Join us for the first Temple Math Club meeting of the semester! This meeting will involve a Math Jeopardy competition, an opportunity to meet other students, and, of course, free pizza!
This week we'll have a talk by Aniruddha Sudarshan on the Prime Number Theorem and its connection to the Riemann zeta function. And, of course, there will be free pizza!
Abstract: In the talk, we will look at the prime number theorem, and its connection to the Riemann zeta function. If we have time, we dwell into the notion of density of primes. This talk doesn’t assume any prior knowledge of higher math
Join us for Math Club Game Night! Enjoy an evening of Uno, Chess, card games, and of course, free pizza! Whether you're a math whiz or just looking for fun, bring your game face and join the excitement!
Join us for an insightful session with Terry Dougherty and Anne Beeman, where they will share valuable career advice for math students.
Terry will kick off the talk with a 10–15 minute session on interview preparation, focusing on structure, soft skills, and strategies to effectively answer the question: What makes you stand out from other math majors?
Anne will then discuss her career journey with a math degree, the choices she made along the way, and practical advice for succeeding in Temple’s math program.
This is a great opportunity to gain career insights and ask questions in an informal setting. And, of course, there will be free pizza! Don’t miss out!
This week's meeting will be a talk by Andrew Clickard on braid groups and knot invariants. And, of course, there will be free pizza!
Abstract: Braid groups are the algebraic codification of the ways you can braid together several strands. By gluing the top of a braid to the bottom, you also get a knot/link, but does every link have a braid presentation? And is that presentation unique? We answer both of these questions and use the answers to define a family of knot invariants in this beginner-friendly talk.
This week's meeting will feature a talk by Professor Dolgushev giving an introduction to SageMath. And, of course, there will be free pizza!
Abstract: Sage (or SageMath) is free, open-source math software that supports research and teaching in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography and numerical computation. Although the syntax of Sage is similar to that of Python, it runs much faster than Python with its libraries (e.g. SymPy). In my talk, I will show how SageMath can be used in number theory and group theory. I will encourage participants of the Math Club to experiment with writing a simple Sage code (if some participants will come with laptops and their laptops can be connected to the internet).
This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Professor Charles Osborne on a proof the Sylvester-Schur Theorem. And, of course, there will be free pizza!
Abstract: In this talk, we will go over an elementary proof of the Sylvester-Schur Theorem, which states that if k and x are positive integers, and x>k, then at least one of the numbers x, x+1, x+2, x+3, … , x+(k-1) admits a prime divisor which is greater than k. The result was first discovered by James J. Sylvester in 1892 and rediscovered by Issai Schur in 1929. The proof we consider here is due to Paul Erdos, and has few prerequisites besides some basic properties of binomial coefficients, especially central binomial coefficients. This theorem may be viewed as a generalization of Bertrand’s Postulate.
This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will be a game night! Come by to play a variety of games, and, of course, there will be free pizza!
Join us for a talk on billiards played on non-rectangles. And, of course, there will be free pizza!
Abstract: For far too long has Big Rectangle dominated the industry of billiard tables. In this talk we shall dare to play pool on other shapes and along the way, maybe unearth some geometric properties of the space and the space of these spaces we're playing on. And we will do this all based on the fundamental principles of reflection, a little group theory, hyperbolic geometry and complex analysis.
Join us for a special event where faculty will discuss the upper-level courses they are teaching in the spring. Advisors will be available to answer questions about the program and scheduling. And, of course, there will be free pizza!
Join us for a talk by Alyssa Kovalchick from the Department of Chemistry at Zdilla Laboratory. And, of course, there will be free pizza!
Abstract: The structural analysis technique X-ray Crystallography has revolutionized the solid-state scientific community in recent decades. Advances to said technique in the world of biology and chemistry have catapulted innovation, allowing for more effective medications, energy sources, etc. X-ray crystallography is based in higher-level physics and mathematical applications, allowing for ease of structure solutions that are accessible to a trained user. In this talk, discussions of these mathematical roots of X-ray crystallography will be discussed, including the coordinate system utilized and the physical explanation for the output of data. Illustrations of the use of the complex plane and its importance to structure solution will be outlined through examples and explanations, ultimately informing the use of applied Fourier theory in an effort to create a structural model of the desired compounds.
Abstract: This talk will expand on the topics introduced in undergraduate Group Theory (Moden Algebra) courses. We will delve deeper into groups acting on sets and partitions of sets. Then we will introduce Representations and Character of Representation. Lastly, we will connect Group Theory and Graph Theory via Cayley Graphs.
And, of course, there will be free pizza!
Abstract: The Coulomb gas is an interacting particle system with interesting behavior that has attracted a lot of mathematical research interest in the past 20 years, with applications to random matrix theory, numerical analysis, and plasma and solid-state physics. In this survey, we will introduce the basics of what the Coulomb gas is and why we care. We will discuss some fundamental results concerning the behavior of the gas, and how interesting tools in probability and differential equations can be useful.
This talk is geared towards a general mathematical audience. While some familiarity with introductory probability is helpful for intuition, all relevant ideas and concepts will be reviewed.
And, of course, there will be free pizza!