USNA Pure Mathematics Seminar

The talks for the academic year 2005-2006 are held Wednesdays in the 3rd floor seminar room of Chauvenet Hall at 3:45 pm unless otherwise stated.

 

Speaker:

T. S. Michael


USNA

 

Title:

Duplicate Bridge, Wrestling, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Sphericity, Art, Tiling, Hadamard, Erdos, Fisher, ...

 

Abstract: During his recent sabbatical the speaker discovered better ways to:

  1. rate duplicate bridge players
  2. select first-round byes at wrestling tournaments
  3. play rock-paper-scissors
  4. tile rectangles
  5. post guards to protect art galleries
  6. embed matrices in Hadamard matrices
  7. generalize Fisher's inequalities
  8. ... and more.

 

Time: 3:45pm, Wednesday April 19, 2006

postponed until next semester

 

Reception at 3:30.