Monday, September 18
Psychology: How Culture Influences Our Emotions
Jeanne Tsai, Ph.D., Stanford University
3:30-4:30 pm, Viking Theater
Dr. Jeanne Tsai, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, will be delivering the Psychology Department’s annual Millert Memorial lecture. Her talk promises to help us better understand how something as personal and individual as our emotions is influenced by cultural factors.
Speaker: Matthew Wright, St. Olaf Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Abstract: If you watch a skilled juggler, you may see balls (or other objects) flying through the air in intricate patterns. What patterns are possible? Starting with a few basic axioms about juggling, we can use mathematics to describe all “jugglable” patterns. In this talk, I will explain how integer sequences can help us enumerate all such patterns. This talk will feature modular arithmetic, Möbius inversion, and – of course – live juggling.
4:00 pm, RNS 410
Tuesday, September 19
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Wednesday, September 20
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Thursday, September 21
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Friday, September 22
MSCS Research Seminar:
Continuity and chaos in discrete dynamical systems
Speaker: T. H. Steele, Professor, Weber State University, Ogden Utah
Abstract: In the latter part of the nineteenth century, there was a belief in the deterministic, clockwork precision of the universe. From this belief arose an interest in establishing the stability of the planetary motions in our solar system. Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, initiated a mathematical competition in 1887 to celebrate his sixtieth birthday in 1889. One of the problems, posed by Karl Weierstrass, dealt with this stability: ”Given a system of arbitrarily many mass points that attract each other according to Newton’s laws, assuming that no two points ever collide, give the coordinates of the individual points for all time….”
3:30 pm, RNS 204