(logo designed by Jason Stitt, the Math Club's first president)

MATC Mathematics Club
LEADER IN ENTERTAINING WITH MATH
ENHANCING & ENRICHING MATH EDUCATION

Madison Area Technical College
Madison, Wisconsin

OUTSTANDING STUDENT ORGANIZATION ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT 2004-05

OUTSTANDING CLUB OF THE YEAR 2003-04
 

MATC Math Club Web Site Offerings:

Lecture Series

• Lecture # 75, Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor Marty Isaacs, UW-Madison
  Soccer Balls, Pentagons and Euler
• Friday October 10, 2008, 9:00 am, Mitby Theater, The Professor Numbers Mathemagics Show ( http://www.mathismagical.com ) 10:30-noon, Mitby Theater, Third Annual Face Off ( First Annual Face Off, Second Annual Face Off )
• Lecture # 76, Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor Elgin Johnston, Iowa State University
  Mass Points: Geometry by Physics
• Lecture # 77, Friday, November 7, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor John Coburn, Mathematics Department, St. Louis Community College
  Mining the Cubic Equation for Mathematical Gems
• Lecture # 78, Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor Benjamin Collins, UW-Platteville
  Fibonacci Trees: A Dream Come True

• Lecture # 74, Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 321, : Professor Norbert Kuenzi
  The Tower of Hanoi Puzzle
• April 25-26, MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (WI)'S 76TH ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE:
• Lecture # 73, Friday, April 25, 2008, Noon, Room 142A, : Professor Colin Adams, Williams College
  Why Knot?
  
  3 PM: AN OVERVIEW OF BENFORD'S LAW WITH APPLICATIONS TO FRAUD DETECTION, PROFESSOR RICHARD CLEARY, BENTLEY COLLEGE, MA
  
  4 PM: "BLOWN AWAY: WHAT KNOT TO DO WHEN SAILING", PROFESSOR COLIN ADAMS, WILLIAMS COLLEGE, MA
  
  5 PM: Reception, courtesy MATC Math Club
  Banquet tickets at $20 pp, students $5. Checks to be made to MAA(WI). Please contact Sri.
  
  
• 5:30 PM, FACE OFF, MITBY THEATER
  http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/szydliks/faceoff.htm
  
  8 PM: THE SECRETS OF MENTAL MATH, PROFESSOR ARTHUR BENJAMIN, HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE, MITBY THEATER (Open to the Public)
  Students and teachers are invited to attend this unique event - FIRST time in Madison! Art has appeared on the Today Show, CNN, NY Times, LA Times, Scientific American, Peoples Magazine etc.,
  http://www.math.hmc.edu/~benjamin
  
  April 26, Saturday
  11 AM: COMBINATORIAL TRIGONOMETRY (AND A METHOD TO DIE FOR), PROFESSOR ARTHUR BENJAMIN HMC, CA, HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE
  
  
• Lecture # 72, Friday, April 18, 2008, 9:00 AM, Room Mitby Theater, : Dale R. Buske, St. Cloud State University Mathematics Department
  Lingo...It's Not Just Words
  FOLLOWED BY "WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPER MATHEMATICIAN" AT 10:30 AND AFRICAN DRUMS: PERFORMED BY "SPECTRUM PERCUSSION TRIO" OF THE UW-MADISON.
  
  THE PARTICIPATING HIGH SCHOOLS IN OUR ANNUAL WWTBASM ARE:
  DE FOREST, EDGEWOOD, FORT ATKINSON, HOMESTEAD, JEFFERSON, MADISON EAST, MADISON MEMORIAL, MARSHALL, PARDEEVILLE, REEDSBURG, RUFUS KING AND WAUNAKEE.
  
