Title: Elliptic Curves over finite fields and some of its applications

Abstract: We will introduce elliptic curves and talk about (some) applications of elliptic curves, including  factorizations of integers and elliptic curve protocols. 

We discuss large N rules of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and the bi-local representation of holography of this theory. This is done by establishing 1/N Feynman rules in terms of bi-local propagators and vertices, which can be evaluated following the recent procedure of Polchinski and Rosenhaus. These rules can be interpreted as Witten type diagrams of the dual AdS theory.

Juan Carlos Galeano is a poet, translator, and essayist born in the Amazon region of Colombia. He has published several books of poetry, and has translated North American poets into Spanish. Over a decade of fieldwork on symbolic narratives of riverine and forest people in the Amazon basin resulted in his production of a comprehensive collection of storytelling  (Folktales of the Amazon, ABC-CLIO, 2008) the documentary film (The Trees Have a Mother, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2008) His poetry inspired by Amazonian cosmologies and the modern world (Amazonia 2003, 2012, and Yakumama and other Mythical Beings, 2014), has been anthologized and published in international journals such Casa de las Américas (Cuba), The Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares (U.S.).  He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where he teaches Latin American poetry and Amazonian Cultures at Florida State University. He is currently the director of the FSU Service/Learning Program: Journey into Amazonia in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

Speaker: Luis Sordo Vieira
Title: The benefits of elliptic curve cryptography
Abstract: We will introduce the basis of elliptic curve cryptography. Roughly speaking ECC is based on the group structure of the points defined on an elliptic curve over a finite field and the difficulty of solving the discrete log problem. The applications are many, such as signature verification and pseudo random generators. No knowledge of algebraic geometry is required.

Mathematics Ph.D. Preliminary Exams for students currently enrolled in the Math graduate program.  Please contact Sheri Rhine if you wish to register for one or more exams

Greetings Mathematicians,

The UK Student Chapter of AWM invites you to attend a talk this coming Monday, March 28th, at 5:00 PM in CB 333.  Dr. Christia Brown from the University of Kentucky's Department of Psychology will be speaking on the topic of gender stereotypes in mathematics.  See below for further details:

Using findings from developmental science, Dr. Brown will discuss the ways that boys and girls actually differ in their STEM abilities and other behaviors as well as the ways in which they don't.  Dr. Brown will then address the ways that gender stereotypes affect girls experiences in STEM, from preschool years into college.

For those interested in this event, there will be refreshments served at 4:30 PM in POT 745 prior to the talk.

We hope you can join us!  Feel free to inform your students about this event as well.  

On behalf of your AWM officers,

Marie Meyer

Please, join us as we welcome a very special guest to the University, Dr. Pam M. Marcum, SOFIA Project Scientist with the NASA Ames Research Center! The Department of Physics & Astronomy invited Dr. Marcum to visit Campus and talk about her work with NASA and the SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) Project. Dr. Marcum will participate in several lectures and activities while on our Campus, and as she is a native of Lawrence County, Kentucky in the Appalachian Region of our State, The UK Appalachian Center is very excited to invite you to a talk and meet-and-greet here at the Center on Friday, April 15, 2016.  Dr. Marcum will talk about her Kentucky roots and her journey to the incredible work she does now. This is a free event, and UK Students, Staff, and Faculty are encouraged to attend and very welcome.  A light lunch will be served.  Please, read more about Dr. Marcum and her work here.

Refreshments will be served in CP 179 at 3:15 PM

The Colors of Math

A documentary by Ekaterina Eremenko

“Documentary filmmaker Ekaterina Eremenko is famous for unique, innovative documentaries. Her new film Colors of Math (The Russian title, – Sensual Mathematics – is better) is an intellectually stimulating and beautifully shot film invites us to look at mathematics from a new angle as the arena of the senses. To most people mathematics appears abstract, mysterious. Complicated. Inaccessible. But math is nothing but a language to express the world. Mathematics can be sensual. In this documentary, the beauty of mathematics, its sounds, colors, taste, and texture are revealed through the eyes of contemporary mathematical geniuses Cedric Villani, Aaditya V. Rangan, Jean-Michel Bismut, Gunter Ziegler, Maxim Kontsevich, and Anatoly Fomenko.”

60 minutes.  Free!

Please see http://www.ms.uky.edu/~movies/ for more information regarding Math Movie of the Month events.