Math Club

Stony Brook University

The Stony Brook Math Club is intended for students interested in exploring the mathematical universe. Students meet on Fridays at 3:00pm in Physics P-122. Approximately once a month there are also talks during the Campus Lifetime (Wednesdays at 12:50) in Math P-131. At Friday meetings, there are problem sets and informal student discussions, which could involve anything from origami to cool tricks to use on a calculus exam. The Wednesday talks will generally be more mathematical in depth and are given by professors, undergraduates, or anyone in between. Pizza is always provided! You can join the mailing list by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/sbmath or e-mailing Moira Chas.
 

List of sites for 2011 REU in Math

Informal Talks

April 13, 2011, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  George Hart Mathematics and Art pdf
March 9, 2011, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  Marianna Csornyei On the Visibility of Invisible Sets pdf
December 1, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  Alex Kontorovich Primes in Circle Packings
October 27, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  John Milnor Geometry of growth and form
September 29, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  Scott Sutherland Complex polynomials and branched covers
April 21, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  Marco Martens Cantor Sets and Chaos pdf
March 17, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  Alex Kunin   Origametry pdf
February 3, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  Jeremy Kahn   A simple proof of the Vaan der Waarden theorem pdf
November 18, 2009, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  Oleg Viro   Can straight lines be interlaced? pdf
October 14, 2009, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131  Chris Arettines   Visualizing curves and their intersections on surfaces pdf
 

Problem of the Month (May/June 2010)

Let ABCD be a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle with center O so that the angles DAO and BAC are the same. Show that the diagonals, AC and BD, in ABCD are perpendicular. pdf

Solutions can be dropped off in Math 3-119 or e-mailed to Moira Chas as a pdf file.

April 2010  problem and solution  Winners: Du Huang, Ahmad Rafiqi, Kevin Sackel ('13)   Prize: The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O'Shea
February 2010  problem and solution  Winners: Kevin Sackel ('13), Ren Yi ('11)  Prize: Music of the Primes by Marcus du Satoy
November 2009  problem and solution  Winner: Kevin Sackel ('13)  Prize: Algebra by Michael Artin

If you'd like something more challenging, try this or Conjecture 1 at the bottom of page 3 here; the footnote on page 1 and everything on pages 4-6 can be ignored. This would make an excellent honors thesis, as well as an actual research publication.

 
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Faculty Advisory Committee: Moira Chas (chair), Jeremy Kahn, Aleksey Zinger.
Last modified: March 28, 2011.