Undergraduate Math Club

Temple Math Club is an active and 4 Star student club, which organizes weekly events on Fridays 4:00 PM to 5 PM (currently the meeting room is Wachman Hall 617).

We invite speakers on various mathematics and applied science fields, that could inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. Sometimes we organize events outside campus, such as watching Math/Science movies.

Club officers are:

• Angeli Nause
• Sabrina Harris
• Hershey Pete
• Mark Mikida
• Anthony Wanichko

Faculty Advisors:

• Dr. Abraham Abebe

Undergraduate Chair:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

• Friday September 5, 2014 13:00, Wachman 617

  General Body Meeting

   

• Friday September 12, 2014 13:00, Wachman 617

  Opportunities for Mathematics Majors

  Rose McGinnis, Temple University

• Friday September 19, 2014 13:00, Wachman 617

  Surprising Problem Solving with Mathematics

  Orin Chein, Temple University

• Friday October 3, 2014 13:00, Wachman 617

  A Novel Approach to the Integral of csc(x) Inspired by Gregory’s Vera Quadratura

  Walter Jacob, Temple University

• Friday October 17, 2014 13:00, Wachman 617

  A Visual Tour of Low-Dimensional Manifolds

  Christian Millichap, Temple University

• Friday October 31, 2014 13:00, Wachman 617

  Halloween Cryptology and Pictionary

   

• Friday November 14, 2014 13:00, Wachman 617

  Careers in Mathematics: Six Temple Success Stories

   

• Monday November 17, 2014 13:00, Wachman 617

  The Mathematics, Magic and Mystery of Martin Gardner, the Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had

  **Please note different day**

  Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College

• Friday December 5, 2014 13:00, Wachman 617

  Mathematics Department Undergraduate Open House

   

Welcome to the Society of Undergraduate Mathematics (SUM) Home Page! The SUM, also known as the Temple University Math Club, features presentations on interesting topics in mathematics as well as job-related talks by visiting scientists. Although the talks are primarily geared toward mathematics majors, all students are invited to attend.

SUM is announcing a new lecture series: 
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

In Summer 2002 Mathematics Department ran an NSF sponsored REU program. 
The new lecture series will discuss research performed by the REU teams.

The lectures will take place Thursdays at 4pm in Room 617 of Wachman Hall. 
Coffee and doughnuts will be served at 3:45 in Faculty Lounge.

Fall 2002

October 17, 4:00

Professor Yury Grabovsky

"From composite materials to linear algebra"

October 24, 4:00

Professor Yury Grabovsky

"New kind of algebras"

October 31, 4:00

Professor Yury Grabovsky

"REU team does it!"

November 7, 4:00

Professor Edward Letzter

"Noncommutative polynomial equations and noncommutative geometries"

November 14, 4:00

Professor Edward Letzter

"Irreducible solutions"

November 21, 4:00

Professor Edward Letzter

" Irreducible solutions (Continued) "

December 9, 2:40

Anna Godfrey and Alpha Jalloh

" Why are all living cells roughly of the same size?"

"Why do you pay less for a larger box in a supermarket? "

Spring 2003 
 

February 18, 2:00

Professor Juan Gil

"Calculus everywhere: The Catenary"

February 25, 2:00

Temple freshmen Brian Puzar and Justin Somers

"Can all calculus books be wrong? The log vs. exp affair."

March 3, 4:00

Professor Daniel B. Szyld

" Mathematics behind Google"

April 8, 4:30

Professor Longin Jan Latecki

" Video Mining"

Temple Math Club is an active club within Temple University, which organizes weekly events on Thursdays 5:00 PM to 6 PM. The meeting room is Wachman Hall 617. Any undergraduate, graduate, faculty, or staff member may attend these meetings and collaborations with other organizations are always welcome!

The mission of the Math Club at Temple University is to build a scholarly community of students and faculty with a passion for mathematics and to popularize this field through a series of activities promoting appreciation and understanding of the role mathematics plays in science, nature, technology, and human culture. To join or enjoy the Math Club one does not need to be the next Euler or Archimedes; one must simply have the interest and ability to find the fun in logic.

We invite speakers (undergraduates, graduates, and faculty) from the University and surrounding institutions to present on various mathematics and applied science fields with the hope to inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. We also offer professional development opportunities within the field of mathematics. We organize events outside of campus, such as watching Math/Science movies, and with other organizations.

Club officers:

• President: Tommy Pham
• Vice President: Nora Melican
• Secretary: Dylan Heathcote

Faculty Advisors:

• Prof. Andy Eisenberg

Director of Undergraduate Studies:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

Graduate Student Advisor:

• Henry Brown

You may contact the club through the president, Tommy Pham, at tommy.pham9@temple.edu

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• Thursday January 18, 2024 at 17:00, WH 617

  First Meeting Spring 2024

   

  The first meeting of Spring 2024!

  We will introduce the club, get to know each other, solve math puzzles, and enjoy free pizza!

   

• Thursday January 25, 2024 at 17:00, WH 617

  Construction of Reals using Dedekind Cuts – Antonio Vinagre 

  This week’s meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Antonio Vinagre on constructing the real numbers using Dedekind cuts. And, as always, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday February 1, 2024 at 17:00, WH 617

  Math Jeopardy! 

