• Lecture # 116, Friday, September 7, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room TBA Prof. Thomas Drucker, UW-W, Past Lectures: (Counting Bridges with Euler)
  "What Does Mathematics Have to Do with Thinking?"
• Lecture # 117, Friday, September 28, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room TBA Dr. Karl Schaffer, De Anza College, CA
  "Dancing with Mathematics"
• Lecture # 118, Friday, October 12, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room TBA Professor James Swenson, UW-Platteville, Past Lectures: (Power Rankings: Math for March Madness)
  "The Weird and Wonderful Chemistry of Audioactive Decay"
• Lecture # 119, Friday, November 2, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room TBA Ursula Whitcher, assistant professor - University of Wisconsin
  "Mirror, Mirror: String Theory and Pairs of Polyhedra"
• Lecture # 120, Friday, December 7, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room TBA Dave Ebert, Oregon HS www.oregonsd.org/webpages/debert
  "The Mathematics of the Simpsons" Downloads: Powerpoint of "The Mathematics of the Simpsons" and Document "Math of the Simpsons"

Past Lectures

• Lecture # 115, Friday, May 4, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room Truax 209 Professor Darrah Chavey, Beloit College
  "Designs and Patterns Across Cultures"
  
• Lecture # 114, Friday, April 20, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room Truax 209 Professor Norbert Kuenzi, UW-O
  "The Birthday Problem and Beyond"
• Lecture # 113, Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Noon, Room WEST 110 Professors Colin Adams and Tom Garrity's (Williams College)
  "The Great Pi vs e debate"
• Lecture # 112, Friday, March 2, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room Truax 209 Professor Nigel Boston, UW-Madison
  "Congruent Numbers"
• Lecture # 111, Friday, February 3, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room Truax 209 Professor Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
  "Chaos Games and Fractal Images"
• Lecture # 110, Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:30 PM, Room Truax 209 Professor Benjamin Collins, UW-Platteville
  "Euler's Polyhedron Formula" Download PDF of powerpoint
• Lecture # 109, Friday, December 2, 2011, 3:30 PM, Room 122/133 Professor John Koker, Dean, A&S, UW-Oshkosh
  "Super-quadratics and Heroic Ideas Concerning Polynomial Equations."
  
• Lecture # 108, Friday, November 18, 2011, 3:30 PM, Room 142AB Professor John Beam, UW-Oshkosh
  "Moviemaking Magic and Mishaps" li>Lecture # 107, Friday, September 30, 2011, 3:30 PM, Room 142AB Professor Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College, MN and
  President of the Mathematical Association of America
• "To Infinity and Beyond"
• Lecture # 106, Friday, September 23, 2011, 3:30 PM, Room 142AB Professor Robert Farinelli, Dean of Academic Affairs, Community College of Allegheny County and President American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges
  "Doing Non-Routine Problems with Routine Mathematics"
• Lecture # 105, Friday, April 8, 2011, 3:30 PM, Professor Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota and former President of the Mathematical Association of America
  "Breaking Driver's License Codes"
• Lecture # 104, Friday, March 4, 2011, 3:30 PM, Dr. James Swenson, UW-Platteville
  "Power Rankings: Math for March Madness"
• Lecture # 103, Friday, February 25, 2011, 3:30 PM, Professor Tim Pennings of Hope College and his Welsh Corgi Elvis
  "Do Dogs Know Calculus?"
• Lecture # 102, Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:30 PM, Professor John A. Frohliger, St. Norbert College
  "The Shortest Distance is Along a Straight Line, Even When It's Not"
• Lecture # 101, Friday, December 3, 2010, 3:30 PM, Professor Steven Post, Edgewood College
  "Liars, Truth tellers, and Infinite Dominoes"
• Lecture # , Friday, November 19, 2010, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor David Bressoud, Macalester College, MN and President, Mathematical Association of America
  "Srinivasa Ramanujan, A Self-Taught Genius"
• Lecture # 99, Friday, October 29, 2010, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor Richard Brualdi, UW-Madison
  "A Combinatorial Coloring Book"
• Lecture # 98, Friday, October 1, 3:30 PM, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor Norbert Kuenzi, UW-O
  "A Historical Look at the Car-and-Goats Problem"
• Lecture # 97, Friday, September 10, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor Thomas Drucker, UW-W,
  "Counting Bridges with Euler"
• Lecture # 96, Friday, May 7, 2010, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor Bruce Riley, UW-La Crosse
  "An Intriguing Family of Polynomials"
  
