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PRISON MATHEMATICS PROJECT
PRESENTS
PI DAY 2022
9.00am-7.30pm Pacific (PDT)
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Our speakers and schedule:
Peter Mark
Cultore Dei Materie
Christopher Havens
Stopping Time With Pi 09:30am - 9:40am
Ian Stewart
Encounters With Sierpinski's Gasket
10:10am - 11:10am
Amy Shell-Gellasch
Mathematical Devices at the Smithsonian: An Insider's View
11:15am - 12:15pm
Amit Sahai
An Introduction to Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Doing the Impossible With Mathematics
12:20pm - 12:50pm
Gary Gordon
Math Contest Problems: The Good, the Bad, and the Unsolvable
1:00pm - 1:50pm
Timothy Pennings
Do Dogs Know Calculus? (Bifurcations at the Beach)
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Glen Van Brummelen
Double Vision
3:15pm - 4:15pm
Liz McMahon
The Mathematics Behind the Card Game SET
4:20pm - 5:05pm
Claire Finlayson
Teaching the Math-Hesitant: A Case Study
5:15pm - 5:45pm
Tom Edgar
Numerical Systems for Recreational Mathematics
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Tom Bates
Sequences on Parade
11:35 am- 12:30pm
12:30pm - 12:40pm Q&A
Carsten Elsner (FHDW Hannover - Germany)
On Errorsums
1:05pm - 1:35pm
1:35pm - 1:40pm Q&A
Enrico Bibbona (Politecnico Di Torino - Italy)
Is Statistics Boring?
9:30am - 10:00am
10:00am - 10:10am Q&A
Jeffrey Shallit (University of Waterloo - Ontario Canada)
The Ubiquitous Thue-Morse Sequence
10:20am - 11:05am
11:05am - 11:15am Q&A
Walker Blackwell
Prison Mathematics Project
1:50pm - 2:00pm
Amit Sahai
Prison Mathematics Project
3:10pm - 3:20pm
Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College - United States)
The Game of Cycles
2:00pm - 3:00pm
3:00pm - 3:10pm Q&A
Michael Barnsley (Australia)
Pi and the Golden Bee
3:25pm - 3:55pm
3:55pm - 4:05pm Q&A
Amy Shell-Gellasch (Eastern Michigan University - United States) with Otis (left) and Murphy (Right)
The Very "Unique" Mayan Number System
4:20pm - 5:20pm
5:20pm - 5:30pm Q&A
Tim Pennings (Davenport University - United States) and Elvis
Battle of the Titans: Mathematics versus Truth
5:45pm - 6:45pm
6:45pm - 6:50pm Q&A
Tom Edgar
Host
Quincy Dawson
Host
Glen Whitney
Host
Alex Barrios
Host
Torina Lewis
Host
Gary Gordon
Host
Robin Wilson
Host
Alissa Crans
Host
Christopher Havens
Prison Mathematics Project
Ruth Utnage
Prison Mathematics Project