   

  This week will feature ‘MathJeopardy’! Enjoy pizza while partakingin a fun Jeopardy-style math triviagame. The winning team will beawarded a prize!

   

• Thursday February 8, 2024 at 17:00, WH 617

  Game Night! 

   

  This week will include a math game night! Stop by Thursday evening for a casual meeting with math-related board games and pizza. Feel free to bring along your favorite board game!

   

• Thursday February 15, 2024 at 17:00, WH 617

  Why There’s No Quintic Formula 

   

  This week will include a deep dive into quintic equations and why no quintic formula exists. The video “Why there’s ‘No’ Quintic Formula” will explore how the world of complex variables can be applied to quintic equations, providing an alternate perspective to the usual Galois theory approach.

   

• Thursday February 22, 2024 at 17:00, WH 617

  Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience 

  We will watch the movie “Journeys of BlackMathematicians: Forging Resilience”. Sponsored by the Math Department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, the film highlights the experiences of black mathematicians throughout history.                 

• Thursday February 29, 2024 at 17:00,

  Problem Solving with Math and Programming 

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will involve a discussion about Project Euler Problem 88 (https://projecteuler.net/problem=88). Project Euler has a large collection of math-related programming challenges. Time-permitting, we may discuss another Project Euler problem as well. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday March 14, 2024 at 17:00,

  Pi Day! 

  This Thursday is 3/14, so the Math Club meeting this week will be a Pi Day celebration! We'll discuss some history and fun facts about pi, take part in pi-themed competitions, and have some pie. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday March 21, 2024 at 17:00,

  Scissors Congruence: How To Cut Up Shapes and Get Away With It – Maxine Calle 

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by University of Pennsylvania grad student Maxine Calle titled "Scissors Congruence: How To Cut Up Shapes and Get Away With It", exploring how we can tell when given shapes are equivalent under cut-and-paste transformations. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday March 28, 2024 at 17:00,

  Series Expansions from Orthogonal Functions – Katharine Ott 

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Katharine Ott from Bates College, titled "Series Expansions from Orthogonal Functions (Taylor's Version)", exploring the relationship between orthogonal series expansions and Taylor series. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday April 4, 2024 at 17:00,

  Eigenvalues of Random Matrices– Luke Peilen 

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Professor Luke Peilen titled "Eigenvalues of Random Matrices." He'll discuss some of the history of the theory of random matrices along with some connections to physics and number theory. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday April 11, 2024 at 17:00,

  All of Math is Wrong, Actually– Andy Eisenberg 

  In this week's meeting of the Temple Math Club, I'll be giving a talk discussing a variety of classic bad math proofs. We'll "prove" that 1 = 2, that 3 = 0, that pi = 4, and that all horses are the same color, among other claims. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday April 18, 2024 at 17:00,

  Of Friends and Politicians: An Invitation to (Spectral) Graph Theory - Nizar Bou Ezz 

   

  The friendship theorem states that if in a group of people each pair shares exactly one mutual friend, then there is always a person (the politician) who is everybody’s friend. While the theorem’s statement may seem straightforward, its (classical) proof requires a deep understanding of the adjacency matrix of the friendship graph. In this talk we will see how “abstract”notions in linear algebra (that you may have encountered in your classes) are used to study real-world social dynamics.

   

• Thursday April 25, 2024 at 17:00,

  Space-filling curves coming from hyperbolic geometry - Ross Griebenow 

   

  Interesting constructions of fractal curves that completely fill higher dimensional spaces have been known for 130 years, but it’s not obvious that such curves ever arise naturally. Starting with an elementary introduction to hyperbolic geometry, I’ll describe a simple and organic example of sphere- filling curves due to Cannon and Thurston. Prerequisites will be limited to groups and their actions on sets. 

   

• Thursday August 29, 2024 at 17:00,

  Fall semester first meeting + a call for speakers 

  
  I hope everyone had a good summer! The Temple Math Club will be starting up again, with our first meeting this Thursday. Here’s some quick information, with a few small requests for action:
  
  Who/Where/When: I’m the faculty advisor for the Math Club, and Tommy Pham is the club’s president. The meetings occur on Thursdays from 5 pm – 6 pm in Wachman 617, and anyone interested is welcome to attend.
  
  Call for speakers: The Math Club hosts talks and meetings of a variety of different types (undergraduates presenting their own research projects, professors pitching ideas for research projects, outreach from local companies seeking mathematically minded job applicants, talks about math history, panels of Temple alums discussing their experiences, movie nights, game nights, and more). If you are interested in giving a talk at the Math Club, or if you have a grad/undergrad student who might want to present their work to the Math Club, please contact Tommy Pham (tommy.pham9@temple.edu), who will take care of all the talk scheduling. (Talks should generally be aimed at undergraduates and assume minimal background.)
  
  Please announce the club to your students! If you think your students might be interested in attending the Math Club, please make an announcement about the club at some point over the next couple of days! Students who attend the first couple of meetings (especially the first meeting) can get added to a mailing list and Discord to continue to receive information about future meetings (and weekly math challenge problems). It might help to let students know that there will always be free pizza at the meetings. 
  
  This week's meeting: The first meeting of the semester will consist of introductions followed by math puzzles and games, as is tradition.

• Thursday September 5, 2024 at 17:00,

  David Palomino: "Vector Bundles: A Look at the Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics". 

