Math Club
Welcome to the UIC Undergraduate Math Club for AY 2024-2025!
The Math Club meets on Monday (2-3pm) in SEO 636. Anyone can drop by. The first meeting of the fall 2024 term will be September 9th.
If you are interested in participating in student activities or giving a short (10- to 45-minute) math-related presentation, please speak with a member of the board at any club meeting.
Additionally, Putnam Competition preparation will take place this term on Wednesdays from 12-1pm in SEO 512.
Message the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Nathan Jones, for more information on Math Club or the Putnam Competition!
Upcoming Lectures
Former Lectures
2023-2024 Lectures
Sept 11
Nathan Jones
UIC
Putnam Competition Problems and Their Solutions
Sept 18
Wouter van Limbeek
UIC
The Banach-Tarski paradox, pyramid schemes, and amendable groups
2022-2023 Lectures
Sep 9
Nathan Jones
UIC
The theory of voting : Arrow’s impossibility theorem
Sep 16
Emily Cairncross
UIC
The feasible region of induced graphs
Sep 23
Tom Benhamou
UIC
Counting the infinite and independence
Oct 7
Mustafa Nawaz
UIC
Additive Combinatorics and the Green Tao Theorem
Oct 14
Karoline Dubin
UIC
Phase transitions: an introduction through percolation
Oct 21
Sung Min Lee
UIC
Constructing a non-integer dimension
Oct 28
Yanlong Hao
UIC
Kakeya sets in finite fields
Nov 4
Wenliang Zhang
UIC
The number of polynomials defining an algebraic set
Nov 11
Michael O’Leary
Morningstar Inc.
The Communication of Mathematical Theory
Nov 18
Drew Shulman
UIC
Machine Learning and Games
Dec 2
Benjamin Call
UIC
Dynamical systems and Benford’s law
Jan 13
Nathan Jones
UIC
Number fields associated to elliptic curves
Jan 27
Nathan Jones
UIC
Number fields associated to elliptic curves II
Feb 10
Greg Taylor
UIC
A Tour of Examples in Algebraic Geometry
Feb 17
Symbols of Inclusion Panel
UIC
What can I do with a math degree?
Mar 3
Christof Sparber
UIC
What is the uncertainty principle?
Mar 10
Cheng Ouyang
UIC
Introduction to Stochastic calculus
Mar 17
Mustafa Nawaz
UIC
Modular Forms
Mar 31
Dale Embers
UIC
My Experience in the Actuarial Field
April 14
Nathan Jones
UIC
Solving a few fun problems
April 28
Sravani Bhamidipaty, Sergio Lara, and Max Nguyen
UIC
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