Math Club Talks/Events Recent/Upcoming
This list is by no means all-inclusive. Please be patient as we are in the process of updating our site.
Current Events: (Do not forget the weekly challenge problems in the Stylus.)
CANCELED:
Ken Rosen will no longer come and give a guest lecture.
Saturday April 14, 10am, Location TBA
16th Annual Mathematics Competition: In Memory of Dr. Richard Mahoney
Thursday April 5, 7pm in B1 Holmes
"Problems in the game of Go" with guest Ruhan Zhao.
Saturday, March 31st, 9:30AM-12:30PM- New Math Competition for students in the area
edition of the University of Rochester Math Olympiad for college students. Open to Cornell,
RIT, Nazareth, Saint Bonaventure, SUNY-Brockport and University of Rochester students.
The exam is Putnam
style: everybody will take the test at their own school.
The exam will have 4 proof-based problems.
In terms of the level of the problems, two of the problems will be
below Putnam level and two at Putnam level (among these two: one will be
Putnam-easy, the other one Putnam-medium).
Three prizes will be awarded: first prize $250, second prize $200 and the
third prize $150.
Tuesday Feb. 27, 7pm in B1 Holmes - "Games and Strategy"
Bring your favorite game, and we will discuss strategies and winning. We will
also consider which games to look at more deeply in our semester long look at
Games and Strategies.
Tuesday Feb. 13, 7pm in B1 Holmes- Organizational Meeting
Last Semester's Events
- Thursday September 14, 2006 4:30
207 Holmes - First Meeting - Organizational - Agenda) Plan next few meetings, Plan Contests, hand out first few challenge problems, elect officers, etc. - Thursday September 28, 2006 4:30
207 Holmes - Logic puzzles and games- - Thursday October 12, 2006 4:30
207 Holmes - "The Mathematics of Chess" - Michael Steves . Also submit latest challenge problems. - Thursday November 2, 2006 at 6pm
Location 207 Holmes- "History and math of IQ tests" - Momchil Kyurchiev, also submit latest challenge problems- note the CHANGE in TIME - Thursday, November 15, 4:30 pm in 207 Holmes
"Fractals" Milen Nikolov - Final meeting- week of December 4-8
Topic = open, possible ideas- work out some of the Putnam problems? general study break perhaps over the weekend? Watch a movie?
To see a list of old events please click here.
For more information on joining the Math Club contact Dr. Howard Skogman.
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