math Circle2017-09-30T16:36:10Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eD09FBmDhEbWcYZ '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of your information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of professors and graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:Betsy.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Prof. Betsy Stovall]<br />
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File:juliettebruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~juliettebruce/ Juliette Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| September 18, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_18_2017 Welcome to the Madison Math Circle!] <br />
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| September 25, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_25_2017 Math is a game! ] <br />
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| October 2, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~rdavis/ Rachel Davis] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017 Thinking outside the box] <br />
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| October 9, 2017 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~sparenti/ Solly Parenti] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_9_2017 ] <br />
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| October 16, 2017 || Mihaela Ifrim || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_16_2017 ] <br />
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| October 23, 2017 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_23_2017 ]<br />
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| October 30, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_30_2017 ] <br />
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| November 6, 2017 || [https://sites.google.com/site/uwwanlin/ Wanlin Li] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_6_2017 ] <br />
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| November 13, 2017 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_13_2017 ] <br />
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| November 20, 2017 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_20_2017 ] <br />
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! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2018<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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|January 29, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_29_2018 ] <br />
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| February 5, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_5_2018 ] <br />
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| February 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_12_2018 ] <br />
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| February 19, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_19_2018 ] <br />
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| February 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_26_2018 ] <br />
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| March 5, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_5_2018 ] <br />
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| March 12, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_12_2018 ] <br />
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| March 19, 2018 || No Meeting - (Spring Break) || <br />
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| March 26, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_26_2018 ] <br />
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| April 2, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_2_2018 ] <br />
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| April 9, 2018 || || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_9_2018 ] <br />
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=Off-Site Meetings=<br />
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We will hold some Math Circle meetings at local high schools on early release days. Our schedule for 2017-2018 has not yet been determined. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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! Date !! Time !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic <br />
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| October 2nd || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~moises/ Moisés Herradón] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_2_2017_.28East_High_School.29 How to make it as a Hackenbush player in the planet Zubenelgenubi 4] <br />
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| November 2nd || 10:30am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~rzachariah/ Alisha Zachariah] || Topic TBD <br />
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| November 2nd || 11:00am || Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Madison, WI || [http://zachcharles.wordpress.com Zach Charles] || Topic TBD <br />
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| November 2nd || 6:00pm || Whitewater High School - Whitewater, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/juliettebruce Juliette Bruce] || Topic TBD <br />
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| November 3rd || 10:30am || KM Global - Wales, WI || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Betsy Stovall] || Topic TBD<br />
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| December 11th || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || [https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/jwg John Wiltshire-Gordon] || Topic TBD <br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2018<br />
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! Date !! Time !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic <br />
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| Date TBD || Location TBD || Speaker TBD || Topic TBD ||<br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Abstracts]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13595Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-04-03T02:10:17Z<p>Mrjulian: /* March 27 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
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== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
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The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
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<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
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== September 12 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
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I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
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== September 19 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
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You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
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== September 26 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
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Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
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</center><br />
<br />
== October 3 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
|-<br />
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Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
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</center><br />
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== October 10 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
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If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
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</center><br />
<br />
== October 17 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
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Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
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</center><br />
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== October 31 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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Enjoy Halloween.<br />
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</center><br />
<br />
== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
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When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
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</center><br />
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== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
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We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
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</center><br />
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== November 21 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
|-<br />
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We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
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</center><br />
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== February 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
|-<br />
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I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
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</center><br />
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== February 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
|-<br />
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How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
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== February 20 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Reese Johnston'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Knights and Knaves'''<br />
|-<br />
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An ancient Greek philosopher Epimenides famously said "All Cretans are liars". Ignoring for a moment the fact that Epimenides himself was from Crete, what would happen if he was right? How could we get information from people who always lie? Or, worse, what if among these lying "knaves" are some truthful "knights"? How could we tell which is which? Using some tools from logic, we'll explore this and some other questions of the same sort.<br />
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== February 27 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jessica Lin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The Mathematics Behind Sound'''<br />
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We will explore the mathematics behind soundwaves. This will include dissecting the structure of soundwaves, understanding why they create certain tones, and discovering how sound cancelling headphones work. If time permits, we may even talk about whether you can "hear the shape of a drum."<br />
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== March 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Becky Eastham'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to Win a Brand New Car and Escape Execution with Probability'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We'll learn about some famous paradoxes in probability. Come and have your brain teased by the Monty Hall Problem (will you win a goat or a car?) and the 100 Prisoners Problem (can you and your fellow prisoners come up with a clever strategy to save your lives?). We'll solve these problems and more!<br />
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</center><br />
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== March 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jim Brunner'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: You and your clones predict the future'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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We are going to talk about how to predict the future based on the present! Often, we know only things about the probability of the very near future, like which city we are going to be in next week. Luckily, there is a way to use that information to figure not just where we’ll be in two or three weeks, but also what the probability is that we are in some city in a very long time from now. The tool we need is called a Markov Chain. I’ll talk about how a Markov Chain can help us figure out the probability of different events in the future, and how we can clone ourselves in order to figure out how a Markov Chain behaves.<br />
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== March 27 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''John Wiltshire-Gordon'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What if seven is zero?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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We take as axiomatic the usual laws of arithmetic, along with a new law: 7=0. Evidently, this new law challenges certain widespread intuitions about numbers. Will all of mathematics crumble?<br />
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== April 3 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Will Mitchell'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Math and Fluids'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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Urination, ship wakes, the movement of ice sheets and glaciers, swimming microorganisms, car engine design, erosion, the circulation of blood, flying insects, flying aircraft, and the origin of the magnetic field of our planet: these topics are all connected through the mathematical and scientific discipline called "fluid mechanics." Let's take a whirlwind (ha, ha) tour through some of these exciting applications and see how math can be used to make sense of the world around us (and within us)! <br />
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</center><br />
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= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
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Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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</center><br />
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== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
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</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
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Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
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== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
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</center><br />
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== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
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Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
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</center><br />
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== March 20 2017 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Doodling Daydreams'''<br />
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As a high schooler I occasionally got bored, would zone out, and would doodle on my paper. Often repeatedly tracing around something on my paper creating doodles like this:<br />
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File:doodle.jpg<br />
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In this bored state my mind would often wander, and I would wonder about important things like "Will I have a date for prom?" or "What is the cafeteria serving for lunch?", but germane to this talk were my wonderings about, "What’s happening to the shape of this doodle?" It turns out that these idle daydreams and doodles provide a good taste for how mathematicians "do" math. We will start by doodling and asking questions, and then we'll see where these lead us mathematically.<br />
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</center><br />
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== April 3 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
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When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
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</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13594Madison Math Circle2017-04-03T02:08:26Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<center><br />
<gallery widths=480px heights=240px mode="packed"><br />
File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
</gallery><br />
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<gallery widths=500px heights=250px mode="packed"><br />
File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
</gallery><br />
</center><br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
|-<br />
| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
|-<br />
| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
|-<br />
| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
|-<br />
| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
|-<br />
| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
|-<br />
| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
|-<br />
| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
|-<br />
| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 The Josephus Problem] <br />
|-<br />
| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 Building a 4-dimensional house] <br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 Solve it with colors] <br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 Knights and Knaves] <br />
|-<br />
| February 27, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 The Mathematics Behind Sound] <br />
|-<br />
| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 How to Win a Brand New Car and Escape Execution with Probability] <br />
|-<br />
| March 13, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 You and your clones predict the future] <br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 What if seven is zero?] <br />
|-<br />
| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 Math and Fluids] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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</center><br />
<br />
=High School Meetings=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~andrews/ Uri Andrews] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood Phillip Matchett Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque Eva Elduque] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017_.28East.29 Pick's Theorem] ||<br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mmaguire2 Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017_.28JMM.29 Coloring Maps] ||<br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_20_2017_.28East.29 Doodling Daydreams] ||<br />
|-<br />
| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017_.28JMM.29 Are we there yet?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
<br />
== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13540Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-03-23T06:21:04Z<p>Mrjulian: /* March 13 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
<br />
== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
<ul><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
</ul><br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 12 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 19 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 26 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 3 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 10 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 17 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
Enjoy Halloween.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 21 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br />
== February 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
|-<br />
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How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
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== February 20 2017 ==<br />
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An ancient Greek philosopher Epimenides famously said "All Cretans are liars". Ignoring for a moment the fact that Epimenides himself was from Crete, what would happen if he was right? How could we get information from people who always lie? Or, worse, what if among these lying "knaves" are some truthful "knights"? How could we tell which is which? Using some tools from logic, we'll explore this and some other questions of the same sort.<br />
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== February 27 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jessica Lin'''<br />
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We will explore the mathematics behind soundwaves. This will include dissecting the structure of soundwaves, understanding why they create certain tones, and discovering how sound cancelling headphones work. If time permits, we may even talk about whether you can "hear the shape of a drum."<br />
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== March 6 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Becky Eastham'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to Win a Brand New Car and Escape Execution with Probability'''<br />
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We'll learn about some famous paradoxes in probability. Come and have your brain teased by the Monty Hall Problem (will you win a goat or a car?) and the 100 Prisoners Problem (can you and your fellow prisoners come up with a clever strategy to save your lives?). We'll solve these problems and more!<br />
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== March 13 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jim Brunner'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: You and your clones predict the future'''<br />
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We are going to talk about how to predict the future based on the present! Often, we know only things about the probability of the very near future, like which city we are going to be in next week. Luckily, there is a way to use that information to figure not just where we’ll be in two or three weeks, but also what the probability is that we are in some city in a very long time from now. The tool we need is called a Markov Chain. I’ll talk about how a Markov Chain can help us figure out the probability of different events in the future, and how we can clone ourselves in order to figure out how a Markov Chain behaves.<br />
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== March 27 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''John Wiltshire-Gordon'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What if seven is zero?'''<br />
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We take as axiomatic the usual laws of arithmetic, along with a new law: 7=0. Evidently, this new law challenges certain widespread intuitions about numbers. Will all of mathematics crumble?<br />
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= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
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Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
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gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
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== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
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gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
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== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
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Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
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== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
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So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
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== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
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In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
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== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
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Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
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== March 20 2017 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Doodling Daydreams'''<br />
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As a high schooler I occasionally got bored, would zone out, and would doodle on my paper. Often repeatedly tracing around something on my paper creating doodles like this:<br />
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In this bored state my mind would often wander, and I would wonder about important things like "Will I have a date for prom?" or "What is the cafeteria serving for lunch?", but germane to this talk were my wonderings about, "What’s happening to the shape of this doodle?" It turns out that these idle daydreams and doodles provide a good taste for how mathematicians "do" math. We will start by doodling and asking questions, and then we'll see where these lead us mathematically.<br />
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== April 3 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
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When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
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</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13539Madison Math Circle2017-03-23T06:19:15Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
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File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
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| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
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| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
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| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
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| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
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| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
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| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
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| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
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| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
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| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
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| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
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| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
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|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 The Josephus Problem] <br />
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| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 Building a 4-dimensional house] <br />
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| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 Solve it with colors] <br />
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| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 Knights and Knaves] <br />
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| February 27, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 The Mathematics Behind Sound] <br />
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| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 How to Win a Brand New Car and Escape Execution with Probability] <br />
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| March 13, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 You and your clones predict the future] <br />
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| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
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| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 What if seven is zero?] <br />
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| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
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=High School Meetings=<br />
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We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016<br />
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! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
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| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
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| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
