Bridge Tournament
Tom Leighton, Richard Stanley
Fri Jan 29, 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: Tom Leighton, 2-377, x3-3662, ftl@math.mit.edu
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Classical Geometry
Abhinav Kumar
Tue Jan 26, 01-02:30pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Learn about some famous problems and theorems in classical geometry and some of their connections to modern mathematics.
Contact: Abhinav Kumar, 2-169, x3-4057, abhinav@math.mit.edu
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Integration Bee
Abhinav Kumar
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
See individual session descriptions below.
Contact: Abhinav Kumar, 2-169, x3-4057, abhinav@math.mit.edu
Integration Bee Qualifying Testing
Abhinav Kumar
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.
Mon Jan 25, 05-06:00pm, 4-149
Integration Bee
Abhinav Kumar
No enrollment limit. No advance sign up (but contestants must qualify, see Monday, Jan. 25th). Single session event. Come watch your fellow students match wits and single variable integration skills for prizes and the title of "Grand Integrator."
Wed Jan 27, 07-09:00pm, 54-100
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Introduction to Contract Bridge
Jack Chu, Brian Duran, Gloria Tsoi
Mon, Thu, Jan 4, 7, 11, 14, 21, 25, 28, 07-09:30pm, 4-149
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 45 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
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.
You may purchase an introductory bridge book for $10 if you wish.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitdlbc/www/novice-results/10/IAP-2010.pdf
Contact: Gloria Tsoi, iapbridge@mit.edu
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Machine Learning on iPhones
William Bradley
Thu Jan 14, 21, 28, 02-05:00pm, E15-235
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
How smart is an iPhone? How about a bunch of them? We will introduce the theory of statistical inference and machine learning. We will also provide a network of iPhones for experimentation along with software for performing inference. Students will design and build their own projects.
Contact: Theo Weber, theo_w@mit.edu
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Math Contest in Modeling Training Session
M. Bazant
Wed Jan 27, 01-02:30pm, 2-135
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Training and team selection for the COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Feb 5-9, 2009. http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/
Teams of up to three students will work together to solve a real-world problem in applied mathematics. For more information, contact Prof. Bazant (bazant@mit.edu).
Web: http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm
Contact: M. Bazant, 66-552, x8-7039, bazant@mit.edu
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Mathematics Department Music Recital
Christoher Kottke
Wed Jan 27, 04-06:00pm, 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: Christoher Kottke, 2-488, x3-4097, ckottke@math.mit.edu
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The Prime Number Theorem
Sigurdur Helgason
Tue Jan 5, 12:30-02:00pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
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 independently proved the Prime Number Theorem that the limit of this ratio is exactly 1. Many distinguished mathematicians (particularly Norbert Wiener) have contributed to a simplification of the proof and now (by an important device by D.J. Newman and an exposition by D. Zagier) a very short and easy proof is available. This will be given in the lecture in full detail. The proof involves only standard Calculus except at the very end where Cauchy’s theorem in the complex
Contact: Sigurdur Helgason, 2-182, x3-3668, helgason@mit.edu
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Women in Mathematics Lecture Series
Avisha Lalla
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
The Women In Mathematics Lectures consists of generally accessible talks (starting from advanced undergraduates) by female research visitors to MIT's Mathematics Department.
Web: http://math.mit.edu/conferences/wim
Contact: Avisha Lalla, 2-269, x3-4994, avisha@math.mit.edu
The Enigma of the Equations of Fluid Motion: A Survey of Existence and Regularity Results
Natasa Pavlovic
Tue Jan 12, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Using Math to See Inside the Earth
Alison Malcolm
Thu Jan 14, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Mathematics and the Mitigation of Disease Spread
Lydia Bourouiba
Thu Jan 21, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Knitting and Math
Amanda Epping Redlich
Tue Jan 26, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
Discrepancy Theory
Jill Pipher
Thu Jan 28, 01-02:30pm, 2-190
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