Undergraduate Math Club

Welcome to the MathClub for Fall 2009!

The Math Club meets each Wednesday at 4 PM, in 300 SEO, the Math Commons Room. Feel free to drop by, there are no dues. Plus, refreshments are always served!

If you are interested in participating, drop by any Wednesday, or email the club president, Natalie Krzyzanowski (nkrzyz2@uic.edu).

Check out our Facebook page, "UIC Math Club" under Student Groups - Clubs & Societies.

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Announcements

  • Putnam Competition practice sessions will be held in SEO 300 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m. We will be doing practice problems with Professor Alexey Cheskidov and Professor Ramin Takloo-Bighash.
  • Monika Aggarwal (maggar2@uic.edu) was selected to be Math Club Vice-President.
  • Edgar Colin (ecolin3@uic.edu) was selected to be Math Club Secretary.
  • Anna Putyra (aputyr2@uic.edu) was selected to be Math Club Treasurer.

 

Activities for Fall Semester 2009

  • December 2, 2009
    Activities: Last meeting. Potluck.

  • November 25, 2009
    Activities: Lecture by Math faculty Louis Kauffman. Topic is "Knots and Exotic Spheres."

  • November 18, 2009
    Activities: Talk by undergraduate student Nick Spizziri.

  • November 11, 2009
    Activities: Talk ---- will be updated later

  • November 4, 2009
    Activities: No talk, but we will have a meeting, play Set, discuss improvements and anything else, etc.

  • October 28, 2009
    Activities: Lecture by Math faculty Professor Izzet Coskun on "Waring's Problem for Polynomials."

  • October 21, 2009
    Activities: Lecture by Math faculty David Dumas on "Things Permuted".

  • October 14, 2009
    Activities: Lecture by physics faculty member Randall Espinoza.

  • October 7, 2009
    Activities: Talk by Jonathan Schneider on Topology.

  • September 30, 2009
    Activities: Lecture by Abel Castillo on "Integral Triangle Triples."

  • September 23, 2009
    Activities: Presentation on Applying for Graduate School, by Kari Dueball, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies, and Professors Ramin Takloo-Bigash, Putnam Team Coach, and Steve Hurder, Director of Undergraduate Studies. (Download the handouts: "Preparing for Graduate School" and "Careers in Mathematics".)

  • September 17, 2009
    Activities: Talk by Robert Krzyzanowski on Modular Forms

  • September 9, 2009
    Activities: Summer Research for Undergraduates - reports from John Goes, Natalie Krzyzanowski & Nick Spizzirri on their REU experiences this past summer.

  • September 2, 2009
    Activities: First meeting for Fall 2009. Get organized and plan activities for Fall.