Prime Time Math: Little Green Men, Locust Hordes, and Cybersecurity


Tuesday, March 12, 2024
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Students


Dr Stephan Ramon Garcia

Join us for the annual Mosaic Lecture Series, which celebrates diversity in the mathematical sciences. This year, Dr. Stephan Ramon Garcia, Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College, will talk about prime numbers. Although the prime numbers are the building blocks of arithmetic, they still hold many mysteries. Some questions that were familiar to Euclid and the ancient Greeks remain unanswered. How did several undergraduates help discover intriguing new phenomena in the large-scale behavior of the primes? What did they find?  What do prime numbers have to do with insect swarms, cybersecurity, and the search for alien life?  Come to this talk to find out! No knowledge of mathematics beyond addition and multiplication is required.

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LTT 103 - LECTURE HALL

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For more information regarding this event, please contact Dr. Rene Ardila at (616) 331-2041  or [email protected] 


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Department of Mathematics

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This event was added to the calendar by Rene Ardila (ardilar@gvsu.edu) on Thursday, December 21, 2023 and was last updated on Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 11:15 a.m.