  
  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by David Palomino titled "Vector Bundles: A Look at the Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics". And, of course, there will be free pizza!
  
  
  The meeting will be on Thursday from 5 pm - 6 pm in Wachman 617. 
   

• Thursday September 12, 2024 at 17:00,

  "The Mathematics of Musical Scales and Tuning Systems" by Evan Mallon

  
  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Evan Mallon titled "The Mathematics of Musical Scales and Tuning Systems," exploring music theory connections to number theory and group theory. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday September 19, 2024 at 17:00,

  "Knots and why we care about them" by Andrew Clickard

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Andrew Clickard titled "Knots and why we care about them", giving a beginner-friendly introduction to knot theory. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday September 26, 2024 at 17:00,

  "Taking Notes in Math Classes: When Copying What's on the Board Goes Wrong" by Tim Fukawa-Connelly

  The Temple Math Club this week will host Dr. Tim Fukawa-Connelly from the College of Education and Human Development giving a talk about different ways that information is conveyed during a math class, and strategies for improving note-taking skills. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday October 3, 2024 at 17:00,

  Ergodic Theory: How to Measure an Environment by Alvyn Wiratama 

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Alvyn Wiratama giving an introduction to ergodic theory and its connections to statistical mechanics. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday October 10, 2024 at 17:00,

  Metalenses and Optimal Transport

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Irem Altiner on the optimal transport problem, covering some of the history and an application in geometric optics. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday October 24, 2024 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  Math Club & Advising Team Spring Course Info Session

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a joint event with the Math Advising Team in which students can learn about upper-level math courses that will be offered in the Spring and ask questions about program requirements and other students' experiences. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday October 31, 2024 at 18:00, Wachman 617

  Spooktacular Math Mania: Halloween Games, Pizza, and Treats!

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will be Spooktacular Math Mania, a social event with math-related games, Halloween candy, and, of course, free pizza!

• Thursday November 7, 2024 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  Introduction to total nonnegativity, by Mark Skandera

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Mark Skandera on totally nonnegative matrices, with connections to graph theory and hydrocarbon molecules. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday November 14, 2024 at 17:00,

  The Basel Problem: Weierstrass' Contribution to Euler's 100-year-old Solution, by Nora Melican

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Nora Melican on the Basel Problem. She'll discuss complex analysis, Taylor series, the Weierstrass Factorization Theorem, and, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday November 21, 2024 at 17:00,

  Investigating Lucas Sequences Under a Modulus, by Tommy Pham

  This week's meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature a talk by Tommy Pham investigating generalized Fibonacci sequences under a modulus. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday December 5, 2024 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  The last game night /meeting of the semester!

  This week will be the final meeting of the semester for the Temple Math Club. We'll have a relaxing board game night for people to take a break from studying, and, of course, there will be free pizza!

Temple Math Club is an active club within Temple University, which organizes weekly events on Thursdays 5:00 PM to 6 PM. The meeting room is Wachman Hall 617. Any undergraduate, graduate, faculty, or staff member may attend these meetings and collaborations with other organizations are always welcome!

The mission of the Math Club at Temple University is to build a scholarly community of students and faculty with a passion for mathematics and to popularize this field through a series of activities promoting appreciation and understanding of the role mathematics plays in science, nature, technology, and human culture. To join or enjoy the Math Club one does not need to be the next Euler or Archimedes; one must simply have the interest and ability to find the fun in logic.

We invite speakers (undergraduates, graduates, and faculty) from the University and surrounding institutions to present on various mathematics and applied science fields with the hope to inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. We also offer professional development opportunities within the field of mathematics. We organize events outside of campus, such as watching Math/Science movies, and with other organizations.

Club officers:

• President: Christopher Heitmann
• Vice President: Tommy Pham
• Secretary: Dylan Heathcote
• Treasurer:

Faculty Advisors:

• Prof. Andy Eisenberg

Director of Undergraduate Studies:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

Graduate Student Advisor:

• Henry Brown

You may contact the club through the president, Christopher Heitmann, at tun50098@temple.edu

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• Thursday August 31, 2023 at 17:00, WH617

  First meeting 

   

  The first meeting of the Temple Math Club this semester will consist, as usual, of math puzzles and games. And of course there will be free pizza!

   

  The meeting will be on Thursday from 5 pm – 6 pm in Wachman 617.

   

• Thursday September 7, 2023 at 17:00, WH617

  An introduction to Python 

   

  At this week’s meeting of the Temple Math Club, I’ll be giving an introduction to Python. I’ll introduce the basic syntax and use some previous Weekly Challenge coding problems as examples. If you’d like to program along, I’d recommend installing Python 3 (at https://www.python.org/) ahead of time. I’d also recommend installing an IDE (I’m a fan of PyCharm, which is freely available: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/). And, of course, there will be free pizza!

   

  The talk will be on Thursday from 5 pm – 6 pm in Wachman 617.

   

• Thursday September 14, 2023 at 17:00, WH617

  Undergraduate research in mathematics 

   

  This meeting of the Math Club will feature an information session about how undergraduates can get involved in research in the math department. Any student interested in research but not sure how to get started should consider attending. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

   

  The meeting will be tomorrow from 5 pm – 6 pm in Wachman 617.

