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Feb 1 3:30-6:00 pm Smith
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Smith/MHC Science and Technology Fair 2010 |
At Smith College Campus Center. See http://www.smith.edu/cdo/fair/ for more information.
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| Feb 3 |
Harriet Pollatsek MHC |
Looking for "halving circles" and counting them too |
Suppose S is a set of 2n+1 points in the plane with no three points of S collinear and no four points of S lying on a circle. A circle C is a "halving circle" for S if exactly three points of S lie on C and half the remaining 2n-2 points lie inside C (and half outside). Do halving circles exist? Indeed they do. In fact, it is possible to count them. It turns out that every such set S has exactly n^2 halving circles. We'll draw pictures, count, and give parts of the proof. (From the 2004 article "The number of halving circles," by Federico Ardila in the American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 111, no. 7.)
Pizza and beverages served at noon in 416 Clapp. |
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Feb 10
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Alexa Kottmeyer MHC |
Lift on Two Wings: The search for a two circle theorem |
Alexa will speak about her research last term in the MASS program at Penn State. A well known result of fluid dynamics on the complex plane is the model of two-dimensional lift on an airfoil. This can be obtained by first using the Milne-Thompson Circle Theorem to map a circle into a flow, and then applying the Zhukovsky Map and the Kutta-Zhukovsky Theorem. We will look at this process and at some attempts to generalize this process to two wings.
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Feb 17
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TBA
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TBA
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Feb 24
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Char Morrow MHC
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Origami
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and beverages will be served at noon in 416 Clapp.
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Mar 3
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TBA
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TBA |
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Mar 10 |
TBA |
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Mar 24 |
Department faculty and majors
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Information for prospective majors and minors. |
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Mar 31 |
Department faculty |
Information on 300-level
courses fall 2010
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Come learn about
300-level courses in mathematics and statistics for fall 2010 in 402 Clapp, including
both MHC courses and offerings in the Valley. Pizza
and beverages served at noon in 416 Clapp.
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April 7 |
TBA |
TBA |
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April 14
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TBA
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TBA |
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| April 21 |
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April 28
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TBA |
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May 5
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Department students |
Talk back! |
This is a chance to offer the department feedback on our outside-the-classroom activities. What works well for you? How can offerings be improved? What do we not do that you wish we did do? Pizza and beverages served at noon in 416 Clapp. |
