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What can we tell about the interior structure of our planet, if we observe the travel time of a large number of earthquakes? This is the time it takes for a seismic…

Many materials are built from a grid of flexible but nearly inextensible rods that behaves as a shell-like structure. Everyday examples range from fabrics made of 1000s of interwoven yarns;…

Pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, is caused by the bacterial pathogen Bordetella pertussis. Completely susceptible individuals experience severe disease, with the hallmark whooping cough, but those with partial immunity have…

Students often take precalculus or college algebra as a terminal math course, leaving them with the impression that mathematics lacks real meaning. Due to the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the…

A circle packing is the mathematical name for a collection of circles. I am interested in circle packings with a fixed pattern of tangencies between the circles. Given a tangency…

In this demo, we will discover some interesting properties about symmetry by starting with some special transformation matrices. This talk will be a combination of interactive work with the material…

How could you design a stadium so that a rectangular playing field looks the same size to every spectator? What about for a circular wrestling ring? In this talk, we…