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| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
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| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~andrews/ Uri Andrews] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
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| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood Phillip Matchett Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
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! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
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| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque Eva Elduque] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017_.28East.29 Pick's Theorem] ||<br />
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| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mmaguire2 Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017_.28JMM.29 Coloring Maps] ||<br />
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| March 20, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_20_2017_.28East.29 Doodling Daydreams] ||<br />
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| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017_.28JMM.29 Are we there yet?] ||<br />
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| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13502Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-03-13T07:38:13Z<p>Mrjulian: /* March 13 2017 */</p>
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== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
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The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
<ul><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
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== September 12 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
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I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
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== September 19 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
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You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
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== September 26 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
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Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
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== October 3 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
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Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
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== October 10 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
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If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
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== October 17 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
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Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
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== October 24 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
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By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
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== October 31 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
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Enjoy Halloween.<br />
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== November 7 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
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When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
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== November 14 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
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We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
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== November 21 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
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We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
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== February 6 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
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I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
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== February 13 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
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How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
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== February 20 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Reese Johnston'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Knights and Knaves'''<br />
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An ancient Greek philosopher Epimenides famously said "All Cretans are liars". Ignoring for a moment the fact that Epimenides himself was from Crete, what would happen if he was right? How could we get information from people who always lie? Or, worse, what if among these lying "knaves" are some truthful "knights"? How could we tell which is which? Using some tools from logic, we'll explore this and some other questions of the same sort.<br />
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== February 27 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jessica Lin'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The Mathematics Behind Sound'''<br />
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We will explore the mathematics behind soundwaves. This will include dissecting the structure of soundwaves, understanding why they create certain tones, and discovering how sound cancelling headphones work. If time permits, we may even talk about whether you can "hear the shape of a drum."<br />
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== March 6 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Becky Eastham'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to Win a Brand New Car and Escape Execution with Probability'''<br />
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We'll learn about some famous paradoxes in probability. Come and have your brain teased by the Monty Hall Problem (will you win a goat or a car?) and the 100 Prisoners Problem (can you and your fellow prisoners come up with a clever strategy to save your lives?). We'll solve these problems and more!<br />
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== March 13 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jim Brunner'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: You and your clones predict the future'''<br />
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We are going to talk about how to predict the future based on the present! Often, we know only things about the probability of the very near future, like which city we are going to be in next week. Luckily, there is a way to use that information to figure not just where we’ll be in two or three weeks, but also what the probability is that we are in some city in a very long time from now. The tool we need is called a Markov Chain. I’ll talk about how a Markov Chain can help us figure out the probability of different events in the future, and how we can clone ourselves in order to figure out how a Markov Chain behaves.<br />
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= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
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Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
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== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
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== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
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Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
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== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
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So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
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== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
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In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
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== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
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Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
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== March 20 2017 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Doodling Daydreams'''<br />
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As a high schooler I occasionally got bored, would zone out, and would doodle on my paper. Often repeatedly tracing around something on my paper creating doodles like this:<br />
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File:doodle.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
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In this bored state my mind would often wander, and I would wonder about important things like "Will I have a date for prom?" or "What is the cafeteria serving for lunch?", but germane to this talk were my wonderings about, "What’s happening to the shape of this doodle?" It turns out that these idle daydreams and doodles provide a good taste for how mathematicians "do" math. We will start by doodling and asking questions, and then we'll see where these lead us mathematically.<br />
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== April 3 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
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When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|}<br />
</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13501Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-03-13T07:36:53Z<p>Mrjulian: /* March 6 2017 */</p>
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== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
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The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
<ul><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
</ul><br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== September 12 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
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== September 19 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
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== September 26 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== October 3 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
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Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
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</center><br />
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== October 10 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
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If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
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</center><br />
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== October 17 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
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== October 24 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
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By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
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== October 31 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
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Enjoy Halloween.<br />
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</center><br />
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== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
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We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
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== November 21 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
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We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
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== February 6 2017 ==<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
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I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
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== February 13 2017 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
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== February 20 2017 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Reese Johnston'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Knights and Knaves'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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An ancient Greek philosopher Epimenides famously said "All Cretans are liars". Ignoring for a moment the fact that Epimenides himself was from Crete, what would happen if he was right? How could we get information from people who always lie? Or, worse, what if among these lying "knaves" are some truthful "knights"? How could we tell which is which? Using some tools from logic, we'll explore this and some other questions of the same sort.<br />
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== February 27 2017 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jessica Lin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The Mathematics Behind Sound'''<br />
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We will explore the mathematics behind soundwaves. This will include dissecting the structure of soundwaves, understanding why they create certain tones, and discovering how sound cancelling headphones work. If time permits, we may even talk about whether you can "hear the shape of a drum."<br />
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== March 6 2017 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Becky Eastham'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to Win a Brand New Car and Escape Execution with Probability'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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We'll learn about some famous paradoxes in probability. Come and have your brain teased by the Monty Hall Problem (will you win a goat or a car?) and the 100 Prisoners Problem (can you and your fellow prisoners come up with a clever strategy to save your lives?). We'll solve these problems and more!<br />
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== March 13 2017 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jim Brunner'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: You and your clones predict the future'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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We are going to talk about how to predict the future based on the present! Often, we know only things about the probability of the very near future, like which city we are going to be in next week. Luckily, there is a way to use that information to figure not just where we’ll be in two or three weeks, but also what the probability is that we are in some city in a very long time from now. The tool we need is called a Markov Chain. I’ll talk about how a Markov Chain can help us figure out the probability of different events in the future, and how we can clone ourselves in order to figure out how a Markov Chain behaves.|}<br />
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= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
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Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
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</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
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</center><br />
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== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
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</center><br />
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== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
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In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
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== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
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== March 20 2017 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Doodling Daydreams'''<br />
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As a high schooler I occasionally got bored, would zone out, and would doodle on my paper. Often repeatedly tracing around something on my paper creating doodles like this:<br />
<gallery widths=300px heights=150px mode="packed"><br />
File:doodle.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
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In this bored state my mind would often wander, and I would wonder about important things like "Will I have a date for prom?" or "What is the cafeteria serving for lunch?", but germane to this talk were my wonderings about, "What’s happening to the shape of this doodle?" It turns out that these idle daydreams and doodles provide a good taste for how mathematicians "do" math. We will start by doodling and asking questions, and then we'll see where these lead us mathematically.<br />
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== April 3 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|}<br />
</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13500Madison Math Circle2017-03-13T07:35:03Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
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File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016 <br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
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| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
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| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
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| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
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| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
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| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
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| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
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| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
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| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
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| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
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| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
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| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
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|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 The Josephus Problem] <br />
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| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 Building a 4-dimensional house] <br />
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| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 Solve it with colors] <br />
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| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 Knights and Knaves] <br />
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| February 27, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 The Mathematics Behind Sound] <br />
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| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 How to Win a Brand New Car and Escape Execution with Probability] <br />
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| March 13, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 You and your clones predict the future] <br />
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| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
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| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
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| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
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=High School Meetings=<br />
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We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
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| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
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| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
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| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~andrews/ Uri Andrews] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
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| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood Phillip Matchett Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
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! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
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| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque Eva Elduque] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017_.28East.29 Pick's Theorem] ||<br />
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| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mmaguire2 Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017_.28JMM.29 Coloring Maps] ||<br />
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| March 20, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_20_2017_.28East.29 Doodling Daydreams] ||<br />
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| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017_.28JMM.29 Are we there yet?] ||<br />
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| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13468Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-03-06T00:52:48Z<p>Mrjulian: /* February 27 2017 */</p>
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== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
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The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
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<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
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== September 12 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
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I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
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== September 19 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
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You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
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== September 26 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
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Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
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== October 3 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
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Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
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== October 10 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
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If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
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== October 17 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
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Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
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== October 24 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
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By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
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== October 31 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
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Enjoy Halloween.<br />
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== November 7 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
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When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
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== November 14 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
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We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
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== November 21 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
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We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
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== February 6 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
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I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
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== February 13 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
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How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
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== February 20 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Reese Johnston'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Knights and Knaves'''<br />
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An ancient Greek philosopher Epimenides famously said "All Cretans are liars". Ignoring for a moment the fact that Epimenides himself was from Crete, what would happen if he was right? How could we get information from people who always lie? Or, worse, what if among these lying "knaves" are some truthful "knights"? How could we tell which is which? Using some tools from logic, we'll explore this and some other questions of the same sort.<br />
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== February 27 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jessica Lin'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The Mathematics Behind Sound'''<br />
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We will explore the mathematics behind soundwaves. This will include dissecting the structure of soundwaves, understanding why they create certain tones, and discovering how sound cancelling headphones work. If time permits, we may even talk about whether you can "hear the shape of a drum."<br />
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== March 6 2017 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Becky Eastham'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to Win a Brand New Car and Escape Execution with Probability'''<br />
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We'll learn about some famous paradoxes in probability. Come and have your brain teased by the Monty Hall Problem (will you win a goat or a car?) and the 100 Prisoners Problem (can you and your fellow prisoners come up with a clever strategy to save your lives?). We'll solve these problems and more!<br />
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= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
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Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
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gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
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== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
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gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
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== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
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Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
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== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
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So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
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== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
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In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
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== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
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Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
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== March 20 2017 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Doodling Daydreams'''<br />
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As a high schooler I occasionally got bored, would zone out, and would doodle on my paper. Often repeatedly tracing around something on my paper creating doodles like this:<br />
