EVENT: Directed Reading Program Symposium - December 8th @ 6 pm
Hello Math Majors,
I would like to invite you to attend the Directed Reading Program (DRP) Symposium on Thursday, December 8th from 6 - 8 pm. It will take place in Avery 115. The DRP pairs undergraduate students with graduate student mentors to dive into an interesting mathematical topic not typically covered by coursework. Students from this semester will give 20-minute presentations on their projects this Thursday. Brief descriptions of several of the talks are below.
Food and drinks will be provided!
Speaker: Kolton O'Neal
Mentor: Ryan Watson
Title: The Long Exact Sequence in Homology
Description: Homological algebra studies R-modules, which can be thought of as a generalization of groups, rings, and vector spaces, by examining sequences of them with certain properties. These sequences are called chain complexes. In this talk, I will explain (or at least, state) an important result in homological algebra called the long exact sequence in homology.
Speaker: Dakota Andrews
Mentors: Abbey D'Ovidio and Molly Creagar
Title: Rest Points and Stability of Competitive Populations
Description: Just as a single differential equation can have equilibria, a system of differential equations has what is referred to as rest points. These rest points can either be stable or unstable and behave differently based on the eigenvalues of the linearized system. In this presentation we will walk through the methods of analyzing the rest points of a system, and then look at a specific system modelling two competitive populations. This competitive model can be applied to populations like healthy vs. cancer cells, a plant vs. an invasive species, and many other models.
Speaker: Justin Ho
Mentor: Nikola Kuzmanovski
Title: Introduction to Ramsey Theory
Description: This talk will provide an introduction to Ramsey Theory, including some interesting ideas that come from it and what kinds of questions it tries to solve.
Best,
Sara McKnight
On behalf of the DRP Organizers (Matthew Bachmann, Molly Creagar, Austin Eide, and Sara McKnight)
Sara McKnight, M.S.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Mathematics
Avery Hall 327