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Penn Undergraduate Mathematics Colloquium

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 6:00pm

Dennis DeTurck

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A2

Tea and refreshments at 5:30 PM in DRL 4E17 before the talk, and a light pizza dinner back up in 4E17 right after the talk.

Mathematicians look for symmetry everywhere, and when they find it they know that interesting theorems will follow. We'll look at symmetry in basic calculus, in games, in some more advanced mathematical settings, and maybe even in the design of the College curriculum.