Loyola Math/Stat Blog

Our very own Nick Barron will cap off another successful year in our Undergraduate Colloquium Series. Come see what Game Theory has to say about life, politics, sports, and more. WHEN: Monday, April 22, 4:30 pm with refreshments at 4:00 WHERE: Cuneo Hall 312 TITLE: Zero Sum, Non Zero Sum, and Cooperative Games SPEAKER: Nick Barron, Mathematics [...]

This Thursday, David Bressoud will speak about preliminary results obtained from the largest calculus survey ever undertaken. I do hope you can attend the talk. There will be a reception immediately afterwards (Loyola Hall, Seminar Room) to keep the conversation going. All are welcome!

Can mathematics cure Leukemia? Doron Levy would have you believe it can. Next UCMS lecture:
Monday, March 11th, 4:30pm, Cuneo 312.

On Monday, February 25, Br Guy Consolmagno, SJ, PhD will give the Ignatius of Loyola Lecture at 4:00 p.m. at the Crown Center Auditorium. Brother Consolmagno is a research astronomer and physicist at the Vatican Observatory.

Announcing the next talk in the Undergraduate Colloquium Series in the Mathematical Sciences. Monday, February 11th Speaker: Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Introduction to Virtual Knot Theory Lecture: 4:30 p.m., Cuneo 312 Meet the Speaker: 4:00 p.m., Cuneo Hall 312 w/ tea & cookies Abstract: Classical knot theory is a topological study of embeddings of closed curves in three [...]

This sounds bad: In the United States, only 7 percent of students reached the advanced level in eighth-grade math, while 48 percent of eighth graders in Singapore and 47 percent of eighth graders in South Korea reached the advanced level. As those with superior math and science skills increasingly thrive in a global economy, the lag [...]

Dr. Durazo-Arvizu from the Loyola University School of Medicine rounds out the UCMS calendar for the semester.

Details: http://www.luc.edu/math/ucms/

Okay, so UPS  ♥’s Logistics. Great. (So does FedEx, Aramark, Walmart,… you name it.)

Can somebody please help organize those not-for-profit types who’d like to setup food distribution, mobile healthcare, or humanitarian relief?

Karen Smilowitz to the rescue!

Announcing the next talk in the Undergraduate Colloquium Series in the Mathematical Sciences.

Lecture: Monday, November 12th, 4:30 p.m., Cuneo 312
Meet the Speaker: 4:00 p.m., Cuneo 312

Speaker: Karen Smilowitz (Northwestern)
Title: Operations Research for Non-Profit Settings

More Details: http://www.math.luc.edu/ucms/

In the Undergraduate Colloquium Series in the Mathematical Sciences, speakers connect mathematics and statistics to a variety of disciplines within the college and beyond. Last year, the series saw lectures on tsunamis, virus outbreaks, music, satellite communication, and more. So far this year, we’ve learned about two new trends in statistical analysis: “swarming” and the emerging field of “algebraic statistics.”

This week, the series welcomes Emily Peters (Northwestern), who will explain what “planar algebras” have to say about knot theory and the four-color theorem.

 
Lecture: Monday (10/22), 4:30 p.m., Cuneo Hall 312

My game theory students are well aware of the work Shapley has done. This guy is a mathematician. See below for his short biography. If you want to know about this work take Math 360 (or Math 406). Lloyd S. Shapley Born: 1923, Cambridge, MA, USA Affiliation at the time of the award:University of California, [...]