Seminar Schedule
2024-2025 science seminar Schedule
Upcoming Presentation is on April 3rd
Group Table Puzzles: A Sudoku-like way to learn about the Exciting Math of Group Theory
Kevin Powell
I enjoy creating puzzles that help teach concepts to students. I use a group table puzzle to help my students learn about groups. A group is a collection of things like rotations or transformations that have an operation between them. This operation must follow certain laws. All of these laws including associativity can be made into a fun puzzle on a grid. Come find out how! If you like Sudoku, you make these puzzles too!
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Sept 5 | Kevin Powell | To Infinity and Beyond |
| Thursday, Sept 12 | Riley Bradshaw | What Does It Take to Keep Water in the Tap? |
| Thursday, Oct 3 | Todd Flanagan | Cloud Seeing in Utah |
| Thursday, Oct 10 | Michael Olson | Gambling - The Best Way to Win |
| Thursday, Oct 24 | Trent Fawcett | Who is going to win the election? Current Polls, Models and a Monte Carlo Simulation |
| Thursday, Oct 31 | Nicole Taylor | Gene Editing and Medicine |
| Thursday, Nov 7 | Larry Smith | The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 |
| Thursday, Nov 14 | Anthony P. Smith | Does Science Need Values? |
| Thursday, Nov 21 | Jon Pugmire | James Webb Space Telescope |
| Thursday, Jan 16 | Heber Allen | To SQL or NoSQL |
| Thursday, Jan 23 | Jonathan Bodrero | Crunching Cookies, Crunching Data |
| Thursday, Jan 30 | Larry Smith | The Trouble with Significant Figures |
| Thursday, Feb 6 | Adam Teichert | Making Digital Circuits out of People |
| Thursday, Feb 20 | Scott Meek | How much is a million? The true scale of geologic time |
| Thursday, Feb 27 | Dave Love | Biogeography of Utah |
| Thursday, March 13 | Michael Andersen | Vertically-Integrated Curriculum |
| Thursday, March 20 | Steve Hart | How Old is the Universe Really? |
| Thursday, March 27 | Chad Dewey | A Look into Utah's Attempt to Get 18.5 Million Acres of Federal Land |
| Thursday, April 3 | Kevin Powell | Group Table Puzzles |
| Thursday, April 10 | Jon Pugmire | |
| Thursday, April 17 | Kari Anroldsen |
