Schedule (ET):

10:00 am - 10:15 am: Welcome

10:15 am - 11:15 am: Keynote Speaker:  Moira Chas (Stony Brook University)

Title: What do you mean by a Möbius strip? And by a Klein bottle? Where do these surfaces exist?

Abstract: Certain mathematical objects have achieved Internet fame, among them the Möbius strip, the Klein bottle, and the fourth dimension.

In this age of short attention spans, brief descriptions are repeated everywhere, but their frequency is often inversely proportional to their accuracy. For instance, we may read that the Klein bottle has no inside or outside and can only exist in the fourth dimension—wrong on both counts. In this talk, I will explain what mathematicians actually mean by a Möbius strip and a Klein bottle, how these objects were discovered, and highlight some of their lesser-known representations. 

11:30 - 12:30:  Contributed talks

12:30 - 1:30: Lunch (on your own)

1:30 - 3:30: Contributed Talks
Each talk is  __ minutes long.  Please showcase your research for a general audience of mathematicians.

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Poster Session and Wine and Cheese Social 

Titles and Abstracts:

Organizing Committee: Siobhan O'Connor (Chair), Sandra Kingan, Tamara Kucherenko, Azita Mayeli, Giovanna Ricevuto, John Terilla. 

Sponsored by the Graduate Center's Mathematics Department
and the GC AWM Student Chapter.