This Week in Science at St. Olaf

Monday, Dec. 14

MSCS Colloquium: Approximating Pi Using Similar Triangles
Ryota Matsuura, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
I will present a method for approximating pi using similar triangles. The method relies on a repeated/recursive application of a geometric construction that allows us to easily inscribe regular polygons inside a unit circle with arbitrarily large number of sides. As an added bonus, I will also derive some interesting identities, including an infinite product for pi that was first discovered in the late 16th century.
3:30p.m., RNS 310

Game Night: Pi Mu Epsilon hosting this event.
Have fun before finals! Challenge your friends and maybe even a MSCS faculty to one of the many games available. Pizza and snacks will be served at 6:30pm.
6pm – 9pm, RMS 6th Floor Lounge

Tuesday, Dec. 15

No Seminars

Wednesday, Dec. 16

No Seminars

Thursday, Dec. 17

No Seminars:

Friday, Dec. 18

No Seminars

Monday, Dec. 7

MSCS and Biology Colloquium: Coping with cross-community contacts in cluster-randomized trials of infectious disease prevention
Nicole Bohme Carnegie ’05, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, School Of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
3:30pm, RNS 310

Tuesday, Dec. 8

No Seminars

Wednesday, Dec. 9

Chemisty & Physics Joint Seminar: Directing Excited State Transport in Organic Semiconductors for Enhanced Photoconversion in Solar Cells
Professor Russell Holmes; Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota 

Thursday, Dec. 10

No Seminars

Friday, Dec. 11

No Seminars