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Spatial Graphs School at Williams College June 20-21
On June 20-21, there will be a Spatial Graphs School at Williams, including talks by five visiting mathematicians, and by SMALL participants. All talks will occur in 101 Stetson Court. Everyone is welcome. Schedule appears here: Wed., June 20 9:00-9:30 “State matrix recursion method to enumerate various lattice models”, Seungsang Oh 9:40- 10:20 “Arc index
Math/Stats Reunion Get-Together on Saturday
Faculty, students, and alumni are invited to the Math/Stats Department’s annual reunion tea! We’ll get started at 3:30pm on Saturday, June 9 in the seminar room of Bascom House (at 33 Stetson Court). Hope to see you there!
Professor De Veaux elected Vice President of the ASA!
Congratulations to Professor Dick De Veaux, who has been elected Vice President of the American Statistical Association! Read all about it here.
Professor Harris wins Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award!
Congratulations to Professor Pamela Harris, who has received the 2018 Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award from the Williams College Davis Center!“This award recognizes an outstanding staff, faculty, or community mentor who has made significant contributions to student success and development. Such a mentor goes above and beyond on behalf of their mentee to ensure their
Guest post by Professor Pacelli on mathbabe.org!
Professor Allison Pacelli wrote a guest post on the blog mathbabe.org all about the summer calculus camp PZ Math. Check it out here!
Visitor Mohamed Omar featured in Forbes!
Professor Mohamed Omar, who will be visiting Williams from Harvey Mudd College this week, was just featured in an article in Forbes! Check it out to read all about his fantastic work to increase diversity in math enrichment programs. And be sure to come see his faculty seminar on Friday!
Visualizing Irrationality
A student recently shared the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk6wbvNPZW0&feature=youtu.be This includes some work I did with a student, David Montague, a few years back in SMALL. The animation is terrific; my favorite example is our proof of the irrationality of sqrt(5) (starts at 9 minutes). The paper is here: Rational irrational proofs (with David Montague), Mathematics Magazine (85
“A Pi Day math debate”, by Professor Adams and Professor Garrity!
Happy Pi Day, everyone!! Check out this article on Mother Jones by Professor Colin Adams and Professor Tom Garrity, where they seek to answer: “What Is the Greatest Number of All Time?”
ASA Stats Education Blog Post, by Professor Heggeseth!
Check out this post by Professor Brianna Heggeseth, along with Leslie Myint and Brittney Bailey, for the for the ASA Statistics Education Section! From Professor Heggeseth: “The goal of the blog post is to start a nation-wide conversation among statistics educators about the best practices for creating inclusive classroom climates.”
Sign up for AWM’s “major declaring lunch”!
The Williams chapter of the AWM is launching their “major declaring lunch”! They will pair up participating sophomores (or first-years) and junior/senior math majors based on your interests and requests. There is minimal commitment — just a one-time lunch where you get to learn a little bit about each other and share your experience in