Upcoming Meetings
*We meet in LGRT
1521D, and at each meeting we have refreshements (usually pizza) 30
minutes prior to the talk unless otherwise noted.* | Monday, November 9th, 6:00pm, Jennie D'Ambroise
will present "What is an elliptic function?"
Absract: If you
compute the length of a small arc on an ellipse using the arc length
formula from calculus, you will obtain an integral which cannot be
evaluated using any method learned in that class! What you get is an
elliptic integral, and it cannot be expressed in terms of elementary
functions (such as polynomials, sines, cosines, exponentials, etc.).
We will discuss some properties of these integrals and hopefully still
have time to talk about how these functions arise in
physics. | Wednesday, November 18th, 6:00pm, Chris
Hoogeboom will be presenting a talk on discrete lattices.
(Abstract coming soon) | | On Wednesday, December 2nd,
Eric Sommers (UMASS) will be giving a talk. More info coming
soon. |
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Events for Math
Majors
*You can also check the Announcements Page
for Undegraduates on the Department's Webpage.* | | The deadline to register for the Goldwater Scholarship competition is November 13th. It is a chance to win a scholarship of up to $7500. For more information, please check here. | | The
NES/MAA student competition will be held on November 20, 2009 at
Western New England College. For more information, please check here. |
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