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In this bored state my mind would often wander, and I would wonder about important things like "Will I have a date for prom?" or "What is the cafeteria serving for lunch?", but germane to this talk were my wonderings about, "What’s happening to the shape of this doodle?" It turns out that these idle daydreams and doodles provide a good taste for how mathematicians "do" math. We will start by doodling and asking questions, and then we'll see where these lead us mathematically.<br />
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== April 3 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
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When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
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</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13423Madison Math Circle2017-02-27T02:39:55Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Contact the organizers */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
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File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
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| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
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| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
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| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
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| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
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| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
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| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
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| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
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| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
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| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
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| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
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| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 The Josephus Problem] <br />
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| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 Building a 4-dimensional house] <br />
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| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 Solve it with colors] <br />
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| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 Knights and Knaves] <br />
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| February 27, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 The Mathematics Behind Sound] <br />
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| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 TBD] <br />
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| March 13, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 TBD] <br />
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| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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</center><br />
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=High School Meetings=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
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| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~andrews/ Uri Andrews] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood Phillip Matchett Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque Eva Elduque] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017_.28East.29 Pick's Theorem] ||<br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mmaguire2 Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017_.28JMM.29 Coloring Maps] ||<br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017_.28JMM.29 Are we there yet?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13399Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-02-19T19:21:12Z<p>Mrjulian: /* February 20 2017 */</p>
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== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
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The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
<ul><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
</ul><br />
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</center><br />
<br />
== September 12 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
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</center><br />
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== September 19 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
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</center><br />
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== September 26 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== October 3 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
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== October 10 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
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== October 17 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
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== October 24 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
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== October 31 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
Enjoy Halloween.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
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== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
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== November 21 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
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== February 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
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== February 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
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== February 20 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Reese Johnston'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Knights and Knaves'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
An ancient Greek philosopher Epimenides famously said "All Cretans are liars". Ignoring for a moment the fact that Epimenides himself was from Crete, what would happen if he was right? How could we get information from people who always lie? Or, worse, what if among these lying "knaves" are some truthful "knights"? How could we tell which is which? Using some tools from logic, we'll explore this and some other questions of the same sort.<br />
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== February 27 2017 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jessica Lin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The Mathematics Behind Sound'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We will explore the mathematics behind soundwaves. This will include dissecting the structure of soundwaves, understanding why they create certain tones, and discovering how sound cancelling headphones work. If time permits, we may even talk about whether you can "hear the shape of a drum."<br />
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= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
== April 3 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|}<br />
</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13398Madison Math Circle2017-02-19T19:19:49Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
<br />
The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
<br />
After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
<br />
=All right, I want to come!=<br />
<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
<br />
[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
<br />
All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
<br />
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
<br />
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><br />
[[File: Helencwhitemap.png|400px]]</div><br />
<br />
'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
<br />
*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
<br />
==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<center><br />
<gallery widths=480px heights=240px mode="packed"><br />
File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<gallery widths=500px heights=250px mode="packed"><br />
File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Jullian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
</gallery><br />
</center><br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
|-<br />
| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
|-<br />
| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
|-<br />
| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
|-<br />
| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
|-<br />
| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
|-<br />
| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
|-<br />
| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
|-<br />
| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 The Josephus Problem] <br />
|-<br />
| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 Building a 4-dimensional house] <br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 Solve it with colors] <br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 Knights and Knaves] <br />
|-<br />
| February 27, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 The Mathematics Behind Sound] <br />
|-<br />
| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 13, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=High School Meetings=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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<center><br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~andrews/ Uri Andrews] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood Phillip Matchett Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque Eva Elduque] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017_.28East.29 Pick's Theorem] ||<br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mmaguire2 Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017_.28JMM.29 Coloring Maps] ||<br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017_.28JMM.29 Are we there yet?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
<br />
== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13387Madison Math Circle2017-02-17T02:54:23Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px]]<br />
<br />
For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
<br />
The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
<br />
After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
<br />
=All right, I want to come!=<br />
<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
<br />
[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
<br />
All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
<br />
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
<br />
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><br />
[[File: Helencwhitemap.png|400px]]</div><br />
<br />
'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
<br />
*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
<br />
==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<center><br />
<gallery widths=480px heights=240px mode="packed"><br />
File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<gallery widths=500px heights=250px mode="packed"><br />
File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Jullian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
</gallery><br />
</center><br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
|-<br />
| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
|-<br />
| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
|-<br />
| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
|-<br />
| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
|-<br />
| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
|-<br />
| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
|-<br />
| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
|-<br />
| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 The Josephus Problem] <br />
|-<br />
| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 Building a 4-dimensional house] <br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 Solve it with colors] <br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 Knights and Knaves] <br />
|-<br />
| February 27, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 13, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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</center><br />
<br />
=High School Meetings=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~andrews/ Uri Andrews] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood Phillip Matchett Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque Eva Elduque] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017_.28East.29 Pick's Theorem] ||<br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mmaguire2 Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017_.28JMM.29 Coloring Maps] ||<br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || Polly Yu || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017_.28JMM.29 Are we there yet?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
<br />
== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13379Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-02-16T17:16:09Z<p>Mrjulian: /* February 13 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
<br />
== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
<ul><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
</ul><br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 12 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 19 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 26 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 3 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 10 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 17 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
Enjoy Halloween.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 21 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br />
== February 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br />
== February 20 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Reese Johnston'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Knights and Knaves'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
An ancient Greek philosopher Epimenides famously said "All Cretans are liars". Ignoring for a moment the fact that Epimenides himself was from Crete, what would happen if he was right? How could we get information from people who always lie? Or, worse, what if among these lying "knaves" are some truthful "knights"? How could we tell which is which? Using some tools from logic, we'll explore this and some other questions of the same sort.<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
|-<br />
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So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
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== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
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In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
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== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
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Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
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== April 3 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
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When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
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</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13378Madison Math Circle2017-02-16T17:14:46Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
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File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Jullian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016 <br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
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| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
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| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
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| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
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| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
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| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
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| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
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| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
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| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
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| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
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| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
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| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 The Josephus Problem] <br />
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| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 Building a 4-dimensional house] <br />
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| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 Solve it with colors] <br />
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| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 Knights and Knaves] <br />
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| February 27, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 TBD] <br />
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| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 TBD] <br />
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| March 13, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 TBD] <br />
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| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
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| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
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| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
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=High School Meetings=<br />
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We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
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| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman Daniel Erman] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
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| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
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| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
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| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~andrews/ Uri Andrews] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
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| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood Phillip Matchett Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
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! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
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| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque Eva Elduque] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017_.28East.29 Pick's Theorem] ||<br />
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| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mmaguire2 Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017_.28JMM.29 Coloring Maps] ||<br />
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| March 20, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || Polly Yu || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017_.28JMM.29 Are we there yet?] ||<br />
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| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13344Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-02-11T06:11:23Z<p>Mrjulian: /* February 13 2017 */</p>
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== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
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The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
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<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
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== September 12 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
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I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
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== September 19 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
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You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
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== September 26 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
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== October 3 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
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== October 10 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 17 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
Enjoy Halloween.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 21 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br />
== February 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|}<br />
</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13343Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-02-11T06:11:01Z<p>Mrjulian: /* February 6 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
<br />
== August 6 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
<ul><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
</ul><br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 12 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 19 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 26 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 3 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 10 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 17 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
Enjoy Halloween.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 21 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br />
== February 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|}<br />
</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13342Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-02-11T06:10:14Z<p>Mrjulian: /* February 6 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
<br />
== August 6 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
<ul><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
</ul><br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 12 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== September 19 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== September 26 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 3 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 10 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 17 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== October 31 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
Enjoy Halloween.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== November 21 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== February 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== February 13 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Dima Arinkin'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Solve it with colors'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
How many ways are there to place 32 dominoes on a 8x8 chessboard? (Dominoes cover exactly two squares, and should not overlap.) This is a very tough problem with a huge answer: 12,988,816. But suppose we want to only place 31 dominoes and leave two opposite corners empty. It turns out that the question is then almost trivial: such a placement is impossible. (Hint: The reason has to do with black and white squares on the board!)<br />
We will look at problems that can be solved by a clever coloring design. <br />
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= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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</center><br />
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== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 13 2017 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Eva Elduque'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Pick's Theorem'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
In this talk, we will work to discover a beautiful formula that allows us to quickly and easily compute the area of a polygon whose vertices are points of a grid. We will prove that this formula works!<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== February 20 2017 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|}<br />
</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13341Madison Math Circle2017-02-11T06:07:30Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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[[File: Helencwhitemap.png|400px]]</div><br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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<gallery widths=480px heights=240px mode="packed"><br />
File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
</gallery><br />
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<gallery widths=500px heights=250px mode="packed"><br />
File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Jullian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
</gallery><br />
</center><br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
|-<br />
| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
|-<br />
| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
|-<br />
| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
|-<br />
| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
|-<br />
| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
|-<br />
| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
|-<br />
| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
|-<br />
| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 The Josephus Problem] <br />
|-<br />
| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 Building a 4-dimensional house] <br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 Solve it with colors] <br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 27, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 13, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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</center><br />
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=High School Meetings=<br />
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We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Phillip Matchett Wood || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || Eva Elduque || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017_.28East.29 Pick's Theorem] ||<br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || Megan Maguire || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017_.28JMM.29 Coloring Maps] ||<br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
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=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
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== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13229Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-02-03T00:33:25Z<p>Mrjulian: /* February 6, 2017 */</p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
<br />
== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
<ul><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
</ul><br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 12 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== September 19 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== September 26 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 3 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 10 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 17 2016 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
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== October 24 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== October 31 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
Enjoy Halloween.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
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</center><br />
