Distressing Math Collective Archive
Distressing Math Collective Past Schedules
Alishia Nation '23 and Anna Nguyen '25 were the DMC student coordinators for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Fall 2022 DMC Schedule
| Sept. 7 |
Various Speakers |
Math Major Summer Experiences Panel |
| Sept. 14 | William Dunham, Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College | Bryn Mawr College Matriculation Exams from a Century Ago |
| Sept. 21 | David Rowe, Professor Emeritus at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany | Emmy Noether (1882-1935): Mathematician Extraordinaire |
| Sept. 28 | Kira Hamman, Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics and Director of Honors Program at Penn State Mont Alto | To Infinity and Beyond! |
| Oct. 5 | Felicia Pursner '25 | Modeling PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) |
| Oct. 12 | Fall Break: No DMC | |
| Oct. 19 | Chloe Shupe '24 | Homotopical Models for Metric Spaces and Completeness |
| Oct. 26 | Nia Hernandez '23 and Malini Rajbhandari '24 | Matrices Whose Field is Inscribed in a Polygon |
| Nov. 2 | América Nájera '22 | Valuation of Options |
| Nov. 9 | Ziva Myer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College | An Introduction to the Braid Group |
| Nov. 16 | Loni Tabb, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University | The Geography of Structural Racism: From Operationalization to Measuring Spatial (and Spatio-Temporal) Heterogeneity - How Important is Residential Segregation? |
Spring 2023 DMC Schedule
| Jan. 25 |
Ellie Schumacher '23 |
A Math Major's Summer Recap |
| Feb. 1 | Marye Cruz '22 | An Application of Actuarial Math in Retirement |
| Feb. 8 | Walter Stromquist, Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College | The Cubic Function and Other Strange Algebra |
| Feb. 15 | Alice Yang '21 | Haar Wavelets in Image Signal Processing |
| Feb. 22 | Rosalie Tarsala '23 | Predicting Galactic Redshift Using Symbolic Regression |
| March 1 | Avalon Vanis '23 | Reframing Lisa Piccirillo Paper about the Conway Knot |
| March 8 | Spring Break: No DMC | |
| March 15 | Various Speakers | Applying to Graduate School Panel |
| March 22 | Zaynab Ghazi '22 | Lp Estimates of Oscillatory Integral Operators |
| March 29 | Amirah Hewitt '22 | GBM Modeling of Renewable and Non-Renewable Stocks |
| April 5 | Walter Stromquist, Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College | The Cubic Function and Other Strange Algebra |
| April 12 | Various Speakers | Math Major Alumnae Panel |
| April 19 | Savannah Williams, Math Ph.D. Student | The Amazing Spider-Graph: With Great Polynomials Comes Great Responsibility |
| April 26 | Yesenia (Nia) Hernandez '23 | An Improved Computational Approach to Measuring the Tightness of Molecular Knots |
2021-2022 DMC Schedule:
América Nájera '22 and Shefali Ramakrishna '22 were the DMC student coordinators for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Fall 2021 DMC Schedule
Spring 2022 DMC Schedule
| Jan. 19 |
Ryann McManus '22 |
Summer Internship Opportunities with the NSA |
| Jan. 26 | Shefali Ramakrishna '22 | Chip-Firing Games and Gonality Computation |
| Feb. 2 | Avalon Vanis '23 | Splines |
| Feb. 9 | Heidi He '23 | Polymath Jr. REU: Square-Free Words |
| Feb. 16 | Jackie Arroyo '22 | Ethics and the Use of Mathematics, with a Focus on Anti-Racism |
| Feb. 23 | Hunter Loftis '23 | |
| March 2 | Natalie Meacham '19 | |
| March 9 | Spring Break: No DMC | |
| March 16 | Valerie Jin '22 | |
| March 23 | Sarah Gift '18 | Combinatorial Interpretations of Lucasnomials |
| March 30 | Penelope Dunham, Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College | |
| April 6 | Jemma Lorenat, Associate Professor in Mathematics at Pitzer College | |
| April 13 | Various Speakers | Math Major Alumnae Panel |
| April 20 | Ralph Morrison, Assistant Professor in Mathematics at Williams College |
2020-2021 DMC Schedule: Ellen Lu '21 and Rita Sabri '22 were the DMC student coordinators for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Fall 2020
| Sept. 16 |
Various Speakers |
Math Major Summer Experiences Panel |
| Sept. 23 | William Dunham, Research Associate in Mathematics at BMC | The Infinitude of Primes: From Euclid to Erdos |
| Sept. 30 | Samantha Hall '21 | Towards a Multiscale Computational Model of the Human Complement System for Predicting Immune Response in COVID-19 Patients |
| Oct. 7 | Atiqua Hashem '92, Jenny Sichel '10, Alyssa Johnson '10, Nehel Shahid '18 | Chat with Math Alums Sponsored by Career and Civic Engagement Center |
