From the faculty of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics: The recent hate mail sent to a member of our community is despicable and deeply wrong. Though it pains us that this even needs to be said, we condemn this letter in the strongest way possible. Our thoughts and support… Continue reading »
OURMATH is a student organization aimed at creating community for students from underrepresented groups in the Math/Stats department at Williams. OURMATH will have its first panel on September 11, at 1:30pm EST. The panelists will be speaking on what it is like to be from an underrepresented group and study… Continue reading »
The first (and hopefully last!) virtual Joint Stats Meeting (JSM) was held this week online, originally scheduled to be in Philadelphia. Over 4,500 people registered for the event. Among the many presentations were two by Williams professors, Anna Plantinga and Xizhen Cai, who gave virtual talks on Wednesday. The… Continue reading »
During my time at Williams, I was lucky to know from the beginning that I wanted to go to graduate school for something in the field of math. In high school, I had always done well in my math classes and found the content interesting, so I knew… Continue reading »
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics will host a Math-Stats Faculty, Students, Alumni Get-Together. Say hi to the old profs, meet some new ones, see some students, and enjoy one of our famous “Teas.” The event will be at 3:30PM on Saturday, June 10, 2017 in the Bronfman Math-Stats Library (Second… Continue reading »
In honor of Professor Frank Morgan’s retirement, this summer, a group of Williams students at SMALL decided to remake one of Prof. Morgan’s own popular home videos: “Dancing the Parkway.” This video, called “Dancing the Bronfman,” is a spin on the classic with incorporations of new dancers—Professors Colin Adams, Diana… Continue reading »
by Nela (Vukmirović) Milošević ’08 I am writing from my homeland Montenegro, a small country in the Balkans, and in this post I just wanted to give a perspective from someone who now lives far away from Williams. I am class of 2008, and I decided to go… Continue reading »
The 2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest mathematics meeting in the world, took place on January 6-9, 2016 in Seattle, WA. Prof. Satyan Devadoss received the Haimo national teaching award. Sarah Tammen of our 2014 SMALL undergraduate research Geometry Group was named Schafer Prize runner-up. Outstanding poster recognition went to Nina… Continue reading »
Great to see many of you at our Annual Reunions Math-Stats Faculty/Students/Alums Get-Together Saturday, June 13, 2015, 3:30-4:30 pm, Math-Stats Library. Next gathering will be at the joint math meetings in Seattle in January, 2016. (Click on an image to enlarge it.)… Continue reading »
Great to see many of you at our gathering at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio Monday, January 12, followed by Colin Adams’s “Mathematically Bent Theater.”… Continue reading »
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