Talks for Undergraduates
From time to time a
mathematician is invited to give a talk that is specifically for
undergraduates. Recent speakers and their topics are listed
below.
| David Morrison (Duke) |
Stalking the Shape of the Universe |
| J. H. Conway (Princeton) |
Some Tricks with String |
| Persi Diaconis (Harvard) |
The Mathematics of Shuffling Cards |
| Joseph Gallian (U. Minnesota, Duluth) |
Touring the Torus |
| Robert Devaney (Boston) |
The Mathematics behind the Mandelbrot Set |
| Donald Knuth (Stanford) |
Leaper Graphs |
| Colin Adams (Williams) |
Real Estate in Hyperbolic Space |
| Jeffrey Weeks (Minnesota) |
Visualizing Four Dimensions |
| Lloyd N. Trefethen
(Cornell) |
Computational Mathematics in the 1990's |
| Underwood Dudley (DePauw) |
Formulas for Primes |
| Lisa Fauci (Tulane) |
Modeling Biofilm Processes in a Moving Fluid |
| Barry Cipra (Mathematical science writer) |
Solved and Unsolved Problems in Grade School Math |