2018 RIPS Team (including Hallee Wong ’18) Wins Best Poster Award

Congratulations to Iuliana Tabian (Imperial College London) and Emmanuel Antonio Cuevas (Universidad de Guanajuato) for winning Best Poster Award at the 1st International Workshop on Advanced Machine Vision for Real-life and Industrially Relevant Applications (AMV2018). Tabian and Cuevas, along with their teammates Osman Akar (UCLA) and Hallee Wong (Williams College)… Continue reading »

Bayesian Statistics Poster Session

Math and Stat majors in Professor Daniel Turek’s STAT365 (Bayesian Statistics) completed independent research projects at the end of the Fall 2018 semester, and presented their work during an in-class poster session. Check out the photos below!… Continue reading »

“Journeys of Women in Mathematics” video

The Committee for Women in Mathematics, together with Micro-Documentaries and supported by the Simons Foundation, has created a film called “Journeys of Women in Mathematics”.  Check it out below, or on youtube: From the Association for Women in Mathematics’ description of the film: “It brings together and documents both the… Continue reading »

Professor Steve Miller selected to be an AMS Fellow!

Many congratulations to Professor Steve Miller, who has been selected to be an AMS Fellow, Class of 2019!  His selection was “for contributions to number theory and service to the mathematical community, particularly in support of mentoring undergraduate research.” You can read more about the AMS Fellows program here. Continue reading »

Check out the Lathisms website, co-founded by Professor Harris!

In 2016, Professor Pamela Harris co-founded the website www.lathisms.org, an accessible platform that prominently features the extent of the research and mentoring contributions of Latin@s and Hispanics in different areas of the Mathematical Sciences. Every year during Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) the website features a daily mathematician and… Continue reading »

Professor Stoiciu wins NES/MAA Teaching Award!

A huge congratulations to Professor Mihai Stoiciu, who has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the highly selective NES/MAA Distinguished College or University Teaching Award! To quote one of the nominating letters: “There is no question that Mihai is one of the best teachers of mathematics that has ever… Continue reading »

SMALL at Mathfest 2018

Students from four groups at Williams’ 2018 SMALL REU (commutative algebra, knot theory, random matrix theory, and tropical geometry) attended MAA’s Mathfest Conference in Denver, Colorado from August 1 to August 4 to present on their research.  Congratulations to the six students who received an MAA Outstanding Student Paper Session… Continue reading »