Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium
Saturday, November 13, 2021
University of Illinois at Chicago

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Plenary lectures

• Tanya Berger-Wolf (OSU)
  Data Science for Ecology and Conservation
  Abstract: Technology and computation has fundamentally changed the way we study nature. New data collection technology, such as GPS, high-definition cameras, UAVs, genotyping, and crowdsourcing, are generating data about wild populations that are orders of magnitude richer than any previously collected. Unfortunately, in this domain as in many others, our ability to analyze data lags substantially behind our ability to collect it. In this talk I will show how analytical and computational approaches can be part of every stage of the scientific process of understanding animal sociality, from intelligent data collection (crowdsourcing photographs and identifying individual animals from photographs by stripes and spots - Wildbook.org) to hypothesis formulation (by designing a novel computational framework for analysis of dynamic social networks), and provide scientific insight into collective behavior of zebras, baboons, and other social animals.
• John Voight (Dartmouth)
  Quaternions
  Abstract: Quaternion algebras sit prominently at the intersection of many subjects across the mathematical domain. They often reflect general aspects of these subjects, and sometimes they encapsulate special features that permit a more detailed study. Wherever you see matrices of size two by two, quaternions are lurking too! In this talk, we will give a broad survey of quaternions, including some applications.

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