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== November 21 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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<br />
== February 6 2017 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
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= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
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</center><br />
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== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts&diff=13228Madison Math Circle Abstracts2017-02-03T00:32:08Z<p>Mrjulian: </p>
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<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px|link=https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle]]<br />
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== August 6 2016 ==<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Science Saturday'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Game Busters'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
The goal of our station will be to explore the mathematics related to the games: Set, Nim, and Chomp. We will have stations where individuals can drop by play a few games and explore these games for themselves. (We will have worksheets and volunteers providing guidance.) Additionally, anyone will be able to challenge our Master of Nim with fun prizes available for beating them. (Note: This is at a special time and location.)<br />
<ul><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Chomp_Sol.pdf Solutions for Chomp] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Nim_sol.pdf Solutions for Nim] </li><br />
<li> [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Set_sol.pdf Solutions for Set].</li><br />
</ul><br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== September 12 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jean-Luc Thiffeault'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
I'll discuss the mathematics of random entanglements. Why is it that<br />
it's so easy for wires to get entangled, but so hard for them to<br />
detangle?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== September 19 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Is Any Knot Not the Unknot?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
You're walking home from school, and you pull out your head phones to listen to some tunes. However, inevitably they are a horribly tangled mess, but are they really a knot? We'll talk about what exactly is a knot, and how we can tell when something is not the unknot.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== September 26 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Coloring Maps'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Have you ever noticed that in colored maps of the US bordering states are never the same color? That's because it would be super confusing! But how many different colors do we need in order to avoid this? Come find out and learn more cool things about coloring maps.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 3 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Zach Charles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Computers are used to do all kinds of complex tasks, from playing videos to running internet browsers. Secretly, computers do everything through numbers and mathematics. Surprisingly, they do all of this with "bits", numbers that are only 0 or 1. We will talk about bits and how we use them to do the mathematics we're familiar with as humans. If we have enough time, we will discuss "addition chains" and how computers use them to speed up their computations.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 10 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Keith Rush'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
If you give me a function, can I find a simple function that approximates it well? This question played a central role in the development of mathematics. With a couple examples we will begin to investigate this for ourselves, and we'll touch on some interesting relationships to modeling random processes.<br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 17 2016 ==<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 24 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ethan Beihl'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
By chopping up rectangles into squares repeatedly we obtain so-called "slicing diagrams" that correspond to every number. These diagrams have some very cool properties, and show up all over mathematics (under the name "continued fractions," which name we will investigate). Some questions I may ask you: Which chocolate bars look like themselves? Which chocolate bars look like themselves, except bigger? Which chocolate bars are interesting? Why did you come to a math talk expecting real chocolate?<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== October 31 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''No Meeting This Week'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: N/A'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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Enjoy Halloween.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== November 7 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Polly Yu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Are we there yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
When you are told to clean your room, you have to first clean half of it; then half of what's left, and half of what's left, and so on. Seems like you will never be done! In fact, an ancient Greek philosopher, Zeno, used an argument like this to claim that it is impossible to move! Disclaimer: we are not saying that it's impossible to clean your room. What we will do is look at a special case of adding infinitely many numbers together, and use the resulting formula to calculate areas of fractals.<br />
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</center><br />
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== November 14 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Micky Soule Steinberg'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Circles and Triangles'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
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We’ll talk about the pythagorean theorem and areas of circles/triangles, and then use those tools to solve some cool problems!<br />
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</center><br />
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== November 21 2016 ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Benedek Valko'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Fun with hats'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
We will discuss various fun logic problems involving colors of hats. The participants will also have a chance to win some of the speaker’s leftover Halloween candy. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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<br />
== February 6, 2017 ==<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Cullen McDonald'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Building a 4-dimensional house'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
<br />
I think my dream home would be in the fourth dimension. I'd have a lot more room for activities. We will draw blueprints, build models, and measure how much more room we'll get by using mathematics to extend our understanding of 3 dimensions to 4 or beyond. <br />
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= High School Meetings =<br />
== October 17 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Erman'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: What does math research look like?'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Using a concrete problem in combinatorics, I will try to give a feel for what math research looks like. We’ll discuss the various aspects of research including: gathering data, making conjectures, proving special cases, and asking new questions.<br />
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</center><br />
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== October 24 2016 (West) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or. <br />
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|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== October 31 2016 (East)==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''DJ Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: Shhh, This Message Is Secret'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
gur pbearefgbar bs gur zbqrea jbeyq eribyirf nebhaq orvat noyr gb rnfvyl pbzzhavpngr frpergf, jurgure gubfr frpergf or perqvg pneq ahzoref ba nznmba, grkg zrffntrf ba lbhe vcubar, be frpher tbireazrag nssnvef. va guvf gnyx jr jvyy rkcyber gur zngu haqrecvaavat bhe novyvgl gb qb guvf, naq frr whfg ubj fgheql gung pbearefgbar npghnyyl znl or.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (JMM) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Philip Matchett Wood'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: The game of Criss-Cross'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
Some say that mathematics is the science of patterns, and patterns are everywhere. You can find some remarkable patterns just by drawing lines connecting dots, and that is just what we will do in the game of Criss-Cross! Bring your pencils and be ready to play.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
== December 5 2016 (East) ==<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#e8b2b2" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Uri Andrews'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" align="center" | '''Title: How to split an apartment'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BDBDBD" | <br />
So you go off to college and after a year or two, you and some of your friends decide to get an apartment together. It'll be a lot of fun living with your best friends. Then move-in day comes, and you realize that everyone wants the room by the kitchen (for easy late-night snacking). You have 4 rooms and 4 people. Surely there must be some way to make everybody happy. People are willing to settle for their second-favorite room instead if maybe they pay a little less rent or do some less chores. How do you navigate this issue to make everybody happy? I'll share a way to do this based on a mathematical theorem which also explains the following fact: If you stir up a cup of hot chocolate, when the liquid has come to rest, some point in the liquid will end up in exactly the same place in the cup as before you stirred it.<br />
<br />
|} <br />
</center></div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13227Madison Math Circle2017-02-03T00:29:11Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
</gallery><br />
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<gallery widths=500px heights=250px mode="packed"><br />
File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Jullian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
</gallery><br />
</center><br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
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| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
|-<br />
| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
|-<br />
| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
|-<br />
| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
|-<br />
| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
|-<br />
| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
|-<br />
| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
|-<br />
| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 The Josephus Problem] <br />
|-<br />
| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 Building a 4-dimensional house] <br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 27, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 13, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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</center><br />
<br />
=High School Meetings=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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<center><br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Phillip Matchett Wood || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 12, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_12_2016 TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
<br />
== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
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[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
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[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
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[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13212Madison Math Circle2017-02-01T23:54:21Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
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For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
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[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
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All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<center><br />
<gallery widths=480px heights=240px mode="packed"><br />
File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
</gallery><br />
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<gallery widths=500px heights=250px mode="packed"><br />
File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Jullian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
</gallery><br />
</center><br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
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<center><br />
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Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
|-<br />
| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
|-<br />
| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
|-<br />
| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
|-<br />
| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
|-<br />
| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
|-<br />
| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
|-<br />
| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
|-<br />
| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 27, 2017 || Jim Brunner || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 13, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 27, 2017 || John Wiltshire-Gordon || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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</center><br />
<br />
=High School Meetings=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
<br />
<center><br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Phillip Matchett Wood || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 12, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_12_2016 TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
<br />
== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13211Madison Math Circle2017-02-01T23:11:58Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px]]<br />
<br />
For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
<br />
The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
<br />
After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
<br />
=All right, I want to come!=<br />
<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
<br />
[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
<br />
All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
<br />
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
<br />
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><br />
[[File: Helencwhitemap.png|400px]]</div><br />
<br />
'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
<br />
*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
<br />
==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<center><br />
<gallery widths=480px heights=240px mode="packed"><br />
File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<gallery widths=500px heights=250px mode="packed"><br />
File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Jullian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
</gallery><br />
</center><br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
|-<br />
| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
|-<br />
| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
|-<br />
| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
|-<br />
| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
|-<br />
| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
|-<br />
| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
|-<br />
| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
|-<br />
| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 27, 2017 || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 13, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 27, 2017 || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| April 3, 2017 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=High School Meetings=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Phillip Matchett Wood || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 12, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_12_2016 TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || 2:45pm East High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
<br />
== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=13188Madison Math Circle2017-01-31T02:51:44Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:logo.png|right|440px]]<br />
<br />
For the site in Spanish, visit [[Math Circle de Madison]]<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
<br />
The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
<br />
After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' [http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html check it out]!<br />
<br />
=All right, I want to come!=<br />
<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:<br />
<br />
[https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hmb6vtDUfRonNb '''Math Circle Registration Form''']<br />
<br />
All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle. <br />
<br />
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.<br />
<br />
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><br />
[[File: Helencwhitemap.png|400px]]</div><br />
<br />
'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
<br />
*There is a parking garage in the basement of Helen C. White, with an hourly rate. Enter from Park Street.<br />
*A 0.5 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/cxTzJY these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/yMJIRd these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Helen C. White Hall via [http://goo.gl/b8pdk2 these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
<br />
==Email list==<br />
The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<center><br />
<gallery widths=480px heights=240px mode="packed"><br />
File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]<br />
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]<br />
File:Craciun.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~craciun/ Prof. Gheorghe Craciun]<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<gallery widths=500px heights=250px mode="packed"><br />
File:djbruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce]<br />
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]<br />
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Jullian]<br />
File:soumyasankar.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~soumyasankar Soumya Sankar]<br />
</gallery><br />
</center><br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/MMC_Flyer_2016.pdf '''flyer'''] at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017=<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
Unless specified talks start at '''6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| <span style="color:red">August 6, 2016 <br> (Click Title for Time & Location.)</span> || [https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science Science Saturday] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#August_6_2016 Game Busters]<br />
|-<br />
| September 12, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/ Jean-Luc Thiffeault] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_12_2016 Why do my earbuds keep getting entangled?]<br />
|-<br />
| September 19, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ DJ Bruce] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_19_2016 Is Any Knot Not the Unkont? ] <br />
|-<br />
| September 26, 2016 || [http://mmaguire.weebly.com/ Megan Maguire] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_26_2016 Coloring Maps] <br />
|-<br />
| October 3, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zach Charles] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_3_2016 1 + 1 = 10, or How does my smartphone do anything?] <br />
|-<br />
| October 10, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jkrush/ Keith Rush] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_10_2016 Randomness, determinism and approximation: a historical question] <br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Phillip Matchett-Wood] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016 The game of Criss-Cross]<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || Ethan Biehl || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016 A Chocolate Bar for Every Real Number] <br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || No Meeting || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016 Enjoy Halloween!] <br />
|-<br />
| November 7, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~pollyyu/ Polly Yu] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_7_2016 Are we there yet?] <br />
|-<br />
| November 14, 2016 || [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~micky/ Micky Soule Steinberg] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_14_2016 Circles and Triangles] <br />
|-<br />
| November 21, 2016 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/ Benedek Valko] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_21_2016 Fun with hats] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
|January 30, 2017 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#January_30_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 6, 2017 || Cullen McDonald || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 13, 2017 || Dima Arinkin || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || Reese Johnston || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_20_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| February 27, 2017 || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 6, 2017 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_6_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 13, 2017 || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jessica/ Jessica Lin] || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_13_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| March 20, 2017 || No Meeting - (UW Spring Break) || <br />
|-<br />
| March 27, 2017 || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_27_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
| April 3, 2017 || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_3_2017 TBD] <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=High School Meetings=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2016<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| October 17, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_17_2016_.28JMM.29 What does math research look like?] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 24, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_24_2016_.28West.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 31, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_31_2016.28East.29 Shhh, This Message Is Secret] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28East.29 How to split an apartment] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 5, 2016 || 2:45pm JMM || Phillip Matchett Wood || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_5_2016_.28JMM.29 The game of Criss-Cross] ||<br />
|-<br />
| December 12, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#December_12_2016 TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2017<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| February 20, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| April 3rd, 2017 || 2:45pm JMM || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
| TBD || TBD || TBD || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts TBD] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=Useful Resources=<br />
==Annual Reports==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf 2013-2014 Annual Report]<br />
<br />
== Archived Abstracts ==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]<br />
<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]<br />
<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
==Link for presenters (in progress)==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations Advice For Math Circle Presenters]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/lesson-plans Sample Lesson Plans]<br />
<br />
[http://www.mathcircles.org/content/circle-box "Circle in a Box"]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=10439Madison Math Circle2015-10-11T03:19:40Z<p>Mrjulian: /* What is a Math Circle? */</p>
<hr />
<div>=LAST MINUTE LOCATION ANNOUNCEMENT=<br />
<font size="4" color = red>We are thrilled to announce that, starting on September 28, we have a beautiful new room for our Math Circle: Room 3255 in the Helen C White Library, which is right next to the Memorial Union on the UW Campus. We apologize for the inconvenience that our room changes have caused but we think this will be a great fit.</font><br />
<br />
=Weekly Meeting=<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no required registration, no fee, and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week. See below for directions. <br />
<br />
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
<br />
The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] [[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
<br />
After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html<br />
<br />
=All right, I want to come!=<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Meetings are held in 120 Ingraham Hall.<br />
<br />
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><br />
[[File: Ingraham_Map.jpg|400px]]</div><br />
<br />
'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
<br />
*Directly in front of Ingraham hall, 2 metered spots (25 minute max) in [http://goo.gl/maps/HhFUm Lot 11 off of Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/3IFaw these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/yFwNr these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/9NNNm these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/P156B these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
<br />
==Email list==<br />
Sign up for our email list: https://lists.math.wisc.edu/listinfo/math-circle<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' (Carolyn Abbott, Gheorghe Craciun, Daniel Erman, Lalit Jain, Ryan Julian, and Philip Matchett Wood): [mailto:math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<br />
==Report on Math Circle in 2013-14==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf Annual Report]<br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. Our costs have been covered so far by donations from the UW Math Department plus generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Flyer==<br />
Please feel free to distribute our flyer! <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Flyer_MMSD.pdf Flyer]<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our flyer at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016=<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
