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UK MATH CLUB -- How to make the best slide ever!

Date:
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Location:
Classroom Building, Room 212

The second Math and Pizza Meeting for the Fall 2011 semester
will be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2011, from 4pm to 5pm, in room CB 212.
Dr. Nick Kirby, from the Department of Mathematics, will give a talk titled
How to make the best slide ever!

Abstract: Suppose you want to make the fastest slide connecting two points.
What shape should you make it?
In this talk, the mathematics of finding such shape will be described along with related
questions. Our friend, the derivative, will make an appearance and will be set to zero.

As usual pizza will be served.

For more information about the UK Math Club activities, please visit the website http://www.math.uky.edu/~mathclub.