Bethany McLean ’92 will be on campus for convocation and to deliver the kick-off Math/Stats colloquium: “Why It’s Smart to be a Math Major Even if You’re Not Good at Math.” McLean, who famously exposed Enron and is now at Vanity Fair and a TV personality, is back to receive… Continue reading »
Producer Adam Wang; Director Peter De Riemer; 2011 SMALL Director Susan Loepp; Department Chair and 2012 SMALL director Cesar Silva. The SMALL Undergraduate Mathematics Research Project, Williams College, a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates. Continue reading »
The latest ranking of all universities and colleges by Forbes: 1. Princeton 2. Williams 3. Standford 4. Chicago 5. Yale 6. Harvard 7. Army 8. Columbia 9. Pomona 10. Swarthmore 11. MIT 12. Notre Dame… Continue reading »
The SMALL 2011 research program is underway at Williams College. Stop by and check out the work being done by our students and professors!… Continue reading »
As Vice-President, I represented the American Mathematical Society at the first joint meeting with the Korean Mathematical Society in Seoul in December, 2009. At a luncheon of society presidents, in excitement over the future of math in Asia, began plans for a six-country Asian speaking tour. My log… Continue reading »
NASA offers fall and spring semester paid internships for undergraduate and graduate students. Internships are in a variety of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines as well as business and finance. The deadline for fall semester internship applications was recently extended to May 31st. Interested students can apply at: … Continue reading »
Introductory proof writing is much like English as a Second Language. Developing written mathematical skills involves wrestling with issues of vocabulary, word choice, grammar, word order, punctuation, native expressions and (after enough experience) eventuates in fluency in the foreign language of mathematics. This analogy can provide a natural… Continue reading »
Professor Frank Morgan is headed on a whirlwind tour of Asia and Mathematics. Find out all the information here. Recently, he appeared on television there as well, showing his lectures in mathematics: <http://www.trt.vn/Tint%E1%BB%A9cS%E1%BB%B1ki%E1%BB%87n/tabid/57/itemid/5542/categoryId/3/type/1/Default.aspx> … Continue reading »
Hudson River is Saturday April 16th this year at Skidmore College (about an hour and 15 minute drive). Carl Pomerance is the keynote speaker, and his talk is titled “Order and Chaos.” You can see an abstract on the Hudson River website: https://apps.skidmore.edu/pls/apex/f?p=115:8:3879497996106988::NO::: Abstracts are due Monday… Continue reading »
As I watched Mihai’s legs disappear over the edge of the open door at 13,500 ft, my instructor turned to me and asked “Are you ready?” My mind was racing, going over the waiver I signed and trying to remember the bit that said I could back out… Continue reading »
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