Fall Semester 2018 Schedule
Fall Semester 2018 Schedule
Date
9/5/2018
9/12/2018
9/17/2018
9/26/2018
10/1/2018
10/8/2018
10/15/2018
10/22/2018
10/29/2018
11/5/2018
11/12/2018
11/19/2018
11/26/2018
12/3/2018
12/10/2018
Speaker
Organizational Meeting
Paul Kinlaw
Kim McKeage
Susanna Pathak
J Bayless & S Lambert
None (Holiday)
Group Discussion
None
Youri Antonin
Tom Stone
Group Discussion
David Mullens
Tom Stone
Alice Wise
David Grinstein
Title
Math Seminar Planning Session
Prime Number Races and Primitive Sets
Methods of Sorting Data
Library Resources for Mathematics
The XYZ Homework Assignment System
Indigenious Peoples' Day
Informal Discussion about Online Teaching Methods
n/a
Data Analytics in the State of Maine
CES and MS 141
Discussion on the Data Analytics Program
Scissors Congruences
An Experiment that Incorporates the Husson Garden into MS 141
Analytic Continuation and its Connection to Loops and Homotopy
Legislative Districts and Gerrymandering.
Spring Semester 2019 Schedule
Name
02/11/2019
02/18/2019
02/25/2019
03/04/2019
03/18/2019
03/25/2019
04/01/2019
04/08/2019
04/15/2019
04/22/2019
04/29/2019
05/08/2019
Speaker
Organizational Meeting
Jonathan Bayless
Available
BHS Student (Placeholder)
Ken Lane
Mike Knupp (Tentative)
Kim McKeage
David Grinstein
Julia Upton
Ken Lane
Jonathan Bayless and
Samanthak Thiagarajan
Title
Math Seminar Planning Session
A Perfect Reciprocal Sum
TBD
Number Theory
5 Odd Ballots - Ranked Choice Voting
TBD
Recent Paper
Shure's Algorithm (Quantum Computing!)
TBD
5 Odd Ballots - Ranked Choice Voting Part 2
The AKS primality testing algorithm
The Fibonacci Reciprocal Constant
Abstracts:
Title: A "perfect" reciprocal sum
Abstract: We will work through the details of one of the more interesting bounds on a reciprocal sum: the sum of the reciprocals of the perfect numbers. These numbers are defined as a number whose sum of divisors is twice itself (or whose sum of proper divisors is equal to the number), and have been studied since at least Euclid's time. The smallest example is 6=1+2+3, and the next smallest is 28=1+2+4+7+14. Despite having no idea if there are infinitely many or only finitely many perfect numbers, nor whether there are any odd perfect numbers, we can compute this sum to a remarkable degree of accuracy using some relatively elementary techniques.