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SCIE 113 Speaker Series Worksheet This worksheet is designed to help you analyze arguments presented by speakers at the SCIE 113 speaker series, to concisely summarize their most important points in your own words, and to keep track of sources of information – all important skills that we will practice and apply throughout the course. This worksheet will also be a useful resource if you use information from the speaker series in Essay 1 or the final project. However, this worksheet is not intended for extensive note-taking, and we recommend that you take notes elsewhere before summarizing your answers on this worksheet. Please try to answer questions in 2 sentences at most, unless otherwise noted. Background questions (not for marks, but your TA may give you feedback on these) 1. What is the speaker’s name and job title? Stephanie Van Willigenburg. Professor of Math; Associate Dean Equity, Diversity, inclusion at University of British Columbia. 2. What is the speaker’s discipline or background in science? Using the APA style guide on Canvas, provide a reference for the source where you learned this information. Stephanie Van Willigenburg researches in the field of algebraic combinatorics and quasi symmetric functions. She earned her PhD in 1997 at University of St.Andrews. 3. Using the APA style guide on Canvas, provide a reference for this speaker’s presentation. Stephanie van Willigenburg. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved October 22, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_van_Willigenburg Questions marked for completion (3 points total) 4. What is one question that you would like to ask the speaker? ( 1 point ) © SCIE 113 2023
5. What was one thing you learned that you found particularly interesting? ( 1 point ) . Professor Willigenburg’s personal connection with mentorship and how it motivated her to move forward despite all odds led me to the realization of the immense value of mentorship in one’s life. 6. In what way does this presentation relate to what you have learned in SCIE 113 so far? ( 1 point ) ( Note : This question does not apply to the first speaker series presentation of the term.) Questions marked for content (7 points total) Note : If the speaker has discussed multiple research projects, please choose one research project to write about for the following questions. 7. What is the speaker’s research question? ( 1 points ) Coloring vertices in all possible ways regarding the solution of coloring graphs. 8. What approaches or methods does the speaker use to investigate the research question? ( 1 point ) She used the Chromatic polynomial which called as PG(k), where k is the number of colors, chromatic function, and the e-Positivity of Trees Theorem. 9. What is the main claim that the speaker makes about the research project? ( 2 points ) Coloring trees and making chromatic symmetric functions help to solve the hydrocarbon problem of distinguishing between non-isomorphic trees. 10. Using point-form notes, list examples of relevant evidence that the speaker presented to support the claim that you identified in question 9. ( 3 points ) -Birkhoff 1912: He wanted to solve the four color map problem by showing PG(4) > 4. So he created the chromatic polynomial that helped him solve that problem. -Richard Stanley 1995: He defined the chromatic symmetric function which suggests to take all the proper colorings of the graph and make the monomials corresponding to them and add them all up. -Dahlberg-SHE-vW’s theorem about e-Positivity of Trees helped to color trees that helped to solve the hydrocarbon problem © SCIE 113 2023
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