Title of Talk:  Airplane puzzles, games of strategy, and reality television

Come see what had the speaker yelling at his TV set!  In this talk, we'll see how some pretty interesting mathematics appears in popular culture.  Then we will use some graph theory along with combinatorics (and some mathematical savvy) to discuss how puzzles such as magic squares and Sudoku, and games such as Othello, can motivate some pretty interesting and deep mathematics.

All mathematics students are invited!