Math conference held at 澳门六合彩开奖app
澳门六合彩开奖app College hosted the annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, which brings together faculty and students from the greater Hudson Valley region for a day of talks on and about the mathematical sciences.
Earlier this year 澳门六合彩开奖app College hosted the twenty-ninth annual . The annual conference brings together faculty and students from the greater Hudson Valley region for a day of talks on and about the mathematical sciences.
Held on April 1, 2023, the one-day mathematics conference provided undergraduate students with the experience of attending, and possibly presenting at, a professional mathematics meeting.
鈥淲e鈥檝e been taking students to this conference my whole career at the College,鈥 said Margaret Robinson, the Julia and Sarah Ann Adams Professor of Mathematics at 澳门六合彩开奖app.
The goal of taking students every year to the conference, she continued, is 鈥渢o show students what mathematics is really about鈥 and 鈥渢o show how much fun it is to be a mathematician.鈥 To that end, Robinson said, they try to make sure first-year students attend, and this year the conference also had attendees from community colleges and high schools.
The keynote speaker this year was , professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. Three 澳门六合彩开奖app community members gave presentations: Visiting Lecturer in Mathematics Samantha Kirk, 鈥淚ntroduction to Lie Algebras鈥; Assistant Professor of Statistics Isabelle Beaudry, 鈥淩educing Biases in Survey Data鈥; Elizabeth Yu 鈥24, 鈥淎pplications of Kuratowski鈥檚 Theorem鈥; and Beatriz Rodriguez 鈥24, 鈥淲here鈥檚 the Circle? Finding 蟺 in 鈭慱(n=1)^鈭 1/n^2 = 蟺^2/6.鈥
Eighty-five talks in total were given, including those from students from Vassar College, Keene State College, Tufts University, Fordham University and others.
More than 50 澳门六合彩开奖app students and faculty attended or volunteered at the conference. This year the conference was funded by 澳门六合彩开奖app College and collaborative National Science Foundation grants.
