2024-2025 Schedule

Fall 2024

Meetings are Wednesdays at 5pm in Tykeson 260

  • Week 1 (10/2) – social night (origami, pizza, etc.)
  • Week 3 (10/16)
  • Week 5 (10/30)
  • Week 7 (11/13)
  • Week 9 (11/27) – meeting likely cancelled for Thanksgiving break

Winter 2025

TBA!

Spring 2025

TBA!

 

 

Past Meetings

Winter 2024

  • Week 3 – —: Welcome
  • Week 4 – —: Math crafts (möbius strips and tessellations)
  • Week 6 – —: Strategy games
  • Week 8 – —: LaTeX workshop
  • Week 10 – —: Pi Day (3/14)

Spring 2024 

Meetings in Fenton 119, Wednesdays during odd weeks at 5pm.

  • Week 1 (April 3)- —: No meeting
  • Week 3 (April 17)- —: Introductory research presentations from UO Math Graduate Students.  Come find out what graduate students in math are up to! Featuring:
    • Halley Fritze – Topological Data Analysis: Connections between Data and Geometry
    • Cruz Godar – Plane Partitions, Generating Functions, and Bijections
    • Siavash Jafarizadeh – Knot theory and Modern Invariants
  • Week 5 (May 1)- —: Presentation from UO Faculty James Murray: “Modeling brains as dynamical systems”
  • Week 7 (May 15)- —: Origami
  • Week 9 (May 29) – —: Presentation from UO Faculty Victor Ostrik on Cryptography