Date: Oct. 24, 2019
Time/Room: 12:45-2pm in N1002
Speaker: Brad Isaacson
Title: An Elementary Proof of the Reciprocity Formula for Dedekind Sums
Date: Oct. 24, 2019
Time/Room: 12:45-2pm in N1002
Speaker: Brad Isaacson
Title: An Elementary Proof of the Reciprocity Formula for Dedekind Sums
Abstract: In this talk we will analyze various games of chance, including the Monty Hall Problem and Race to the Finish from Let’s Make a Deal and Plinko from The Price is Right. We will use both theoretical and computational methods to understand the probabilities of winning such games.
Here is the link to a Jupyter notebook describing our computations for the probabilities of winning a prize in Let’s Make a Deal’s Race to the Finish game.
We will focus primarily on noncontextual bandits and give a brief overview of these problems in the contextual setting as time permits.
Are you interested in helping to develop clean energy solutions? Are you considering graduate school or curious about research? This talk will highlight research in sustainable energy generation and storage at Binghamton University, including my group’s work on solar energy conversion using organic materials and nanomaterials. I will then outline opportunities to participate in energy research as a paid summer researcher or graduate student. These opportunities are open to students majoring in mathematics and all areas of science.
This will be a series of presentations by various undergraduate students on their research projects. Topics include:
Abstract: Did you know that hundreds of people use the Internet everyday for everything from e-commerce to sharing spicy memes with friends? One of the technologies that underpins this is encryption– the tool that allows data to be privately shared between two endpoints. We will briefly talk about the history of encryption from the Caesar cipher to the enigma machine before delving into modern cryptographic systems. In particular, we will look at how credit cards are secured, how websites secure traffic between host and users, the ins-and-outs of public key cryptography, and its uses in email and instant messaging (like PGP, Signal, or Whatsapp). This talk will be given by a graduate of the NYCCT math program and current student at the Graduate Center’s MS in Data Science program. We will spend the last 20 minutes discussing graduate school, the NYCCT math program (from the perspective of a graduate), and employment tips.