Math Club
(updated sporadically)
Announcements are made via the Math Club Mailing List. (Subscribe here!) IIT Applied Math Majors should already be on the "ugrads" mailing list, and they will get Math Club email as well.
For a list of events, see this Google Calendar. There's also a Facebook page, and a Google Group called "Math Club at IIT", but the latter doesn't seem to have stuck.
Contact People
- President: Maryiam Imran Qureshi
- VP: Hannah Kolb
- Treasurer: Zhihe Liu
- Secretary: Anita Thomas
- Faculty Advisors: Michael Pelsmajer & Igor Cialenco
- Chancellors and/or Presidents-for-Life: Mike McCourt, Tony Parrillo, Charles Medrano, etc.
Fall 2009 Math Club events (partial list)
- Wednesday Sept 9 12:50-1:40pm, first meeting: elections, pizza, and MATH
- Future events will be announced via our Google Group and our mailing list.
Spring 2009 Math Club events
- Meetings most Wednesdays 12:50 - 1:40 pm in E1 103 with pizza
- Wednesday Jan 28, First meeting; 4pm Student Organizational Fair, Table 34
- Friday Jan 30, First Weekly Problem released
- Wednesday February 4,11,18, Kevin Ventullo (AMATH '09) gives introductory talks on point-set topology
- Wednesday Feb 25, Professor Lubin will be talking about "Missing Points on the Number Line."
- Wednesday Mar 4, Cory Knapp (AMATH '10) gives a talk on "fuzzy games"
- Wednesday Mar 11, Rick Matusewicz (AMATH '10) spoke on Testing for randomness
- Wednesday Mar 18 (no meeting)
- Wednesday Mar 25 4:30pm, Math Tea hosted by SIAM chapter (grad students)
- Wednesday Apr 1, Chris Mitillos and YoungJu Jo gave research talks
- Friday Apr 3, ISMAA Meeting at Bradley University, Peoria. Chris and YoungJu win 2nd and 1st prize for undergraduate research!
- Wednesday Apr 15, Prof.Fasshauer talks about next semester's course offerings
- Monday Apr 20, Menger Day, including Math Club meeting with Professor Richard Durrett of Cornell University, Undergraduate Mathematics Poster Presentations, and Menger Lecture.
- Wednesday Apr 22 (no meeting)
- Thursday Apr 23 12:30pm, Math Club BBQ
- Wednesday Apr 29, Prof.Hickernell gives a talk on Different kinds of averages
- Wednesday May 6 12:45pm, IIT Math Contest; 4:30pm Math Tea with winners and awards announced for contest and weekly problems
- See mailing list archives for details.
Fall 2008 Math Club events (partial list)
- Meetings most Wednesdays 12:50 - 1:40 pm in E1 103 with pizza
- Weekly Problem Competition
- Thursday Oct 9, Math Club BBQ
- Wednesday Oct 29, 12:50, with Prof.Rob Ellis: Graduate School in Applied Mathematics
- Saturday Nov 1, 9:00am-11:30am, Virginia Tech Regional Math Competition (Contact Pelsmajer to sign up.)
- Saturday Nov 1, 2nd Annual Illiana Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference at Millikin University, Decatur, IL
- Wednesday Nov 5, 12:50, with Prof.Greg Fasshauer: Which courses should I take?
- Friday Nov 7, Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
- Saturday Nov 8, Midwestern Graph Theory Conference, IIT
- Saturday Dec 6, William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, IIT
Spring 2008 Math Club events
- Meetings most Wednesdays 12:50 - 1:40 pm in E1 103 with pizza
- Thu Jan 24 12:45 - 1 pm, Organizational meeting (student leaders and faculty)
- Wed Jan 30 5 - 7 pm, Student Organizational Fair
- Wed Feb 6 12:45 pm, Summer opportunities info session & pizza
Student speakers: Jon Beagley, Hannah Kolb, Kevin Ventullo - Fri Feb 15 7:30 pm, kickoff movie night w/grad students SIAM chapter
- Mon Feb 18 4:40 pm, E1 106, Statistics talk (AMATH dept. event)
- Wed Feb 20 12:45 pm, E1 103, Julie Maddox speaks on Study Abroad, then problems & pizza
- Wed Feb 27 12:45 pm, E1 103, movie "N is a Number" & pizza
- Fri Feb 29 5 pm, First Problem of the week released!