| Oct. 14 | Frank Romascavage PhD '17 | How Abstract Algebra Occurs in Formal Languages and Regular Expressions |
| Oct. 21 | Katie Coe '21 | Dynamics and Data in the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Oct. 28 | Hezel Gadzikwa '18 | So You Have Majored in Math...Now What? |
| Dec. 2 | Johnluca Fenton HC '21 and Liwei Yang '21 | Pioneering a Path for Community Solar in Haverford Township |
Spring 2021
| Feb. 17 | Esther Xu '21 | Optimal Control Problem: Pontryagin's Maximum Principle and the Algorithm of Numerical Solutions |
| Feb. 24 | Anna Gordon AB/MA '07 | Predictability versus Explainability - a Data Scientist's Dilemma |
| March 3 | Mary Miller '14 | HPV Vaccine Coverage: Identifying Key Influencers of Vaccine Attitudes |
| March 10 | Grayson Hamrick HC '21 | Energy Investing: Comparing Fossil Fuel and Renewable Energy Stocks Using the Binomial Tree Model |
| March 17 | Sandy Chen '21 | Distribution of Greatest Common Divisor of Integers |
| March 24 | Orsola Capovilla-Searle '15 | Legendrian Links and Lagrangian Cobordisms |
| March 31 | Noelle Sawyer, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Southwestern University | Walking in Loops to Figure Out Distances |
| April 7 | Freda Li AB/MA '14 | What Can Primes Tell Us about Polynomials? |
| April 14 | Maggie Wieczorek, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at West Point | Playing with Partitions |
| April 21 | Various Speakers | Math Major Alumnae Panel |
| April 28 | Dr. Emelie Curl '14 and Dr. Jathan Austin | Blokus: An Introduction to Graph Theory and Combinatorics |
| May 5 | Tiffany Jacobo '21 | Fingerprint Compression Using Haar Wavelets |
| May 12 | Rita Sabri '22 | How Many Languages? Modeling the Future of Languages |
2019-2020 DMC Schedule: Ellie Lee '20, Aisha Mechery '20, Ellen Lu '22, and Rita Sabri '22 were the DMC student coordinators for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Fall 2019
| Sept. 10 |
Various Speakers |
Math Major Summer Experiences Panel | |
| Sept. 18 | AJ Vargas, BMC Mathematics Graduate Student | The Geometry of Complex Numbers | |
| Sept. 24 | Sandy Chen '21 and Sophia Schein '20 | Mind your P's and Q's: Invariants and Coinvariants of Representations | |
| Oct. 1 | William Dunham, Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College | How Odd are Odd Perfect Numbers? | |
| Oct. 9 | Zhuoran Hu '21 and Xiya Wei '20 | Using Statistics to Solve the National Opioid Crisis | |
| Oct. 15 | Fall Break: No DMC | ||
| Oct. 22 | Various speakers | Math Major Study Abroad Panel | |
| Oct. 29 | Jillian Faccone '09 | Applications of Statistics and Data Science in Healthcare | |
| Nov. 5 | Corrine Yap, Mathematics Graduate Student at Rutgers University | Uniform Convergence | |
| Nov. 12 | Tarik Aougab, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Haverford College | Motivating Differential Geometry with the Theory of Relativity | |
| Nov. 19 | Katherine Raoux, Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College | Slicing Algebraic Varieties and Resolving Singularities | |
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| Dec. 3 | Sophie Lu '20 | Portfolio Selection Problem | |
| Dec. 10 | Ruth McLeod '19 | The Socio-Economic Impacts of Warehousing in Belvidere, New Jersey |
Spring 2020
| Jan. 28 | Walter Stromquist, Research Associate | Distressing Wallpaper |
| Feb. 4 | Charles Marx HC '20 | Disentangling Influence: Using Disentangled Representations to Audit Model Predictions |
| Feb. 11 | Qinna Shen, Chair and Associate Professor of German | A Refugee Scholar from Nazi Germany: Emmy Noether and Bryn Mawr College |
| Feb. 18 | Shannon Fisher '20 | Modeling Pollutant Plume Patterns of Proposed PGW Facility |
| Feb. 25 | Lindsay Dever, BMC Mathematics Graduate Student | Lines are Circles and Other Weird Phenomena: An Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry |
| March 3 | Kathryn Haymaker '07 | What Do Polynomials Have to Do with My Mixtape? |
| March 10 | Spring Break: No DMC | |
| March 17 | Penny Dunham, Research Associate | Folding and Math: Origami Old and New |
| March 24 | Savannah Williams, BMC Mathematics Graduate Student | |
| March 31 | Chelsea Seachord, DELMIA Quintiq | |
| April 7 | Irene Lin ‘20 | |
| April 14 | Zainab Saeed '20 | |
| April 21 | Meagan Murray-Bruce '20 | |
| April 28 | Megan Winner '20 |
Fall 2018 and Spring 2019: Emily Barry '19, Natalie Meacham '19, Cate Roa '19, and Ellie Lee '20 were the DMC student coordinators for the 2018-2019 academic year.
