Events are on Wednesdays. Food is provided at 5:30, and the meeting starts at 6.
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| September 23, 2009 | No Meeting | 2nd Day of School | | | | September 30, 2009 | Dr. Bradley Zakarin | Fellowship Opportunities in Math (First Meeting) | | | | October 7, 2009 | Professor Quinn | History of Computability? | URL | | | October 14, 2009 | Professor Getzler | | URL | | | October 21, 2009 | Marcel Flores | The Thue Morse Sequence and Subsequences | | | | October 28, 2009 | Professor McClendon | When Newton's method goes bonkers | URL | Newton's method is an iterative scheme that allows you to approximate roots of differentiable functions. In the examples you see in calculus, it works rather well. But sometimes things go wrong. In this talk we'll explore why Newton's method works when it does, why it fails when it fails, and what this has to do with more sophisticated ideas from dynamical systems, complex variables, and fractal geometry. | | November 4, 2009 | Professor Alongi | The Gradient: A Coordinate Free Perspective | URL | | | November 11, 2009 | Professor Hsu | Probability Theory | URL | | | November 18, 2009 | | | | | | November 25, 2009 | No Meeting | Day Before Thanksgiving | | | | December 2, 2009 | Ranjan | Complete Growth Series and Products of Groups (Reading Week) | | | | December 9, 2009 | No Meeting | Exam Week | | | | January 6, 2010 | | First Wednesday of Winter Quarter | | | | January 13, 2010 | | | | | | January 20, 2010 | | | | | | January 27, 2010 | | | | |
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