Math Coffees at Davidson, 2007-2008
Math Coffees are weekly meetings of students and faculty to
hear a local or visiting speaker.
Check here frequently for updates!
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Katie Davis, DC '08
Skyline Augmented Fillings
7:30--8:30 p.m., Thursday, April 24
Chambers 3068
A skyline is a diagram of a weak composition, or an ordered list of non-negative integers .
The diagram is made of boxes arranged in columns and looks like a city skyline.
When these boxes are filled with numbers according to certain rules,
the diagram becomes a skyline augmented filling.
We will define skyline augmented fillings as well as standard Young tableaux,
which are analogues of skyline augmented fillings,
and look at some examples of these diagrams.
Next we will look at uses for skyline augmented fillings and standard Young tableaux.
Finally, we will see what families of skylines admit skyline augmented fillings, and which do not.
Refreshments
at 7:15 p.m.
in Mathematics Hall
(Chambers 3rd floor, north end)
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Spring 2008 Math Coffee Schedule
(click on an image at the left to view the Math Coffee announcement)
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January 24
7:30 p.m.
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Prof. Dick Webber, Emeritus, Wake Forest University
True 3-D Images
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February 21
7:30 p.m.
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Prof. Richie King, Emeritus
A Shadow! Where must the light source be? Elementary (geometry), my dear Watson.
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March 13
7:30 p.m.
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A.J. Hergenroeder, DC'08
Cellular Automata and Applications in the Modeling of Physical Systems
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March 20
7:30 p.m.
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Adam Topaz, DC'08
A Friendly Introduction to Group Cohomology
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April 4
2:30 p.m.
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Prof. Emeritus N. David Merbin, Cornell University
What has quantum mechanics to do with factoring? Things I wish they had told me about Shor's algorithm.
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April 10
5:30 p.m.
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Field Trip to the MAA State Dinner at Catawba College
Speaker: Sol Garfunkel, Director of COMAP
Math is Everywhere, Math is More, and the Fafuffnik-Chaim Yankel Effect
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April 17
7:30 p.m.
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Prof. Greg Dresden, Washington & Lee University
Little-known facts about the Fibonacci numbers
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April 24
7:30 p.m.
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Katie Davis, DC '08
Skyline Augmented Fillings
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Fall 2007 Math Coffee Schedule
(click on an image at the left to view the Math Coffee announcement)
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September 6
7:00 p.m.
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Summer Science Research at Davidson
featuring
Phillip Compeau DC'08, Jim Dickson DC'09,
Michael Gordon DC'08, & Adam Topaz DC'08
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September 20
7:30 p.m.
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Phillip Compeau, DC'08
Pancakes + Math = Fun
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September 27
7:30 p.m.
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A.J. Hergenroeder, DC'08
Generating Wavelet Sets with the Crossover and Patch Algorithms
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September 30
8:00 p.m.
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Bernard Lecture
Prof. Francis Edward Su,
Harvey Mudd College
Preference Sets, Graphs, and Voting in Agreeable Societies
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October 1
3:30 p.m.
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Prof. Francis Edward Su, Harvey Mudd College
My Favorite Math Fun Facts
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October 11
2:30 p.m.
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Prof. Emily Burkhead, Meredith College
Dynamical Properties of a Cellular Automaton Model for HIV
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October 18
7:30 p.m.
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Jim Dickson, DC'09
Living Hardware to Solve the Hamiltonian Path Problem
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October 25
7:30 p.m.
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Adam Topaz, DC'08
p-adic fields
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November 1
7:30 p.m.
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Michael Gordon, DC'08
The MAGIC (Tool) of Microarrays
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November 15
7:30 p.m.
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Prof. Laurie Zack, High Point University
Applications of Young Diagrams and Young Tableaux
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December 3
2:00 p.m.
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Prof. Molinek's MAT 118 class (Mathematics in Art)
Art Show---Meet the Artists!
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Math Coffees in recent years:
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[2005-2006]
[2004-2005]
[2003-2004]
[2002-2003]
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