How To Win in Monopoly®

Hello everyone, I am sure all of you have heard of the famous board game called Monopoly. If you are like me, you never really grew into it because the games can often take a long time with all the house rules and different iterations of the game itself. Yet, on the...

Differential Equations of the Heart

For my final seminar topic I will be talking about the various types of differential equations in relation to the heart as well as pacemakers. First by discussing some general information about the anatomy and functions of the heart so that we can better understand...

Problems and Paradoxes in Conditional Probability

It doesn’t take much for conditional probability to get complicated. But during my talk, we’re going to make it even more complicated than it needs to be. Next week, we will start by discussing a more traditional curve-ball in the probability playbook: the...

Philip’s Curve in predicting Inflation

There has been so many ways that Economists have tried to use to predict inflation, however, most of them did not prove to be accurate. The invasion of Philips Curve has helped in evaluating and forecasting inflation. A Phillips curve is an equation that relates the...

Poincare Disk Model

Hi all! For my 25 minute talk next week I will be discussing Hyperbolic Geometry and the applications of the Poincare Disk model. In High School we are taught the postulates and theories within Euclidean Geometry. However, the proof for the 5th postulate (the parallel...

Quantum Wave Functions and Schodinger’s Equation

Schrödinger’s equation a fundamental result in quantum mechanics. It’s a linear partial differential equation that controls the wave functions of a quantum mechanical system. It’s a complex equation involving i. So we don’t know what it looks...