| Sept. 12 |
William Dunham, Research Associate at Bryn Mawr College |
A Morsel from Euler |
| Sept. 19 | Fiona Galzarano, National Security Agency | Alice Versus Eve: A Brief History of Cryptology |
| Sept. 26 | Various speakers | Math Major Summer Experiences Panel |
| Oct. 3 | Natalie Meacham '19 | Web Traffic and Poetry: Extending Memory in Markov Chains |
| Oct. 10 | Rose Kaplan-Kelly '17 | Multi-crossing Projections of Legendrian Knots |
| Oct. 17 | Fall Break: No DMC | |
| Oct. 24 | Various speakers | Math Major Study Abroad Panel |
| Oct. 31 | Ceci Silberstein HC '19 | The Future of Tundra Growth Along the Ice Truckers Road |
| Nov. 7 | John Bergdall, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College | Finding and Counting Points on Curves -- OR -- How to Discover a Million Dollar Problem Using Ancient Technology |
| Nov. 14 | Junyan Duan '19 | Managing White-Nose Syndrome in the Presence of Spatial Dynamics |
| Nov. 21 | Thanksgiving Break: No DMC | |
| Nov. 28 | Christopher Catone, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Albright College | Bridging Calculus and Discrete Math via the Discrete Derivative - OR- Sequences want to be differentiated too! |
| Dec. 5 | Catherine Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Queen's University | Symmetries, Outer Space, and the Outer Automorphism Group of the Free Group |
| Dec. 12 | Cate Roa '19 | The Black-Scholes Model: Pricing Options and Hedging the Sale |
| Jan. 23 |
Haley Varnum '19 |
Group Theory, Topology, and Molecular Structure: Exploring the Intersection of Chemistry and Mathematics |
| Jan. 31 | Meagan Murray-Bruce '20 | The Cost and Energy Efficiency of Converting Philadelphia Streetlights to LED |
| Feb. 6 | Ioannis Rutledge HC '18 | The Power of Math Beyond BMC |
| Feb. 13 | Dan White, BMC Math Graduate Student | The Empty Place in My Space: How Q Complete Me |
| Feb. 20 | Inclement Weather: No DMC | |
| Feb. 27 | Qinna Shen, Assistant Professor of German at Bryn Mawr College | A Refugee Scholar from Nazi Germany: Emmy Noether and Bryn Mawr College |
| March 6 | Aisha Mechery '20 | Curves on Surfaces |
| March 13 | Spring Break: No DMC | |
| March 20 | Kat Margaret Phifer '19 | Euclid and His Modern Rivals |
| March 27 | Mehendi Siraj '19 | Combinatorial Game Theory |
| April 3 | Sowmya Srinivasan '13 | Penrose Tilings |
| April 10 | Sanjana Sen '19 | Demand Prediction in Bikeshare - A Citi Bike Case Study |
| April 17 | Xinya Wang '19 | Classification of Unknotted Ribbons in the Plane and on the Sphere |
| April 24 | Aditi Sriram '19 | Game Theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma |
| May 1 | Natalie Meacham '19 | |
| May 8 | Zainab Saeed '20 |
Fall 2017 and Spring 2018: Jill Li '18 and Rachel Miller '18 were the DMC student coordinators for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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Sept. 21 |
Frank Romascavage, BMC Math Graduate Student |
Fun Times with Fibonacci Numbers |
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Sept. 28 |
Various Speakers |
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Oct. 5 |
Hezel Gadzikwa '18 |
Food Webs and Graph Theory |
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Oct. 12 |
William Dunham, Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College |
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Nov. 2 |
Sowmya Srinivasan '13 |
Spec-tacular Topology |
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Nov. 9 |
Hannah Griggs '18 |
Bayesian Inference and a Doppler Method for Identification of Gravitational Waveforms of Third Body-Accelerated Coalescing Binary Black Holes |