All talks are at '''6pm in [http://goo.gl/maps/6k5IA Ingraham Hall] room 120''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| September 14, 2015 || David Sondak || [[#David Sondak | How to SEE Sound]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 21, 2015 || Uri Andrews|| [[#Uri Andrews | Guarding Mona Lisa]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || Eva Elduque|| [[#Eva Elduque | Pick's Theorem]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 5, 2015 || Jessica Lin|| [[#Jessica Lin | The Math of Sudoku]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 12, 2015 || Ryan Julian || [[#Ryan Julian | Eight Dimensional Oranges]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || Keith Rush|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 26, 2015 || Megan Maguire || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 2, 2015 || Marko Budisic|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 9, 2015 || Tess Anderson || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 16, 2015 || DJ Bruce || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 23, 2015 || Tullia Dymarz (Last meeting of fall) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Spring 2016<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| February 1, 2016 || Will Mitchell || [[#Will Mitchell | Are these networks the same?]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 8, 2016 || Lalit Jain || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 15, 2016 || Jordan Ellenberg || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 22, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 29, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 7, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 14, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 21, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 28, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 4, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 11, 2016 || Andrew Kidd || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 18, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 25, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| May 2, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=High school meetings for Fall 2015=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Daniel Erman || How to Catch a (data) thief [[#How to Catch a (data) thief | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [[#TBA | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
== Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===David Sondak=== <br />
''How to SEE Sound''<br />
<br />
The idea is to give a simple overview of sound waves by introducing sines and cosines and some of their basic anatomy (amplitude and frequency). We will then have a computational component where the students create their own sound waves by fiddling with parameters in the sines and cosines (again, amplitude, frequency and different superpositions of the sines and cosines). They will actually be able to see plots of their waves AND listen to their waves. Finally, if time permits, the students will use their own sound waves to make Oobleck dance. This will bring the exercise full circle in that they will be able to see their very own sound waves in action.<br />
<br />
===Uri Andrews===<br />
''Guarding Mona Lisa''<br />
<br />
You have gotten a tip that a famous art thief is going to steal something from the Louvre. It is your task to organize a security team that can watch all the works of art. The problem is that the Louvre is really big and has a strange layout. Where do you put your guards? And how many do you need?<br />
<br />
===Eva Elduque=== <br />
''Pick's Theorem''<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will a very easy formula that allows us to quickly compute the areas of polygons whose vertices are points of a grid, and we will prove that this formula works. (Solutions to the worksheet distributed during the circle can be found [[File:Pick.pdf]].)<br />
<br />
===Jessica Lin=== <br />
''The Math of Sudoku''<br />
<br />
Have you ever sat next to someone in the airport or airplane who plays sudoku? Have you ever tried to play yourself? When you play, do you have some strategies that help you to complete the puzzle? It turns out that there is some deep mathematics behind this simple game. Come to math circle this week to learn about it, and maybe you can help the person next to you solve his/her sudoku!<br />
<br />
===Ryan Julian===<br />
''The Geometry of Hockeysticks and Eight Dimensional Oranges''<br />
<br />
Like most people, I've often considered opening an eight dimensional grocery store. Of course, the main difficulty with this plan is that I'd need some way of neatly stacking all of the eight dimensional fruit that I'd be selling. In this talk, we'll explore a variety of elementary counting problems, discover that nearly all elementary counting problems are really the same problem, and we'll apply these new insights to determine how to stack 8 dimensional fruits into neat 8 dimensional pyramids.<br />
<br />
===Daniel Erman===<br />
''How to catch a (data) thief''<br />
<br />
I will discuss some surprising statistical facts that have been used to catch companies that lie about data.<br />
<br />
===Will Mitchell=== <br />
''Are these networks the same?''<br />
<br />
The question of deciding whether two things are the same comes up in many different places in math. In this session we'll consider the problem of deciding if two networks or "graphs" are the same. This leads to some entertaining and challenging puzzles. We will also learn a bit about how people try to solve similar problems using computers. This problem has applications in the design of electronic circuits and in searching for organic chemical compounds within large databases.<br />
<br />
=Contact Information Form=<br />
[https://fs18.formsite.com/crabbott/form1/index.html Link to Contact Information Form]<br />
<br />
==[[Archived Math Circle Material]]==<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
=Link for presenters (in progress)=<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=10438Madison Math Circle2015-10-11T03:17:12Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>=LAST MINUTE LOCATION ANNOUNCEMENT=<br />
<font size="4" color = red>We are thrilled to announce that, starting on September 28, we have a beautiful new room for our Math Circle: Room 3255 in the Helen C White Library, which is right next to the Memorial Union on the UW Campus. We apologize for the inconvenience that our room changes have caused but we think this will be a great fit.</font><br />
<br />
=Weekly Meeting=<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no required registration, no fee, and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week. See below for directions. <br />
<br />
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
<br />
The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
<br />
After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html<br />
<br />
=All right, I want to come!=<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Meetings are held in 120 Ingraham Hall.<br />
<br />
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><br />
[[File: Ingraham_Map.jpg|400px]]</div><br />
<br />
'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
<br />
*Directly in front of Ingraham hall, 2 metered spots (25 minute max) in [http://goo.gl/maps/HhFUm Lot 11 off of Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/3IFaw these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/yFwNr these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/9NNNm these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/P156B these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
<br />
==Email list==<br />
Sign up for our email list: https://lists.math.wisc.edu/listinfo/math-circle<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' (Carolyn Abbott, Gheorghe Craciun, Daniel Erman, Lalit Jain, Ryan Julian, and Philip Matchett Wood): [mailto:math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<br />
==Report on Math Circle in 2013-14==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf Annual Report]<br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. Our costs have been covered so far by donations from the UW Math Department plus generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Flyer==<br />
Please feel free to distribute our flyer! <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Flyer_MMSD.pdf Flyer]<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our flyer at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016=<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
All talks are at '''6pm in [http://goo.gl/maps/6k5IA Ingraham Hall] room 120''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| September 14, 2015 || David Sondak || [[#David Sondak | How to SEE Sound]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 21, 2015 || Uri Andrews|| [[#Uri Andrews | Guarding Mona Lisa]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || Eva Elduque|| [[#Eva Elduque | Pick's Theorem]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 5, 2015 || Jessica Lin|| [[#Jessica Lin | The Math of Sudoku]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 12, 2015 || Ryan Julian || [[#Ryan Julian | Eight Dimensional Oranges]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || Keith Rush|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 26, 2015 || Megan Maguire || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 2, 2015 || Marko Budisic|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 9, 2015 || Tess Anderson || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 16, 2015 || DJ Bruce || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 23, 2015 || Tullia Dymarz (Last meeting of fall) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Spring 2016<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| February 1, 2016 || Will Mitchell || [[#Will Mitchell | Are these networks the same?]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 8, 2016 || Lalit Jain || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 15, 2016 || Jordan Ellenberg || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 22, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 29, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 7, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 14, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 21, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 28, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 4, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 11, 2016 || Andrew Kidd || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 18, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 25, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| May 2, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=High school meetings for Fall 2015=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Daniel Erman || How to Catch a (data) thief [[#How to Catch a (data) thief | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [[#TBA | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
== Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===David Sondak=== <br />
''How to SEE Sound''<br />
<br />
The idea is to give a simple overview of sound waves by introducing sines and cosines and some of their basic anatomy (amplitude and frequency). We will then have a computational component where the students create their own sound waves by fiddling with parameters in the sines and cosines (again, amplitude, frequency and different superpositions of the sines and cosines). They will actually be able to see plots of their waves AND listen to their waves. Finally, if time permits, the students will use their own sound waves to make Oobleck dance. This will bring the exercise full circle in that they will be able to see their very own sound waves in action.<br />
<br />
===Uri Andrews===<br />
''Guarding Mona Lisa''<br />
<br />
You have gotten a tip that a famous art thief is going to steal something from the Louvre. It is your task to organize a security team that can watch all the works of art. The problem is that the Louvre is really big and has a strange layout. Where do you put your guards? And how many do you need?<br />
<br />
===Eva Elduque=== <br />
''Pick's Theorem''<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will a very easy formula that allows us to quickly compute the areas of polygons whose vertices are points of a grid, and we will prove that this formula works. (Solutions to the worksheet distributed during the circle can be found [[File:Pick.pdf]].)<br />
<br />
===Jessica Lin=== <br />
''The Math of Sudoku''<br />
<br />
Have you ever sat next to someone in the airport or airplane who plays sudoku? Have you ever tried to play yourself? When you play, do you have some strategies that help you to complete the puzzle? It turns out that there is some deep mathematics behind this simple game. Come to math circle this week to learn about it, and maybe you can help the person next to you solve his/her sudoku!<br />
<br />
===Ryan Julian===<br />
''The Geometry of Hockeysticks and Eight Dimensional Oranges''<br />
<br />
Like most people, I've often considered opening an eight dimensional grocery store. Of course, the main difficulty with this plan is that I'd need some way of neatly stacking all of the eight dimensional fruit that I'd be selling. In this talk, we'll explore a variety of elementary counting problems, discover that nearly all elementary counting problems are really the same problem, and we'll apply these new insights to determine how to stack 8 dimensional fruits into neat 8 dimensional pyramids.<br />
<br />
===Daniel Erman===<br />
''How to catch a (data) thief''<br />
<br />
I will discuss some surprising statistical facts that have been used to catch companies that lie about data.<br />
<br />
===Will Mitchell=== <br />
''Are these networks the same?''<br />
<br />
The question of deciding whether two things are the same comes up in many different places in math. In this session we'll consider the problem of deciding if two networks or "graphs" are the same. This leads to some entertaining and challenging puzzles. We will also learn a bit about how people try to solve similar problems using computers. This problem has applications in the design of electronic circuits and in searching for organic chemical compounds within large databases.<br />
<br />
=Contact Information Form=<br />
[https://fs18.formsite.com/crabbott/form1/index.html Link to Contact Information Form]<br />
<br />
==[[Archived Math Circle Material]]==<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
=Link for presenters (in progress)=<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=10437Madison Math Circle2015-10-11T03:06:29Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 */</p>
<hr />
<div>=LAST MINUTE LOCATION ANNOUNCEMENT=<br />
<font size="4" color = red>We are thrilled to announce that, starting on September 28, we have a beautiful new room for our Math Circle: Room 3255 in the Helen C White Library, which is right next to the Memorial Union on the UW Campus. We apologize for the inconvenience that our room changes have caused but we think this will be a great fit.</font><br />
<br />
=Weekly Meeting=<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no required registration, no fee, and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week. See below for directions. <br />
<br />
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
<br />
The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
<br />
After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html<br />
<br />
=All right, I want to come!=<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Meetings are held in 120 Ingraham Hall.<br />
<br />
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><br />
[[File: Ingraham_Map.jpg|400px]]</div><br />
<br />
'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
<br />
*Directly in front of Ingraham hall, 2 metered spots (25 minute max) in [http://goo.gl/maps/HhFUm Lot 11 off of Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/3IFaw these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/yFwNr these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/9NNNm these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/P156B these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
<br />
==Email list==<br />
Sign up for our email list: https://lists.math.wisc.edu/listinfo/math-circle<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' (Carolyn Abbott, Gheorghe Craciun, Daniel Erman, Lalit Jain, Ryan Julian, and Philip Matchett Wood): [mailto:math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<br />
==Report on Math Circle in 2013-14==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf Annual Report]<br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. Our costs have been covered so far by donations from the UW Math Department plus generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Flyer==<br />
Please feel free to distribute our flyer! <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Flyer_MMSD.pdf Flyer]<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our flyer at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016=<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
All talks are at '''6pm in [http://goo.gl/maps/6k5IA Ingraham Hall] room 120''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| September 14, 2015 || David Sondak || [[#David Sondak | How to SEE Sound]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 21, 2015 || Uri Andrews|| [[#Uri Andrews | Guarding Mona Lisa]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || Eva Elduque|| [[#Eva Elduque | Pick's Theorem]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 5, 2015 || Jessica Lin|| [[#Jessica Lin | The Math of Sudoku]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 12, 2015 || Ryan Julian || [[#Ryan Julian | Eight Dimensional Oranges]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || Keith Rush|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 26, 2015 || Megan Maguire || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 2, 2015 || Marko Budisic|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 9, 2015 || Tess Anderson || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 16, 2015 || DJ Bruce || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 23, 2015 || Tullia Dymarz (Last meeting of fall) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Spring 2016<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| February 1, 2016 || Will Mitchell || [[#Will Mitchell | Are these networks the same?]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 8, 2016 || Lalit Jain || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 15, 2016 || Jordan Ellenberg || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 22, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 29, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 7, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 14, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 21, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 28, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 4, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 11, 2016 || Andrew Kidd || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 18, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 25, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| May 2, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=High school meetings for Fall 2015=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Daniel Erman || How to Catch a (data) thief [[#How to Catch a (data) thief | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [[#TBA | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
== Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===David Sondak=== <br />
''How to SEE Sound''<br />
<br />
The idea is to give a simple overview of sound waves by introducing sines and cosines and some of their basic anatomy (amplitude and frequency). We will then have a computational component where the students create their own sound waves by fiddling with parameters in the sines and cosines (again, amplitude, frequency and different superpositions of the sines and cosines). They will actually be able to see plots of their waves AND listen to their waves. Finally, if time permits, the students will use their own sound waves to make Oobleck dance. This will bring the exercise full circle in that they will be able to see their very own sound waves in action.<br />
<br />
===Uri Andrews===<br />
''Guarding Mona Lisa''<br />
<br />
You have gotten a tip that a famous art thief is going to steal something from the Louvre. It is your task to organize a security team that can watch all the works of art. The problem is that the Louvre is really big and has a strange layout. Where do you put your guards? And how many do you need?<br />
<br />
===Eva Elduque=== <br />
''Pick's Theorem''<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will a very easy formula that allows us to quickly compute the areas of polygons whose vertices are points of a grid, and we will prove that this formula works. (Solutions to the worksheet distributed during the circle can be found [[File:Pick.pdf]].)<br />
<br />
===Jessica Lin=== <br />
''The Math of Sudoku''<br />
<br />
Have you ever sat next to someone in the airport or airplane who plays sudoku? Have you ever tried to play yourself? When you play, do you have some strategies that help you to complete the puzzle? It turns out that there is some deep mathematics behind this simple game. Come to math circle this week to learn about it, and maybe you can help the person next to you solve his/her sudoku!<br />
<br />
===Ryan Julian===<br />
''The Geometry of Hockeysticks and Eight Dimensional Oranges''<br />
<br />
Like most people, I've often considered opening an eight dimensional grocery store. Of course, the main difficulty with this plan is that I'd need some way of neatly stacking all of the eight dimensional fruit that I'd be selling. In this talk, we'll explore a variety of elementary counting problems, discover that nearly all elementary counting problems are really the same problem, and we'll apply these new insights to determine how to stack 8 dimensional fruits into neat 8 dimensional pyramids.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Erman===<br />
''How to catch a (data) thief''<br />
<br />
I will discuss some surprising statistical facts that have been used to catch companies that lie about data.<br />
<br />
===Will Mitchell=== <br />
''Are these networks the same?''<br />
<br />
The question of deciding whether two things are the same comes up in many different places in math. In this session we'll consider the problem of deciding if two networks or "graphs" are the same. This leads to some entertaining and challenging puzzles. We will also learn a bit about how people try to solve similar problems using computers. This problem has applications in the design of electronic circuits and in searching for organic chemical compounds within large databases.<br />
<br />
=Contact Information Form=<br />
[https://fs18.formsite.com/crabbott/form1/index.html Link to Contact Information Form]<br />
<br />
==[[Archived Math Circle Material]]==<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
=Link for presenters (in progress)=<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=10436Madison Math Circle2015-10-11T03:05:26Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 */</p>
<hr />
<div>=LAST MINUTE LOCATION ANNOUNCEMENT=<br />
<font size="4" color = red>We are thrilled to announce that, starting on September 28, we have a beautiful new room for our Math Circle: Room 3255 in the Helen C White Library, which is right next to the Memorial Union on the UW Campus. We apologize for the inconvenience that our room changes have caused but we think this will be a great fit.</font><br />
<br />
=Weekly Meeting=<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no required registration, no fee, and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week. See below for directions. <br />
<br />
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
<br />
The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
<br />
After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html<br />
<br />
=All right, I want to come!=<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Meetings are held in 120 Ingraham Hall.<br />
<br />
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><br />
[[File: Ingraham_Map.jpg|400px]]</div><br />
<br />
'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
<br />
*Directly in front of Ingraham hall, 2 metered spots (25 minute max) in [http://goo.gl/maps/HhFUm Lot 11 off of Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/3IFaw these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/yFwNr these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/9NNNm these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/P156B these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
<br />
==Email list==<br />
Sign up for our email list: https://lists.math.wisc.edu/listinfo/math-circle<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' (Carolyn Abbott, Gheorghe Craciun, Daniel Erman, Lalit Jain, Ryan Julian, and Philip Matchett Wood): [mailto:math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<br />
==Report on Math Circle in 2013-14==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf Annual Report]<br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. Our costs have been covered so far by donations from the UW Math Department plus generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Flyer==<br />
Please feel free to distribute our flyer! <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Flyer_MMSD.pdf Flyer]<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our flyer at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016=<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
All talks are at '''6pm in [http://goo.gl/maps/6k5IA Ingraham Hall] room 120''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| September 14, 2015 || David Sondak || [[#Sondak | How to SEE Sound]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 21, 2015 || Uri Andrews|| [[#Andrews | Guarding Mona Lisa]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || Eva Elduque|| [[#Elduque | Pick's Theorem]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 5, 2015 || Jessica Lin|| [[#Lin | The Math of Sudoku]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 12, 2015 || Ryan Julian || [[#Ryan Julian | Eight Dimensional Oranges]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || Keith Rush|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 26, 2015 || Megan Maguire || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 2, 2015 || Marko Budisic|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 9, 2015 || Tess Anderson || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 16, 2015 || DJ Bruce || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 23, 2015 || Tullia Dymarz (Last meeting of fall) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Spring 2016<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| February 1, 2016 || Will Mitchell || [[#Mitchell | Are these networks the same?]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 8, 2016 || Lalit Jain || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 15, 2016 || Jordan Ellenberg || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 22, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 29, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 7, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 14, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 21, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 28, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 4, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 11, 2016 || Andrew Kidd || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 18, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 25, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| May 2, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=High school meetings for Fall 2015=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Daniel Erman || How to Catch a (data) thief [[#How to Catch a (data) thief | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [[#TBA | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
== Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===David Sondak=== <br />
''How to SEE Sound''<br />
<br />
The idea is to give a simple overview of sound waves by introducing sines and cosines and some of their basic anatomy (amplitude and frequency). We will then have a computational component where the students create their own sound waves by fiddling with parameters in the sines and cosines (again, amplitude, frequency and different superpositions of the sines and cosines). They will actually be able to see plots of their waves AND listen to their waves. Finally, if time permits, the students will use their own sound waves to make Oobleck dance. This will bring the exercise full circle in that they will be able to see their very own sound waves in action.<br />
<br />
===Uri Andrews===<br />
''Guarding Mona Lisa''<br />
<br />
You have gotten a tip that a famous art thief is going to steal something from the Louvre. It is your task to organize a security team that can watch all the works of art. The problem is that the Louvre is really big and has a strange layout. Where do you put your guards? And how many do you need?<br />
<br />
===Eva Elduque=== <br />
''Pick's Theorem''<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will a very easy formula that allows us to quickly compute the areas of polygons whose vertices are points of a grid, and we will prove that this formula works. (Solutions to the worksheet distributed during the circle can be found [[File:Pick.pdf]].)<br />
<br />
===Jessica Lin=== <br />
''The Math of Sudoku''<br />
<br />
