From taggart at math.washington.edu Sun Apr 2 22:28:11 2023 From: taggart at math.washington.edu (J. Taggart) Date: Fri Mar 22 12:02:47 2024 Subject: [Mathmajors] Math Major Study Hall Message-ID: <412F0850-8EEE-4CDD-876A-D246BB4DB8B7@math.washington.edu> Dear Math and ACMS Majors: Many people think that math is a solitary activity but in fact much of mathematics is done through collaboration and discussion with other mathematicians. Even if you?ve always studied alone, you may find it helpful to form study groups and talk through the material you?re encountering in your upper-division courses. With that in mind, the Math Department is pleased to announce the continuation of the Math Major Study Hall in Spring 2023. The MMSH will include in-person hours in the Math Library (PDL C-306) and its own discord server. The discord server is here: https://discord.com/invite/VCFPuQB2BE . Please join and have a look around. The following in-person hours will start Monday, April 3, in the Math Library: Mondays, 2-4 pm Wednesdays, 1-3 pm Thursdays, 2-3 pm Fridays, 1:30-3:30 pm Graduate TAs Sam Lindbloom-Airey and Nelson Niu will be on hand during in-person hours to chat and give some mathematical guidance. They will also be monitoring the MMSH discord server regularly. Even when Sam and Nelson aren?t around, we encourage our majors to utilize the Math Library in PDL C-306 as a place to study, alone or in groups, and participate in the culture of the math department. Best of luck this quarter. Dr. Jennifer Taggart (she/her) Teaching Professor Undergraduate Program Coordinator Department of Mathematics University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mathadv at uw.edu Wed Apr 19 11:05:00 2023 From: mathadv at uw.edu (Math & ACMS Student Services Office) Date: Fri Mar 22 12:02:47 2024 Subject: [Mathmajors] Math Across Campus Talk: Peter Lu (Harvard) April 20 @ 4pm & April 21 @ 3:30 Message-ID: Dear Math & ACMS Majors, There is a Math Across Campus talk happening this week that you might be interested in. In addition to the public talk on Friday, undergrads are specifically invited to meet the speaker on Thursday April 20 at 4:00pm in PDL C-401. This meeting is informal and just a chance to talk with the speaker, learn more about what they do and about their talk the next day. Peter Lu (Harvard) Thursday April 20 4:00-5:00 PDL C-401 Undergrad meet & greet with MAC lecturer Friday April 21 3:30-4:30 ECE 125 "Girih Tiles: Modern Math in Medieval Islamic Architecture" The conventional view holds that geometric star-and-polygon patterns adorning medieval Islamic architecture were designed using a straightedge and a compass, derived from ancient Greek mathematical techniques, which describes accurately a large number of examples. However, a wide variety of patterns throughout the medieval Islamic world with five- and ten-fold symmetric motifs, were conceived as tessellations of specific decorated polygons, called girih tiles, that appear in architectural scrolls from the 15th century, that documented practical architectural techniques and emerged in the context of dialogs between architects and mathematicians. These girih tiles were used like puzzle pieces to design a large number of geometric tiling patterns in architecture, beginning with 12th-century architectural monuments in the Anatolian Seljuk cultural context, in what is today western Iran and eastern Turkey. Interestingly, perhaps half of the extant Seljuk buildings with girih-tile tesselations had female sponsors, patrons or dedications---hinting at an important contribution from women that has not been previously explored adequately. Subsequently, these girih-tile tessellations spread throughout the medieval Islamic world, from North Africa to the Middle East and Central Asia, for half a millennium. Remarkably, in a few cases, these girih-tile tessellations exhibit mathematical principles of quasicrystallinity, that we in the West did not understand until the past few decades in the form of Penrose tilings. Best regards, Math & ACMS Advising Department of Mathematics Padelford Hall C-36 Drop-in Advising Hours Math and ACMS Blog math.washington.edu acms.washington.edu [cid:8831aa59-1086-4773-85a0-b44bb9b0dad0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Outlook-werevcw4.png Type: image/png Size: 3180 bytes Desc: