Thursdays from 02:30pm to 03:20pm in MB113
This is a bi-weekly series of lectures "Initiation in Mathematics" by Penn State research faculty and visitors. It is a component of the new "pre-MASS" (PMASS) program aimed at freshman/sophomore level students, but everybody is welcome to attend. The lectures will be broad in scope and not very technical.
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jan 2011 | John Roe, The Pennsylvania State University | Morley’s theorem |
| 3 Feb 2011 | Sergei Tabachnikov, The Pennsylvania State University | Equiareal dissections |
| 17 Feb 2011 | Anatole Katok, The Pennsylvania State University | Billiard table as a mathematician's playground |
| 3 Mar 2011 | Vladimir Dragovic, MI SANU Belgrade/ GFM, University of Lisbon | Theorems of Poncelet and Marden -- two of the most beautiful theorems |
| 17 Mar 2011 | Vaughn Climenhaga, University of Maryland visiting the Pennsylvania State University | The bigness of things |
| 31 Mar 2011 | Omri Sarig, The Pennsylvania State University | Symbolic dynamics |
| 21 Apr 2011 | George Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University | Ramanujan, Fibonacci numbers, and continued fractions |