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Each spring, Seattle-area middle- and junior high-school students are invited to participate in the Monthly Math Hour at the University of Washington. The 2023 Math Hour talks will take place in person on the UW campus, in the Architecture building, room ARC 147.
Well-behaved parents and teachers are also welcome to attend with the permission of their children. Siblings are free to join in, too.
There will be time for questions and further discussion after the talks.
The talks are free, and registration is not required — just show up! However, registration is required for the Math Hour Olympiad, due to limited capacity: more information will be released through our mailing list.
If you have any further questions or comments, please contact:
Sunday, March 12 2023, 1:00–2:00 PM, at UW ARC 147
Strategic Game Theory
XiaoLin Danny Shi, University of Washington
Sunday, April 23 2023, 1:00–2:00 PM, at UW ARC 147
Visualizing Mathematics: Solving Problems Without Numbers
Kristine Hampton, University of Washington
Link: Recording
Sunday, May 21 2023, 1:00–2:00 PM, at UW ARC 147
Counting in Catalan: Handshakes, Trees, and Paths
Kyle Ormsby, Reed College and University of Washington
Abstract: In this talk, we'll uncover how trees, parentheses, handshakes, triangulations, and mountain ranges are all counted by the sequence of Catalan numbers: 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, …. Along the way, we'll learn the fundamentals of combinatorics — the mathematics of counting — including the additive and multiplicative counting principles, factorials, binomial coefficients, recurrence, and the one concept that rules them all: bijection. We'll conclude by contemplating an open question that has stumped mathematicians for over 100 years — maybe you can solve it!
Sunday, June 4 2023, 9:30–3:30 PM
UW Math Hour Olympiad
The Monthly Math Hour at the University of Washington is supported by the NSF awards DMS-095-3011 and DMS-16000048 and the UW Department of Mathematics.
