Bridge Tournament Dedicated to the Memory of Frank Peterson
R. Stanley
Fri Feb 2, 12-06:00pm, 2-290
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The Mathematics Department challenges all MIT bridge players to a team-of-four tournament. Those without a full team can still come and hope to find teammates. Refreshments offered, prizes awarded. Come and have a good time.
Contact: R. Stanley, 2-375, x3-7930, rstan@math.mit.edu
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Integration Bee
J. Dunagan
Thu Jan 18, 07-09:00pm, 56-114
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Put your single-variable integrating skills to the test against your fellow students for over $100 in prizes (from Tosci's) and the title of "Grand Integrator!" No knowledge beyond 18.01 necessary. Contest will be round-robin for seeding followed by single elimination. Warm-up round included. The Grand Integrator also wins a funny hat.
Contact: J. Dunagan, x3-2345, jdunagan@mit.edu
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Mathematics Department Music Recital
Tilman Bauer
Fri Jan 26, 03-04:30pm, Killian Recital Hall
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This annual concert gives those in the mathematics community, together with family and friends, a chance to perform for each other. Come to play, sing, or listen.
Contact: Tilman Bauer, x3-1589, bauer@math.mit.edu
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Phase II Mathematical Writing
S. Kleiman
Tue Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, 10:30am-12:00pm, 2-136
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Workshops designed to help Math majors fulfill Phase II of the Writing Requirement by developing and improving their papers.
Contact: S. Kleiman, 2-278, x3-4996, kleiman@math.mit.edu
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The Non-Euclidean World: History, Geometry and Analysis
Prof. S. Helgason
Thu Jan 25, 04-05:00pm, 2-135
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This lecture will describe the colorful history of Non-Euclidean Geometry and discuss various models of the non-Euclidean space with an account of the more striking geometric theorems. This will lead to various topics in non-Euclidean analysis, some of relatively recent vintage.
Contact: Prof. S. Helgason, x3-3668, helgason@mit.edu
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