Event

Game Show Talk by Jane Street

Date: Wednesday, October 9th Time: 6:30 – 7:30 PM Location: CS 105 Details: Food and beverages will be served. About the talk Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm, and the fundamental problem we work on every day is how to uncover mathematical and statistical relationships between tradable assets. We’ve found that thinking critically about […]

Event

(Board) Game Night

Hey Nullset!   You totally missed me, riiiight? =) Well missed me or not, here I am, and proud to announce the next (Board) Game Night. Are you excited? I’m excited. If you’re not, you’re silly. Start being excited. Anyways, the next (B)GN will be… drumroll please…   When: Friday, October 4th at 9 pm Where: Fine […]

Colloquium Event

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 […]