Have you ever sat next to someone in the airport or airplane who plays sudoku? Have you ever tried to play yourself? When you play, do you have some strategies that help you to complete the puzzle? It turns out that there is some deep mathematics behind this simple game. Come to math circle this week to learn about it, and maybe you can help the person next to you solve his/her sudoku!<br />
<br />
===Ryan Julian===<br />
''The Geometry of Hockeysticks and Eight Dimensional Oranges''<br />
<br />
Like most people, I've often considered opening an eight dimensional grocery store. Of course, the main difficulty with this plan is that I'd need some way of neatly stacking all of the eight dimensional fruit that I'd be selling. In this talk, we'll explore a variety of elementary counting problems, discover that nearly all elementary counting problems are really the same problem, and we'll apply these new insights to determine how to stack 8 dimensional fruits into neat 8 dimensional pyramids.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Erman===<br />
''How to catch a (data) thief''<br />
<br />
I will discuss some surprising statistical facts that have been used to catch companies that lie about data.<br />
<br />
===Will Mitchell=== <br />
''Are these networks the same?''<br />
<br />
The question of deciding whether two things are the same comes up in many different places in math. In this session we'll consider the problem of deciding if two networks or "graphs" are the same. This leads to some entertaining and challenging puzzles. We will also learn a bit about how people try to solve similar problems using computers. This problem has applications in the design of electronic circuits and in searching for organic chemical compounds within large databases.<br />
<br />
=Contact Information Form=<br />
[https://fs18.formsite.com/crabbott/form1/index.html Link to Contact Information Form]<br />
<br />
==[[Archived Math Circle Material]]==<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
=Link for presenters (in progress)=<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=10435Madison Math Circle2015-10-11T03:02:45Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>=LAST MINUTE LOCATION ANNOUNCEMENT=<br />
<font size="4" color = red>We are thrilled to announce that, starting on September 28, we have a beautiful new room for our Math Circle: Room 3255 in the Helen C White Library, which is right next to the Memorial Union on the UW Campus. We apologize for the inconvenience that our room changes have caused but we think this will be a great fit.</font><br />
<br />
=Weekly Meeting=<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no required registration, no fee, and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week. See below for directions. <br />
<br />
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
<br />
=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
<br />
The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_2.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
[[Image: MathCircle_4.jpg|500px]] <br />
<br />
<br />
After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
<br />
'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html<br />
<br />
=All right, I want to come!=<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Meetings are held in 120 Ingraham Hall.<br />
<br />
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><br />
[[File: Ingraham_Map.jpg|400px]]</div><br />
<br />
'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
<br />
*Directly in front of Ingraham hall, 2 metered spots (25 minute max) in [http://goo.gl/maps/HhFUm Lot 11 off of Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/3IFaw these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/yFwNr these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/9NNNm these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/P156B these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
<br />
==Email list==<br />
Sign up for our email list: https://lists.math.wisc.edu/listinfo/math-circle<br />
<br />
==Contact the organizers==<br />
If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' (Carolyn Abbott, Gheorghe Craciun, Daniel Erman, Lalit Jain, Ryan Julian, and Philip Matchett Wood): [mailto:math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
<br />
==Report on Math Circle in 2013-14==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf Annual Report]<br />
<br />
==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. Our costs have been covered so far by donations from the UW Math Department plus generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
<br />
So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
<br />
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
<br />
There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
<br />
Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
<br />
Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
<br />
==Flyer==<br />
Please feel free to distribute our flyer! <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Flyer_MMSD.pdf Flyer]<br />
<br />
==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our flyer at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016=<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
All talks are at '''6pm in [http://goo.gl/maps/6k5IA Ingraham Hall] room 120''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015 <br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| September 14, 2015 || David Sondak || [[#Sondak | How to SEE Sound]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 21, 2015 || Uri Andrews|| [[#Andrews | Guarding Mona Lisa]] <br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || Eva Elduque|| [[#Elduque | Pick's Theorem]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 5, 2015 || Jessica Lin|| [[#Lin | The Math of Sudoku]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 12, 2015 || Ryan Julian || [[#Julian | Eight Dimensional Oranges]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || Keith Rush|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| October 26, 2015 || Megan Maguire || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 2, 2015 || Marko Budisic|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 9, 2015 || Tess Anderson || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 16, 2015 || DJ Bruce || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 23, 2015 || Tullia Dymarz (Last meeting of fall) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Spring 2016<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
|-<br />
| February 1, 2016 || Will Mitchell || [[#Mitchell | Are these networks the same?]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 8, 2016 || Lalit Jain || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 15, 2016 || Jordan Ellenberg || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 22, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| February 29, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 7, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 14, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 21, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| March 28, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 4, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 11, 2016 || Andrew Kidd || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 18, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| April 25, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| May 2, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
<br />
=High school meetings for Fall 2015=<br />
<br />
We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
<br />
<center><br />
<br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="5" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
|-<br />
| September 28, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Daniel Erman || How to Catch a (data) thief [[#How to Catch a (data) thief | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| October 19, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [[#TBA | Abstract]] ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
</center><br />
== Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===David Sondak=== <br />
''How to SEE Sound''<br />
<br />
The idea is to give a simple overview of sound waves by introducing sines and cosines and some of their basic anatomy (amplitude and frequency). We will then have a computational component where the students create their own sound waves by fiddling with parameters in the sines and cosines (again, amplitude, frequency and different superpositions of the sines and cosines). They will actually be able to see plots of their waves AND listen to their waves. Finally, if time permits, the students will use their own sound waves to make Oobleck dance. This will bring the exercise full circle in that they will be able to see their very own sound waves in action.<br />
<br />
===Uri Andrews===<br />
''Guarding Mona Lisa''<br />
<br />
You have gotten a tip that a famous art thief is going to steal something from the Louvre. It is your task to organize a security team that can watch all the works of art. The problem is that the Louvre is really big and has a strange layout. Where do you put your guards? And how many do you need?<br />
<br />
===Eva Elduque=== <br />
''Pick's Theorem''<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will a very easy formula that allows us to quickly compute the areas of polygons whose vertices are points of a grid, and we will prove that this formula works. (Solutions to the worksheet distributed during the circle can be found [[File:Pick.pdf]].)<br />
<br />
===Jessica Lin=== <br />
''The Math of Sudoku''<br />
<br />
Have you ever sat next to someone in the airport or airplane who plays sudoku? Have you ever tried to play yourself? When you play, do you have some strategies that help you to complete the puzzle? It turns out that there is some deep mathematics behind this simple game. Come to math circle this week to learn about it, and maybe you can help the person next to you solve his/her sudoku!<br />
<br />
===Ryan Julian===<br />
''The Geometry of Hockeysticks and Eight Dimensional Oranges''<br />
<br />
Like most people, I've often considered opening an eight dimensional grocery store. Of course, the main difficulty with this plan is that I'd need some way of neatly stacking all of the eight dimensional fruit that I'd be selling. In this talk, we'll explore a variety of elementary counting problems, discover that nearly all elementary counting problems are really the same problem, and we'll apply these new insights to determine how to stack 8 dimensional fruits into neat 8 dimensional pyramids.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Erman===<br />
''How to catch a (data) thief''<br />
<br />
I will discuss some surprising statistical facts that have been used to catch companies that lie about data.<br />
<br />
===Will Mitchell=== <br />
''Are these networks the same?''<br />
<br />
The question of deciding whether two things are the same comes up in many different places in math. In this session we'll consider the problem of deciding if two networks or "graphs" are the same. This leads to some entertaining and challenging puzzles. We will also learn a bit about how people try to solve similar problems using computers. This problem has applications in the design of electronic circuits and in searching for organic chemical compounds within large databases.<br />
<br />
=Contact Information Form=<br />
[https://fs18.formsite.com/crabbott/form1/index.html Link to Contact Information Form]<br />
<br />
==[[Archived Math Circle Material]]==<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
<br />
=Link for presenters (in progress)=<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Madison_Math_Circle&diff=10434Madison Math Circle2015-10-11T03:01:52Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 */</p>
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<div>=LAST MINUTE LOCATION ANNOUNCEMENT=<br />
<font size="4" color = red>We are thrilled to announce that, starting on September 28, we have a beautiful new room for our Math Circle: Room 3255 in the Helen C White Library, which is right next to the Memorial Union on the UW Campus. We apologize for the inconvenience that our room changes have caused but we think this will be a great fit.</font><br />
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=Weekly Meeting=<br />
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year. <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no required registration, no fee, and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week. See below for directions. <br />
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If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).<br />
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=What is a Math Circle?=<br />
The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.<br />
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The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.<br />
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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.<br />
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'''The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal:''' http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spotlight-madison-math-circle-gives-young-students-a-taste/article_77f5c042-0b3d-11e1-ba5f-001cc4c03286.html<br />
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=All right, I want to come!=<br />
==Directions and parking==<br />
Meetings are held in 120 Ingraham Hall.<br />
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'''Parking.''' Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:<br />
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*Directly in front of Ingraham hall, 2 metered spots (25 minute max) in [http://goo.gl/maps/HhFUm Lot 11 off of Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/3IFaw these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/Gkx1C in Lot 26 along Observatory Drive].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/yFwNr these directions], many spots ('''free starting 4:30pm''') [http://goo.gl/maps/vs17X in Lot 34]. <br />
*A 0.2 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/9NNNm these directions], 2 metered spots (25 minute max) [http://goo.gl/maps/ukTcu in front of Lathrop Hall].<br />
*A 0.3 mile walk to Ingraham Hall via [http://goo.gl/maps/P156B these directions] 6 metered spots (25 minute max) around [http://goo.gl/maps/6EAnc the loop in front of Chadbourne Hall] .<br />
*For more information, see the [http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/parking.aspx UW-Madison Parking Info website].<br />
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==Email list==<br />
Sign up for our email list: https://lists.math.wisc.edu/listinfo/math-circle<br />
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==Contact the organizers==<br />
If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' (Carolyn Abbott, Gheorghe Craciun, Daniel Erman, Lalit Jain, Ryan Julian, and Philip Matchett Wood): [mailto:math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu math-circle-organizers@math.wisc.edu]. We are always interested in feedback!<br />
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==Report on Math Circle in 2013-14==<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf Annual Report]<br />
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==Donations==<br />
Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Math_Circle_Newsletter.pdf annual report], our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. Our costs have been covered so far by donations from the UW Math Department plus generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.<br />
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So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:<br />
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[http://www.math.wisc.edu/donate Online Donation Link]<br />
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There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. <b> Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"!</b> The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.<br />
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Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check. <br />
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Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.<br />
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==Flyer==<br />
Please feel free to distribute our flyer! <br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/Flyer_MMSD.pdf Flyer]<br />
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==Help us grow!==<br />
If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:<br />
*Posting our flyer at schools or anywhere that might have interested students<br />
*Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others<br />
*Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings<br />
*Donating to Math Circle<br />
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.<br />
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=Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016=<br />
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All talks are at '''6pm in [http://goo.gl/maps/6k5IA Ingraham Hall] room 120''', unless otherwise noted.<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="1" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="0"<br />
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! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Fall 2015 <br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| September 14, 2015 || David Sondak || [[#Sondak | How to SEE Sound]] <br />
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| September 21, 2015 || Uri Andrews|| [[#Andrews | Guarding Mona Lisa]] <br />
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| September 28, 2015 || Eva Elduque|| [[#Elduque | Pick's Theorem]] <br />
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| October 5, 2015 || Jessica Lin|| [[#Lin | The Math of Sudoku]] <br />
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| October 12, 2015 || Ryan Julian || [[#Julian | Eight Dimensional Oranges]] <br />
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| October 19, 2015 || Keith Rush|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| October 26, 2015 || Megan Maguire || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 2, 2015 || Marko Budisic|| [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 9, 2015 || Tess Anderson || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|-<br />
| November 16, 2015 || DJ Bruce || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| November 23, 2015 || Tullia Dymarz (Last meeting of fall) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdead;" align="center" | Spring 2016<br />
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic<br />
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| February 1, 2016 || Will Mitchell || [[#Mitchell | Are these networks the same?]] <br />
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| February 8, 2016 || Lalit Jain || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| February 15, 2016 || Jordan Ellenberg || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| February 22, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| February 29, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| March 7, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| March 14, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| March 21, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| March 28, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| April 4, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| April 11, 2016 || Andrew Kidd || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| April 18, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| April 25, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
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| May 2, 2016 || TBA || [[#TBA | Abstract]] <br />
|}<br />
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=High school meetings for Fall 2015=<br />
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We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools. Our schedule for the fall is below. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!<br />
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! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info<br />
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| September 28, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Daniel Erman || How to Catch a (data) thief [[#How to Catch a (data) thief | Abstract]] ||<br />
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| October 19, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Uri Andrews || [[#TBA | Abstract]] ||<br />
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== Abstracts ==<br />
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===David Sondak=== <br />
''How to SEE Sound''<br />
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The idea is to give a simple overview of sound waves by introducing sines and cosines and some of their basic anatomy (amplitude and frequency). We will then have a computational component where the students create their own sound waves by fiddling with parameters in the sines and cosines (again, amplitude, frequency and different superpositions of the sines and cosines). They will actually be able to see plots of their waves AND listen to their waves. Finally, if time permits, the students will use their own sound waves to make Oobleck dance. This will bring the exercise full circle in that they will be able to see their very own sound waves in action.<br />
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===Uri Andrews===<br />
''Guarding Mona Lisa''<br />
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You have gotten a tip that a famous art thief is going to steal something from the Louvre. It is your task to organize a security team that can watch all the works of art. The problem is that the Louvre is really big and has a strange layout. Where do you put your guards? And how many do you need?<br />
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===Eva Elduque=== <br />
''Pick's Theorem''<br />
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In this talk, we will a very easy formula that allows us to quickly compute the areas of polygons whose vertices are points of a grid, and we will prove that this formula works. (Solutions to the worksheet distributed during the circle can be found [[File:Pick.pdf]].)<br />
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===Jessica Lin=== <br />
''The Math of Sudoku''<br />
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Have you ever sat next to someone in the airport or airplane who plays sudoku? Have you ever tried to play yourself? When you play, do you have some strategies that help you to complete the puzzle? It turns out that there is some deep mathematics behind this simple game. Come to math circle this week to learn about it, and maybe you can help the person next to you solve his/her sudoku!<br />
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===Daniel Erman===<br />
''How to catch a (data) thief''<br />
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I will discuss some surprising statistical facts that have been used to catch companies that lie about data.<br />
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===Will Mitchell=== <br />
''Are these networks the same?''<br />
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The question of deciding whether two things are the same comes up in many different places in math. In this session we'll consider the problem of deciding if two networks or "graphs" are the same. This leads to some entertaining and challenging puzzles. We will also learn a bit about how people try to solve similar problems using computers. This problem has applications in the design of electronic circuits and in searching for organic chemical compounds within large databases.<br />
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=Contact Information Form=<br />
[https://fs18.formsite.com/crabbott/form1/index.html Link to Contact Information Form]<br />
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==[[Archived Math Circle Material]]==<br />
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]<br />
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=Link for presenters (in progress)=<br />
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_Presentations]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=NTSGrad&diff=8949NTSGrad2014-12-08T06:49:48Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Fall 2014 Semester */</p>
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<div>= Graduate Student Number Theory / Representation Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin – Madison =<br />
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*'''When:''' Tuesdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM<br />
*'''Where:''' Van Vleck B105<br />
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The purpose of this seminar is to have a talk on each Tuesday by a graduate student to<br />
help orient ourselves for the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar]] talk on the following Thursday.<br />
These talks should be aimed at beginning graduate students, and should try to <br />
explain some of the background, terminology, and ideas for the Thursday talk.<br />
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= Fall 2014 Semester =<br />
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" width="300" align="center"|'''Date'''<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" width="300" align="center"|'''Speaker''' (click for homepage)<br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Aug 26<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center" | (Summer)<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE" align="center" | (Summer)<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 02<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center" | [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jain/ Lalit Jain] <br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Sep_02 ''Monodromy computations in topology and number theory'']<br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 09<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| Megan Maguire<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Sep_09 ''Infinitely many supersingular primes for every elliptic curve over the rationals'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 16<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~sjohnson/ Silas Johnson]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Sep_16 ''Alternate Discriminants and Mass Formulas for Number Fields'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 23<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hast/ Daniel Hast]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Sep_23 ''Moments of prime polynomials in short intervals'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 30<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| <br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Oct 07<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| Wil Cocke<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Oct_07 ''The Trouble with Sharblies'']<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Oct 14<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~blalberts/ Brandon Alberts]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| <br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Oct 21<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~yhu/ Yueke Hu]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Oct_21 ''Mass equidistribution on modular curve of level N'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Oct 28<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ David Bruce]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Oct_28 ''Intro to Complex Dynamics'']<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Nov 04<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mvlad/ Vlad Matei]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Nov_04 ''Modular forms for definite quaternion algebras'']<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Nov 11<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Nov_11 ''What is a K3 surface, and why are K1 and K2 surfaces only studied by mountain climbers?'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Nov 18<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| Peng Yu<br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Nov 25<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| <br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Dec 02<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ross Daniel Ross]<br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Dec 09<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| Jiuya Wang<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Dec_09 ''Parametrization of Cubic Field'']<br />
