In this course we'll discuss how to prove you know something without telling anyone the answer and how to split up information so a group can know a secret without any individual knowing any part. These fascinating results called Zero Knowledge Proofs and Secret Sharing use relatively simple math to achieve seemingly impossible results. We'll even cover methods you can implement at home!

Every hear about P vs. NP? Did you know that this fundamental mathematics question also relates to games and puzzles? This class will explore how the mathematics of computational complexity relates to games and puzzles.

Do you love chocolate? Ever wonder why chocolate melts in your mouth? Or gets dry and crumbly when it's old? Join us to discover the science and engineering behind chocolate! Learn how to go from a cocoa bean to a truffle and discover phase diagrams, nucleation, and a little bit of history while you're at it. Ample chocolate will be provided.

Are you interested in how the petroleum industry works? How about chocolate? Come learn how oil companies go about finding and drilling for oil by trying it for yourself. With a team of your fellow students, you'll be competing to get the data and find the oil without going bankrupt. Except instead of oil, you'll be drilling for chocolate!

Are you interested in how the petroleum industry works? How about chocolate? Come learn how oil companies go about finding and drilling for oil by trying it for yourself. With a team of your fellow students, you'll be competing to get the data and find the oil without going bankrupt. Except instead of oil, you'll be drilling for chocolate.

Do you love chocolate? Ever wonder why chocolate melts in your mouth? Or gets dry and crumbly when it's old? Join us to discover the science and engineering behind chocolate! Learn how to go from a cocoa bean to a truffle and discover phase diagrams, nucleation, and a little bit of history while you're at it. Ample chocolate will be provided.

From the first programming language and the first computer bug to work on the protocols that keep our information safe and revolutionizing the very notion of a proof, female researchers have made amazing contributions to computer science. We'll take a tour through some of these results and discuss their impact on the field as a whole.

A visual and intuitive way to think about how statistically related quantities depend on each other! (Also called "America's favorite rational pastime")

Do you love chocolate? Ever wonder why chocolate melts in your mouth? Or gets dry and crumbly when it's old? Join us to discover the science and engineering behind chocolate! Learn how to go from a cocoa bean to a truffle and discover phase diagrams, nucleation, and a little bit of history while you're at it. Chocolate will be provided.

Are you interested in how the petroleum industry works? How about chocolate, are you interested in that? Come learn how oil companies go about finding and drilling for oil by trying it for yourself. With a team of your fellow students, you'll be competing to get the data and find the oil without going bankrupt. Except instead of oil, you'll be drilling for chocolate. It's gonna be good.

Are you interested in how the petroleum industry works? How about chocolate, are you interested in that? Come learn how oil companies go about finding and drilling for oil by trying it for yourself. With a team of your fellow students, you'll be competing to get the data and find the oil without going bankrupt. Except instead of oil, you'll be drilling for chocolate. It's gonna be good.

Do you love chocolate? Ever wonder why chocolate melts in your mouth? Or gets dry and crumbly when it's old? Join us to discover the science and engineering behind chocolate! Learn how to go from a cocoa bean to a truffle and discover phase diagrams, nucleation, and a little bit of history while you're at it. Chocolate will be provided.

Are you interested in how the petroleum industry works? How about chocolate, are you interested in that? Come learn how oil companies go about finding and drilling for oil by trying it for yourself. With a team of your fellow students, you'll be competing to get the data and find the oil without going bankrupt. Except instead of oil, you'll be drilling for chocolate. It's gonna be good.

Are you interested in how the petroleum industry works? How about chocolate, are you interested in that? Come learn how oil companies go about finding and drilling for oil by trying it for yourself. With a team of your fellow students, you'll be competing to get the data and find the oil without going bankrupt. Except instead of oil, you'll be drilling for chocolate. It's gonna be good.