   

• Thursday September 21, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  Meet employees from the Advanced Concepts Lab 

  This week’s meeting of the Temple Math Club will feature employees from the Advanced Concepts Lab about their work and the relevant mathematical topics (cryptography, statistics, discrete math, and more). This will be a good meeting to attend for any students interested to see the uses of math in industry. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday September 28, 2023 at 17:00, WH617

  Math Club Game Night 

  Need a break from studying for midterms? Join us for a Math Club game night! We will have several math-related board games to choose from, but feel free to bring your favorite game. As always, there will be free pizza!

• Thursday October 5, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  LaTeX Tutorial 

   

  This week we'll have a brief introduction to LaTeX, the typesetting language that most math and science books/papers are published in. It is a useful skill to have as math/science major, so this will be a great opportunity to get started if you haven't already. If you'd like to TeX along with the TalK, I would recommend making an account (for free!) over at Overleaf.com. As always, there will be free pizza!

   

• Thursday October 12, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  Movie Night - Outlier: The Story of Katherine Johnson 

   

  This week we will watch the documentary “Outlier: The Story of Katherine Johnson”. The short film follows the story of Katherine Johnson, an African American woman who pushed boundaries in mathematics and made crucial contributions to space travel. As always, there will be free pizza!

   

• Thursday October 19, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  Math Puzzles - Part 2! 

   

  Math puzzles are back! Join us to solve some fun problems, socialize, and enjoy free pizza! This time, there is a twist. Anyone who can solve a problem on the board will receive a (possibly sweet) prize! 

   

• Thursday October 26, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  Getting our feet wet with Navier-Stokes and a nice integral bound 

  In this talk, we investigate an integral bound lemma used to prove decay rates for solutions to the Navier-Stokes partial differential equation system with rough data. The Navier-Stokes system is a 3D momentum equation which governs the movement of viscous incompressible fluids. After some introduction to the system, and giving some important results and properties, we will dive into proving a necessary integral bound, utilizing only basic calculus. This proof should be accessible to any who are interested in attending. We will then discuss how this lemma is central to the decay rates proof and an interesting result on uniqueness for the system.

• Thursday November 2, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  The Awesome Averaging Power of Heat in Geometry – Andrew Cooper

  Senior Lecturer of Mathematics Andrew Cooper from the University of Pennsylvania will give a talk on using the heat equation to prove geometric uniformization theorems. As a main example: the Jordan Curve Theorem asserts that any simple closed curve divides the plane into two regions, one essentially the unit disk and one essentially its complement. The heat equation gives an explicit proof -- one which actually constructs a deformation of the given curve into the unit circle. I will discuss this proof in some detail, as well as giving an indication of how other geometric heat equations can tell us about what possible shapes exist.                     

• Thursday November 9, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  New Results in Fixed-Point Theory 

   

  This week undergraduates Elizabeth Abt-Fraioli and Christopher Heitmann will present new results in the research of fixed-point theory.Advised by Professor Jeromy Sivek, both have been examining the conditions that yield non-expansive maps without a fixed point. Liz will discuss a new complex-valued variation of Alspach’s famous map and will show that it is fixed-point free and non-expansive. Christopher will prove a general theorem regarding fixed-point free and contractive maps and show a new example of fixed-point free and contractive iterate series of a fixed-point free isometry. 

   

• Thursday November 16, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  Variety Meeting 

  This week will consist of a variety of topics-chosen by you! Pick any math-related concept, video, picture, etc. that you want to share or discuss, and we will take a look! This will be a low-pressure, relaxed meeting where we will discuss math and enjoy free pizza! Fill out the form in the announcement if you have an idea ahead of time. Otherwise, we can take suggestions on Thursday.

• Thursday November 30, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  Construction of Reals using Dedekind Cuts - Antonio Vinagre 

  In this talk, we will discuss one construction of the real numbers using Dedekind Cuts. With this construction first published in 1872 by Richard Dedekind, we will use "cuts" of the rational numbers to form a set that we will show has order, the Least Upper Bound Property, and is a field that contains the rational numbers as a subfield. We will then realize this set of cuts as the set of real numbers.

• Thursday December 7, 2023 at 17:00, WH 617

  How to slay hydras and count past infinity - Krishan Canzius 

  The Hydra is a many-headed monster from Greek mythology. Every time a hero cuts a head off the Hydra several more will grow back in its place. In this talk we'll model the Hydra as a certain kind of graph, and we'll model a battle with the Hydra as a single-player mathematical game. The main question we'll answer is: Can we win the hydra game, and if so which strategies will guarantee a win? In order to answer this question, we'll need to introduce the ordinals: a number system which extends the natural numbers and allows us to count past infinity.

Temple Math Club is an active club within Temple University, which organizes weekly events on Thursdays 5:00 PM to 6 PM (currently via Zoom). Any undergraduate, graduate, faculty, or staff member may attend these meetings and collaborations with other organizations are always welcome!

The mission of the Math Club at Temple University is to build a scholarly community of students and faculty with a passion for mathematics and to popularize this field through a series of activities promoting appreciation and understanding of the role mathematics plays in science, nature, technology, and human culture. To join or enjoy the Math Club one does not need to be the next Euler or Archimedes; one must simply have the interest and ability to find the fun in logic.

We invite speakers (undergraduates, graduates, and faculty) from the University and surrounding institutions to present on various mathematics and applied science fields with the hope to inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. We also offer professional development opportunities within the field of mathematics. We organize events outside of campus, such as watching Math/Science movies, and with other organizations.

