Want to learn insider tips and strategies for publishing in top tier journals? Want to hear what editors are concerned with when evaluating an article for publication? Just want to gain greater understanding of the scholarly publishing process?

If so, come to the….

Workshop on Publishing

with Professor Michael Chibnik

http://clas.uiowa.edu/anthropology/people/michael-chibnik

Editor of American Anthropologist

Thursday April 9, 5-6:15pm, UK Student Center 211.

Everyone is welcome.

A reception will follow at the Hyatt Regency Hotel (“Kentucky Room” on the A level)

Sponsored by the University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology

Title:  Generatingfuncitonology (Or looking for a closed formula for the Fibonacci sequence)

Abstract:  A beautiful formula for the integer sequence of Fibonnacci numbers, already known by Abraham de Moivre in the 17th century, will give us enough motivation to introduce a very useful technique in Combinatorics to find closed formulas for sequences defined by a recurrence relation.