  
• Lecture # 71, Thursday, March 13, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 321, : Professor John Frohliger, St. Norbert College
  The Golden Ratio ( Don't miss the PI Day Celebration PIe eating contest at Noon, Room# 129C )
• Lecture # 70, Tuesday, Febuary 19, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 321, : Professor Susan Hollingsworth, Edgewood College
  Voting Paradoxes
• Lecture # 69, Monday, January 28, 2008, 3:30 PM, Room 321, : Professor Ranjan Roy, Beloit College
  Fermat, modular arithmetic, and cryptology
• Lecture # 68, Wednesday, December 12, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor Steven Post, Edgewood College
  Probability Puzzlers
• Lecture # 67, Monday, November 12, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor John Kiltinen, Northern Michigan University
  The math behind the "15" puzzles and the other permutation puzzles
• Lecture # 66, Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 9:00-10:00 AM, Mitby Theater, : Professor Tim Chartier, Davidson College
  Mime-matics (Download Flier)
• Lecture # 65, Friday, October 19, 2007, 3:30 PM, Room 209, : Professor Benjamin Collins, UW-Platteville
  A marvelously terrible algorithm from Leonhard Euler
• Lecture # 64, Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Clement Jeske, UW-Platteville
  Who's guarding the gallery?
• Friday, May 4, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Norbert Kuenzi, UW - Oshkosh will give a lecture entitled
  Some (Sum) Numerical Curiosities for 2007 ( Brain Teasers, Trivia, and Math Puzzlers, Score Totals )
• Friday, April 27, 2007, 9:00 AM, : Professor Laura Taalman, James Madison University will give a lecture entitled
  Sudoku: Questions, Variations, and Research ( Brainfreeze Puzzles WSJ article )
• Who Wants to be a Sudoku Master? (Download Flier)
• Thursday, April 26, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Jane Tanner, SUNY Onondaga Community College
  Do You Do Sudoku?
• Friday, March 2, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Clint Sprott, UW - Madison, Physics Department will give a lecture entitled
  A Fractal View of the World
• Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Professor Elgin Johnston, Iowa State University will give a lecture entitled
  Wine bottles and Pizza sharing
• Monday, January 29, 2007, 3:30 PM, : Profesoor Ranjan Roy, Beloit College will give a lecture entitled
  Life and work of Euler.
• Monday, December 4, 2006, 3:30 PM, : Professor Prof. Julie Mitchell of UW-Madison will give a lecture entitled
  Using Mathematics to Understand Molecules
• Monday, November 13, 2006, 3:30 PM, : Professor Anthony Thomas of UW-Platteville will give a lecture entitled
  Rational Approximations to Irrational Numbers
• Friday, October 20, 2006, 3:30 PM, : Professor Gary Britton of UW-Washington County will give a lecture entitled
  The Da Vinci Code: Its use of the Fibonacci Sequence, the Golden Ratio and Cryptography
• Friday, September 29, 2006: 9:00 AM in room 321 : Prof. James Reardon, UW, Madison, "Math: Language of the Universe"
  presentation will be given as part of our annual middle school math competition
• Friday, May 5, 3:30 PM, Room 321: Professor Amir Assadi of UW-Madison gave a lecture entitled
  Is this a face or a house? Mathematical Exploration of Brain and How It Recognizes Faces
• Friday, April 7, 9:00 AM, Mitby Theater: Professor Nigel Boston of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will gave a lecture entitled
  "Invariant-Based Face Recognition."  The lecture was followed with the Math Club's "WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPER MATHEMATICIAN" competition.
• Thursday, March 9, 3:30 PM, Room 321: Professor John Frohliger of St. Norbert College gave a lecture entitled
  
• Friday October 10, 2008, 9:00 am, Mitby Theater, The Professor Numbers Mathemagics Show ( http://www.mathismagical.com )
• Friday October 10, 2008, 10:30-noon, Mitby Theater, Third Annual Face Off ( First Annual Face Off, Second Annual Face Off )
One Potato, Two Potato, …"
• Tuesday February 14, 3:30 PM, Room 321: Professor Philip Straffin of Beloit College gave a lecture entitled
  Sona, Kolam and Celtic Knots: Mathematical Explorations with One-Line Drawings
• Thursday January 26, 3:30 PM, Room 321: Professor Jonathan Kane of UW-Whitewater will gave a lecture entitled
  Dropping Lowest Grades

Math Club Events

Upcoming Events

• Friday October 10, 2008, 9:00 am, Mitby Theater, The Professor Numbers Mathemagics Show ( http://www.mathismagical.com )
• Friday October 10, 2008, 10:30-noon, Mitby Theater, Third Annual Face Off ( First Annual Face Off, Second Annual Face Off )

