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	The AMC 10/12 A Date Date: February 7, 2019 Time: 6:30 – 8pm Location: UT Campus - Check your confirmation email for the specific location. If you registered but did not receive a confirmation email, please feel free to reach out! For more information and registration, click here!
	SMMG – February 2019 Date: February 10, 2019 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: RLM 5.104 Speaker: Cas Monroe Title: Spot It! Abstract: Spot It is a simple card game with really interesting connections to deep mathematics. After going over how the game works (and playing a few times!) we will answer the question: How can we be sure any pair of cards has EXACTLY one thing in common? We will also discuss the connections to math fields like combinatorics, projective geometry, and finite fields!
	The AMC 10/12 B Date Date: February 13, 2019 Time: 6:30 – 8pm Location: UT Campus - Check your confirmation email for the specific location. If you registered but did not receive a confirmation email, please feel free to reach out! For more information and registration, click here!
	SMMG – February 2019 Date: February 24, 2019 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: RLM 5.104 Speaker: Rok Gregoric Title: Higher Dimension Abstract: These days, everybody knows that we live in a 4-dimensional universe, with 3 dimensions of space and 1 dimension of time. But what does the notion of "dimension" really mean? Come to this meeting of SMMG to find out!! We will talk about the limitations of one-dimensional world-views, about what mathematicians mean when we talk about "n-dimensional space for any n", and why tying your shoelaces would be a very difficult task if you lived in a universe with four spacial dimensions!
	SMMG – March 2019 Date: March 10, 2019 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: RLM 5.104 Speaker: Sebastian Schulz Title: Attack of the Clones Abstract: We will be looking into a fun little mathematical game called "Escape of the Clones": Given a few pieces (Clones) on an infinite chess board that are allowed to "move" only in a certain way, is it possible for them to leave a certain section of the board (the "prison"). In a hands-on way this game will illustrate many advanced mathematical concepts, such as infinite series and invariants, that I am planning to give a hint of.
	The AIME I Date (Qualifiers Only) Date: March 13, 2019 Time: 5 – 8pm Location: 12.166 RLM
	SMMG – March 2019 Date: March 24, 2019 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: RLM 5.104 Speaker: Tom Gannon Title: The Math Questions Nobody Knows The Answer To Abstract: A lot of times it can seem like all of math is solved. In reality, there is a lot more math that we don't know than there is math we know. In this talk, I'll give a bunch of examples of math questions that we don't know the answer to, and talk about why we care about them. It's going to be awesome.
	SMMG – April 2019 Date: April 7, 2019 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: RLM 5.104 Speaker: Yijing Wu Title: Probability Day! Abstract: It's probability day! We'll talk about a cool fact that probability tells us about people's birthdays, a math problem that even math professors from MIT got wrong, and other cool applications of one of the coolest subjects in math, probability!
	SMMG – April 2019 Date: Saturday April 20, 2019 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: RLM 5.104 Speaker: Hannah Turner Title: The Koch Snowflake Abstract: We're going to be talking about why we know (with 100% certainty) that this shape has infinitely long perimeter, even though it only has a finite amount of area. This will lead to a really cool concept called infinite sums and will introduce the notion of fractals!
	SMMG – May 2019 Date: May 5, 2019 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: RLM 5.104 Speaker: Lisa Piccirillo Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

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Department of Mathematics, UT Austin, 2515 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712
Office: PMA 10.176
The University of Texas at Austin Department of Mathematics will not take custodial responsibility of minors while participating in the SMMG. Custodial responsibility will remain with teachers, parents, legal guardians and chaperones.