| Nov. 16 | Virushi Shah '18 | Markov Chains |
| Nov. 30 | Haowen Dong '18 and Nuoya Wang '18 | Air Quality and Policy |
| Dec. 7 | Ingrid Bethuel '18 | Affordable Housing and Evictions in Philadelphia |
| Dec. 14 | Various speakers | Math Major Study Abroad Panel |
| Feb. 15 | Nehel Shahid '18 | Fourier Series |
| March 1 | Sergei Tabachnikov, Prof. of Math, Director of Math, Advanced Study Semesters, Penn State University | Proofs (not) from THE BOOK |
| March 8 | Haochang Shou, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, UPenn School of Medicine | Graduate Programs in Biostatistics |
| March 22 | Rachel Miller '18 | Math Behind Gerrymandering |
| March 29 | Hezel Gadzikwa '18 | Graph Theory |
| April 5 | Various speakers | Math Major Study Abroad Panel |
| April 12 | Frank Romascavage, BMC Math Graduate Student | Introduction to the von Mangoldt Function |
| April 19 | Danielle Smiley, BMC Math Graduate Student | Mathematical Induction |
| April 26 | Ingrid Bethuel '18 | A Regression and Spatial Analysis of Evictions in Philadelphia |
| May 10 | Rachel Miller '18 and Rachel Terry '18 | How to Make the Most of a Shared Meal: Plan the Last Bite First |
Fall 2016 and Spring 2017: Rose Kaplan-Kelly '17 was the DMC student coordinator for the 2016-2017 academic year.
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Sept. 1 |
Walt Stromquist |
The Shapley Value |
| Sept. 8 | Hayley Johnson | Measuring the Magnetic Field of a Pulsed Coil: I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Sept. 15 | Bill Dunham | Bertrand Russell at Bryn Mawr |
| Sept. 22 | Game Night | |
| Sept. 29 | Daisy Sudparid | The Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Model of MTBE (Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether) |
| Oct. 6 | Frank Romascavage | An Introduction to Big O Notation or If Cheerios Could Do Math |
| Oct. 13 | FALL BREAK: No DMC | |
| Oct. 20 | Immaculate Langat | Classical Encryption Systems |
| Oct. 27 | Lindsay Dever | Generalized Splines on Cycles or A Splattering of Splines |
| Nov. 3 | MATH REU/SUMMER INTERNSHIPS PANEL | |
| Nov. 10 | Rose Kaplan-Kelly | 0 = 1 |
| Nov. 17 | Fergie Leung | A Network Approach to Mental Disorders and Comorbidity |
| Nov. 24 | THANKSGIVING BREAK: No DMC | |
| Dec. 1 | Penny Dunham | Modern Trends in Origami and Folding |
| Dec. 8 | MATH HOLIDAY PARTY: No DMC |
| Jan. 19 | Rose Kaplan-Kelly | Cusp Crossing Density of Hyperbolic Knots: Playing With Flowers in Hyperbolic Space |
| Jan. 26 | Yiling Bai and Tianyi He | Chutes and Ladders for the Impatient |
| Feb. 2 | NO DMC | |
| Feb. 9 | NO DMC due to weather | |
| Feb. 16 | Isaac Craig | Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem or How Coffee Changed Mathematics |
| Feb. 23 | Frank Romascavage | An Introduction to Little O Notation or If Little Cheerios Could Do Math |
| March 2 | Hannah Schwartz | What's the point????! or Constantly Peckish: Unifying Mathematics One Cookie at a Time |
| March 9 | SPRING BREAK: NO DMC | |
| March 16 | Decoding Nazi Secrets Movie | |
| March 23 | Rachel Miller | Epic Math Battles of History: Stories of Discoveries in Math |
| March 30 | Jillian Brown Faccone '09 | Using Statistics to Measure Business Success: An Application of High-Dimensional Propensity Score Matching to Assess Healthcare Concierge Client Outcomes |
| April 6 | Julia Lin | Beating the Taxman or How to Stop an A.I. from Taking Over the World |
| April 13 | Pan Hu | The Mathematics Behind Poker |
| April 20 | Phuong Nguyen | A Machine Learning Project: Predicting Titanic Survival |
