Guest Lecture

 Dr. David Benko

University of South Alabama

Monday November 30, 2009 7:00 p.m. in ILB 410

 Making Sense of Weather Predictions  

 This is going to be a cool talk about the weather! We will start our investigation by asking a simple question: what does it mean that the chance of rain is 30%? The correct answer is probably not what you think it is. Then we discover some connections with the geometric mean of functions, the Poisson distribution and even the irrational number e=2.718... No wonder the weather is also irrational! So grab your umbrella and come to the presentation. 

 
 
Welcome to Mobile Math Circle

The Mobile Mathematics Circle is designed for students who enjoy math and want the challenge of exciting topics that are normally outside the school curriculum. The Mobile Mathematics Circle introduces students to mathematics as a creative thinking tool through problem solving. Students engage problems in many areas, including Number Theory, Game Theory, Graph Theory and Combinatorics. The Mathematics Circle is a weekly gathering of students of high school age guided by professional mathematicians. Some meetings are conducted by invited distinguished mathematicians brought in specially to work with the students in the Mathematics Circle.

 

 
All High School Students are invited.
 

The Mobile Mathematics Circle is sponsored by the  Department of Mathematics and Statistics,  University of South Alabama, Alabama Space Grant Consortium and Alabama EPSCoR.

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Mobile Math Circle

Next Math Circle  

The  Mobile Mathematics Circle is cancelled Monday, November 9, 2009 due to Ida.

The next Mathematics Circle will be on Monday, November 16, 2009.

 

Regular Meetings

 

WHEN : 7:00-8:30 p.m., Monday nights

WHERE : Room 410, in the ILB building on the main campus of the University of South Alabama

   New students are more than welcome.

       Sessions are free for all students.