2018 Classes
Here is an overview of our courses from this summer. You can read the class descriptions ("blurbs"), view the global schedule in a grid, or see all the classes sorted by category.
Here is the list of classes by subject:
Algebra
- Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
- Cyclotomic Polynomials and Migotti's Theorem
- Galois Theory
- Group Theory
- Intro Ring Theory
- Linear Algebra
- Spectral Graph Theory
- Visualizing Groups
- Wedderburn's Theorem
- What is a "Sylow" anyways?
- Would I ever Lie Group to you?
- Wreath Products
Analysis
- Calculus without Calculus
- Chaotic? Good!
- Continued Fraction Expansions and e
- Convergence Issues; or: Monsters in Real Analysis
- Elliptic functions
- Infinitesimaller Calculus: Sequences, Integrals, and Democracy
- Irrationality Proofs
- One-Day Complex Analysis
- Oversize Airline Luggage
- What should integration be?
- Colloquium: The Most Beautiful Equation in Math
Applied Math
- Axiomatic Music Theory part 2: Rhythm
- Game Theory (The Economic Variety)
- How to Get Away from Dead Guys
- Infections, contractions, and tumors, Oh My! Agent Based Modeling of Biological Systems.
- Mathematica Workshop
- Mathematics of Democracy
- Nonzero-sum games
- Special Relativity
- The Maths of Peppa Pig
- The Quantum Spring
- Colloquium: How to Win the Lottery
- Colloquium: Is Mathematics Biology's Next Microscope?
- Colloquium: Quantum Mathematicians
Combinatorics
- A Slice of PIE
- An Introduction to q-Analogues
- Combinatorial Designs
- Combinatorial Game Theory
- Combinatorial Poetry
- Cycles in permutations
- Divisor Theory of Graphs
- Generating Functions, Catalan Numbers, and Partitions
- Graph Minors
- How to Juggle
- Intersecting polynomials
- Intro Graph Theory
- King Chicken Theorems
- Latin Squares and Finite Geometries
- Partially Ordered Sets
- The Stable Marriage Problem
- de Bruijn Sequences
- Colloquium: The Threshold Density Theorem
- Colloquium: What is a q-analog?
Computer Science
- Curse of Dimensionality
- Hardness
- Haskell
- Information Theory and the Redundancy of English
- Simple Models of Computation
- Teaching Computers to Read
- The Art of Live-TeXing
- Colloquium: Building machines that learn and think like people
Geometry
- Axiomatic Geometry
- DIY Hyperbolic Geometry
- Hilbert's Paper, Scissors, and Rock
- Triangulations and Flip-Graphs
- Tropical Plane Curves
- Yes, you can square the circle
- Yes, you can trisect angles
- Colloquium: Dynamical Limits: Sometimes a Picture is Worth Zero Words
History, Literature, and Education
- History of Math
- Mathematical Art History
- Colloquium: Accidental Mathematics
- Colloquium: Change of Perspective in Mathematics
Logic/Set Theory
- Crash Course
- Minus Choice, Still Paradoxes
- Stupid Games on Uncountable Sets
- The Continuum Hypothesis
- Colloquium: Not the Continuum Hypothesis
Number Theory
- Dirichlet's Theorem on Primes a mod b
- Galois Theory and Number Theory
- Intro Number Theory
- Quadratic reciprocity
Probability/Statistics
- Probability & Paradoxes
- Shuffling and Card Tricks
Problem Solving
- A Mathematician's Perspective on the World
- ARML Power Rounds
- Problem Solving: Tetrahedra
- Problem-Solving: The Just Do It method
- Street Fighting Mathematics
- Colloquium: Two equals one: Street-fighting mathematics and science for better teaching and thinking
Topology
- Combinatorial Topology
- Differential Topology
- Higher Homotopy Groups
- Knot Theory
- Low-Dimensional Zoology
- The Fundamental Group
- Uranus has at least 2 storms
- Colloquium: A hex on your fixed points!
