Here is a partial list of speakers/activities for this academic year (so far). It will be updated as information becomes available. Unless otherwise stated, the meetings will take place in Minard 112 at 5pm.

I welcome any suggestions/requests for activities and/or talks for the club. Let me know either personally or via email azer.akhmedov@ndsu.edu

FALL 2015

Sept. 18. Azer Akhmedov

Title: Socrates-Plato Dialogue abstract

Sept. 25. Cameron Switzer, NSA

Title: The secret lives of mathematicians abstract

Summer internship opportunities at NSA for math majors

Oct. 09. Artem Novozhilov

Title: Modeling Chemotaxis abstract

Oct. 23. Aaron Feickert

Title: Cracking the Enigma abstract

Oct. 30. Faraad Armwood

Title: Groups Actions on Sets abstract

SPRING 2015

February 06. Trevor McGuire

Title: Lamé's Theorem with a view toward Gaussian Integers abstract

February 13. Michael Cohen

Title: The Infinite Random Graph abstract

February 20. Liz Sattler

Title: The Chaos Game abstract

February 27. Jessica Striker

Title: Polytopes – points or planes? abstract

March 06. Jon Totushek

Title: "Sweet" Clyde's Inversion Theorem (a.k.a. Keeler's Theorem) abstract

April 10. Mark Spanier

Title: The Mathematics of the Card Game SET abstract

April 17. MATH FAIR

April 24. Dogan Comez

Title. Order in Chaotic Dynamical Systems abstract

May 08. Faraad Armwood

Title. Order of Symmetry Groups for Regular Polygons and Platonic Solids abstract

FALL 2014

September 12. Artem Novozhilov

Title: Population genetics and geometry abstract

September 19. Michael Cohen

Title: Diagonal Arguments and Paradoxes in Mathematics abstract

October 03. Azer Akhmedov

Title: 2013, 2014, 2015. abstract

October 17. Azer Akhmedov

Title: Who invented the soccer ball? abstract

October 31. How to write mathematics badly?

Video materials (lectures by J-P.Serre and N.Wildberger)

November 07. Azer Akhmedov

Title: Using Compass and Ruler

November 14. Movie: Fermat’s Room

November 21. Sean Sather-Wagstaff

Title: The Twin Prime Conjecture abstract

November 28. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

December 05. Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh

Title: Dickson’s Conjecture and Bounded Gaps Between Primes. abstract

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Fall 2013

September 13. Sean Sather-Wagstaff

Title: Applications of Modular Arithmetic abstract

September 20. Jim Coykendall

Title: Large Numbers, Elementary Probability, and Goats abstract

September 27. Jessica Striker

Title: Bijections - Marvelous, Mysterious and Missing abstract

October 04. Artem Novozhilov

Title: The History of Logistic Equation abstract

October 18. Liz Sattler

Title: Cantor Construction: Three Approaches to the Amazing Set abstract

October 25. Jason Boynton

Title: Quotient Sets: From Equivalence to Equality abstract

November 01. Indranil Sengupta

Title: Randomness and Mathematical Finance abstract

November 08. Ivan Schleppenbach

Title: Juggling: Mathematics in Motion abstract

November 15. Sean Sather-Wagstaff

Title: Solving Polynomial Equations … or not abstract

November 22. Erin Brownlee

Title: The Golden Ratio abstract

November 29. Azer Akhmedov

Title: Roads and Villages abstract

SPRING 2014

January 24. Josef Dorfmeister

Title: The Geometry of Escher abstract

January 31. Jessica Striker

Title: The square is a circle… or perhaps a tetrahedron abstract

February 07. Aaron Feickert

Title: Riddle Me This: Exploring the Enigma Cipher abstract

February 14. Maria Alfonseca Cubero

Title: The Kakeya Needle Problem abstract

February 21. Azer Akhmedov

Title: Math Games: is there a winning strategy?

February 28. Artem Novozhilov

Title: Mathematics of Smallpox abstract

March 07. MOVIE: “Pi”

March 28. Azer Akhmedov

Title: Playing Billiard in a Polygon

April 04. Todd Mateer

Title: The Magic of Error Correcting Codes abstract

April 11. Loren Anderson

Title: Coloring the Line abstract

April 25. Aaron Feickert

Title: Losing Passwords Like a Boss abstract

May 02. Warren Shreve

Title: Even versus Odd: Which Are Better Numbers abstract

Activities during the previous years