SMASAB & HR nominations due Wed

Nominations and self-nominations to the Math/Stats student advisory board SMASAB and to the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference steering committee are due by Wednesday to Prof. Johnson (SMASAB) and Prof. Pacelli (Hudson River). The Hudson River conference returns to Williams for its 25 anniversary on April 6,… Continue reading »

Burger Named Education Hero

Salcito’s “Daily Edventures” features our Prof. Ed Burger, “considered by many to be the nation’s leader in math education. … Burger’s fast-paced review of all of calculus (“Calculus in 20 minutes”) on YouTube has had more than one million viewers.” Burger has a new piece in Inside Higher… Continue reading »

Jobs, Undergraduate Research, Teaching

Watch the Williams Career Center. AfterCollege.com has a monthly listing of job opportunities for Williams math majors. Every student considering math graduate school should apply for an NSF Graduate Fellowship. For more, start with Fellowships on the AMS Grad Student Blog. The Ford Foundation has graduate fellowships for underrepresented minority students. Goldwater Scholarship applications… Continue reading »

Higgs Boson Birthdays

Here’s a great account of the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson. Meanwhile, the famous birthday paradox says that among 23 people, at least two probably share a birthday. A recent post shows that among 16 (~23/√2) bosons, at least two probably share a birthday. Continue reading »

Ergodic Theory Conference July 27-29

Prof. Cesar Silva‘s Ergodic Theory Conference at Williams July 27-29, 2012. Speakers include Jon Aaronson (Tel Aviv), Rachel Bayless (Chapel Hill), Darren Creutz (Nashville), Alexandre Danilenko (Kahrkov), Jane Hawkins (Chapel Hill), Mariusz Lemanczyk (Torun), and Kyeowon Park (Suwon). For more information see the website. Continue reading »