| April 27 | Stella Cai | How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack |
| Sept. 10 | Erica Graham | A mathematical model of insulin-mediated steroid production" OR "Aunt Flo and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month" |
| Sept. 17 | Maddie Hanson-Colvin | "Finding partial difference sets using tree diagrams" OR "Don't get lost in the forest" |
| Sept. 24 | Hayley Johnson | "Schwarzschild Black Holes" OR "Unable to escape the math" |
| Oct. 1 | Maddie Hanson-Colvin | "Computations on Trees" OR "Cousins with no character" |
| Oct. 8 | Rose Kaplan-Kelly | "Twist Knots: construction and complements" OR "Knot twisted" |
| Oct. 22 | Simon Williams | "Happy Numbers" OR "Yes, that is an actual math term" |
| Oct. 29 | Maddie Hanson-Colvin | “Legendarian Concordances and Satellites” OR “Looped loops connecting other loops” |
| Nov. 5 | Veronica Benson-Moore | “Estimating Tumor Growth Rates in Vivo” OR “Using Math to Look at Things We Don’t Like to Talk About” |
| Nov. 12 | Helen Grundman | "The Davenport Constant" OR "Guaranteeing that some things add up to nothing" |
| Nov. 19 | Danielle Smiley | "Frame Theory: Introduction and a connection with Sampling Theory" OR "When being a Basis is too good" |
| Dec. 3 | Isabel Averill |
"Newton's Approximation for Pi" OR "What the fluxion?" |
| Jan. 28 | Sam Pezzimenti & Hannah Schwartz |
The Wizardry of Whitney's Theorem II "Same guy...Different Theorem" Dedicated to Alan Rickman |
| Feb. 4 | Maddie Hanson-Colvin | "Looking for normal rulings" OR "How to avoid remembering too much" |
| Feb. 11 | Kathryn Bryant | “Hyperbolic knots and ideal polyhedra” OR “Not your average cut-and-paste job” |
| Feb. 18 | Simon Williams | "Fixed points of the function Q" OR "Asexual numbers" |
| Feb. 25 | Maddie Hanson-Colvin | "Finding Normal Rulings" OR "Why my thesis involves rainbows" |
| March 3 | Austin Daughton | “Prime numbers and Irreducible Polynomials” OR “Why 49598666989151226098104244512918 is Interesting” |
| March 17 | Melina Koukoutchos | "Harshad Numbers and Shantid Numbers" OR "How Joy-giving Numbers Inspired Peace" |
| March 24 | Kewei Qu | “What we talk about when we talk about Artificial Intelligence: AlphaGo, Neural Network, Probability and Linear Algebra” OR “Oh boy, Machines…” |
| March 31 | Jackie Lang | "The BSD Conjecture" OR "How to win a million dollars" |
| April 7 | Danielle Smiley | “Lp Boundedness of Singular Integral Operators” OR “Not too scary analysis” |
| April 14 | Samantha Pezzimenti |
Math Appreciation Week Mathematical Crochet/Knitting Circle: Learn how to crochet a hyperbolic plane! |
| April 21 | Maddie Hanson-Colvin | "Constructing Ruling Extensions using Templates and Graphs" OR "Some pretty pictures, bridges for eyes on grids, and maybe a party" |
| Sept. 11 | Madeleine Hanson-Colvin | “A Game of Cops and Robber on Graphs” or “The Wrath of General Petersen” |
| Sept. 18 | Madeleine Johnson | "The three variable bracket polynomial of closed alternating three braids" or "No, this does not involve first separating a person's hair into three chunks" |
| Sept. 25 | Bingxi Lin | "An empirical test of Persistent Homology with a noisy cosine curve" or "Let's try to capture a circle in 12-dimensional space" |
| Oct. 2 | Madeleine Hanson-Colvin | “Continuous-Everywhere Differentiable-Nowhere Functions” or "Why smoothness isn't always what it seems" |
| Oct. 9 | Sam Pezzimenti and Hannah Schwartz | "The Wizardry of Whitney's Theorem" |
| Oct. 23 | Siv Lu and Lydia Li | "How to make the most of a shared meal" or "Take your last bite first" |
