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This alternative math education event will present fun activities to explore math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art! Lots of hands-on activities including: Sorting network An impossible balancing act...

Wiles’ famous proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem pioneered the so-called modular method, in which modularity of elliptic curves is used to show that all integer solutions of Fermat’s equation are trivial. In this talk, we briefly sketch a variant of the...

The peaceable queens problem asks to determine the maximum number $a(n)$ such that there is a placement of $a(n)$ white queens and $a(n)$ black queens on an $n \times n$ chessboard so that no queen can capture any queen of the opposite color. We...

We will talk about Drinfeld modules, and how they compare to elliptic curves for algorithms and computations. Drinfeld modules can be seen as function field analogues of elliptic curves. They were introduced in the 1970's by Vladimir Drinfeld, to...

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Twenty-first century mathematics has seen the rise of the proof assistant, and mathematical practice has changed significantly with the rise of these new tools. One consequence of this change, for the philosopher of mathematics, is the wider adoption...

The discrete Schrödinger equation on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice is a fundamental tight-binding approximation model that describes the propagation of electrons on graphene. By the Fourier transform on the honeycomb lattice, the free...

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A bijection f of a metric space is "distance-permuting" if the distance from f(x) to f(y) depends only on the distance from x to y. For example, it it is known that every distance-permuting bijection of the real line is the composition of an isometry...

While the etale cohomology of Z/p-local systems on smooth p-adic rigid spaces is in general hard to control, it becomes more tractable when the spaces are proper. For example, in the proper case it is finite-dimensional and has recently been shown in...