Stony Brook Math Club

About once a month there are  talks during the Campus Lifetime (Wednesdays at 1pm) in Math P-131. Pizza is always provided!

Below is a list of the talks (the title is linked to the videos. All videos can be found here).

March 27, 2019	Alfreda James	Career Options for Math Majors	Abstract
Nov 12, 1018	Ben Orlin	The Unlikely Friendship of Math and Science
Oct 10, 2018	Gary Mar	Goedel's Theorems, Time and God: A Modal Magical Mystery Tour
Oct 8, 2018	Samuel Grushevsky, Ljudmila Kamenova, Christian Schnell	Putnam related problems and tips
October 18, 2017	Arie Hinkis	How can mathematical proofs be compared?
April 19, 2017	Joe Malkevitch	Euler's Polyhedral Formula Still Inspires New Geometrical Results
Dec 7, 2016	Jean Taylor	Conjectured Cluster Mechanism for Growth of Some Complex Crystals (including Quasicrystals)
Dec 7, 2016	Jean Taylor	Women and Mathematics: What has changed?
November 2, 2016	David Saltman	Breaking Enigma the first time
Thursday Sept. 8th, 1pm,  P-131	Yuval Peres	Learning with a perfect expert: How much weight should majority opinion carry?	Abstract
March 2nd, 2016 Physics 117	Matthieu Arfeux	A quick trip through fractals	Abstract
February 17th, 2016, 1pm Physics 117	Tanya Khovanova	Cookie Monster Plays Games	Abstract
October 28, 1pm, 2015  P-131	Alexander Kirillov	Quivers and their representations	Abstract
September 30th, 2015, SCGP 103, 1pm	Simon Donaldson	Four dimensional manifolds	Abstract
Tuesday May 5th, 2015, 1pm, P-131.	Hugo Parlier	Puzzles, Triangulations and Moduli Spaces	Abstract
April 27th, 2015, 1pm, P-131	Joe Mitchell	Optimal Enclosures and Peeling Potatoes: Computing Outer and Inner Approximations of Shapes -- A Computational Geometry Perspective	Abstract
October 8th, 2014, 1pm, P-131	Yaar Solomon	How to tile the plane non-periodically?	Abstract
September 10th, 2pm, P-131	Nick Trefethen	Numerical computing with Chebfun	Abstract
Friday April 11th 2014, 2:30pm Physics P116,	Jason Cantarella	Robot Calculus, or how to always win at bean bag toss (if you are a robot)	Abstract
March 5th, 2014, Math P-131	Irwin Kra	What is a (compact) Riemann surface?	Abstract
Thursday February 13th 2014, 1pm, Math p-131	Russell Lyons	From Coin Tossing to the Drunk Lamplighter
November 12th 2013 1pm Math P-131	Arnaud Cheritat	Straightening the square	Abstract
October 9th 2013 1pm Math P-131	Thomas Hales	How to do math without blunders	Abstract
September 11th 2013 1pm Math P-131	Tony Phillips	Geometry of polyhedral surfaces, gravitational lensing and the Aharonov-Bohm experiment	Abstract
April 10th 2013,1:00pm, Math P-131	Phillip Webster	Fractal Islamic Geometric Patterns Based on Arrangements of {n/2}Stars.	Abstract
February 6th 2013,1:00pm, Math P-131	Joe Mitchell	Guarding Art Galleries, Patroling Prisons, Shoveling Snow, and Surveying Planets.	Abstract
October 24th 2012, 12:50pm, Math P-131	John Morgan	The mathematics behind the umbilic torus
September 19th 2012, 12:50pm, Math P-131	Dennis Sullivan	Stories about Bill Thurston and related mathematics.	Abstract
April 11th 2012, 12:50pm, Math P-131	Dusa McDuff	Embedding questions in symplectic geometry: an elementary introduction.	Abstract
February 1st 2012, 12:50pm, Math P-131	Jim Simons	My Life and Times in Mathematics.
December 7n 2011, 12:50pm, Math P-131	Mikhail Lyubich	The Mandelbrot set and the Riemann Mapping Theorem.	Abstract
November 2n 2011, 4:30pm, Math P-131	Bernie Maskit	Complex structures on a torus.	Abstract
October 28, 2011, 4:30pm  Math P-131	Maria Hempel	Flexible Polyhedra.	Abstract
October 5, 2011, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Chris Bishop	How to draw a conformal map. Slides of the talk.	Abstract
April 13, 2011, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	George Hart	Mathematics and Art	Abstract
March 9, 2011, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Marianna Csornyei	On the Visibility of Invisible Sets	Abstract
December 1, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Alex Kontorovich	Primes in Circle Packings
October 27, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Jack Milnor	Geometry of growth and form
September 29, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Scott Sutherland	Complex polynomials and branched covers
April 21, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Marco Martens	Cantor Sets and Chaos	Abstract
March 17, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Alex Kunin	Origametry	Abstract
February 3, 2010, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Jeremy Kahn	A simple proof of the Vaan der Waarden theorem	Abstract
November 18, 2009, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Oleg Viro	Can straight lines be interlaced?	Abstract
October 14, 2009, 12:50-1:45pm, Math P-131	Chris Arettines	Visualizing curves and their intersections on surfaces	Abstract

Let ABCD be a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle with center O so that the angles DAO and BAC are the same. Show that the diagonals, AC and BD, in ABCD are perpendicular. pdf

April 2010		problem and solution		Winners: Du Huang, Ahmad Rafiqi, Kevin Sackel ('13)		Prize: The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O'Shea
February 2010		problem and solution		Winners: Kevin Sackel ('13), Ren Yi ('11)		Prize: Music of the Primes by Marcus du Satoy
November 2009		problem and solution		Winner: Kevin Sackel ('13)		Prize: Algebra by Michael Artin

If you'd like something more challenging, try this or Conjecture 1 at the bottom of page 3 here; the footnote on page 1 and everything on pages 4-6 can be ignored. This would make an excellent honors thesis, as well as an actual research publication.