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== 2015 ==<br />
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The seminar webpage for NTS Spring 2015 is [[NTS_Spring_2015|here]].<br><br />
The abstract webpage for NTS Spring 2015 Abstracts is [[NTS_Spring_2015_Abstract|here]]<br><br><br />
The seminar webpage for NTS Grad Spring 2015 is [[NTS_Grad_Spring_2015|here]].<br><br />
The abstract webpage for NTS Grad Spring 2015 Abstracts is [[NTS_Grad_Spring_2015_Abstract|here]]<br />
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==Creating a new BLANK NTS seminar page==<br />
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This is a link to a blank NTS page for creating new ones. It's empty. Copy and paste the code to any new NTS schedule page you need. [[NTS_NEW]]<br><br />
This is a link to a blank NTS abstract page for creating new ones. It's empty. Copy and paste the code to any new NTS abstract page you need.[[NTS_ABSTRACT_NEW]]<br />
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== Organizers ==<br />
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Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)<br />
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Ryan Julian (mrjulian@math.wisc.edu)<br />
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Sean Rostami (srostami@math.wisc.edu)<br />
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The seminar webpage for Spring 2014 is [[NTSGrad_Spring_2014|here]].<br><br />
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Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]<br />
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Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=NTSGrad_Fall_2015/Abstracts&diff=8948NTSGrad Fall 2015/Abstracts2014-12-08T06:48:35Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Dec 09 */</p>
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<div>== Sep 02 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Lalit Jain'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Monodromy computations in topology and number theory''<br />
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The monodromy of a family of varieties is a measure of how homology classes vary. Surprisingly, many familiar ideas in number theory, such as Galois representations and Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, are closely linked to monodromy of specific families. In this talk I will define monodromy, explain some number theoretic applications, and describe original work of computing monodromy for moduli spaces of covers of the projective line (Hurwitz spaces). This work generalizes previous results of Achter-Pries, Yu and Hall on hyperelliptic families. Only basic knowledge of algebraic topology and number theory is required. <br />
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== Sep 09 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Infintely many supersingular primes for every elliptic curve over the rationals''<br />
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In his 1987 Inventiones paper, Dr. Noam Elkies proved that every elliptic curve over <math>\mathbb{Q}</math> has infinitely many supersingular primes. We shall discuss some of the mathematics needed to prove this result and give a proof.<br />
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== Sep 16 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Silas Johnson'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Alternate Discriminants and Mass Formulas for Number Fields''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Kedlaya and Wood have explored alternate invariants for number fields, with the idea of replacing the discriminant in standard field-counting questions with one of these alternate invariants. We further explore the space of “reasonable” invariants, expanding on Kedlaya and Wood’s definition. We also discuss a theorem on mass formulas for these invariants.<br />
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== Sep 23 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Hast'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Moments of prime polynomials in short intervals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
How many prime numbers occur in a typical "short interval" of fixed width, and how are primes distributed among such intervals? We examine the analogue of this problem for polynomials over a finite field. Our approach is geometric: we interpret each moment of the distribution in terms of counting certain points on an algebraic variety, and we use an algebraic analogue of the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem to compute the leading terms of this "twisted" point-count. As a motivating example, we realize the "prime polynomial theorem" as a geometric statement.<br />
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== Sep 30 ==<br />
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== Oct 07 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Will Cocke'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''The Trouble with Sharblies''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Sharbly complex provides a generalization of modular symbols and can be used to compute the Hecke eigenvalues on arithmetic cohomology. Such eigenvalues provide useful information pertaining to generalizations of Serre's conjecture. I will introduce the Sharbly complex and examine the necessary reduction techniques needed to compute the Hecke action. A friendly introduction to a new and emerging tool in computational number theory.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 14 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Brandon Alberts'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 21 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Yueke Hu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Mass equidistribution on modular curve of level N''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
It was shown in previous works that the measure associated to holomorphic newforms of weight k and level q will tend weakly to the Haar measure on modular curve of level 1, as qk goes to infinity. In this talk I will show that this phenomenon is also true on modular curves of general level N.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 28 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''David Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Intro to Complex Dynamics''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Given a polynomial f(z) with complex coefficients, we can ask for which complex numbers p is the set {f(p), f(f(p)), f(f(f(p))),...} bounded, that is to ask which complex numbers have bounded forward orbit under f(z)? Alternatively we can turn the question around and ask for a fixed complex number p, for which (complex) polynomials is the forward orbit of p bounded? Finite? Periodic? These questions give the interesting fractal pictures many of you have probably seen. Amazingly many of the tools needed to approach these questions, arose well before computers allowed us to generate images like the one above. In this talk we will explore some of the basic tools and results of complex dynamics paying particular attention relations to number theory. The goal being to present some of the background material need for Laura DeMarco’s talk later in the week. (Also getting to see a really cool area of mathematics!)<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 04 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Vlad Matei'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Modular forms for definite quaternion algebras''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Jacquet-Langlands theorem states that given two quaternion algebras, then certain automorphic forms for one of them are in canonical bijection with certain automorphic forms for the other. This seems far too general and also a bit vague.So if one translates the statement of the JL theorem down a bit, we should have that certain classical modular forms should be related to certain "modular forms" on other quaternion algebras. We will define modular forms for quaternion algebras, and we will see that for definite quaternion algebras they are very concrete algebraic objects.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 11 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ryan Julian'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''What is a K3 surface, and why are K1 and K2 surfaces only studied by mountain climbers?''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
In preparation for Thursday's talk on the Shafarevich conjecture for K3 surfaces, I will attempt to build up enough of the definitions and background theory of differential geometry to define what a K3 surface is. In particular, I hope to explain how K3 surfaces fit into a larger classification of algebraic surfaces, allowing us to prove theorems in a more restricted setting before tackling surfaces of general type. Time permitting, I might even give a couple examples of K3 surfaces. If we're really lucky, I might even have time to explain the hilarious semi-joke in the title above.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 18 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 25 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Dec 02 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Dec 09 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jiuya Wang'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | Parametrization of Cubic Field<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The discriminant parametrizes quadratic number fields well, but it will not<br />
work for cubic number fields. In order to develop a parametrization of<br />
cubic number fields, we will introduce the correspondence between a cubic<br />
ring with basis and a binary cubic form. The fact that there is a nice<br />
correspondence between orbits under <math>GL_2(\mathbb{Z})</math>-action will give the<br />
parametrization of cubic fields.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Organizer contact information ==<br />
<br />
Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
Ryan Julian (mrjulian@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
Sean Rostami (srostami@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
----<br />
Return to the [[NTSGrad|Number Theory Graduate Student Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=NTSGrad_Fall_2015/Abstracts&diff=8947NTSGrad Fall 2015/Abstracts2014-12-08T06:47:35Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Dec 09 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Sep 02 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Lalit Jain'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Monodromy computations in topology and number theory''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The monodromy of a family of varieties is a measure of how homology classes vary. Surprisingly, many familiar ideas in number theory, such as Galois representations and Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, are closely linked to monodromy of specific families. In this talk I will define monodromy, explain some number theoretic applications, and describe original work of computing monodromy for moduli spaces of covers of the projective line (Hurwitz spaces). This work generalizes previous results of Achter-Pries, Yu and Hall on hyperelliptic families. Only basic knowledge of algebraic topology and number theory is required. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 09 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Infintely many supersingular primes for every elliptic curve over the rationals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
In his 1987 Inventiones paper, Dr. Noam Elkies proved that every elliptic curve over <math>\mathbb{Q}</math> has infinitely many supersingular primes. We shall discuss some of the mathematics needed to prove this result and give a proof.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 16 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Silas Johnson'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Alternate Discriminants and Mass Formulas for Number Fields''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Kedlaya and Wood have explored alternate invariants for number fields, with the idea of replacing the discriminant in standard field-counting questions with one of these alternate invariants. We further explore the space of “reasonable” invariants, expanding on Kedlaya and Wood’s definition. We also discuss a theorem on mass formulas for these invariants.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 23 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Hast'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Moments of prime polynomials in short intervals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
How many prime numbers occur in a typical "short interval" of fixed width, and how are primes distributed among such intervals? We examine the analogue of this problem for polynomials over a finite field. Our approach is geometric: we interpret each moment of the distribution in terms of counting certain points on an algebraic variety, and we use an algebraic analogue of the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem to compute the leading terms of this "twisted" point-count. As a motivating example, we realize the "prime polynomial theorem" as a geometric statement.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 30 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 07 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Will Cocke'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''The Trouble with Sharblies''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Sharbly complex provides a generalization of modular symbols and can be used to compute the Hecke eigenvalues on arithmetic cohomology. Such eigenvalues provide useful information pertaining to generalizations of Serre's conjecture. I will introduce the Sharbly complex and examine the necessary reduction techniques needed to compute the Hecke action. A friendly introduction to a new and emerging tool in computational number theory.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 14 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Brandon Alberts'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 21 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Yueke Hu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Mass equidistribution on modular curve of level N''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
It was shown in previous works that the measure associated to holomorphic newforms of weight k and level q will tend weakly to the Haar measure on modular curve of level 1, as qk goes to infinity. In this talk I will show that this phenomenon is also true on modular curves of general level N.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 28 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''David Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Intro to Complex Dynamics''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Given a polynomial f(z) with complex coefficients, we can ask for which complex numbers p is the set {f(p), f(f(p)), f(f(f(p))),...} bounded, that is to ask which complex numbers have bounded forward orbit under f(z)? Alternatively we can turn the question around and ask for a fixed complex number p, for which (complex) polynomials is the forward orbit of p bounded? Finite? Periodic? These questions give the interesting fractal pictures many of you have probably seen. Amazingly many of the tools needed to approach these questions, arose well before computers allowed us to generate images like the one above. In this talk we will explore some of the basic tools and results of complex dynamics paying particular attention relations to number theory. The goal being to present some of the background material need for Laura DeMarco’s talk later in the week. (Also getting to see a really cool area of mathematics!)<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 04 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Vlad Matei'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Modular forms for definite quaternion algebras''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Jacquet-Langlands theorem states that given two quaternion algebras, then certain automorphic forms for one of them are in canonical bijection with certain automorphic forms for the other. This seems far too general and also a bit vague.So if one translates the statement of the JL theorem down a bit, we should have that certain classical modular forms should be related to certain "modular forms" on other quaternion algebras. We will define modular forms for quaternion algebras, and we will see that for definite quaternion algebras they are very concrete algebraic objects.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 11 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ryan Julian'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''What is a K3 surface, and why are K1 and K2 surfaces only studied by mountain climbers?''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
In preparation for Thursday's talk on the Shafarevich conjecture for K3 surfaces, I will attempt to build up enough of the definitions and background theory of differential geometry to define what a K3 surface is. In particular, I hope to explain how K3 surfaces fit into a larger classification of algebraic surfaces, allowing us to prove theorems in a more restricted setting before tackling surfaces of general type. Time permitting, I might even give a couple examples of K3 surfaces. If we're really lucky, I might even have time to explain the hilarious semi-joke in the title above.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 18 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 25 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Dec 02 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Dec 09 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Jiuya Wang'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | Parametrization of Cubic Field<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The discriminant parametrizes quadratic number fields well, but it will not<br />
work for cubic number fields. In order to develop a parametrization of<br />
cubic number fields, we will introduce the correspondence between a cubic<br />
ring with basis and a binary cubic form. The fact that there is a nice<br />
correspondence between orbits under $GL_2(\mathbb{Z})$-action will give the<br />
parametrization of cubic fields.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Organizer contact information ==<br />
<br />
Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
Ryan Julian (mrjulian@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
Sean Rostami (srostami@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
----<br />
Return to the [[NTSGrad|Number Theory Graduate Student Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=NTSGrad_Fall_2015/Abstracts&diff=8769NTSGrad Fall 2015/Abstracts2014-11-11T07:01:22Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Nov 11 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Sep 02 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Lalit Jain'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Monodromy computations in topology and number theory''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The monodromy of a family of varieties is a measure of how homology classes vary. Surprisingly, many familiar ideas in number theory, such as Galois representations and Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, are closely linked to monodromy of specific families. In this talk I will define monodromy, explain some number theoretic applications, and describe original work of computing monodromy for moduli spaces of covers of the projective line (Hurwitz spaces). This work generalizes previous results of Achter-Pries, Yu and Hall on hyperelliptic families. Only basic knowledge of algebraic topology and number theory is required. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 09 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Infintely many supersingular primes for every elliptic curve over the rationals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
In his 1987 Inventiones paper, Dr. Noam Elkies proved that every elliptic curve over <math>\mathbb{Q}</math> has infinitely many supersingular primes. We shall discuss some of the mathematics needed to prove this result and give a proof.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 16 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Silas Johnson'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Alternate Discriminants and Mass Formulas for Number Fields''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Kedlaya and Wood have explored alternate invariants for number fields, with the idea of replacing the discriminant in standard field-counting questions with one of these alternate invariants. We further explore the space of “reasonable” invariants, expanding on Kedlaya and Wood’s definition. We also discuss a theorem on mass formulas for these invariants.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 23 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Hast'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Moments of prime polynomials in short intervals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
How many prime numbers occur in a typical "short interval" of fixed width, and how are primes distributed among such intervals? We examine the analogue of this problem for polynomials over a finite field. Our approach is geometric: we interpret each moment of the distribution in terms of counting certain points on an algebraic variety, and we use an algebraic analogue of the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem to compute the leading terms of this "twisted" point-count. As a motivating example, we realize the "prime polynomial theorem" as a geometric statement.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 30 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 07 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Will Cocke'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''The Trouble with Sharblies''<br />
|-<br />
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The Sharbly complex provides a generalization of modular symbols and can be used to compute the Hecke eigenvalues on arithmetic cohomology. Such eigenvalues provide useful information pertaining to generalizations of Serre's conjecture. I will introduce the Sharbly complex and examine the necessary reduction techniques needed to compute the Hecke action. A friendly introduction to a new and emerging tool in computational number theory.<br />
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== Oct 14 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Brandon Alberts'''<br />
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== Oct 21 ==<br />
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<center><br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Yueke Hu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Mass equidistribution on modular curve of level N''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
It was shown in previous works that the measure associated to holomorphic newforms of weight k and level q will tend weakly to the Haar measure on modular curve of level 1, as qk goes to infinity. In this talk I will show that this phenomenon is also true on modular curves of general level N.<br />
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== Oct 28 ==<br />
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<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''David Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Intro to Complex Dynamics''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Given a polynomial f(z) with complex coefficients, we can ask for which complex numbers p is the set {f(p), f(f(p)), f(f(f(p))),...} bounded, that is to ask which complex numbers have bounded forward orbit under f(z)? Alternatively we can turn the question around and ask for a fixed complex number p, for which (complex) polynomials is the forward orbit of p bounded? Finite? Periodic? These questions give the interesting fractal pictures many of you have probably seen. Amazingly many of the tools needed to approach these questions, arose well before computers allowed us to generate images like the one above. In this talk we will explore some of the basic tools and results of complex dynamics paying particular attention relations to number theory. The goal being to present some of the background material need for Laura DeMarco’s talk later in the week. (Also getting to see a really cool area of mathematics!)<br />
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== Nov 04 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Vlad Matei'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Modular forms for definite quaternion algebras''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Jacquet-Langlands theorem states that given two quaternion algebras, then certain automorphic forms for one of them are in canonical bijection with certain automorphic forms for the other. This seems far too general and also a bit vague.So if one translates the statement of the JL theorem down a bit, we should have that certain classical modular forms should be related to certain "modular forms" on other quaternion algebras. We will define modular forms for quaternion algebras, and we will see that for definite quaternion algebras they are very concrete algebraic objects.<br />
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== Nov 11 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ryan Julian'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''What is a K3 surface, and why are K1 and K2 surfaces only studied by mountain climbers?''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
In preparation for Thursday's talk on the Shafarevich conjecture for K3 surfaces, I will attempt to build up enough of the definitions and background theory of differential geometry to define what a K3 surface is. In particular, I hope to explain how K3 surfaces fit into a larger classification of algebraic surfaces, allowing us to prove theorems in a more restricted setting before tackling surfaces of general type. Time permitting, I might even give a couple examples of K3 surfaces. If we're really lucky, I might even have time to explain the hilarious semi-joke in the title above.<br />
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== Nov 18 ==<br />
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== Nov 25 ==<br />
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== Dec 02 ==<br />
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== Dec 09 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
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== Organizer contact information ==<br />
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Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)<br />
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Ryan Julian (mrjulian@math.wisc.edu)<br />
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Sean Rostami (srostami@math.wisc.edu)<br />
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----<br />
Return to the [[NTSGrad|Number Theory Graduate Student Seminar Page]]<br />
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Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]<br />
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Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=NTSGrad&diff=8761NTSGrad2014-11-10T05:05:21Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Fall 2014 Semester */</p>
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<div>= Graduate Student Number Theory / Representation Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin – Madison =<br />
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*'''When:''' Tuesdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM<br />
*'''Where:''' Van Vleck B105<br />
<br />
The purpose of this seminar is to have a talk on each Tuesday by a graduate student to<br />
help orient ourselves for the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar]] talk on the following Thursday.<br />
These talks should be aimed at beginning graduate students, and should try to <br />
explain some of the background, terminology, and ideas for the Thursday talk.<br />
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= Fall 2014 Semester =<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:120%" border="0" cellpadding="14" cellspacing="5"<br />