How can we ensure that two people must send in the command to launch a nuclear weapon? Or how can a corporation restrict access to their proprietary data when a majority of the board members agree? Is it possible to prove to someone you know a password without telling them what that password is? We will be exploring solutions to these situations in the form of zero-knowledge proofs, secret sharing, and other ideas from modern cryptography

Are you interested in how the petroleum industry works? How about chocolate, are you interested in that? Come learn how oil companies go about finding and drilling for oil by trying it for yourself. With a team of your fellow students, you'll be competing to get the data and find the oil without going bankrupt. Except instead of oil, you'll be drilling for chocolate. It's gonna be good.

Come learn the fine art of tasting chocolate. We will be sampling a variety of dark chocolates while leaning about their composition. We will discuss the flavors, textures, and composition that gives each chocolate its own unique character.

The award winning board game Puerto Rico was adapted into the card game San Juan. Race for the Galaxy was developed out of another prototype adaption of Puerto Rico. We will play and compare these three games. Points of interest include the similarities between San Juan and Puerto Rico despite having some fundamentally different mechanics, whether the science fiction setting of Race for the Galaxy changes how it feels, and consider the design decisions given each game was released several years after the previous one. These three games will provide a context to study board games and game design. Part 1 will cover some basic background on board game criticism and design, as well as play and discussion of the game Puerto Rico.

This is the second part of a two part course on board games and game design. This is intended for people who have taken Part 1. In Part 2 we will play San Juan and Race for the Galaxy and analize these boad games using the ideas discussed in Part 1 of the class. We will then look into the history and relation of the games and discuss the games similarities, differences, and design in this context.

Ever wanted to prove who can win a game? Love playing games like Hex, Chess, Nim, or Dots and Boxes? Curious what it means for a game to be impartial, zero-sum, or perfect information? Then join us as we play games, discuss strategies, and investigate the mathematics behind them.

Have you heard of Conway’s Game of Life? What about Brian’s Brain, Rule 30, or van Neumann Universal Constructor? Come explore these fascinating models which exhibit complex behavior from relatively simple rules. We’ll spend time examining different types of Cellular Automata, altering the underlying rules to see what happens, and discussing some of the theory or application behind these models.

Have you heard of Conway’s Game of Life? What about Brian’s Brain, Rule 30, or van Neumann Universal Constructor? Come explore these fascinating models which exhibit complex behavior from relatively simple rules. We’ll spend time examining different types of Cellular Automata, altering the underlying rules to see what happens, and discussing some of the theory or application behind these models.

Ever wanted to prove who can win a game? Interested in Nimbers and Surreal Numbers? Love playing games like Hex, Chess, Nim, or Dots and Boxes? Then join us for some games and proofs as we explore this fun and fascinating field.

What is the biggest number you can think of? What is twice infinity? How large is the set of natural numbers? We will answer such questions with an introduction to Cantor’s work on transfinite numbers. We will discuss some basic Set Theory, how to can compare infinite sets, and some of the implications of different cardinalities of infinite sets.

How many numbers are there? What is twice infinity? What's bigger than infinity? How can infinitely many actually be very few? We will answer such questions with an introduction to Cantor's work on transfinite numbers. We will discuss some basic Set Theory, how we can compare infinite sets, and some of the implications of different cardinalities of infinite sets.

You can probably think of functions that get big pretty quickly. $$x^3$$ is fairly fast, $$2^x$$ even faster. But those are tiny compared to some other functions we can come up with. Want to see some really really big numbers? Come to this class! Note: You should not come if you are afraid of expressions like $$7(2*3^7 + 1)(2*3^{7*(2*3^7 + 1)} + 1).$$

This class will introduce and experiment with some basic cellular automaton such as Conway's Game of Life and the Elementary Cellular Automata. We will observe some of the interesting patterns and properties within these simulations, and look at how different rules impact how these 0 player "games" unfold. Discussion may also include how complexity arises from such simple rules, and cellular automaton as universal computers.

This class will introduce and experiment with some basic cellular automaton such as Conway’s Game of Life and the Elementary ...