List of talks at the Mathematics and Computer Club
prepared by::
Joseph Malkevitch
Mathematics and Computing Department
York College (CUNY)
Jamaica, NY 11451
Email: malkevitch@york.cuny.edu (for additions, suggestions, and corrections)
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Adventures in Taxiland
Annuity Mathematics
Apportionment and the Census
Apportionment of Parliaments
Apportionment Problems
Are Plurality Elections Fair?
Arranging Marriages Mathematically
Art Gallery Theorems and Illumination
Bankruptcy Problems
Barcodes and Operations Research
Bin Packing and Related Packing Problems
The California Recall and Mathematical Insights into Election Theory
Can One Drill a Square Hole?
Careers in Actuarial Science (Townsend)
Carousel Numbers
The Census and How the United States House of Representatives is Apportioned
Ceva's and Menelaus' Theorems
The Classical Non-Euclidean Geometries
Choosing a Wife Mathematically
Coloring Problems
Collecting Coupons
Combinatorial Games
Command Centers and Post Offices
Complex Networks
Compression of Text and Images
Convexity Geometry
Credit Card Mathematics
The Critical Path Method: A Tool for Scheduling
Decimal Check Digit Systems
Decision Theory
Derrangements
Diophantine Equations
Discrete Geometry
Distance Routing in Computer Networks (Pritchard)
Dynamical Programming for Biological Alignment
Efficient Snow Removal
The Electoral College: A Very Important Weighted Voting Game
Error Correcting Codes and Hamming-Golay Priority Dispute
Exotic Probability Distributions
Engineering with Fuzzy Sets (Luo)
Error Correction Codes
Fair Division (Minodora Marian)
Fair Election Systems
Fairness in Health Care
Familiar and Exotic Coordinate Systems
Financial Options: The Black-Scholes Equation
Finding the Distance Between Molecular Sequences
Finate Arithmetics
Finite Fields
Flows in Networks
Folding and Unfolding
Forgotten Tongues: Innovations in Early Computer Languages (Lewis Lasser)
Fractions Plain and Fancy
The Game of Life (Strassberg)
Games Businesses Play
Games Where Luck Does Not Matter
Geometric Packing Problems
Geometric Probing
Geometric Skeletons
Geometric Symmetry
Geometry and Mathematical Induction
Graph Coloring Problems
Graphs, Sequence Comparison, and Phylogeny
Guarding Guards
Hackenbush
Hamiltonian Circuit Problems for Polyhedra
Hamming Codes
How Can Computers Determine What They See? (D’Alotto)
How do Computers Solve Linear Systems? (Dai)
How do I get there from here?
Induction in Geometry
Infinitude of the Primes: Proofs from the Book
Integer Solutions of Linear Equations
Introduction to Maple: A Computer Algebra System (Cooley)
Irish Contributions to Mathematics
Isosceles Triangle Polyhedra
Iteration: Fixed Points, Orbits, and Escape (Strassberg)
Languages and Machines (Pritchard)
Learn to Play the Game of Sprouts
Leonhard Euler's Contributions to Mathematics: Part I
Lights Out (a puzzle) and Sprouts (a game)
Knot Theory
Machine Scheduling
Markov Chains
Mathematical Marriage Theorems
Mathematics and Cell Phone Technology
Mathematics and Rationality
Matrix Games
Mathematical Flim-Flam (Wachtel)
Mathematical Games
The Mathematical Legacy of Victor Klee
Mathematical Trees
Mathematics for the Human Genome Project
Mathematics of the Electoral College
Mathematics of Tournaments
Mathematics of Web Browsers
Measuring Income Inequality
Methods of Voting
More Mathematical Flim-Flam (Wachtel)
Multiprocessor Scheduling
N-Cubes
Network Flows
Network Security (Scott Dexter)
Neural Networks and Pattern Association (Luo)
Non-circular Rollers and Convexity
Number Systems (Hammerman)
Numbers and Their Representation
Of What Use Are Differential Equations?
Online Tutoring (Sunmonu)
Overcoming Gerrymandering
Mathematical Aspects of Fairness, Equity and Justice
P-adic Numbers
Paths, Paretheses, and Polygons
PERT/CPM - Doing the Little Jobs that Make Up the Big Job (Cooley)
Pile Splitting, Partitions, and Recursion
Points, Lines and Duality
Political Games
Polygon Jigsaw Puzzles
Polyhedra and Their Graphics
Polyhedra, Origami, and Mathematics
Polyhedra: Plain and Fancy
Polyominoes: In Memory of David of Klarner
Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Paradoxical Game
Problem Posing
Projective Geometry
Proving the Impossible (Wu)
Pythagorean Triples and a Problem in Geometry
Pythagorus: the Man, the Math, and the Myth (Cooley)
Ramsey Theory
Rational and Irrational Numbers (J. Marquez; student)
Repeating Decimals
Representing 3-Dimensional Polyhedra in 2-Dimensions
Residents, Hospitals, and Mathematical Marriage Theorems
Roulettes and Polygonal Roulettes
Running the Hilbert Hotel
Quadratic, Cubic, and Quartic Equations (Dai)
Quadratic Forms
Rational and Irrational Numbers (Marquez, student)
A Sampler of Research Problems
Scheduling a Single Machine: A Surprisingly Complex Problem
Scheduling Machines
Scheduling Machines and Packing Bins
Scheduling Theory
Sequence Validation by Optical Map Matching (Antoniotti)
Shogi: Japan’s Game of Strategy (Wachtel)
Software For Free (Eric Tyrer)
Solutions and Applications of Difference Equations
Some Mathematical Problems and Their Solutions (Mawyer)
Sorting Pancakes and Genome Rearrangement
Story of Infinity (Dai)
Street Sweeping, Garbage Collection, and Snow Plowing
Structured Matrices and Fast Algorithms (Tabanjeh)
String Matching Algorithms
The Sylvester-Gallai Theorem: A Discrete Mathematical Gem
Symmetry and the Visual Arts
Taxicab Geometry
Tennis and Mathematics
A Tree of Life?
Trees and Their Uses
Trees and Weighted Trees
Trucking with Mathematics
The Traveling Salesman Problem
The Traveling Salesman Problem and Its Relatives
Urban Geometry
Valence Sequences in Graphs
Valentine for Paul Erdös
Voting Games
Weighted Voting
What is Actuarial Science? (Dai)
What is Computational Geometry?
What is Mathematical Modeling?
What is Utility?
Where is the middle of a graph? (Skurnick)
Will the Best Man Win the November Election? Mathematical Insights into Elections.
Women in Mathematics
Zero-sum Games
Note:
Names in parentheses are those of speakers for these talks. Talks with no name listed were given by Joseph Malkevitch
Last updated: Feb. 10, 2008.
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