Department
of Mathematics, WUSTL -
Math Club, Spring 2008
Washington University in St. Louis, Cupples I Hall, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis MO. 63130
All meetings will be in the Undergraduate Math Lounge, Room 222 in Cupples I, except for April 7th, which will be in Room 199.
Talks will run from 5:15 to 6:00, and will be followed by free pizza.
Date: March 24th
Blake Thornton; “The mathematics of craps”
Abstract:
Date: April 7th
Ed Spitznagel; “Adventures in Pharmacokinetics” N.B.: In Room 199
Abstract:
Pharmacokinetics is the study of how drugs move through the body, from entry
through ingestion or injection, to elimination through the liver and/or
kidneys. It is a really nifty combination of differential equations and
statistics, including "proving the null hypothesis," which most stats
books claim can't be done. Drug companies do hundreds of pharmacokinetic
studies, and they pay statisticians $$$ to do the analyses.
Date: April 21st
Tyler Jones-Salisbury; “Arithmetic Revisited”
Abstract: We will discuss various structures generalizing arithmetic of ordinary numbers. Emphasis will be on the relation of abstract and
concrete. In particular, on how abstract structures can be built from ordinary numbers, with a discussion of some elementary classification theorems.