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	The AMC 8 Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm Location: MEZ 1.306 For more information and registration, click here!
	SMMG – January 2023 Date: January 29, 2023 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: PMA 4.102 Speaker: Paulina Hoyos Restrepo Title: Quantum Computing Abstract: Quantum computing is one of the most mispopularized topics in science. In this talk, we will learn about what quantum computers are and, perhaps most importantly, what they are not! Then we will learn what quantum computers can do, and what the hype is about them.
	SMMG – February 2023 Date: February 12th, 2023 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: PMA 4.102 Speaker: Addie Duncan Title: What's Up? Abstract: The ceiling? A branch? A cloud? The sky? We take for granted that the notion of "up" makes sense in our lives, but when you start to think about "up" like a mathematician, you'll begin to question: what IS "up"? And how do we know where "up" is? Is "up" in America the same as "up" in Australia? In this week's SMMG we will explore the idea of orientability and what it means to be oriented when you live on the surface of a shape such as a sphere. We'll see how orientability lets us be certain about things like "up" and "down", "inward" and "outward", "clockwise" and "counterclockwise". Then we will talk about waht happens on the surfaces of shapes like Mobius bands or Klein bottles and discover the wacky world of non-orientability.
	SMMG – February 2022 Date: February 26th, 2023 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: PMA 4.102 Speaker: Aaron Benda Title: Mysterious Patterns in the Primes Abstract: We will discuss some of the basic properties of prime numbers and what makes them such mysterious objects to study. There will be a number of well-known results presented (most without proof) to demonstrate some of their curious properties. We will finish by stating a few open problems that mathematicians still do not know how to resolve.
	SMMG – April 2023 Date: April 2, 2023 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: PMA 6.104 Speaker: Michail Savvas Title: The Banach-Tarski Paradox Abstract: Length, area and volume are familiar, intuitive concepts that come up often in everyday life. However, when it comes to measuring infinite objects, our intuition can be challenged and paradoxical phenomena can occur. We will motivate the subtleties behind such phenomena and discuss how they arise, with a focus on the Banarch-Tarski paradox, a famous example of paradoxical behavior that has to do with doubling a ball.
	SMMG – April 2023 Date: April 16, 2023 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: PMA 6.104 Speaker: Erin Bevilacqua Title: Aperiodic Tilings Abstract: Perhaps you've seen articles about a recently discovered aperiodic monotile or "einstein" tiling of the Euclidean plane. What exactly does this mean and why are mathematicians so excited about it? What is a tiling of the plane, and what does it mean for it to be aperiodic? What are some other aperiodic tilings of the plane? All of these questions will be answered in this talk about tilings!
	SMMG – April 2023 Date: April 23, 2023 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: PMA 6.104 Speaker: Patrícia Ewald Title: Special Relativity Abstract: If you talk to someone in another city, what you each mean by "here" and "there" might be completely different, but you should both agreen on how far you are from each other. Now what if one of you happens to be on a rocket going 99% of the speed of light? Then suddenly even things like time and distance can become relative. In this talk, we will talk a little about Einstein's theory of special relativity, and some cool paradoxes that come from it.

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