Fall 2006 Undergraduate Math Seminar

September

• Aug. 29: Organizational Meeting
• Sept. 5: Designing a Standards-based Middle School Mathematics Curriculum
  Rick Billstein, University of Montana
• Sept. 12: FUND-RAISER for the Math Club: Come & Help us Proofread a Calculus Solution Manual
• Sept. 19: Applied Mathematics and the Biochemistry of Neuroscience
Emily Stone, University of Montana
• Sept. 26: Do Dogs Know Calculus?
Jon Graham, University of Montana
Please read this article beforehand; copies are available outside Room MA 110 (Nikolaus Vonessen's office).


October

• Oct. 3: Invariant Theory and Hilbert's 14th Problem
Nikolaus Vonessen, University of Montana
• Oct. 10: Insights Gained through Integration by Parts
Jen Halfpap, University of Montana
• Oct. 17: A Coin Flipping Game
Gary Gordon, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• Oct. 24: Mathematics in the Game of Set®
Elizabeth McMahon, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• Oct. 31: Myths about Chinese Schools and Chinese Mathematics-Johnny's Version
Johnny W. Lott, University of Montana


November

• Nov. 7: Election Day - no classes
• Nov. 14: GAMBLING DAY
  Main organizer:  Jed Mihalisin
• Nov. 21: N is a Number: A portrait of Paul Erdös (a film by Paul Csicsery)
• Nov. 28: What is Abstract Algebra?
Nikolaus Vonessen, University of Montana


December

• Dec. 5: End-of-Semester Party