Math Club
Welcome to the UIC Undergraduate Math Club page for AY 2025-2026!
The Math Club meets on Monday (1-2pm) in SEO 636. Anyone can drop by. The first meeting of the fall 2025 term will be September 3rd!
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 (Days and time: TBA).
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), About our MURL projects