• Lecture # 93, Friday, April 23, 2010, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor Alex Smith, UW-Eau Claire
  "From Perspective Art to Projective Geometry"
• Lecture # 95, Thursday, April 15, 2010, 3:30 PM, Room 313 Professor Elgin Johnston, Iowa State U
  "Repeating Repeating Decimals"
• Lecture # 94, Friday, March 12, 2010, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professors, Stephen and Jennifer Szydlik, UW-Oshkosh
  "The Problem with the Junk Food Problem" Download PDF Reprinted with permission from Mathematics Teacher, copyright August 2009 by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. All rights reserved.
• Lecture # 92, Friday, February 5, 2010, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor James Hamilton, UW-Platteville
  Diamonds, Volcanic Dust and Dark Matter...
• Lecture # 91, Friday, December 4, 2009, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor John Koker, UW-Oshkosh, Dean, College of Letters and Science
  Odd Pie Fights
• Lecture # 90, Friday, November 20, 2009, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor John A. Frohliger, St. Norbert College
  Pythagorean Triples: Where Do They Come From?
• Lecture # 89, Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor Tony Thomas, UW-Platteville
  Rational Imaginary Roots of Polynomials
• Lecture # 88, Friday, October 23, 2009, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor Michael Saccucci, Director of Statistics and Quality Management, Consumer Union
  Statistics at Consumer Reports PDF
• Lecture # 87, Friday, October 9, 2009, 9:00 AM, Mitby Theater Professor John Coburn's
  Humor. Activity, and Intrigue ... the Fun Side of Mathematics
  Followed by our 9th Annual Middle School Math Competition at 10:30 AM, Mitby Theater: It's a Team Sport The Competitive Side of Mathematics jointly presented by the math faculties of MATC and the St. Louis CC, MO
• Lecture # 86, Friday, September 18, 2009, 3:30 PM, Room 209 Professor Steve Deckelman, UW- Stout
  How To Prove The Impossible

  Download the Math Club Spring 2009 PDF

• Lecture # 85, Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 3:30 PM, Room 321 Professor Norbert J. Kuenzi, UW- Oshkosh
  What are Trapezoidal Numbers?
• Lecture # 84, Friday, April 3, 2009, 9:30AM - 10:15 AM, Mitby Theater, : Professor Benjamin Collins, UW-Platteville
  Fibonacci Trees: A Dream Come True
• ***Who Wants To Be a Sudoku Master 2009***, April 3, 2009,
  Presented by Professors Jonathan Kane, UW-Whitewater and George Alexander, MATC
  The WHO WANTS TO BE A SUDOKU MASTER 2009 top five winners of cash and a copy of Scientific Calculator software are:
  Sarah Kroth, Verona HS, Tara Baumgarten, Reedsburg HS, Ed Kluender, Madison Memorial HS, Corey Daehling, Lodi HS, Emilie Bedard, Ithaca (Richland Center) HS
  Other competitors whom also received a copy of Scientific Calculator software are:
  Russell Brulla, Fort Atkinson HS, Joe Gehrmann, Oregon HS, Rachael Neuman, Pardeeville HS, Steven Surgeon, Wonewoc Center, Kati Wetschnig, Westfield Area HS
  
• Links to 2007 Sodoku events "Sudoku: Questions, Variations, and Research", Sudoku Sam
  
• Lecture # 83, Friday, April 3, 2009, :Professor Jane Tanner, SUNY Onandaga CC
  What's Puzzling You?
• Lecture # 82, Tuesday, March 10, 2009, :Professor Susan Hollingsworth, Edgewood College
  A Knight's Tour
• Lecture # 81, Tuesday, February 24, 2009, : Professor Terry Jo Leiterman, St. Norbert College
  How We Roll: The Theory and Construction of a Square Wheeled Bicycle
• Lecture # 80, Thursday, January 22, 2009, :Professor Steven Post, Edgewood College,
  Mathematics: A Symphony, Not A Scale
• Lecture # 79, Wednesday, December 3, 2008, CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER: Professor Benjamin Collins, UW-Platteville
  Fibonacci Trees: A Dream Come True
• Lecture # 78, Friday, November 7, 2008,, : Professor John Coburn, Mathematics Department, St. Louis Community College
  Mining the Cubic Equation for Mathematical Gems
• Lecture # 77, Wednesday, October 15, 2008, : Professor Elgin Johnston, Iowa State University
  Mass Points: Geometry by Physics
• Lecture # 76, Wednesday, October 15, 2008, : Ray Blum
  The Professor Numbers Mathemagics Show
• Friday October 10, 2008, The Professor Numbers Mathemagics Show ( http://www.mathismagical.com )
• Friday October 10, 2008, Third Annual Face Off ( First Annual Face Off, Second Annual Face Off )
  One Potato, Two Potato,
• Lecture # 75, Wednesday, September 17, 2008, : Professor Marty Isaacs, UW-Madison
  Soccer Balls, Pentagons and Euler
• Lecture # 74, Wednesday, May 7, 2008, : Professor Norbert Kuenzi
  The Tower of Hanoi Puzzle
• April 25-26, MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (WI)'S 76TH ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE:
• Lecture # 73, Friday, April 25, 2008, : Professor Colin Adams, Williams College
  Why Knot?
  
