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Undergraduate Colloquium, Wednesday, 3/26
When: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, March 26th Where: Fine 214 Who: Prof. Klainerman, who specializes in PDE and analysis What: Title: Are black holes real Blackholes are precise mathematical solutions of the Einstein field equations of General Relativity. Some of the most exciting astrophysical objects in the Universe have been identified as corresponding to these mathematical […]
Movie Night (4/7)
Come to Math Club’s 7:00pm screening of The Man Who Knew Infinity on Sunday, April 7 in Lewis 138! This 2015 biographical drama tells the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a man with no formal education living at the edge of poverty in Madras, India. Recognized for his mathematical brilliance, Ramanujan gets the chance to study at Cambridge University, where he and […]
Undergraduate Colloquium
THE NASH PROBLEM FOR ARC SPACES Wednesday Oct 2nd Fine 214 6:00 pm Abstract: In a 1968 preprint, John Nash asked some very interesting questions about the family of all arcs on algebraic or analytic surfaces and hypersurfaces. I illustrate these questions using the examples of the surfaces (xy=z^n) and (x^2+y^3=z^4). I plan to end […]