Club officers:

• President: Ben Aron
• Vice President: Cari Shearer
• Secretary: Leomar Duran
• Treasurer:

Faculty Advisors:

• Prof. Max Avener
• Prof. Andy Eisenberg

Director of Undergraduate Studies:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

Graduate Student Advisor:

• Khanh Le

You may contact the club through the president, Ben Aron, at israel.aron@temple.edu

Weekly challenge problems

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• Thursday February 10, 2022 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  General Body Meeting

   

• Thursday February 17, 2022 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  Movie Night

   

• Thursday February 24, 2022 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  GRE Practice and Tips

  Join us for general tips on taking the GRE (subject and general) and advice on problem solving. We will also be doing some practice problems!

• Thursday March 10, 2022 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  History of Math Education

  Anya Minasyan
  
   

  In order for knowledgeto be passed down, it must be taught and learned. How can the methods andrealities of Math education of the past share insight into the reasoning behindour current systems, from in the classroom learning in primary school touniversity professors splitting their time between research and teaching?During this presentation, we will try to find some answers to this question bylooking into math scholars and practices of ancient Greece, Egypt, andmore. 

   

• Thursday March 17, 2022 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  Python by Example

  This week, we will be doing some weekly challenge problems in Python! Along the way, we will learn a little about how to code and how to use Python.

• Thursday March 31, 2022 at 17:00, https://temple.zoom.us/j/9198996234

  Temple Alumni Panel

  Join us on Zoom for a panel of Temple mathematics alumni who will be speaking to their post-graduate experiences. Come prepared to ask any questions you may have for them!

  ZOOM LINK: https://temple.zoom.us/j/9198996234

• Thursday April 7, 2022 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  Neuro-VISOR (Neuron Virtual Interaction Simulation of Reality)

   

  James Rosado

  In this talk I will bepresenting the mathematics involved in realizing a neuron in virtual realityundergoing Hodgkin-Huxley type electrical propagation in real-time.
   

   

• Thursday September 8, 2022 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  First Math Club Meeting Fall 2022

   

• Thursday September 15, 2022 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  LaTex Tutorial

   

Temple Math Club is an active club within Temple University, which organizes weekly events on Fridays 4:00 PM to 5 PM (currently the meeting room is Wachman Hall 617). Any undergraduate, graduate, faculty, or staff member may attend these meetings and collaborations with other organizations are always welcome!

We invite speakers (undergraduates, graduates, and faculty) from the University and surrounding institutions to present on various mathematics and applied science fields with the hope to inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. We also offer professional development opportunities within the field of mathematics. We organize events outside of campus, such as watching Math/Science movies, and with other organizations.

Club officers:

• President: Joseph Franks
• Vice President: Evan Haley
• Secretary: Leomar Duran
• Treasurer: Eun Kim

Faculty Advisors:

• Prof. Max Avener

Director of Undergraduate Studies:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

Graduate Student Advisor:

• Najmeh Salehi

You may contact the club through the president, Joseph Franks, at joseph.franks@temple.edu

• Friday January 18, 2019 at 16:00,

  Continued Fractions and the Farey Diagram, Dong Bin Choi, Temple University

   

Temple Math Club is an active and 4 Star student club, which organizes weekly events on Fridays 4:00 PM to 5 PM (currently the meeting room is Wachman Hall 617).

We invite speakers on various mathematics and applied science fields, that could inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. Sometimes we organize events outside campus, such as watching Math/Science movies.

Club officers are:

• Sabrina Harris
• Shreeya Chandra
• Anthony Wachinko
• Eric Albers

Faculty Advisors:

• Dr. Abraham Abebe

Director of Undergraduate Studies:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

Graduate Student Advisor :

• William Worden

• Friday February 2, 2018 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Introduction to LaTex - Joint event by SIAM Temple Chapter and Math Club

   

• Friday March 16, 2018 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Temple Teacher Residency

   

• Friday March 16, 2018 at 16:10, Wachman 617

  Samuel Taylor, Temple University

   Growth in groups via linear algebra

  Abstract: Finite groups are often studied using basic combinatorics and number theory, as in a first course in Abstract Algebra. For infinite groups, however, many of these techniques are unavailable. Since so many infinite groups play an important role in geometry and topology, different methods need to be developed for their study.

  In this talk, I’ll introduce the growth of a group, which is perhaps the most basic notation of `size’ when the group is infinite. As we shall see, for certain classes of groups, growth can be studied using properties of directed graphs and basic linear algebra. We will assume no prerequisites beyond the definition of a group.

• Friday March 23, 2018 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  How structure affects probabilities, Moisey Guysinsky, Penn State Univesity

   

  Abstract: I will discuss couple of problems where at the first look the probability to win is extremely low, but underlying structure allows winning strategy with decent chances. I will also talk about MASS program at the  Pennsylvania State University.
  
