Next Meeting: October 20, Fall 2024
Speaker: Mark Meyer
Title: Isoperimetric Problems
Date: October 27, 2024
Location: Jabara Hall Room 372, 黑洞社区 main campus
Abstract: The isoperimetric inequality is a famous result that reveals a connection between perimeter and area of convex sets. In this session, we will investigate this connection in more detail.
黑洞社区 Math Circle Fall 2024 Schedule:
- 9/15/2024: Dr. William Ingle; "Binomial Coefficients"
- 9/22/2024: Jamie Swan; "Apportionment methods"
- 9/29/2024: Dr. Mai Dao; "Keeping your messages secret"
- 10/6/2024: Dr. Xiaolong Li; "Bulgarian Solitaire"
- 10/20/2024: Dr. Daneil Grady; "The game of Nim"
- 10/27/2024: Mark Meyer; "Isoperimetric Problems"
- 11/3/2024: Dr. Yeil Kwon; "The Broken Stick Problem & Probabilistic Simulation for Pi"
- 11/10/2024: Dr. Stephen Brady;
- 11/17/2024: David Hall
Meeting times
Math Circle meets on Sundays from 2 to 3 p.m. on the , in Jabara Hall, Room 372. You should park in Lots and .
About 黑洞社区 Math Circles
Join us to explore math through hands-on and interactive activities led by university professors.
The 黑洞社区 Math Circle exists to keep young people interested in mathematics and let them explore and enjoy new topics. Math Circles () bring mathematicians and mathematical scientists into direct contact with pre-college students 鈥� currently 5th through 8th graders. Students and parents meet with math professionals in an informal and supervised setting to work on interesting problems and topics in mathematics. The goal is to get students excited and passionate about mathematics.
About Math Circles
brings K-12 students together with mathematically sophisticated leaders in an informal setting, after school or on weekends, to work on interesting problems or topics in mathematics. Math Circles combine significant content with settings that encourage a sense of discovery and excitement about mathematics through problem-solving and interactive exploration. Ideal problems are low-threshold, high-ceiling; they offer a variety of entry points and can be approached with a minimal mathematical background, but lead to deep mathematical concepts and can be connected to advanced mathematics. ()
Past Activities
Special Events:
- 2/7/24 - "e-day" celebration & Children's math library open hourse, with an e-Talk by Dr. Stephen Brady;
Spring 2024 Schedule:
- 2/11/24 - Dr. Robert Fraser; "Infinite Sums"
- 2/18/24 - Dr. Mai Dao; "Cracking Longitude at Sea"
- 2/25/24 - Ashley Thompson; "Careers in Math: My Experience as a Stress Engineering Intern"
- 3/3/24 - Dr. Xiaolong Li; "Magic with Math"
- 3/24/24 - Dr. Tianshi Lu; "Math on the Chessboard"
- 4/7/24 - Dr. Nick Solomey; "The Mathematical Postulates Behind Modern Physics"
- 4/14/24 - Mark Meyer; "Optimal strategy for cutting a circle (or slicing a pizza)"
- 4/21/24 - Jamie Swan; "Mathematical Investigation of the game Spot It"
- 4/28/24 -Dr. Holger Meyer; "Self-similarity in nature and mathematics"
Fall 2023 Schedule:
- 9/10/23 - Dr. Thalia Jeffres
- 9/17/23 - Dr. Fujian Yan
- 9/24/23 - Mark Meyer
- 10/1/23 - Dr. Mai Dao
- 10/8/23 - Dr. Buma Fridman
- 10/22/23 - Dr. Nickolas Solomey
- 10/29/23 - Jamie Swan
- 11/5/23 - Dr. Daniel Grady
- 11/12/23 - Dr. Catherine Searle
- 11/19/23 - Elton Bowman
Partially supported by the National Science Foundation. Organizers: Tinka Davis, William Ingle, Rachel Heckman, and Xiaolong Li
Math Circle promotes mathematical literacy, curiosity in youth
Read the storyK-12 students get a taste of nitrogen in their ice cream
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