  3 PM: AN OVERVIEW OF BENFORD'S LAW WITH APPLICATIONS TO FRAUD DETECTION, PROFESSOR RICHARD CLEARY, BENTLEY COLLEGE, MA
  
  4 PM: "BLOWN AWAY: WHAT KNOT TO DO WHEN SAILING", PROFESSOR COLIN ADAMS, WILLIAMS COLLEGE, MA
  
  5 PM: Reception, courtesy MATC Math Club
  Banquet tickets at $20 pp, students $5. Checks to be made to MAA(WI). Please contact Sri.
  
  
• 5:30 PM, FACE OFF, MITBY THEATER
  http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/szydliks/faceoff.htm
  
  8 PM: THE SECRETS OF MENTAL MATH, PROFESSOR ARTHUR BENJAMIN, HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE, MITBY THEATER (Open to the Public)
  Students and teachers are invited to attend this unique event - FIRST time in Madison! Art has appeared on the Today Show, CNN, NY Times, LA Times, Scientific American, Peoples Magazine etc.,
  http://www.math.hmc.edu/~benjamin
  
  April 26, Saturday
  11 AM: COMBINATORIAL TRIGONOMETRY (AND A METHOD TO DIE FOR), PROFESSOR ARTHUR BENJAMIN HMC, CA, HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE
  
  
• Lecture # 72, Friday, April 18, 2008, 9:00 AM, Room Mitby Theater, : Dale R. Buske, St. Cloud State University Mathematics Department
  Lingo...It's Not Just Words
  FOLLOWED BY "WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPER MATHEMATICIAN" AT 10:30 AND AFRICAN DRUMS: PERFORMED BY "SPECTRUM PERCUSSION TRIO" OF THE UW-MADISON.
  
  THE PARTICIPATING HIGH SCHOOLS IN OUR ANNUAL WWTBASM ARE:
  DE FOREST, EDGEWOOD, FORT ATKINSON, HOMESTEAD, JEFFERSON, MADISON EAST, MADISON MEMORIAL, MARSHALL, PARDEEVILLE, REEDSBURG, RUFUS KING AND WAUNAKEE.
  