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" width="300" align="center"|'''Date'''<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" width="300" align="center"|'''Speaker''' (click for homepage)<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" width="300" align="center"|'''Title'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Aug 26<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center" | (Summer)<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE" align="center" | (Summer)<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 02<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center" | [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jain/ Lalit Jain] <br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Sep_02 ''Monodromy computations in topology and number theory'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 09<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| Megan Maguire<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Sep_09 ''Infinitely many supersingular primes for every elliptic curve over the rationals'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 16<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~sjohnson/ Silas Johnson]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Sep_16 ''Alternate Discriminants and Mass Formulas for Number Fields'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 23<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hast/ Daniel Hast]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Sep_23 ''Moments of prime polynomials in short intervals'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Sep 30<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| <br />
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|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Oct 07<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| Wil Cocke<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Oct_07 ''The Trouble with Sharblies'']<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Oct 14<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~blalberts/ Brandon Alberts]<br />
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|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Oct 21<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~yhu/ Yueke Hu]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Oct_21 ''Mass equidistribution on modular curve of level N'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Oct 28<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~djbruce/ David Bruce]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Oct_28 ''Intro to Complex Dynamics'']<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Nov 04<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mvlad/ Vlad Matei]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Nov_04 ''Modular forms for definite quaternion algebras'']<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Nov 11<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]<br />
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE"| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/NTSGrad/Abstracts#Nov_11 ''What is a K3 surface, and why are K1 and K2 surfaces only studied by mountain climbers?'']<br />
|- <br />
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Nov 18<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| Peng Yu<br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Nov 25<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| <br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Dec 02<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ross Daniel Ross]<br />
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" align="center" | Dec 09<br />
| bgcolor="#F0B0B0" align="center"| Jiuya Wang<br />
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== 2015 ==<br />
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The seminar webpage for NTS Spring 2015 is [[NTS_Spring_2015|here]].<br><br />
The abstract webpage for NTS Spring 2015 Abstracts is [[NTS_Spring_2015_Abstract|here]]<br><br><br />
The seminar webpage for NTS Grad Spring 2015 is [[NTS_Grad_Spring_2015|here]].<br><br />
The abstract webpage for NTS Grad Spring 2015 Abstracts is [[NTS_Grad_Spring_2015_Abstract|here]]<br />
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==Creating a new BLANK NTS seminar page==<br />
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This is a link to a blank NTS page for creating new ones. It's empty. Copy and paste the code to any new NTS schedule page you need. [[NTS_NEW]]<br><br />
This is a link to a blank NTS abstract page for creating new ones. It's empty. Copy and paste the code to any new NTS abstract page you need.[[NTS_ABSTRACT_NEW]]<br />
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== Organizers ==<br />
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Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)<br />
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Ryan Julian (mrjulian@math.wisc.edu)<br />
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Sean Rostami (srostami@math.wisc.edu)<br />
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----<br />
The seminar webpage for Spring 2014 is [[NTSGrad_Spring_2014|here]].<br><br />
----<br />
Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=NTSGrad_Fall_2015/Abstracts&diff=8760NTSGrad Fall 2015/Abstracts2014-11-10T05:04:18Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Organizer contact information */</p>
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<div>== Sep 02 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Lalit Jain'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Monodromy computations in topology and number theory''<br />
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The monodromy of a family of varieties is a measure of how homology classes vary. Surprisingly, many familiar ideas in number theory, such as Galois representations and Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, are closely linked to monodromy of specific families. In this talk I will define monodromy, explain some number theoretic applications, and describe original work of computing monodromy for moduli spaces of covers of the projective line (Hurwitz spaces). This work generalizes previous results of Achter-Pries, Yu and Hall on hyperelliptic families. Only basic knowledge of algebraic topology and number theory is required. <br />
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== Sep 09 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Infintely many supersingular primes for every elliptic curve over the rationals''<br />
|-<br />
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In his 1987 Inventiones paper, Dr. Noam Elkies proved that every elliptic curve over <math>\mathbb{Q}</math> has infinitely many supersingular primes. We shall discuss some of the mathematics needed to prove this result and give a proof.<br />
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== Sep 16 ==<br />
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{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Silas Johnson'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Alternate Discriminants and Mass Formulas for Number Fields''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Kedlaya and Wood have explored alternate invariants for number fields, with the idea of replacing the discriminant in standard field-counting questions with one of these alternate invariants. We further explore the space of “reasonable” invariants, expanding on Kedlaya and Wood’s definition. We also discuss a theorem on mass formulas for these invariants.<br />
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== Sep 23 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Hast'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Moments of prime polynomials in short intervals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
How many prime numbers occur in a typical "short interval" of fixed width, and how are primes distributed among such intervals? We examine the analogue of this problem for polynomials over a finite field. Our approach is geometric: we interpret each moment of the distribution in terms of counting certain points on an algebraic variety, and we use an algebraic analogue of the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem to compute the leading terms of this "twisted" point-count. As a motivating example, we realize the "prime polynomial theorem" as a geometric statement.<br />
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== Sep 30 ==<br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
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== Oct 07 ==<br />
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<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Will Cocke'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''The Trouble with Sharblies''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Sharbly complex provides a generalization of modular symbols and can be used to compute the Hecke eigenvalues on arithmetic cohomology. Such eigenvalues provide useful information pertaining to generalizations of Serre's conjecture. I will introduce the Sharbly complex and examine the necessary reduction techniques needed to compute the Hecke action. A friendly introduction to a new and emerging tool in computational number theory.<br />
|} <br />
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== Oct 14 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Brandon Alberts'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
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ABSTRACT<br />
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== Oct 21 ==<br />
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<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Yueke Hu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Mass equidistribution on modular curve of level N''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
It was shown in previous works that the measure associated to holomorphic newforms of weight k and level q will tend weakly to the Haar measure on modular curve of level 1, as qk goes to infinity. In this talk I will show that this phenomenon is also true on modular curves of general level N.<br />
|} <br />
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== Oct 28 ==<br />
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<center><br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''David Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Intro to Complex Dynamics''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Given a polynomial f(z) with complex coefficients, we can ask for which complex numbers p is the set {f(p), f(f(p)), f(f(f(p))),...} bounded, that is to ask which complex numbers have bounded forward orbit under f(z)? Alternatively we can turn the question around and ask for a fixed complex number p, for which (complex) polynomials is the forward orbit of p bounded? Finite? Periodic? These questions give the interesting fractal pictures many of you have probably seen. Amazingly many of the tools needed to approach these questions, arose well before computers allowed us to generate images like the one above. In this talk we will explore some of the basic tools and results of complex dynamics paying particular attention relations to number theory. The goal being to present some of the background material need for Laura DeMarco’s talk later in the week. (Also getting to see a really cool area of mathematics!)<br />
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</center><br />
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== Nov 04 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Vlad Matei'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Modular forms for definite quaternion algebras''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Jacquet-Langlands theorem states that given two quaternion algebras, then certain automorphic forms for one of them are in canonical bijection with certain automorphic forms for the other. This seems far too general and also a bit vague.So if one translates the statement of the JL theorem down a bit, we should have that certain classical modular forms should be related to certain "modular forms" on other quaternion algebras. We will define modular forms for quaternion algebras, and we will see that for definite quaternion algebras they are very concrete algebraic objects.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== Nov 11 ==<br />
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|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ryan Julian'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''What is a K3 surface, and why are K1 and K2 surfaces only studied by mountain climbers?''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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== Nov 18 ==<br />
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== Nov 25 ==<br />
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== Dec 02 ==<br />
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<center><br />
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| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
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ABSTRACT<br />
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</center><br />
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== Dec 09 ==<br />
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<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
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| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
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ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
== Organizer contact information ==<br />
<br />
Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
Ryan Julian (mrjulian@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
Sean Rostami (srostami@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
----<br />
Return to the [[NTSGrad|Number Theory Graduate Student Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=NTSGrad_Fall_2015/Abstracts&diff=8759NTSGrad Fall 2015/Abstracts2014-11-10T05:03:23Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Nov 11 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Sep 02 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Lalit Jain'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Monodromy computations in topology and number theory''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The monodromy of a family of varieties is a measure of how homology classes vary. Surprisingly, many familiar ideas in number theory, such as Galois representations and Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, are closely linked to monodromy of specific families. In this talk I will define monodromy, explain some number theoretic applications, and describe original work of computing monodromy for moduli spaces of covers of the projective line (Hurwitz spaces). This work generalizes previous results of Achter-Pries, Yu and Hall on hyperelliptic families. Only basic knowledge of algebraic topology and number theory is required. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
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<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 09 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Infintely many supersingular primes for every elliptic curve over the rationals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
In his 1987 Inventiones paper, Dr. Noam Elkies proved that every elliptic curve over <math>\mathbb{Q}</math> has infinitely many supersingular primes. We shall discuss some of the mathematics needed to prove this result and give a proof.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 16 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Silas Johnson'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Alternate Discriminants and Mass Formulas for Number Fields''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Kedlaya and Wood have explored alternate invariants for number fields, with the idea of replacing the discriminant in standard field-counting questions with one of these alternate invariants. We further explore the space of “reasonable” invariants, expanding on Kedlaya and Wood’s definition. We also discuss a theorem on mass formulas for these invariants.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 23 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Hast'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Moments of prime polynomials in short intervals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
How many prime numbers occur in a typical "short interval" of fixed width, and how are primes distributed among such intervals? We examine the analogue of this problem for polynomials over a finite field. Our approach is geometric: we interpret each moment of the distribution in terms of counting certain points on an algebraic variety, and we use an algebraic analogue of the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem to compute the leading terms of this "twisted" point-count. As a motivating example, we realize the "prime polynomial theorem" as a geometric statement.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 30 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
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== Oct 07 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Will Cocke'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''The Trouble with Sharblies''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Sharbly complex provides a generalization of modular symbols and can be used to compute the Hecke eigenvalues on arithmetic cohomology. Such eigenvalues provide useful information pertaining to generalizations of Serre's conjecture. I will introduce the Sharbly complex and examine the necessary reduction techniques needed to compute the Hecke action. A friendly introduction to a new and emerging tool in computational number theory.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 14 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Brandon Alberts'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 21 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Yueke Hu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Mass equidistribution on modular curve of level N''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
It was shown in previous works that the measure associated to holomorphic newforms of weight k and level q will tend weakly to the Haar measure on modular curve of level 1, as qk goes to infinity. In this talk I will show that this phenomenon is also true on modular curves of general level N.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 28 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''David Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Intro to Complex Dynamics''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Given a polynomial f(z) with complex coefficients, we can ask for which complex numbers p is the set {f(p), f(f(p)), f(f(f(p))),...} bounded, that is to ask which complex numbers have bounded forward orbit under f(z)? Alternatively we can turn the question around and ask for a fixed complex number p, for which (complex) polynomials is the forward orbit of p bounded? Finite? Periodic? These questions give the interesting fractal pictures many of you have probably seen. Amazingly many of the tools needed to approach these questions, arose well before computers allowed us to generate images like the one above. In this talk we will explore some of the basic tools and results of complex dynamics paying particular attention relations to number theory. The goal being to present some of the background material need for Laura DeMarco’s talk later in the week. (Also getting to see a really cool area of mathematics!)<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 04 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Vlad Matei'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Modular forms for definite quaternion algebras''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Jacquet-Langlands theorem states that given two quaternion algebras, then certain automorphic forms for one of them are in canonical bijection with certain automorphic forms for the other. This seems far too general and also a bit vague.So if one translates the statement of the JL theorem down a bit, we should have that certain classical modular forms should be related to certain "modular forms" on other quaternion algebras. We will define modular forms for quaternion algebras, and we will see that for definite quaternion algebras they are very concrete algebraic objects.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 11 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ryan Julian'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''What is a K3 surface, and why are K1 and K2 surfaces only studied by mountain climbers?''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 18 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
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== Nov 25 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
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== Dec 02 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Dec 09 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
== Organizer contact information ==<br />
<br />
Sean Rostami (srostami@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
----<br />
Return to the [[NTSGrad|Number Theory Graduate Student Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]</div>Mrjulianhttps://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=NTSGrad_Fall_2015/Abstracts&diff=8758NTSGrad Fall 2015/Abstracts2014-11-10T05:02:52Z<p>Mrjulian: /* Nov 11 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Sep 02 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Lalit Jain'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Monodromy computations in topology and number theory''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The monodromy of a family of varieties is a measure of how homology classes vary. Surprisingly, many familiar ideas in number theory, such as Galois representations and Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, are closely linked to monodromy of specific families. In this talk I will define monodromy, explain some number theoretic applications, and describe original work of computing monodromy for moduli spaces of covers of the projective line (Hurwitz spaces). This work generalizes previous results of Achter-Pries, Yu and Hall on hyperelliptic families. Only basic knowledge of algebraic topology and number theory is required. <br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 09 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Megan Maguire'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Infintely many supersingular primes for every elliptic curve over the rationals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
In his 1987 Inventiones paper, Dr. Noam Elkies proved that every elliptic curve over <math>\mathbb{Q}</math> has infinitely many supersingular primes. We shall discuss some of the mathematics needed to prove this result and give a proof.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 16 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Silas Johnson'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Alternate Discriminants and Mass Formulas for Number Fields''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Kedlaya and Wood have explored alternate invariants for number fields, with the idea of replacing the discriminant in standard field-counting questions with one of these alternate invariants. We further explore the space of “reasonable” invariants, expanding on Kedlaya and Wood’s definition. We also discuss a theorem on mass formulas for these invariants.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 23 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Daniel Hast'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Moments of prime polynomials in short intervals''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
How many prime numbers occur in a typical "short interval" of fixed width, and how are primes distributed among such intervals? We examine the analogue of this problem for polynomials over a finite field. Our approach is geometric: we interpret each moment of the distribution in terms of counting certain points on an algebraic variety, and we use an algebraic analogue of the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem to compute the leading terms of this "twisted" point-count. As a motivating example, we realize the "prime polynomial theorem" as a geometric statement.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Sep 30 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 07 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Will Cocke'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''The Trouble with Sharblies''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Sharbly complex provides a generalization of modular symbols and can be used to compute the Hecke eigenvalues on arithmetic cohomology. Such eigenvalues provide useful information pertaining to generalizations of Serre's conjecture. I will introduce the Sharbly complex and examine the necessary reduction techniques needed to compute the Hecke action. A friendly introduction to a new and emerging tool in computational number theory.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 14 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Brandon Alberts'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 21 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Yueke Hu'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Mass equidistribution on modular curve of level N''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
It was shown in previous works that the measure associated to holomorphic newforms of weight k and level q will tend weakly to the Haar measure on modular curve of level 1, as qk goes to infinity. In this talk I will show that this phenomenon is also true on modular curves of general level N.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Oct 28 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''David Bruce'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Intro to Complex Dynamics''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
Given a polynomial f(z) with complex coefficients, we can ask for which complex numbers p is the set {f(p), f(f(p)), f(f(f(p))),...} bounded, that is to ask which complex numbers have bounded forward orbit under f(z)? Alternatively we can turn the question around and ask for a fixed complex number p, for which (complex) polynomials is the forward orbit of p bounded? Finite? Periodic? These questions give the interesting fractal pictures many of you have probably seen. Amazingly many of the tools needed to approach these questions, arose well before computers allowed us to generate images like the one above. In this talk we will explore some of the basic tools and results of complex dynamics paying particular attention relations to number theory. The goal being to present some of the background material need for Laura DeMarco’s talk later in the week. (Also getting to see a really cool area of mathematics!)<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 04 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Vlad Matei'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | ''Modular forms for definite quaternion algebras''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
The Jacquet-Langlands theorem states that given two quaternion algebras, then certain automorphic forms for one of them are in canonical bijection with certain automorphic forms for the other. This seems far too general and also a bit vague.So if one translates the statement of the JL theorem down a bit, we should have that certain classical modular forms should be related to certain "modular forms" on other quaternion algebras. We will define modular forms for quaternion algebras, and we will see that for definite quaternion algebras they are very concrete algebraic objects.<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 11 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''Ryan Julian'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | What is a K3 surface, and why are K1 and K2 surfaces only studied by mountain climbers?<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 18 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Nov 25 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Dec 02 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Dec 09 ==<br />
<br />
<center><br />
{| style="color:black; font-size:100%" table border="2" cellpadding="10" width="700" cellspacing="20"<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#F0A0A0" align="center" style="font-size:125%" | '''SPEAKER'''<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" | TITLE<br />
|-<br />
| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" | <br />
ABSTRACT<br />
|} <br />
</center><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
== Organizer contact information ==<br />
<br />
Sean Rostami (srostami@math.wisc.edu)<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
----<br />
Return to the [[NTSGrad|Number Theory Graduate Student Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]<br />
<br />
Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]</div>Mrjulian