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 »
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics is offering a no-tuition, no-credit remote program in the fall: Fall 2020 Online Learning Opportunity Students who are taking a gap semester or gap year during the Academic Year 2020-2021 are encouraged to learn more about this program. It could be a… 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 »
Professor Colin Adams’ article “What is … a Hyperbolic 3-Manifold?“, which appeared in the Notices of the AMS, has been selected to appear in the Princeton University Press book “The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020”, edited by Mircea Pitici. Here is the website: https://press.princeton.edu/series/the-best-writing-on-mathematics… Continue reading »
“MEET a Mathematician!” is a collection of video interviews with mathematicians. Its mission is to introduce students from underrepresented groups to role models. We are delighted to announce that Professor Pamela Harris is one of the mathematicians featured in this video series. You can check out the… Continue reading »
The 2017 Mathematics Colloquium Fest will be on Tuesday January 24, from 9:30am – 2:20pm in Bonfman 103-106. Sixteen Mathematics seniors give colloquium talks in three or four parallel sessions, with a pizza lunch break. Here is the detailed schedule of the 2017 Colloquium Fest: 9:30 – 10:05 BSC 104… Continue reading »
In September 2016, a team of mathematics faculty, technologists and instructional designers from six leading liberal arts colleges (LACOL member schools Amherst, Haverford, Pomona, Swarthmore, Vassar and Williams) are launching a new collaboration to explore blended course sharing for select topics in advanced mathematics. The goal of the project is… 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 »
I’ve had a lot of fun with some cubing events recently in Williamstown. The first was an official cube event organized by local student Ric Donati. For results see https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?top3=Top+3&competitionId=WilliamsWinter2016 http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=1377 The second was earlier today, a cube workshop run by myself and my son, Cameron, at… Continue reading »
This is a sequel to an earlier post: To bead, or not to bead. In that post my daughter Kayla and I did a fuse bead picture of the Fibonacci spiral, and we talked about how it can be used to give a geometric proof to the sum of… Continue reading »
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