Monday, Sept 26
Biology Seminar: Nature Walk in the Natural Lands!
Meet outside the Hustad Science Library at 4:00PM. We’ll bring the granola bars, you bring the water for a tour of the Natural Lands!
MSCS Colloquium: Subfractals and subshifts
Liz Sattler, Visiting Assistant Professor at Carleton College
Fractals provide some of the most beautiful and interesting examples in mathematics. In this talk, we will introduce some of the most popular examples of fractals, including the Cantor set, Sierpinski’s triangle, and the Koch snowflake. We will carefully discuss the strong connection between fractals and infinite strings on a finite alphabet (symbolic space). We will take special interest in subfractals, defined by a specific type of subset of the symbolic space. Finally, we will explore methods to distinguish two fractals and discuss why our usual methods (length, area, volume) will not be helpful.
3:30pm, RNS 310 (3:15pm cookies and conversation)
Tuesday, Sept 27
No Seminars
Wednesday, Sept 28
No Seminars
Thursday, Sept 29
Seminar: Joint Chemistry & Physics Seminar – Materials Chemistry!
Miles Arthur White; Iowa State University
3:15 pm, RNS 150
Seminar: Dual degree program in Engineering info session (St. Olaf / Washington University)
11:30 a.m. Regents 210
Friday, Sept 30
MSCS Seminar: On differing Numbers of Different Differences
Peter Blanchard, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College
Arithmetic progressions have been part of the mathematical landscape almost forever. We will discuss a small amount of history around arithmetic progressions before using alternative characterizations to show why they are so special.
3:30pm, RNS 204