  
• Lecture # 71, Thursday, March 13, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 321, : Professor John Frohliger, St. Norbert College
  The Golden Ratio ( Don't miss the PI Day Celebration PIe eating contest at Noon, Room# 129C )
• Lecture # 70, Tuesday, Febuary 19, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 321, : Professor Susan Hollingsworth, Edgewood College
  Voting Paradoxes
• Lecture # 69, Monday, January 28, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 321, : Professor Ranjan Roy, Beloit College
  Fermat, modular arithmetic, and cryptology
• Lecture # 68, Wednesday, December 12, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor Steven Post, Edgewood College
  Probability Puzzlers
• Lecture # 67, Monday, November 12, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor John Kiltinen, Northern Michigan University
  The math behind the "15" puzzles and the other permutation puzzles
• Lecture # 66, Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 9:00-10:00 AM, Mitby Theater, : Professor Tim Chartier, Davidson College
  Mime-matics (Download Flier)
• Lecture # 65, Friday, October 19, 2007, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor Benjamin Collins, UW-Platteville
  A marvelously terrible algorithm from Leonhard Euler
• Lecture # 64, Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Clement Jeske, UW-Platteville
  Who's guarding the gallery?
• Lecture # 63, Friday, May 4, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Norbert Kuenzi, UW - Oshkosh will give a lecture entitled
  Some (Sum) Numerical Curiosities for 2007 ( Brain Teasers, Trivia, and Math Puzzlers, Score Totals )
• Lecture # 62, Friday, April 27, 2007, 9:00 AM, : Professor Laura Taalman, James Madison University will give a lecture entitled
  Sudoku: Questions, Variations, and Research ( Brainfreeze Puzzles WSJ article )
• Who Wants to be a Sudoku Master? (Download Flier)
• Lecture # 61, Thursday, April 26, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Jane Tanner, SUNY Onondaga Community College
  Do You Do Sudoku?
• Lecture # 60, Friday, March 2, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Clint Sprott, UW - Madison, Physics Department will give a lecture entitled
  A Fractal View of the World
• Lecture # 59, Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Elgin Johnston, Iowa State University will give a lecture entitled
  Wine bottles and Pizza sharing
• Lecture # 58, Monday, January 29, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Profesoor Ranjan Roy, Beloit College will give a lecture entitled
  Life and work of Euler.
• Lecture # 57, Monday, December 4, 2006, 3:30 PM, : Professor Prof. Julie Mitchell of UW-Madison will give a lecture entitled
  Using Mathematics to Understand Molecules
• Lecture # 56, Monday, November 13, 2006, 3:30 PM, : Professor Anthony Thomas of UW-Platteville will give a lecture entitled
  Rational Approximations to Irrational Numbers
• Lecture # 55, Friday, October 20, 2006, 3:30 PM, : Professor Gary Britton of UW-Washington County will give a lecture entitled
  The Da Vinci Code: Its use of the Fibonacci Sequence, the Golden Ratio and Cryptography
• Lecture # 54, Friday, September 29, 2006: 9:00 AM in room 321 : Prof. James Reardon, UW, Madison, "Math: Language of the Universe"
  presentation will be given as part of our annual middle school math competition
• Lecture # 53, Friday, May 5, 3:30 PM, Room 321: Professor Amir Assadi of UW-Madison gave a lecture entitled
  Is this a face or a house? Mathematical Exploration of Brain and How It Recognizes Faces
• Lecture # 52, Friday, April 7, 9:00 AM, Mitby Theater: Professor Nigel Boston of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will gave a lecture entitled
  "Invariant-Based Face Recognition."  The lecture was followed with the Math Club's "WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPER MATHEMATICIAN" competition.
• Lecture # 51, Thursday, March 9, 3:30 PM, Room 321: Professor John Frohliger of St. Norbert College gave a lecture entitled
  
• Lecture # 50, Tuesday February 14, 3:30 PM, Room 321: Professor Philip Straffin of Beloit College gave a lecture entitled
  Sona, Kolam and Celtic Knots: Mathematical Explorations with One-Line Drawings
• Lecture # 49, Thursday January 26, 3:30 PM, Room 321: Professor Jonathan Kane of UW-Whitewater will gave a lecture entitled
  Dropping Lowest Grades

Math Club Events

Upcoming Events

• TBD

Past Events

• ***Who Wants To Be a Sudoku Master 2009***, April 3, 2009, 10:30 - 12: 15 p.m.,
  Presented by Professors Jonathan Kane, UW-Whitewater and George Alexander, MATC
  Links to 2007 Sodoku events "Sudoku: Questions, Variations, and Research", Sudoku Sam
  
