Fall 2014
From 3-4 pm every Monday (unless otherwise noted!) join the math and statistics department for fun activities, math talks and socializing!
| Date | Activity | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 1 | Math Hike! | N/A | Brown Family Environmental Center |
| Sept 8 | Sources of Flow as Sources of Symmetry: Visualizing Divergence | Prof. Judy Holdener and Prof. Marie Snipes |
RBH 109 |
| Sept 15 | Painting the Math Chair | Prof. Brian Jones | Science Quad |
| Sept 22 | Fall Fractals! | Prof. Elin Farnell and Prof. Drew Kerkhoff |
TBA |
| Sept 29 | An Introduction to the Poincare Inequality | Marcos Lopez (University of Cincinnati) |
RBH 109 |
| Oct 6 | Birthday Party! | N/A | 202 E. Wiggin St. |
| Oct 13 | Student summer research talks | Robin Belton and Zach Weiner | RBH 109 |
| Oct 20 | The Mathematics of Balloon Art! | Prof. Judy Holdener | RBH 109 |
| Oct 27 | Student summer research talks | Nick Connolly and Lila Greco | RBH 109 |
| Nov 3 | Spider Graphs | Zoey Guo (Northwestern University) |
RBH 109 |
| Nov 10 | Robots in Space, Ill-gotten Norwegian Stamps, and an Austrian Castle: the Benefits of Solving Polynomial Equations | Prof. Dan Bates (Colorado State University) |
RBH 109 |
| Nov 17 | An Introduction to Prime Ends | Dewey Estep (University of Cincinnati) |
RBH 109 |
| Nov 24 | No meeting -- Thanksgiving Break |
N/A | N/A |
| Dec 1 | Faculty Summer Research Presentations | Profs. Aydin, Holdener, Jones and Snipes | RBH 109 |
| Dec 8 | Cookie Decorating | TBA | TBA |
Other activities and events of interest:
Tuesday September 30 (RBH 311): LaTeX Seminar for the Senior Exercise
Saturday, December 6 (10am-1pm and 3pm-6pm): Putnam Exam
Last semester's Math Monday schedule can be found here.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio 43022
