Bridge Tournament
Richard Stanley, Tom Leighton
Fri Feb 3, 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: Richard Stanley, 2-375, x3-7930, rstan@math.mit.edu
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Integration Bee
R. Lippert
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
See individual session descriptions below.
Contact: R. Lippert, 2-335, x3-7905, lippert@math.mit.edu
Integration Bee Qualifying Testing
R. Lippert
Stop by at any point during the session, for a quick test of your single variable integration skills. Top scorers qualify for the Integration Bee. No knowledge beyond 18.01 necessary.
Wed Jan 18, 03-05:00pm, 56-114
Integration Bee
R. Lippert
No enrollment limit. No advance sign up (but contestants must qualify, see Wednesday, Jan. 18th). Single session event.
Come watch your fellow students match wits and single variable integration skills for prizes and the title of "Grand Integrator."
Tue Jan 24, 06-08:00pm, 54-100
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Introduction to Contract Bridge
Ljudmila Kamenova, Gary Schwartz
Mon Jan 9, 07-09:00pm, Student Center, meeting in W20-491
Wed Jan 11, 07-09:00pm, Student Center, meeting in W20-407
Mon Jan 16, Wed Jan 18, Mon Jan 23, 07-09:00pm, Student Center, meeting in W20-491
Wed Jan 25, 07-09:00pm, Student Center, meeting in W20-407
Mon Jan 30, 07-09:00pm, 4-149
Wed Feb 1, 07-09:00pm, Student Center, meeting in W20-491
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: An interest in card games, and the desire to have fun!
Come and discover the fun and intellectual challenge associated with contract bridge! In this course, we explore the fundamentals of the game, including bidding, declarer play, and defense. The lessons are based on The Club Series by Audrey Grant, as published by the American Contract Bridge League.
Each session will consist of a lecture, several examples, and supervised play. By the end of this eight-session course, the student will have learned enough to play bridge socially, and start exploring the exciting world of duplicate bridge. There will also be an individual tournament at the end of the course, with prizes for the winners.
Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, and the MIT Draper Labs Bridge Club.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitdlbc/www/
Contact: Ljudmila Kamenova, 2-489, x3-4086, kamenova@math.mit.edu
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Knit or Crochet by the Numbers
Rhonda Culbert
Thu Jan 12, 19, 26, 2, 12-01:30pm, 2-135, Bring your lunch!
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 20-Dec-2005
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Need help with reading knitting or crochet patterns? Stumped on something in the directions of your work in progress? Is there a stitch you've been trying to master without success?
Want to see how someone else does it? Learn new skills. Beginner or experienced needle workers are welcomed to join us. Share your knowledge or learn from scratch for an hour of stitching. Get expert advice and help. Join in the camaraderie and be with other “stitchers”. Bring your own Yarn, Needles and a Project to work on.
Contact: Rhonda Culbert, 2-370, rhonda@math.mit.edu
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Mathematics Department Music Recital
Pak Wing Fok
Thu Jan 26, 03-05:00pm, 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 or listen.
Contact: Pak Wing Fok, 2-331, x3-5029, pakwing@math.mit.edu
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Parallel MATLAB(r) with Star-P Tutorial
Alan Edelman, Vern Shrauger
Wed Feb 1, 10am-02:00pm, 1-115
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Tutorial to obtain productivity with parallel computing using MATLAB. Ideal students might be just starting to use a parallel computer, have little knowledge of parallel programming and prefer to work with MATLAB desktop application. Participation limited and by advanced request. Preference given to MIT students and researchers who already have an application in MATLAB that they are starting to or thinking about parallelizing. Email Professor Edelman and describe your hopes. Ideal project characteristics: Large and/or complex model that would lend itself to parallel programming. Prefer a familiar desktop tool like MATLAB, over using C++ and MPI for parallel programming. Shorten parallel code development time. The tutorial will be hands-on. Every student will have access to Interactive Supercomputing's newly released product: Star-P.
Contact: Alan Edelman, 2-343, x3-7770, edelman@math.mit.edu
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The Prime Number Theorem, History and Proof
Prof. Sigurdur Helgason
Thu Jan 12, 12:30-02:00pm, 2-132
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The location of prime numbers is a central question in number theory. Around 1808, Legendre offered experimental evidence that the number P(x) of primes < x behaves like x/log x for large x. Tchebychev proved (1848) the partial result that the ratio of P(x) to x/log x for large x lies between 7/8 and 9/8. In 1896 Hadamard and de la Vallée Poussin proved the Prime Number Theorem that this limit is exactly 1. Many distinguished mathematicians (including our N. Wiener) have contributed to a simplification of the proof and now (by an important device by D.J. Newmann) a very short and easy proof is available. This will be given in the lecture in full and elementary detail.
Contact: Sigurdur Helgason, 2-182, x3-3668, helgason@MIT.EDU
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