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Undergraduate Mathematics Day
Saturday, November 5, 2005
Invited Address:
Shuffle Up and Deal; Should We Have Jokers Wild?
Dr. Kristen Lampe
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Carroll
College
Abstract:
From the Interactive Media Lab at the University of Florida to the Poker News
blog to the Christian Science Monitor, everyone is talking about the rise in
poker’s popularity. In the neighborhood poker games, one often hears of adding
the jokers as wild cards, or declaring deuces wild. In this talk, we’ll explore
what happens mathematically when two jokers are added to the deck. The
probabilities for different hands change, in ways that might surprise you.
Kristen Lampe graduated with a BS in mathematics from the
University of Dayton in 1993 and continued her graduate education at Washington
University in St. Louis, where she earned an MA and a PhD in mathematics. She
began her academic career at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater before
moving on to Carroll College, where she is currently an Associate Professor of
Mathematics.
In 1999, Dr. Lampe was selected a Fellow of Project NExT (New Experiences in
Teaching), a program of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for new
and recent Ph.D.s in mathematics. She has continued her involvement with Project
NExT, and she is active in the Wisconsin Section of the MAA as well. Aside from
her work at Carroll College, Dr. Lampe enjoys playing bridge, reading, shopping
and spending time with her husband and two daughters.