UW Math Club Upcoming Events!
UW Math Club
several exciting upcoming events. Come by and hang out with your
friendly neighborhood mathematicians!
(1) Pizza/Lecture
Speaker: Yasmeen Hussain
PDL C 36
Wednesday 11/12, PDL C036, 5-6pm
FREE food and drinks
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(2) Leibniz's Anniversary Celebration
Free cake, a short lecture, and much rejoicing
Friday 11/14, PDL C036, 5-7pm
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(3) Departmental Dinner
UW Math Clubs traditionally sponsors a departmental dinner every quarter, which
brings undergraduates, graduate students, and professors together with a common
interest: dinner. Meet us on the first floor of Padelford in front of the
elevators at 6pm on Friday 11/21, and we will walk to Agua Verde.
RSVP link: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/mathclub/63434
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(4) If you're an undergraduate who wishes to give a lecture, please
let us know: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/mathclub/63435.
Boost your resume and teach us something new.
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(5) The UW Math Club highly encourages all of its members to attend
the MathAcrossCampus Colloquium. Talks cover mathematical applications
in diverse fields. If you ever find yourself wondering about what math
can actually do, attend these talks. There will be a nice reception
afterwards, too! Information below:
MathAcrossCampus Colloquium
(http://www.math.washington.edu/mac/)
Evolutionary trees, coalescents, and gene trees:
can mathematicians find the woods?
JOE FELSENSTEIN
Genome Sciences, UW
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 3:30 Kane Hall 210
Reception to follow
Abstract:
The evolutionary genealogy of life is not just an evolutionary tree, but a bunch
of different tree-like diagrams. All of these trees are
interrelated and they exist in strange and difficult spaces,
entangled with each other. Biologists now realize that we need
mathematics and statistics to think clearly about inferring these
trees. Can the mathematicians help us do that?
About the speaker:
Joe Felsenstein is a world-leader in evolutionary genetics and
phylogenies. He received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of
Chicago in 1968 and currently holds positions at UW in the Departments of
Genome Sciences, Biology, Statistics, and Computer Science & Engineering. He is
a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has won numerous prestigious awards, among
which are the 1993 Sewall Wright Award, the 2000 Weldon Memorial Prize, and the
Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008. He has published over 100 articles and is the
author of the book "Inferring Phylogenies" which reviewers have called an
"instant classic".
Discussion session:
There will be an informal discussion session with the speaker on Friday, Nov 14
between 12:30-1:20pm in Miller 302-A. This is an opportunity for interested
students and faculty to ask more questions and talk about open problems and
research directions.
MathAcrossCampus is a new activity at UW whose main offering is a quarterly
colloquium on applications of mathematics. These talks are meant to be widely
accessible. See http://www.math.washington.edu/mac/
for more details and other activities under this umbrella.
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As always, questions and comments are welcome.
Website: http://students.washington.edu/mathclub/
E-mail: uwmat...@gmail.com
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Sincerely,
Ben Hayes (President)
Ruth Lee (Vice President)
Kunal Vaswani (Treasurer)
Henry Kvinge (Secretary)
Hsiao Ng (Public Relations)
Michael Lam (Webmaster)