Outreach Activities: Frank Sottile
General Mathematical Talks
- Careers in Mathematics,
Graduate student forum, sponsored by the UCSD Chapter of the Association for Women in
Mathematics,2 February 2012.
- The Real, Complete Story of Conics,
MASS Colloquium, Penn State U.
20 October 2011.
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- Platonic solids in the next dimension,
TAMU Undergraduate Math Club, 17 October 2011.
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- The control of linear systems and the
Schubert calculus,
Graduate Student Organization Seminar, Thursday 22 September 2011.
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- The Real, Complete Story of Conics,
Graduate
student seminar, RTWH Aachen 3 May 2011.
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- The shape of space,
TAMU Math Club, Monday 11 October 2010.
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- The shape of space,
TAMU Lecturer Seminar Series, Wednesday 15 September 2010.
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- Trends in Algebraic Combinatorics,
Forward-looking session, SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics,
Austin, 16 June 2010.
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- An Experimental Road to Mathematical Truth,
Friends of Mathematics Banquet, Kansas State University.
27 April 2010. abstract
text of talk.
- Introduction to Gröbner bases,
Working algebra seminar, TAMU, 22 January 2010.
- Algebra and combinatorics at TAMU,
First year graduate student seminar, TAMU, 14 October 2009.
- Computational Thinking in Pure Mathematics,
Short talk at NSF CDI workshop on The Role of Symbolic, Numeric and Algebraic
Computation in
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI), 31 October 2007.
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- The IMA program on Applications of Algebraic
Geometry,
IMA PIC/IAB meeting, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
20 June 2007.
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- Introduction to moduli spaces,
20 May 2005,
Special Seminar, Texas A&M University.
- Convexity for lines in
Rd,
23 September 2004,
Graduate Student Seminar, Texas A&M University.
Abstract
- What Is a Real Algebraic Curve?,
10 March 2003, TWIGS Seminar, University of Massachusetts.
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- What is a Hopf Algebra?
And what do Hopf Algebras have to do with Combinatorics?,
16 October 2002, TWIGS Seminar, University of Massachusetts.
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- Common transversals and tangents,
11 December 2001, TAP Seminar,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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- Graduate Student Forum: Life after PhD?, 18 April 2001,
Graduate Student Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- The Real, complete story of conics,
6 December 2000, TAP Seminar,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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- The Complete Story of Conics,
23 February 2000, Undergraduate Mathematics Club,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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- The Complete Story of Conics, 7 March 1997,
`Club Zero', University of Texas El Paso Undergraduate Mathematics Club.
- Employment in the Mathematical Sciences,
1 September 1995, Special Graduate Student
Seminar, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Talks and Activities with High School
Students
- Zometools explorations into the fourth dimension,
Summer Educational Enrichment in Math
(SEE Math)
Texas A&M University, 16/17 August 2011.
- The shape of space, TAMU SMaRT math camp, 24 June 2010.
- The Science of Shape, Summer Educational Enrichment in Math
(SEE Math)
Texas A&M University, 22--25 June 2010
- To infinity and Beyond!: the mathematical theory of the inifinite,
Summer Honors
Invitational Program, 29 June 2009.
- To infinity and Beyond!: the mathematical theory of the inifinite,
TAMU SMaRT math camp, 24 June 2009.
- To infinity and Beyond!: the mathematical theory of the inifinite,
Summer Honors
Invitational Program, 9 June 2008.
- The Science of Shape, Summer Educational Enrichment in Math
(SEE Math)
Texas A&M University, 17 July 2007.
- Euler Island, 25 October 1997, University of Toronto's
Mathematical Sciences Day.
- Lines in Space, 27 May 1996, Upper Canada College
Mathematics Club.
- Lines in Space, 27 April 1996, University of Toronto's
Mathematical Sciences Day.
- The Cantor Set, 26 February 1996, Upper Canada College
Mathematics Club.
- Symmetry and Card Shuffling, 3 December 1995,
University of Toronto Mathematics club.
- Transfinite Numbers, 5 November 1995, Upper Canada
College Mathematics Club.
- The Five Colour Theorem, 23 May 1995,
Upper Canada College Mathematics Club.
- Cantor's Theory of Infinity, 14 May 1995,
University of Toronto Mathematics Club.
- The Combinatorial Classification of Surfaces,
29 April 1995,
University of Toronto Mathematical Sciences Day.
- The Science of Shapes, Discover Science Day,
a University (of Toronto)-wide initiative to
encourage High School girls to study Science or Engineering.
22 November 1994, 22 February 1995, 9 November 1995,
and 9 May 1996.
- Assisted with the University of Toronto Math Club (for
Toronto area secondary school students) Spring 1995 - Summer 1996.
Valley Mathematical Sciences day
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