   

   

• Friday March 30, 2018 at 16:00, Wachmam 617

  Undergraduate Seminar

   

• Friday April 6, 2018 at 15:00,

  eboard meeting

   

• Friday April 13, 2018 at 16:00, Wachmam 617

  Khanh Le, Temple University

   

• Friday April 20, 2018 at 16:00, Wachmam 617

  Calculus Carnival

   

• Friday April 27, 2018 at 16:00,

  Closing meeting

   

• Friday September 7, 2018 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  First Meeting

  Explain Officer Positions, Distribute Survey

• Friday September 21, 2018 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Math Modeling Competition Honorable mentions

   

• Friday September 28, 2018 at 16:00, Wachman 527

  Planimeter device and the theory behind it

   

• Friday October 5, 2018 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Najmeh Salehi, Temple University

   

• Friday October 12, 2018 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Anna Pun, Drexel University

   

• Friday November 2, 2018 at 16:30, Wachman 617

  Max Avener, Temple University

  
  Math and Juggling 
  In this meeting we will explore some of the many connections between math and juggling. I will introduce siteswap, a system for representing juggling patterns with sequences of integers, and will derive a formula for the number of unique siteswaps of length n that can be juggled with $b$ balls. If time allows, I will also describe alternative ways of representing juggling patterns symbolically and visually.

• Friday November 16, 2018 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  undergraduate panel

   

• Friday November 30, 2018 at 16:00,

  graduate panel

   

Temple Math Club is an active and 4 Star student club, which organizes weekly events on Fridays 4:00 PM to 5 PM (currently the meeting room is Wachman Hall 617).

We invite speakers on various mathematics and applied science fields, that could inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. Sometimes we organize events outside campus, such as watching Math/Science movies.

Club officers are:

• Angeli Nause
• Sabrina Harris
• Hershey Pete
• Mark Mikida
• Anthony Wanichko

Faculty Advisors:

• Dr. Abraham Abebe

Undergraduate Chair:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

• Friday February 10, 2017 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  Temple Teacher Residency

   

• Friday February 17, 2017 at 16:00,

  Geometry and the shape of space

  David Futer, Temple University

• Friday February 24, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman Hall 617

  A Day in the Life of a Biostatistician

  Leslie McClure, Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University.

• Friday March 24, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Experience sharing and study abroad

  Study abroad and experience sharing session.

• Friday March 31, 2017 at 16:00, 1036 Wachman Hall

  Graduate Panel

  Graduate Panel.

• Friday April 7, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Temple SIAM Chapter

  Temple SIAM chapter and Math club officers transition

• Friday April 14, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Undergraduate Seminar

  Undergraduate Seminar

• Friday April 21, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Calculus Carnival

  Calculus carnival

• Friday September 1, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Math Club Eboard meeting

   

• Friday September 15, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Math Club and Chase club joint event

   

• Tuesday September 19, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Math club + AWM + SIAM Graduate panel event

   

• Friday September 29, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Math Club Movie Hub

  Dangerous Knowledge, BBC documentary on extraordinary mathematicians who scarified a lot trying to prove theories of infinity, existence of atoms

• Thursday October 12, 2017 at 11:00, Wachman 527

  The Power of Symbolic Calculations

  Vasily Dolugshev Temple University

• Friday October 20, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Infinitesimals and Nonstandard Analysis, Jeromy Sivek, Temple University

  The idea of an infinitely small quantity (an infinitesimal) goes back at least to Archimedes' studies of circles and their approximating polygons. Many people studying localizable questions of change have attempted to apply the idea that they could zoom all the way in to the infinitely small moment of change.

  Of course, we are all familiar with the standard $\epsilon$, $N$, $\delta$ conception of limits that addresses these issues. We use limits because they answer those questions about continually improving approximations and avoid the contradictions of trying to use infinitely large or infinitely small quantities in ordinary calculations.

  Efforts in the last 100 years have put a firmer foundation under the concept of an infinitesimal quantity. These efforts allow us to do some computations with these quantities without fear of contradiction. We will see some details of the different axiomatic frameworks and explore some applications.

• Friday October 27, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Halloween Event (Pumpkin Activities)

   

• Friday November 3, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 527

  An introduction into the life an actuary and their work, Dr. Krupa Viswanathan, director of the Actuarial Science program, Temple University

   

• Friday November 10, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  What is it like to live in a 3-dimensional torus? William Worden, Temple University

  Abstract: As we are hurled through the terrifying emptiness of space, it is natural to ask: what is the shape of the universe? Is it flat, and if so is it finite or infinite? Or is it round, closing up on itself like a sphere? Or maybe some other shape altogether? This question is really a question for cosmologists, but the question of what the possible shapes are is very much a mathematical one—in the realm of geometric topology. Hundreds of years ago a similar question was asked about the shape of the earth, and the consensus today is that it is more or less spherical. We will discuss first the possible shapes of planets, which is a question about 2-dimensional objects, then move on to thinking about possible shapes for the universe, which is 3-dimensional. The focus will be on trying to think about what it would be like to live in different shaped universes.

• Friday November 17, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 527

  Refraction with multiple colours, Ahmed Sabra Temple University

  In this talk we discuss the trajectories of rays containing multiple wavelengths (i.e. with multiple colors). Dispersion of such light creates chromatic aberration at the target which is a limitation of various optical design. We investigate existence of lenses focusing light into a target eliminating light aberration.

• Friday December 1, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Undergraduate Open House

   

• Friday December 8, 2017 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Closing meeting

   

Temple Math Club is an active club within Temple University, which organizes weekly events on Thursdays 5:00 PM to 6 PM (currently via Zoom). Any undergraduate, graduate, faculty, or staff member may attend these meetings and collaborations with other organizations are always welcome!

