A team of more than 50 mathematicians and students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa invite 7th-12th grade and college students to an evening of probability games and exposure to mathematical thinking. The event, Monte Carlo Night, will take place at the UH Mānoa Campus Center Ballroom on Wednesday, April 24, from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. and is free to attend.
This outreach event will be lead by the School and University Partnership for Educational Renewal in Mathematics (SUPER-M). SUPER-M is an outreach program in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Funded by the National Science Foundation and Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program, SUPER-M strives to improve the perception of mathematics in the community through various activities and events. SUPER-M has officially partnered with 29 K-12 schools throughout the state since 2009. UH News Release link
Let $M$ be a nondeterministic finite automaton, having $q$ states and no $\epsilon$-transitions. If there is exactly one path through $M$ of length $n$ leading to an accept state, and $x$ is the string read along that path, then we say that $A_N(x)\le q$ (the NFS complexity of $x$ is at most $q$).
The movements of motile microorganisms and swimming nanorobots are seemingly random and difficult to predict. I will show how chemically propelled particles move in large circles, flip over on a surface, and slalom through a suspension of spheres. These observations can be explained by a simple theory, which suggests strategies for capturing, filtering, and transporting suspensions of swimmers.
The Math Booth at the Manoa Experience fair was quite a success. Professors Sarah Post, Thomas Hangelbroek, and Rufus Willett of the Math Majors Recruitment Committee organized the creation of a very nice poster and entertained elementary and intermediate school kids.