Undergraduate Mathematics Colloquium
The next undergraduate colloquium is this Thursday.
For details please click here.
Speaker: Andrew Thaler, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
Title: Why Math Is Cool
Abstract:
In this talk, we will explore some applications of mathematics. Weather forecasting
is notoriously difficult, so we begin by taking a look at some of the reasons why
this is the case. Next, we present a strategy to cloak an object in such a way that
the object and the fact that something is being cloaked are hidden from external observers.
Finally, we utilize one of the most powerful tools in mathematics - Fourier series
- to examine why instruments sound the way they do.
Pizza will be served.
For more information on the speaker, please visit: http://www.ima.umn.edu/~athaler/