University Math Society at Florida

Hey, UMS friends! On Monday, February 6th, Dr. Hamaker will give a talk introducing Boolean functions—a very cool and useful type of real-valued function. The talk will talk place in Little Hall 125, starting at 4:00 pm! Come by to learn about these functions, their analysis, and their applications! The full title and abstract is below.

Title: Boolean functions and decision

Abstract: Boolean functions are real-valued functions on the hypercube {0,1}^n. When Boolean functions take only the values 0 or 1, we can view them as decision making rules. Each input (a_1, … , a_n) corresponds to n yes/no votes, while the output is the final decision that the group makes. We will introduce some techniques for the analysis of Boolean functions and survey some applications of these tools to decision making.

Interested in learning about a different approach to calculus that you may have not seen before? On Monday, January 30th, undergraduate student Domenic Keller will be giving a talk on Multiplicative Calculus. The talk will start at 5:00 pm in Little Hall 125. The full abstract is below:

As you may know, we can write an integral in terms of an infinite sum. What if we did the same thing but with an infinite product? In this talk, we will investigate the consequences of doing so. Though this is not terribly applicable, it is interesting and can give you a slight change in perspective on calculus. The only prerequisite of this talk is Calculus 1 since I expect everyone to have a basic foundation of calculus.

Your favorite day of the year is soon approaching...

So start the latter half of the spring semester strong by celebrating 3/14, a.k.a. Pi Day! University Math Society will be putting on a social featuring fun games to be played and, of course, a plethora of pies to be eaten! We'll first eat pies at the tables by Little Hall, starting at 5 p.m. Then, at some point, we'll move inside to Little Hall 121 to play some games. Come on out, catch up with your UMS friends, and kick off the rest of the semester!