| Oct. 30 | Simon Williams | “The convergence of limits in non-standard topological spaces” or “Topology isn’t always intuitive” |
| Nov. 6 | Rose Kaplan-Kelley | “Tic-Tac-Toe on a Torus” or “Playing with your food, or at least on the surface of a doughnut” |
| Nov. 13 | Madeleine Hanson-Colvin | “The guarding strategy for Cops and Robber on graphs” or “Pinning the robber against a wall using cops in trees.” |
| Dec. 4 | Frank Romascavage | "Dirichlet Characters Can Be Used To Show That There Are Infinitely Many Primes Congruent To 1 mod 4" or "Characters can be infinitely important" |
| Dec. 11 | Kathryn Bryant | “Parrondo’s Paradox” or “Playing to lose… to win” |
| Jan. 29 | Madeleine Hanson-Colvin | "Cops and Robbers on Grid Structures" or "Building a Forest of Doom" |
| Feb. 26 | Douglass Grundman | “Are Runge and Kutta your friends?” or “Where did my satellite go?” |
| March 19 | Madeleine Hanson-Colvin | “A Mathematical Explication of ‘A Finite Simple Group’ ” or “Who Can Resist Puns and a Cute Song?” |
| March 26 | Ziva Myer | "The Topology of Impossible Spaces" or "Don't go chasing Escher's Waterfall" |
| April 9 | Maddie Johnson | “Geodesic Curves on Surfaces of Revolution” or “How to get to London ASAP!” |
| April 16 | Isabel Averill | “Cardono’s Constructive Proof of the Solution of the Depressed Cubic” or “Roots, Radishes, and RAGE in 16th Century Italy” |
| April 23 | Jonathan DeWitt | “Fekete’s Subadditive Lemma” or “The Limit Exists But I Have No Idea What It Is” |
| April 30 | Sarah Lew | “The ins and outs of a Hill cipher matrix” or “Cryptography from the mind of a nerd” |
| Sept. 5 | Eva Goedhart | "Solving a Diophantine Equation or How 2am really helped with my problem!" |
| Sept. 12 | Austin Daughton | "A large explicit set of independent numbers or How to get independence without choice" |
| Sept. 19 | Sam Pezzimenti | “What’s behind door number one? Or how not to get zonked in Let’s Make a Deal or No Deal” |
| Sept. 26 | Hannah Schwartz | “One Lovely Family (of graphs)” |
| Oct. 3 | Emily Williams | “The ECO-IMPACS Research Program” |
| Oct. 10 | Elizabeth “Simon” Williams | “Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem” |
| Oct. 24 | Frank Romascavage | “An Introduction to p-adic numbers” |
| Oct. 31 | Orsola Capovilla Sierle | “Multi Crossing Knots” |
| Nov. 7 | Danqi Luo | "A Clinic Service Location Planning Analysis in the City of Atlanta" |
| Nov. 14 | Katherine Engelman | "The Difference in Cubic Fields or An Ideally Squarefull Class." |
| Nov. 21 | George Exner | "Infidelity, Gambling, and Squirrels" |
| Dec. 5 | Freda Li | "Calculating Determinants" OR "A Trip to Alice's Wonderland" |
| Dec. 12 | Henri Drake | "Applications of Algebraic Geometry to Robotics" OR "Domo Arigatou, Mr 2-Dimensional Roboto" |
| Jan. 23 | Eva Goedhart | "Who was Diophantus and what's all this about solving his equations?" |
| Jan. 30 | Sam Pezzimeni |
"The Braid Group and Other Tangled Topics" OR "Braids aren't just for hair" |
| Feb. 6 | Hannah Schwartz | "Not All Tangles are Epic" OR "Don't Forget Your Functors" |
| Feb. 20 | Kathryn Bryant | "Drawing 4 Dimensions" OR "Brain Yoga + Pictures" |
| Feb. 27 | Katherine Engelman | "Composition of Binary Forms" OR "Two by Two" |
| March 20 | Ruby Gonzales & Bluma Millman |
"Talking about the Markov chain and game analysis" OR "chutes and ladders for the impatient" |
| March 27 | Douglas Grundman | “The Game of Fish, Panzer tanks, and the Total Extinction of Human Life on Earth" |
| April 3 | Kriti Shrestha | "Incomplete Character Sums" OR "Math is Primal Instinct" |