- March 17-21 (Spring Break)
- Wed Apr 2 12:50pm, Actuarial Sciences talk by Israel Kowalowski (see his recommended websites)
- Fri Sat Apr 4-5, ISMAA meeting and math contest
- Fri Apr 4 12:45pm, James Glimm (SUNY Stonybrook & President of the AMS) speaks
- Wed Apr 9 12:50pm E1 103, Infomation session about scheduling math classes & Math club elections
- Mon Apr 14, 12:50pm LS 111, Lloyd N. Trefethen speaks to Math Club over lunch on "Eigenmodes of drums (and Physics Nobel Prizes)"
- Mon Apr 14, 4:30pm, Professor Trefethen gives the 2008 Menger Lecture (part of Remembering Menger 2008)
- Tue Apr 15, 4:40pm, Professor Trefethen: "How to be a Successful Applied Mathematician" (a talk intended primarily for graduate students, hosted by the SIAM chapter, location TBA)
- Wed Apr 16 (no meeting)
- Wed Apr 23 (no meeting)
- Thu Apr 24, talk by Prof.Velez (U.Arizona) "From Number Theory to Applied Mathematics to Missionary Work: My Life as a Mathematician"
- Wed Apr 30, Dean/Prof.McMorris speaks on voting theory
- Wed May 7, 12:50pm, IIT Math Contest (thanks to SIAM chapter & Prof.Cialenco)
- Thu May 8, BBQ near the tennis courts
Fall 2007 Math Club events
- Weekly meeting Problem-solving session/pizza
- Time/location TBA (12:50 in E1) (W 9/5, Th 9/13, Th 9/20, Tu 9/25) Next: Tu 10/2
- Thursday September 20:
- Talk by Emily Breckenridge from the Career Management Center
- Thursday, September 27
- at 10pm Flatland, the movie at the Triangle Fraternity, 3360 S. Michigan (farthest corner), hosted by Preston Bailey.
- Saturday October 6
- all day Illiana Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference, Wabash College, IN
- Monday October 8
- Math Club Barbecue (BBQ) with AM dept. & MMF students, near the tennis courts Contact Ben Niu if you want to help
- VTRMC Math Contest Saturday October 27
- 9:00am-11:30am, held at IIT
- Sometime
- Undergraduates talk about summer experiences (Jon Beagley, Kevin Ventullo, Hannah Kolb, more?) and hear about possibilities for next summer
- More conferences we might attend:
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- AMS Fall Central Section Meeting (Friday-Saturday October 5-6, DePaul Univ, Downtown campus, Chicago)
- Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics & Biology Conference (Saturday-Sunday October 27-28, held at MSU) conflicts with V-Tech Competition unfortunately;
- Undergraduate Mathematics Day (Saturday, November 3, at University of Dayton);
- 18th Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics & CSUI Research Conference (Friday-Saturday, November 2-3, at Argonne National Laboratory, which is not too far);
- some others listed here
- Putnam Competition
- December 1, held at IIT
Spring 2007 Math Club events
- Friday, May 4
- BBQ near the tennis courts
- Wednesday, April 18
- Job candidate talk, for Senior Lecturer position at IIT
- Thursday, April 12
- Job candidate talk, for Senior Lecturer position at IIT
- Wednesday, April 11 at 12:50pm
- As part of the Remembering Menger events, guest speaker Karl Sigmund, Professor of Mathematics, University of Vienna
- Wednesday, April 4
- Dr. Fasshauer speaks and answers questions on: Course Scheduling for Fall 2007 and beyond (Registration for Fall begins April 16)
- Friday & Saturday, March 30-31
- ISMAA 2007 meeting, including a undergraduate talks and a math competition! Brief Recap: Tony organized the trip Flat tire - no problem Talks given by Professor Kaul, Jon Beagley, and Keith Campbell[?]
- Wednesday, February 7
- Jon Beagley spoke about his research on Latin hypercubes.
- Wednesday, Jan 23
- 12:15pm in E1 Room 121 Come to the meeting and learn about opportunities for doing math research - as an undergraduate student! Starting at 12:30, you'll hear from Jon Beagley, Mike McCourt, and James Pierce about their experiences last summer. There will also be pizza & drinks. (It's about time to start applying to next summer's programs. If you can't wait for the meeting to learn more, you can start here .)
- Wednesdays at 12:50pm
- in E1 Room 121 Weekly meeting/problem-solving session
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Fall 2006 Math Club events
- BBQ
- Organizing meeting
- Dr. Ledermann and Dr. Ledermann spoke about a scholarship opportunity for students interested in becoming teachers
- Four undergraduates spoke about the mathematics of a form of the game, "Clue"
- Weekly meetings to practice challenging Math Competition-type problems. And consume pizza.