• Friday October 10, 2008, 9:00 am, Mitby Theater, The Professor Numbers Mathemagics Show ( http://www.mathismagical.com) 10:30-noon, Mitby Theater, Third Annual Face Off ( First Annual Face Off, Second Annual Face Off )
• MATC's Mathematics Awareness Month Celebration 2008
• Thursday, April 25-26, 2008, MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (WI)'S 76TH ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE:
• Thursday, March 13, 2008, PI Day Celebrations, PIe eating contest at Noon, Room# 129C
• Tuesday October 23, 2007, 10:30-noon, Mitby Theater, Second Annual Face Off ( Download Flier Page 1 , Page 2 , Program), followed by African Drummers
• Tuesday December 19, 2006: Fall Potluck Noon-1, #129D (Lower Cafeteria)
• Friday, September 29, 2006: annual middle school math competition in the format of a Jeopardy type game show, "Face Off" presented by the UW-O math faculty +presentation
• Tuesday May 6, 2006: Spring Potluck
• Friday April 7, 2005: Our spring Math and Music Festival, including our famous "WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPER MATHEMATICIAN" competition, a guest lecture from Nigel Boston of UW-Madison, "Math Morsels and Mayhem" presented by Marquette University High School students, and our infamous "PIe Eating Contest."
• Friday October 21,  2005: Student Math League Round 1 Exam (Room 256, 8:25 - 9:25 and 9:25 - 10:25 AM)
• Friday October 14, 2005: Fourth Annual Middle School Math Competition, including the mathematical musical "Fermat's Last Tango", presented by the students of Madison East High School.
• Thursday September 15, 2005: Math Club Display Case Dedication Ceremony
• Monday March 14, 2005: MATHFEST 2005, including "Who Wants To Be a Super Mathematician?"
• Thursday March 10, 2005: Student Math League Exam
• Thursday, December 16, 2004: Math Club Officers Meeting
• November 2004: Student Math League Exam
• Tuesday October 5 - 26, 2004: Student Math League Practice Session (Room 238, 3:30 PM)
• Monday October 4, 2004: Math Club Officers Meeting
• Friday April 23, 2003 1:30 PM: Book Discussion in Room 377 of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott.
• Friday, April 16, 2003 10:00 AM: "WHO WANTS TO BE A MATHEMATICIAN" competition, preceded by a guest lecture from Ken Ono of UW-Madison
• Thursday December 4, 2003 2:30 PM: Book Discussion in Room 137A of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott.
• Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:30 AM: Student Math League Exam
• Monday October 20, 2003 3:30 PM: Movie Presentation in the Student Lounge of A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe.
• Friday October 17 2003: Third Annual Middle School Math Competition
• Tenth Annual WisMATYC Fall Meeting
• A Dialogue of Math Instructors
• Student Math League
• Pi Day 2003 Celebration and Competition
• Middle School Math Competitions
• High School Math Competitions
• Presentations by MATC Math Club Members

 

Mathematically Correct:

The Puzzle Corner of the MATC Math Club Web Site

• Current Problem Set
• Past Problem Sets

 

Social Events Page

Women in Mathematics

Links

• To Other Math Clubs
• To Math Resources

 

President's Page

Advisor's Page

• Tuesday May 15, 2012: Spring Potluck Luncheon
• Monday December 19, 2011: Fall Potluck Luncheon
• Friday, May 6, 2011 Friends of Math Club, end of semester pot luck-West
• Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Friends of Math Club, end of semester pot luck-Truax
• Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Friends of Math Club, end of semester pot luck
  
• Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Friends of Math Club, end of semester pot luck
  
• Thursday, April 23, 2009: Math club President get his reward at the Foundation Breakfast
• Tuesday, May 13, 2008: Friends of Math Club Spring Potluck Luncheon Room129B/D Noon-1 PM
• Tuesday, May 12, Noon 2008 - 1 PM Board Room 122/130, Friends of Math Club, Mega Potluck
• Tuesday December 18, 2007, Friends of Math Club, Mega Potluck, Noon - 1 PM, Room# 129D
• December 19, 2006: Math Club Fall Potluck Luncheon
• Tuesday May 16, 2006: Spring Potluck Luncheon
• December 20, 2005: Math Club Fall Potluck Luncheon
• May 10, 2005: Math Club Spring Potluck Luncheon
• April 27, 2005: Spring Awards Banquet
• April 27, 2005: Administrative Assistant's Day
• Wednesday, December 15, 2004: Math Club December 2004 Potluck Lunch
• Tuesday, November 23, 2004: Math Club Pi(e) Sale at the Snack Bar
• Tuesday May 11, 2004, 12:00 PM: Math Club Potluck Lunch
• Monday April 26, 2004, 12:00 PM: Spring Awards Banquet
• Wednesday October 29, 2003: Math Club Pi(e) Sale at the Snack Bar
• Administrative Assistants Day
• Retirement Parties
• Madison College Math Club Kickoff Luncheons
• Madison College Math Club Potlucks

 

Contact

Madison Area Technical College Math Club
c/o Jeganathan "Sri" Sriskandarajah, Room 314M
302 South Gammon Rd
Madison, WI 53717
(608) 243-4313
(608) 824-2010 (FAX)
mathclub@madisoncollege.org
jsriskandara@madisoncollege.org
http://clubs.matcmadison.edu/mathclub/

 

Join the MATC Mathematics Club If you are interested, email Jeganathan "Sri" Sriskandarajah ( jsriskandara@matcmadison.edu ) or contact him in room 211G.    Watch this page and the student bulletin for further announcements.

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