Mathematics Colloquium ~ October 9

October 6, 2014

Hello, Math Students and all interested parties:

Please join us for the weekly Mathematics Colloquium:

“Partitions are Everywhere!”
with Ben Ford, Ph. D., Department of Mathematics, Sonoma State UniversityThursday, October 9, 2014 in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Building Room 204, 4 p.m.

How many ways are there to arrange 11 dots in rows of distinct length, such that each row contains no more dots than the row above it? How about in rows of odd length (but not necessarily all distinct length)? For someone whose field is abstract algebra, I spend a lot of my time trying to find clever ways to count arrangements of dots, called partitions. We'll explore the remarkable ubiquity of partitions, and look at some recent work by Ken Ono and others about patterns in partition numbers that generalizes patterns first noticed by Ramanujan in 1919.

Ben Ford is a Professor in the Sonoma State University Department of Mathematics.

Don't forget coffee, tea and goodies at the Pre-Colloquium Tea at 3:30 in the 3rd Floor Open Area in the BSS building.

For the complete abstract, please go to
http://www.humboldt.edu/math/news-and-events/math-colloquium

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