Upcoming Events
Thursday, December 5, 5 pm in 351 Avery Hall:
Help test Math Day Probe I and II questions!
Math Day is an event that attracts hundreds of Nebraska high school students to the UNL campus. During Math Day students have fun challenges and try out their in math skills in Probe I and II. Instead of a talk, we will run this event workshop style. We will give each tester a subset of possible Probe questions we'd like feedback on. Primarily, we want to make sure the problems are accessible for high school students. Pizza and soda will be provided.
Thursday, December 12, 3:30-4:30 pm in 111 Avery Hall:
NEMO Lab presentation: Quantum Machine Learning
The NEMO Lab is an undergraduate research and experiential learning hub in mathematics. Come see the participants in NEMO Lab's project on Quantum Machine Learning talk about what they've learned this semester. Pizza and soda will be provided.
Past Events
Thursday, November 14, 5 pm in 351 Avery Hall:
Talk by Bill Anderson Slides
Becoming a Full Stack Data Scientist To Increase Your Chances of Job Acquisition and Career Success
in 2012, Harvard Business Review declared Data Scientist as the sexiest job of the 21st Century. As the popularity was growing, people flocked to the profession from many other disciplines to ride the data science wave. This wave created a flood of partially skilled data scientists that have now saturated the market. The result - corporations hiring data scientists are now much more discerning than they were 5-10 years ago, and so being a well rounded and demonstrated data scientist will be key to not only getting a job, but to a successful career. I will talk to you a bit more about what a "Full Stack Data Scientist" is, and how to construct your class work, your internship, your capstone, and other activities outside of class to become and demonstrate yourself as a Full Stack Data Scientist.
Tuesday, November 12, 6:30-8:30 pm in 348 Avery Hall:
Game Night organized by the Association for Women in Math student chapter
Come play games, eat pizza, and meet people. All are welcome!
Thursday, November 7, 5 pm in 351 Avery Hall:
Talk by math major Noah Sorensen
Undergraduate Research Experience
What does undergraduate math research look like? When I was a first year student, I imagined math research to look like solving equations and not much more. Three years later, and multiple research experiences later, I can confidently say I have an idea of what math research is. My current projects include the NEMO Lab and a thesis. I will provide an overview of what these projects entail and what I have learned from my time working on them.
Thursday, October 24, 5 pm (on Zoom):
Course Preview
Come to the preview of the upper-level math courses offered in the Spring 2025 semester! Faculty teaching them will describe course content, format, prerequisites, and will answer your questions.
A recording of the meeting can be viewed here.
January Pre-session Courses, Spring 2025
MATH 391 - Mathematics of Machine Learning
ECEN 498 - Quantum Programming for STEM
MATH 398 - Research Experience in Mathematics (Knot Theory REU)
Upper-level Math Classes, Spring 2025
MATH 415 – Theory of Linear Transformations
MATH 423 – Complex Analysis
MATH 428 – Operations Research
MATH 435 – Math in the City
MATH 447 – Numerical Methods
MATH 471 – Introduction to Topology
Thursday, October 17, 5 pm in 351 Avery Hall:
Math Talk by Prof. Bo Deng
Title: Error-free Training for Artificial Neural Networks
Abstract: If we define intelligence as not making the same mistake twice, then a system achieves this artificial intelligence if and only if it can learn from its mistakes every time. For a feedforward neural network under supervised training, this means that it can be trained error-free for every dataset. This problem is known as the discreet classification problem in mathematics. Its solution was obtained more than thirty years ago by what is now known as the Universal Approximation Theorem. In this talk, I will present a numerical algorithm to fulfill the UAT. I will illustrate the algorithm by both abstract and practical classification problems.
Friday, October 4, 11:45 am - 1:00 pm in 348 Avery Hall:
Lunch with Dr. David McCune - find out about the mathematics of voting
Dr. David McCune is a professor of mathematics at William Jewell College. His current research area is mathematical political science, with an emphasis on apportionment and voting. Come meet Dr. McCune in an informal setting. Lunch will be served in the Math Department lounge, Avery 348, 11:45 am -1:00 pm. Later that day Dr. McCune will give a talk in the Mathematics Colloquium. Everybody is invited to his colloquium on Friday, October 4 at 4-5pm in Avery 115.
Thursday, October 3, 5 pm in 351 Avery Hall:
Graduate Application Workshop
Whether you are graduating this academic year or a few years from now, come learn about graduate programs available in pure and applied mathematics as well as financial mathematics and data science. A panel of faculty and graduate students will talk about what graduate school is like and how to choose and apply for graduate programs and fellowships. We will also look at sample application materials from former UNL students. Pizza and soda will be provided.
Thursday, September 26, 5 pm in 351 Avery Hall:
Math Talk by Maciej Piwowarczyk
Title: Exploring Pseudorandomness
If I were to ask you to give me a random number between 1 and 10, how would you come up with a number? Would you give me the first number that comes to mind? Would you pull out your phone and ask Siri, or use a Google search? If I wanted a truly random number, would you be more reliably random or would a machine be? Why should we even care about a number being truly random? These are some of the questions that we will explore in this talk about pseudorandom number generation! We’ll learn about the history of the tools, try out a few methods ourselves, and explore the many ways in which pseudorandom number generators can affect our daily and professional lives. Pizza and soda will be provided.
Tuesday, September 24, 6:30-8:30 pm in 348 Avery Hall:
Game Night organized by the Association for Women in Math student chapter
Come play games, eat pizza, and meet people. All are welcome!
Thursday, September 5, 5:30 pm in 115 Avery Hall:
Math Majors Welcome Event
Come celebrate the beginning of a new academic year with fellow math majors, the faculty math advisor Professor Alex Zupan, and the faculty advisors of the Math Club. Refreshments will be provided!
Did you miss the event? Click here to watch a recording of the meeting and here to view the presentation slides!
Please see our event archive for a list of past events.
About Math Club
The Math Club is an umbrella organization for mathematics-related activities open to all UNL students. The Math Club sponsors events throughout the academic year in association with the Nebraska Alpha Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon and the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) undergraduate student chapter at Nebraska. Undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to contact the Math Club's faculty advisors to discuss events and meetings that they would like to see throughout the academic year and to help organize additional event and meetings.
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Pi Mu Epsilon (ΠΜΕ)
Pi Mu Epsilon is a national mathematics honor society that promotes scholarly activity in mathematics among students in academic institutions. UNL's Nebraska Alpha Chapter, founded in 1928, was the 15th chapter out of over 350 chapters around the country.
Learn more about joining Pi Mu Epsilon.
