NC State Society for Undergraduate Mathematics
SUM Series, Spring 2010

The SUM Series features informal, interesting talks on mathematical topics or issues of interest to math majors.
Unless indicated in the schedule below, the SUM Series meets on Wednesdays from 4:00 to 4:50, in SAS 2102.
You will have a few minutes to help yourself to pizza before the talk.

Date Time
Speaker
Title (click for abstract)
January 27 4:00-4:50 pm
Bojko Bakalov
Reflection groups, root systems, and singularities
February 3 4:00-4:50 pm
Lindsey Bosko
Cards, Codes, and Kangaroos
February 10 4:00-4:50 pm
Nathan Reading
Knots, Surfaces and the Fundamental Group
February 17 4:00-4:50 pm
Norman Storwick (BlueCross BlueShield of NC)
Be an Actuary
February 24 4:00-4:50 pm
Sandra O. Paur
So you want to go to grad school?
March 3 4:00-4:50 pm
Laurie Zach (High Point University)
Young Diagrams and Young Tableaux
March 4 4:00-4:50 pm
in SAS 4201
Stephen Schecter
Undergraduate Pre-Colloquium
Game Theory and Climate Change Negotiations
This special event may be interesting to the SUM audience.
March 10 4:00-4:50 pm
Nephi Noble (National Security Agency)
An Introduction to Coding Theory
March 17
No meeting
Spring Break
March 24 4:00-4:50 pm
Loek Helminck
p-adic numbers and p-adic analyses
March 31
No meeting
Day before Spring Holiday
April 7 4:00-4:50 pm
Megan Owen
The mathematics of phylogenetic trees
April 14 4:00-4:50 pm
No meeting
Catch up on studying!
April 21 4:00-4:50 pm
Miles A. Beam, P.E.
CSI on the water
April 28 4:00-4:50 pm
Nicholas Yelle, Zach Clawson, Joseph Briggs
Undergraduate research talks*

*Besides the undergraduate talks happening in the SUM Series, there is another set of Undergraduate research talks happening April 29 in SAS 2102, 3:30 to 5:00.

There is a low-volume (weekly) email list dedicated to announcements of upcoming SUM Series talks.
To join, click this link, which should open up an email message.
Then just send the message as is.


Fall 2009 Schedule


Current Schedule


Fall 2010 Schedule