Math Club Meeting: Winning Bar Bets (and Losing Friends) with Combinatorial Game Theory

The next meeting of Math Club is Wednesday Nov. 7 at 5:30pm in the McLean 201 Lounge.

Speaker: Chris Duffy

Title: Winning Bar Bets (and Losing Friends) with Combinatorial Game Theory

Abstract: Combinatorial game theory is a branch of combinatorics that lets us formally analyze winning and losing strategies in games with perfect information, including Chess, Checkers, TicTacToe and Go.

We will talk about the role of classical computing in the study of combinatorial games, learn how to win (or not lose!) some simple combinatorial games, and see how games can be nicely modelled using the most basic of mathematical tools — sets.

This talk is accessible to a wide undergraduate audience. It will assume only that you are interested in the topic and are willing to participate.

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Jenna Rajchgot, Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Saskatchewan

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