Fall 2007 Undergraduate Math Seminar

Aug. 28 Organizational Meeting  
Sep. 4 Jim Hirstein Zometool Workshop
Sep. 11 George McRae Problems and Contests: Problem Solving Competitions in Mathematics
Sep. 18 John Bardsley Adaptive Optics in Ground-Based Astronomy
Sep. 25 Solomon Harrar The four steps in learning from data in the context of a Real
Life Example 
Oct. 2 Seth Braver  þhe endeles knot: Pentagonal Pulchritude from Pythagoras to the Pearl Poet 
Oct. 9 Günter Törner,
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Groups and defining relations – making abstract objects tangible 
Oct. 16 Jen Halfpap Integrating "Bad" Functions:  Lebesgue's Great Idea
Oct. 23 Bharath Sriraman Inequalities - Mathematically speaking...
Oct. 30 Anna Klene and
Christiane von Reichert,
Department of Geography
What is GIS?
Nov. 6 Kirk Adkins, MS, PLS,
WGM Group, Inc.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) and Land Surveying and Mapping Applications
Nov. 13 Gambling Day  
Nov. 20 Flatland: The Movie  
Nov. 27 Emily Stone Synchrony in the behavior of insect populations: Modeling the fireflies of Thailand
Dec. 4 End of Semester Party!  

All speakers are from the University of Montana (unless otherwise indicated).