Past Events

• MATC's Mathematics Awareness Month Celebration 2008
• Thursday, April 25-26, 2008, MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (WI)'S 76TH ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE:
• Thursday, March 13, 2008, PI Day Celebrations, PIe eating contest at Noon, Room# 129C
• Tuesday December 18, 2007, Friends of Math Club, Mega Potluck, Noon - 1 PM, Room# 129D
• Tuesday October 23, 2007, 10:30-noon, Mitby Theater, Second Annual Face Off ( Download Flier Page 1 , Page 2 , Program), followed by African Drummers
• Tuesday December 19, 2006: Fall Potluck Noon-1, #129D (Lower Cafeteria)
• Friday, September 29, 2006: annual middle school math competition in the format of a Jeopardy type game show, "Face Off" presented by the UW-O math faculty +presentation
• Tuesday May 6, 2006: Spring Potluck
• Friday April 7, 2005: Our spring Math and Music Festival, including our famous "WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPER MATHEMATICIAN" competition, a guest lecture from Nigel Boston of UW-Madison, "Math Morsels and Mayhem" presented by Marquette University High School students, and our infamous "PIe Eating Contest."
• Friday October 21,  2005: Student Math League Round 1 Exam (Room 256, 8:25 - 9:25 and 9:25 - 10:25 AM)
• Friday October 14, 2005: Fourth Annual Middle School Math Competition, including the mathematical musical "Fermat's Last Tango", presented by the students of Madison East High School.
• Thursday September 15, 2005: Math Club Display Case Dedication Ceremony
• Monday March 14, 2005: MATHFEST 2005, including "Who Wants To Be a Super Mathematician?"
• Thursday March 10, 2005: Student Math League Exam
• Thursday, December 16, 2004: Math Club Officers Meeting
• November 2004: Student Math League Exam
• Tuesday October 5 - 26, 2004: Student Math League Practice Session (Room 238, 3:30 PM)
• Monday October 4, 2004: Math Club Officers Meeting
• Friday April 23, 2003 1:30 PM: Book Discussion in Room 377 of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott.
• Friday, April 16, 2003 10:00 AM: "WHO WANTS TO BE A MATHEMATICIAN" competition, preceded by a guest lecture from Ken Ono of UW-Madison
• Thursday December 4, 2003 2:30 PM: Book Discussion in Room 137A of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott.
• Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:30 AM: Student Math League Exam
• Monday October 20, 2003 3:30 PM: Movie Presentation in the Student Lounge of A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe.
• Friday October 17 2003: Third Annual Middle School Math Competition
• Tenth Annual WisMATYC Fall Meeting
• A Dialogue of Math Instructors
• Student Math League
• Pi Day 2003 Celebration and Competition
• Middle School Math Competitions
• High School Math Competitions
• Presentations by MATC Math Club Members

 

Mathematically Correct:

The Puzzle Corner of the MATC Math Club Web Site

• Current Problem Set
• Past Problem Sets

 

Social Events

• Tuesday, May 13, 2008: Friends of Math Club Spring Potluck Luncheon Room129B/D Noon-1 PM
• December 19, 2006: Math Club Fall Potluck Luncheon
• Tuesday May 16, 2006: Spring Potluck Luncheon
• December 20, 2005: Math Club Fall Potluck Luncheon
• May 10, 2005: Math Club Spring Potluck Luncheon
• April 27, 2005: Spring Awards Banquet
• April 27, 2005: Administrative Assistant's Day
• Wednesday, December 15, 2004: Math Club December 2004 Potluck Lunch
• Tuesday, November 23, 2004: Math Club Pi(e) Sale at the Snack Bar
• Tuesday May 11, 2004, 12:00 PM: Math Club Potluck Lunch
• Monday April 26, 2004, 12:00 PM: Spring Awards Banquet
• Wednesday October 29, 2003: Math Club Pi(e) Sale at the Snack Bar
• Administrative Assistants Day
• Retirement Parties
• MATC Math Club Kickoff Luncheons
• MATC Math Club Potlucks

Women in Mathematics

Links

• To Other Math Clubs
• To Math Resources

 

President's Page

Advisor's Page

 

Contact

Madison Area technical College Math Club
c/o Jeganathan "Sri" Sriskandarajah, Room 211G
3550 Anderson Street
Madison, WI 53704-2599
(608) 243-4313
(608) 246-6422 (FAX)
mathclub@matcmadison.edu
jsriskandara@matcmadison.edu
http://matcmadison.edu/is/as/math/mathclub/

 

Join the MATC Mathematics Club If you are interested, email Jeganathan "Sri" Sriskandarajah ( jsriskandara@matcmadison.edu ) or contact him in room 211G.    Watch this page and the student bulletin for further announcements.

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