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The goal of the LSU Mathematics Student Colloquium is to give both undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to hear and interact with speakers from across the country, providing information and perspective possibly relevant to their graduate and postgraduate careers.
Each invited speaker will spend several days at LSU, giving multiple talks and making himself or herself available to undergraduates.
Talks are not confined to the math department but open to everyone. Those majoring in related fields are encouraged to come.
We are a chartered LSU student organization (constitution and bylaws). We are munificently funded by the Student Government Programming, Support, and Initiatives Fund (PSIF), and the LSU Mathematics Department. We are grateful for the generous past funding made by grants from the National Science Foundation (a VIGRE grant) and the Board of Regents.
February 26, 2025: Dave Auckly
Dave is a professor at Kansas State University. His research interests are in topology, he is the co-founder and director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project, the founding director of the I-Center, and served as the Associate Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Now SLMath) from 2009 until 2012. The talk he is giving for the SCC is accessible to all STEM majors!
Student Colloquium ( Lockett 241; Wednesday, February 26, 1:30- 2:30 PM)
Title: Die on a grid — a twisted story
Abstract: We will begin by presenting an infinite collection of puzzles with dice. We will see that solutions to these puzzles lead one to explore geometry on interesting spaces where things get twisted.
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