Mathematics

"Big Data = BIG Opportunities" will be presented by Dr. Sastry G. Pantula, director of the division of mathematical sciences at the National Science Foundation. Data is being collected on everyone and everything. Big data is arriving in volume, velocity and variety.  Business, Industry and Government are relying on such information for marketing products and for making policies. Several examples of applications, new methodologies, oppportunities and challenges that Big Data brings will be presented. This will be a non-technical lecture and should be accessible to persons without a statistics background.

Dr. Patrick N. Dowling, Department of Mathematics at Miami University of Ohio will discuss "Grothendieck compactness principles."

Half-Masted has created a wonderful, hilarious and different show to celebrate 10 years of providing improv comedy to UNI. This free show will NOT necessarily be family-friendly. Some of the material may be offensive to some people. It's been 10 years and we're going to show that we can still surprise you.

We will explore finite graph coverings from an arithmetical perspective. After discussing how a prime cycle in a graph splits into prime cycles in a covering graph, we will characterize the situation when any prime cycle in a graph has a similar splitting type in two covers. Using this characterization, we present a method of constructing pairs of non-isomorphic graphs that have the same Ihara zeta function.

Mark Ecker, math department, will discuss Geostatistical Models for Point Source Data.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Douglas Hofstadter will present “An Introduction to Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem.” This event is sponsored by the Hari Shankar Memorial Lecture, the Department of Mathematics and the UNI Faculty Senate. The lecture is open to the public free of charge.

The math fair is a free opportunity for fourth, fifth and sixth grade students in the Cedar Valley to experience math through fun, hands-on activities featuring interactive booths.