News Archives - 2004-05
WPI Math Awareness Contest, April 18-21, 2005
"The Return of Maw: the Lost Notebook" is a contest open to teams of 2-3 WPI undergraduate students. Contestants will scavenge the campus for clues and solve challenging math puzzles on the web. Team registration is going on now. There is a cash prize for the winners, who will be recognized at an upcoming departmental event. Questions should be forwarded to lordmaw.2005@gmail.com.
WPI to Host Northeastern Fall Sectional Meeting of the MAA and Project NExT Meeting
Friday and Saturday, November 19-20, 2004
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Mathematical Sciences Department to Hold Two Distinguished Lectures by Dr. Jim Carlson, University of Utah and Clay Mathematics Institute
Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 2:00 p.m. in SH203
TITLE: "Prize Problems and the Riemann Hypothesis"
ABSTRACT: There is a long history of prize problems in mathematics dating from the 18th century. One of the more famous is the Wolfskehl Prize, announced in 1856 for a solution to Fermat's conjecture, awarded in 1997 to Andrew Wiles. I will discuss the role and history of several prize problems. In particular, I will discuss the Riemann Hypothesis, which is both one of Hilbert's problems and one of the Clay Millennium Problems.
Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 4:00 p.m. in SL105
(Department of Mathematical Sciences Cool Math Talk for Students)
TITLE: "The Mathematics of Google"
ABSTRACT: Two Stanford Graduate Students, Sergei Brin and Larry Page developed a way of searching the world wide web that was far more effective than the methods used by other search engines. Thus Google was born. Their method was based on an elegant piece of mathematics which we will explain.
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