The mission of the Math Club at Temple University is to build a scholarly community of students and faculty with a passion for mathematics and to popularize this field through a series of activities promoting appreciation and understanding of the role mathematics plays in science, nature, technology, and human culture. To join or enjoy the Math Club one does not need to be the next Euler or Archimedes; one must simply have the interest and ability to find the fun in logic.

We invite speakers (undergraduates, graduates, and faculty) from the University and surrounding institutions to present on various mathematics and applied science fields with the hope to inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. We also offer professional development opportunities within the field of mathematics. We organize events outside of campus, such as watching Math/Science movies, and with other organizations.

Club officers:

• President: Ben Aron
• Vice President: Cari Shearer
• Secretary: Leomar Duran
• Treasurer:

Faculty Advisors:

• Prof. Max Avener
• Prof. Andy Eisenberg

Director of Undergraduate Studies:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

Graduate Student Advisor:

• Khanh Le

You may contact the club through the president, Ben Aron, at israel.aron@temple.edu

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• Thursday April 22, 2021 at 17:00,

  Grad Student Panel

  Join us on Zoom this Thursday for a panel of Temple mathematics graduate students who will be speaking to their experiences and what led them to graduate school. There will also be a Q&A, so come prepared to ask any questions you might have for them!

• Thursday September 9, 2021 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  First Math Club Meeting of the Semester

  First math club meeting of the semester. We will be introducing ourselves and what we do, going over what our plans are for the semester and getting to know each other with some brain teasers!

• Thursday October 7, 2021 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  Benford's Law and Fixed Point Theory

   

  Benford's Law is an observation that in many data sets(Population levels, Fibonacci numbers, Winning raffle tickets, and others) youfind a peculiar distribution in the leading digits of the numbers.  Wewill introduce the phenomenon and illustrate the cause.  We will showtools for measuring and predicting this phenomenon.   We will thenshow experiments that exhibit variations of Benford-like behavior.

   

  Fixed point theory is a research topic that allows us to guaranteesolutions to certain differential equations, understand the geometry of someinfinite dimensional vector spaces, and other things.  We will give abrief Calculus-level introduction.  Then we will dive into a coupleaccessible examples that show how the geometry of a space is more"normal" when it has the possible fixed point properties.

   

• Thursday October 14, 2021 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  Fundamental Groups: An Exploration of Loops

  How do we know if two circles are linked? Is going around a circle twice equivalent to going around the circle once? Fundamental groups are formalizations of loops in topological spaces and they answer these questions, along with many more. Fundamental groups bring together ideas from algebra, topology, and geometry in order to formalize a seemingly intuitive concept. This talk will cover what the fundamental group is and its intuitive structure. We will construct the formalization and provide an exploration of the properties of fundamental groups. Finally, we will look applications of the properties we discussed in order to answer some questions about loops, such as the ones above. *Some abstract algebra required.

• Thursday October 21, 2021 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  2016 Abel Prize Lecture

  Join us for a movie night as we watch Sir Andrew Wiles give his 2016 Abel Prize Lecture on Fermat’s Last Theorem: abelian and non-abelian approaches.

• Thursday October 28, 2021 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  TBA

  James Rosado

  TBA

Temple Math Club is an active and 4 Star student club, which organizes weekly events on Fridays 4:00 PM to 5 PM (currently the meeting room is Wachman Hall 617).

We invite speakers on various mathematics and applied science fields, that could inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. Sometimes we organize events outside campus, such as watching Math/Science movies.

Club officers are:

• Angeli Nause
• Sabrina Harris
• Hershey Pete
• Mark Mikida
• Anthony Wanichko

Faculty Advisors:

• Dr. Abraham Abebe

Undergraduate Chair:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

• Friday January 23, 2015 13:00, Wachman 617

  General Body Meeting

   

• Thursday January 29, 2015 13:00, Wachman 617

  How to Tie Your Unicycle in Knots: An Introduction to Legendrian Knot Theory

  **Please note different day**

  Josh Sabloff, Haverford College

• Friday February 20, 2015 13:00, Wachman 617

  Polynomials with Panache

  Chris Castillo, University of Delaware

• Thursday February 26, 2015 13:00, Wachman 617

  A Borromean Rings Quilt: Visualizing the hyperbolic complement of the Borromean rings

  **Please note different day**

  Barbara Nimershiem, Franklin and Marshall College

• Friday March 20, 2015 13:00, Wachman 617

  Intersections of Math and Poetry

  JoAnne Growney

• Friday March 27, 2015 13:00, Wachman 617

  Reflection, Refraction & Fermat's Principle

  Ahmad Sabra, Temple University

• Friday April 10, 2015 13:00, Wachman 617

  Calculus Carnival

   

• Friday April 17, 2015 13:00, Wachman 617

  Undergraduate Seminar: 1) A MAD Game 2) Why e is irrational 3) Mathematical Contest in Modeling

  Dallas Luce, Evan Kranzler, Karla Onate, Temple University

• Saturday April 25, 2015 ,

  Philadelphia Undergraduate Mathematics Conference

   

Temple Math Club is an active and 4 Star student club, which organizes weekly events on Fridays 4:00 PM to 5 PM (currently the meeting room is Wachman Hall 617).

We invite speakers on various mathematics and applied science fields, that could inspire our math, science, engineering majors and all other math enthusiasts. Sometimes we organize events outside campus, such as watching Math/Science movies.