| April 10 | Ziva Myer | "Generating Families for Legandrians" OR "Making Pictures out of Flip Books of Graphs" |
| April 17 | Madeleine Hanson-Colvin | "Perpetual Calendars" OR "Which Singles' Days are Unlucky?" |
| April 24 | Freda Li | "Counter Examples in Analysis" OR "Things that Don't Make Sense" |
| May 1 | Katherine Engelman | "New Results in (Galois Theory)^(-1)" |
| May 8 | Anne Schwartz | "Using Graph Theory to Solve an Old Puzzle” OR “Would you rather take a final or play with a puzzle?" |
| Sept. 6 | Austin Daughton | “Number Theory is a Black Hole” or “Why is everyone so attracted to number theory?” |
| Sept. 13 | Kathryn Bryant | “The Glorious Torus” |
| Sept. 20 | Karl Schaffer | “Polyhedra on a Shoestring” |
| Sept. 27 | Ziva Myer | “Legendary Legendrians: On the Cusp of Understanding Legendrian Knots” |
| Oct. 4 | Helen Grundman | “Groups of Rational Points on Some Elliptic Curves” or “It took me way too long to come up with this simple proof” |
| Oct. 11 | Sowmya Srinivasan | “On Homotopy of Curves” |
| Oct. 25 | Danielle Smiley | “Mathematics of Card Tricks” |
| Nov. 1 | Samatha Pezzimenti | “Minimal Degree Parameterizations of the Trefoil and Figure-Eight Knots” |
| Nov. 8 | Katherine Engelman | “Negative Snell’s Law” or “How I Spent This Summer When I Wasn’t Knitting Pi” |
| Nov. 15 | Alice Erickson | “N-Dimensional Pyramids” |
| Dec. 6 | Helen Grundman | Zero Sum Subsequences |
| Dec. 13 | Games Night | |
| Jan. 31 | Kess Steuber | “Homological Algebra” or “How I Learned How to Stop Worrying and Love Math.” |
| Feb. 7 | Madeleine Hanson-Colvin | “The Sizes of Equivalence Relations on Finite Sets” |
| Feb. 21 | Katherine Engelman | “Smith Numbers” or “How One Man's Phone Number Changed Mathematics” |
| Feb. 28 | Kathryn Bryant | “Calculus Monsters: Everywhere-continuous, Nowhere-differentiable Functions” |
| March 7 | Doug Grundman | “Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem” or “Truthiness and Proofiness” |
| March 21 | Ziva Myer | “You Cantor Ways Get What You Want -- Cantor Sets, The Cantor Function, and How Calculus Lied to You” |
| March 28 | Austin Daughton | “The Seven Wonders of Zeta” |
| April 4 | Samantha Pezzimenti | "Math and Crafts: Fun with Non-Euclidean Geometry" |
| April 11 | Danielle Smiley | “An Elementary Proof of Marden’s Theorem – a nifty little geometric fact about polynomials of the third degree” |
| April 18 | Don Fahey | “The Dipole Dance: When Second-Order Terms Get Their Time to Shine” |
| April 25 | Madeleine Hanson-Colvin | “Proving Properties of Addition and Multiplication under the Peano Axioms – or – How to Play the Pieces Multiplication and Addition on a Peano” |
| May 2 | Bianca Boranda | “Games, Games, And More Games: Combinatorial, n Cooperative and Multistage Games” |
| Sept. 1 | Chris Micklewright |
Your GPS and the Implicit Function Theorem or Finding Yourself Through Mathematics |
| Sept. 8 | Tong Wu | Economic Update: ---Skating on Ice--- |
| Sept. 13 | Kathryn Bryant | An Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry or How I spent my Summer Vacation (Minus the Details) |
| Sept. 29 | Sowmya Srinivasan | How to Not Join A Street Gang or A Mathematical Approach to the Social Dynamics of Gang Involvement |
| Oct. 6 | Katherine Engelman | Minimal Surfaces and Soap Films or The Mathematics of a Slippery Topic |
| Oct. 20 | Danielle Smiley | Predicting an Eclipse with Geometry |
| Oct. 27 | Doug Grundman | A Series of Suspicious and Somwhat Silly Proofs Attempting to Establish Once and For All: Are the Majority of Triangles Acute or Obtuse? |
| Nov. 3 | Frank Romascavage | A Discussion on Twin Primes |
