Math/Stats had much to be proud of at today’s Commencement, with a record 70 math majors graduating. Professor Ed Burger got an honorary degree on his way to be President of Southwestern University. Student awards included an NSF graduate fellowship …

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On the way to pick up exams from the Registrar’s Office, which nobly maintains long hours this exam week, I stopped to pick up a Sunday paper for them. I had no money, and the store said they couldn’t give …

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2013 is the International Year of Statistics! What, you didn’t know??? It’s actually pretty cool: there are nearly 2000 organizations – universities, government agencies, schools, societies and research institutions – from over 120 countries participating in the activities. Here’s a …

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The burly Russian dive master assured us that we had nothing to fear, that sharks do not attack humans. But as we started to hop over the side of the boat, I noticed that he was putting on chain mail gloves. …

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Math has finally renumbered our courses according to difficulty, with Linear Algebra moved from Math 211 to its central spot Math 250 and the core courses moved to the middle of the 300s, with the pre-core electives below and the …

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Williams College will be hosting a new one week summer math camp for mathematically talented high school students. The camp is July 8-12, 2013, and applications are due by Monday May 6. Current high school students who have completed or …

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Humans have been investigating mathematical objects for thousands of years, and yet there is still so much more to investigate. Over 2000 years ago, Archimedes penned a letter to Diogenes describing a new method for computing areas and volumes.  He …

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You can sign up to give a 15-minute talk by March 4, 2013. On Saturday April 6, 2013 Williams College will be hosting the 20th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (HRUMC). One of the first conferences of its kind, HRUMC was …

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The Lunar New Year, also called the Spring Festival, is the most important traditional holiday in China. It is also celebrated in some other eastern Asian countries. It refers to the beginning of the new year based on the Chinese …

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Faculty Memorial Minute, February 6, 2013 [ --- originally composed by Don Beaver, and edited by Susan Loepp, with additional comments, additions, and emendations by Don Beaver, Stewart Johnson, Victor Hill, and Colin Adams.] Olga Rozinak Beaver, Professor of Mathematics. …

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