Club officers are:

• Angeli Nause
• Sabrina Harris
• Hershey Pete
• Mark Mikida
• Anthony Wanichko

Faculty Advisors:

• Dr. Abraham Abebe

Undergraduate Chair:

• Prof. Maria Lorenz

• Friday September 16, 2016 16:00, Wachman 617

  General Body Meeting

   

• Friday September 23, 2016 16:00, Wachman 617

  Brain Teasers

   

• Friday September 30, 2016 16:00, Wachman 617

  High Performance Computing

  Alex Kohlmeyer, Temple University

• Friday October 7, 2016 16:00, Wachman 617

  Temple Teacher Residency and Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling

  Michele Lee (Temple Teacher Residency) and Yilin Wu (Mathematical Modeling Contest Information session)

• Friday October 21, 2016 16:00, Wachman 1036

  π is not constant

  Jeromy Sevik, Temple University

• Friday October 28, 2016 16:00, Wachman 617

  Halloween Meeting

   

• Friday November 4, 2016 16:00, Wachman 617

  Making Matrices Better: The Geometry and Topology of Singular Value and Polar Decomposition

  Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania

• Friday December 2, 2016 16:00, Wachman 617

  Math Club Open House

   

Abstract: This talk will give a glimpse of some of the ideas and motivations underlying the new, so called, ``noncommutative geometry.'' We will begin with familiar objects from calculus (such as ellipses and parabolas), and proceed from there to ``quantizations of the plane'' and (perhaps) beyond.

The famous Euler's formula relates the number of vertices $V$, edges $E$ and faces $F$ in any polyhedron by a beautiful formula \[ V-E+F=2. \] For example in a cube $V=8$, $E=12$ and $F=6$, so that $8-12+6=2$. It turns out that there is a deep and mysterious connection between the Euler's theorem and another famous theorem due to Gauss. When Gauss discovered it, he was so amazed by its beauty that he called it "Theorema Egregium" ('remarkable theorem') in a very uncharacteristic for Gauss self-praise. I will explain how this connection gave rise to an extensive and important topic of current research.

Abstract:  In this talk, we'll describe what futures and options are, their uses and misuses, what kind of math is involved in their analysis, and the celebrated Black-Scholes formula that was worth a Nobel prize.

The first set of interesting functions we meet in mathematics (after polynomials) are circular functions $\sin x$ and $\cos x$. They are related to the circle group and to the ordinary differential operator $\frac{d^2}{dx^2}+1$, which is a polynomial in $\frac{d}{dx}$ with constant coefficients. The next in this hierarchy is the class of hypergeometric functions. They are solutions of the equation of the form \[P_1(\frac{d}{dx})=xP_2(\frac{d}{dx}),\] where $P_1$ and $P_2$ are polynomials in $\frac{d}{dx}$ with constant coefficients. The simple factor $x$ makes a world of a difference. In particular it changes the abelian group (circle group) into a non-abelian group.

Abstract: Using a finite model we will explore devices such as CAT Scanners, and MRI from a mathematical perspective. Using counting arguments and linear algebra we'll consider questions such as the recovery of an image from X-rays, uniqueness, minimality, and more.

 Abstract: It is well-known (to most people) that the so-called Bible Codes are not at all amazing. But Parrondo's "paradox" is even less amazing. The only amazing thing is that many people find it amazing.

Abstract: Using a finite model we will explore devices such as CAT Scanners, and MRI from a mathematical perspective. Using counting arguments and linear algebra we'll consider questions such as the recovery of an image from X-rays, uniqueness, minimality, and more.

This theorem, originally due to Hilbert (1890) and Noether (1916), is widely regarded as a starting point of the branch of modern ``abstract'' algebra now called ring theory. I will discuss this theorem, with some background, and present a very simple proof that was found in 2000. 
 

Abstract: The theorems of Perron (1907) and Frobenius (1909) deal with eigenvalues and eigenvectors of nonnegative matrices. In this short talk we will give the ideas behind different proofs of the theorems, and present some applications of the Perron-Frobenius Theory to economics, population dynamics and the study of iterative solution of linear systems.

Abstract: Many people believe that mathematics consists of two disjoint halves: the continuous part such as stuff we learned from a calculus class and the discrete part such as counting learned from our childhood. This talk discusses the connection between these two. In particular, we will talk about the Mobius inversion in number theory, its history and how to use it to recover the foundamental theorem of calculus, Newton-Leibnitz formula.

Twenty years ago the study of projective geometry would have seemed somewhat like the study of Latin: good for the brain and a means to keep in contact with the ancients. Today, however, projective geometry is a popular subject with mathematicians and computer scientists. This is due to the new applications to computer vision and to the fact that geometry and geometric thinking are again on the upswing. Moreover, computer science has returned the favor by providing powerful tools for the visualization and diffusion of mathematics. Java applets, animated GIF images, and linked HTML pages allow us to present mathematics and, most particularly, geometry in a way that was unthinkable twenty years ago.

In this talk we will give a short introduction to projective geometry using PyGeo, a powerful and freely available visualization tool written in Python and developed by Arthur Siegel (who may come and participate in the talk.)  

Join us for the last game night, also the last meeting of the semester. We will be playing board games and eat pizza. Hope to see you there!

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