| Nov. 10 | Helen Grundman | Finding Happiness in Mathematics: An Introduction to Happy Numbers |
| Nov. 17 | Catherine Owens | Zero Sum Subsequences in Groups or Searching for Something that Adds Up to Nothing |
| Dec. 1 | Laura Mansfield | A Gentle Introduction to the Poincare Conjecture |
| Jan. 19 | Kathryn Bryant | Uncovering Covering Spaces |
| Jan. 26 | Yolanda Yue Shao | A Summer with Biostatistics |
| Feb. 2 | Frank Romascavage | Twin Twin Primes Primes Again Again! |
| Feb. 9 | Katie Link | Modeling Guinea Worm Disease |
| Feb. 23 | Kaushiki Dunusinghe | Driving Your Car With Mathematics: How to Model Energy Use in Cars |
| March 1 | Eva Goedhart | News Flash: No Solutions to Diophantine Equations! |
| March 15 | Danielle Smiley | Don’t take your hat off! Logic and fun hat problems |
| March 22 | Katherine Engelman | Abelian Forcing Set: Finding Sometimes Commutative Groups |
| March 29 | Doug Grundman | How discontinuous can a poor function get? The true story of a distressing function named “F” |
| April 5 | Shuning Yan | Mirror mirror, knot the same? |
| April 12 | Katherine Engelman | The logic of probability; Anticipating the unanticipated |
| April 19 | Aidan Murphy | An Inverse Zero-Sum Conjecture: When Sequences Won’t Add up to Nothing |
| April 26 | Catherine Owens | A Theorem on the Weighted Davenport Constant |
| May 3 | Game Night |
| Sept. 2 | Kerstin Baer | Vector Fields Revisited |
| Sept. 9 | Hannah Staley | Modeling Pre-Equilibrium Nuclear Reactions |
| Sept. 16 | Lise Chlebak | Modeling the Movement of Cilia |
| Sept. 23 | Rebecca Rehbhuhn-Glanz | Matrices Whose Powers Have Constant Diagonal |
| Sept. 30 | Lise Chlebak | Zombies! |
| Oct. 7 | Rebecca Rehbhuhn-Glanz | P-Adic Numbers |
| Oct. 21 | Emilie Naccarato | An Immersed Boundary Approach for Fluid-Structure Interactions |
| Oct. 28 | Alex Lee | Mathematical Modeling of the Vision Attention System |
| Nov. 4 | Rebecca Rehbhuhn-Glanz | Many, Many Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem |
| Nov. 11 | Kathryn Bryant | Nets: Not Just for Fishing Anymore |
| Nov. 18 | Douglas Grundman | Math vs. Spam – Math Wins! |
| Dec. 2 | Olivia Coplan | Escher Combinatorial Patterns |
| Jan. 20 | Laura Mansfield | Brouwer Degree and the Hairy Ball Theorem |
| Jan. 27 | Kerstin Baer | Why My Spam Filter Does Not Want Me To Go To Graduate School: Corporate Conspiracy or A Bug in the System? |
| Feb. 3 | Lise Chlebak | Taxman Revisited: A Variation on the Taxman Game |
| Feb. 10 | Douglas Grundman | The Coolest Group of Order 168 or How I remember the Number of Hours in a Week |
| Feb. 24 | Helen Grundman | Hershad Numbers or Stories from 19 Years Ago When I Was Helled |
| March 3 | Rebecca Rehbhuhn-Glanz | Catalan Numbers |
| March 17 | Hannah Staley | Rational Numbers and Square Roots of Rational Numbers in Trigonometry or How Entropy Describes Space and Gravity via the Holographic Principle |
| March 24 | Christopher Micklewright | An Introduction to Legendrian Knot Theory |
| March 31 | Meghan Fisher | (Unknown) |
| April 7 | Alex Lee | Configuration Spaces of Robots Moving on Graphs |
| April 14 | Haverford Math Problem Solving Group | Three Proofs that P=NP |
| April 21 | Kathryn Bryant | Exploring Cayley’s Theorem |
| April 28 | Rebecca Rehbhuhn-Glanz | Galois Groups of Certain Polynomials of Prime Degrees |
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Mathematics Department
Tina Fasbinder
Academic Administrative Assistant
tfasbinder@brynmawr.edu
610-526-5348
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Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899