Outlook-werevcw4.png URL: From mathadv at uw.edu Fri Apr 21 14:23:41 2023 From: mathadv at uw.edu (Math & ACMS Student Services Office) Date: Fri Mar 22 12:02:47 2024 Subject: [Mathmajors] MATH GSP & Registration Info - AUT 2023 Message-ID: Hello Math Majors, Below you will find important and helpful information about graduating senior priority and autumn quarter course offerings. Autumn quarter Graduating Senior Priority(GSP) registration begins Friday, May 5. If you have not yet applied for graduation, and plan to graduate this coming summer, autumn or winter quarter, visit math.washington.edu/graduation-commencement-information. To have GSP for autumn quarter, eligible students must email their graduation application request to our office no later than 4pm, Monday, May 1, 2023. USEFUL LINKS FOR MATH MAJORS Math Student Guide AUT Quarter 2023 Time Schedule Husky Health & Well-Being AUTUMN 2023 REGISTRATION PERIODS Period I: MAY 5- JUNE 19 Period II: JUNE 20 - SEPTEMBER 26 Period III: begins SEPTEMBER 27 IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION MATH 327 ? Intro to Real Analysis is recommended for students who plan to take advanced math courses; prerequisite: MATH 300 with a 2.0 or higher grade. MATH 342 ? Art of Problem Solving: Explores the artful side of problem-solving, with examples from various fields across mathematics, including combinatorics, number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, and analysis. Pending Time Schedule Change: from W/F to TU/TH 3:30-4:50PM. Registration Request Form: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/M342AUT2023 MATH 381 - Discrete Mathematical Modeling Period I ACMS majors only; Seniors, Juniors only Period II & III MATH & ACMS majors only; Seniors, Juniors only MATH 407* - Linear Optimization: Enrollment will be split between Math and ACMS majors and will likely fill with graduating seniors. All sections will be open to both MATH and ACMS majors ~ 9am MAY 17. Math 407 A - MATH majors only period 1 Math 407 B - ACMS majors only period 1 Math 407 C - ACMS majors only period 1 Math 407 D - MATH majors only period 1 *MATH 407 will only be open to seniors during registration period II & III. MATH 408/409 ? Nonlinear/Discrete Optimization: Courses will be offered winter and spring quarter, respectively MATH 408 will be offered winter quarter; prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in MATH 407 or MATH 464, and MATH 327 or MATH 334. MATH 409 will be offered spring quarter; prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in MATH 407, and MATH 300 or MATH 334 MATH 461 - Combinatorial Theory Section A: ACMS majors during period I; opens to Math majors ~ 9am MAY 17 Section B: Math majors during period I; opens to ACMS majors ~ 9am MAY 17 MATH 464/465 -Numerical Analysis: the two-quarter sequence is offered every other. 464 will be offered autumn and spring quarter 465 will not be offered during the 2023-2024 academic year. MATH 491/493 - Stochastic Processes/Calculus for Option Pricing ??????491 will be offered winter quarter ??????492 will not be offered during the 2023-2024 academic year ??????493 will be offered spring quarter 500-level MATH courses: The process to request a seat for 500-level course has changed, For more information, go to https://math.washington.edu/registration-information#Level-500Registration . GRDSCH 200 ? Prep For Graduate Education; restricted to juniors and seniors. Credit/No Credit SUM 2023 SLN - 11612 AUT 2023 SLN - 16131 Lastly, please go to myplan.uw.edu or my.uw.edu to make sure you do not have a registration hold. Best regards, Math & ACMS Advising Department of Mathematics Padelford Hall C-36 Drop-in Advising Hours Math and ACMS Blog math.washington.edu acms.washington.edu [cid:dac48bf4-081f-4f81-b1ee-8e5574744477] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mathadv at uw.edu Tue Apr 25 14:01:05 2023 From: mathadv at uw.edu (Math & ACMS Student Services Office) Date: Fri Mar 22 12:02:47 2024 Subject: [Mathmajors] =?utf-8?q?=F0=9F=9F=A3_MATH_Summer_Registration_Info?= =?utf-8?q?rmation?= Message-ID: Hello Math Majors, Did you know that summer is an ideal quarter to take high demand courses, to get MATH 300 and/or MATH 327 out of the way, or for BS majors to begin their series requirements? 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