Students can give talks (all expenses paid by us) at the spring meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, from 3 pm May 31 to 3 pm June 1, 2013. Continue reading »
The Williams team, consisting of Vu Le, Heidi Chen, Michael Flynn, and Yang Lu, won the $1000 2nd Prize in the 2013 Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Investment Challenge. The team was advised by alum Ted Murphy and Professor Frank Morgan. 1. Vanderbilt University 2. Williams College 3. Continue reading »
Applications to TA for Math/Stats for spring 2014 are due by November 1. Applications are available from Marissa Barschdorf in Bronfman 200 or by email. Continue reading »
On Saturday April 6, 2013 some 500 mathematicians, students, and friends attended the 20th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (HRUMC), hosted by Williams College, with keynote address by Princeton Professor Mangul Bhargava and over 200 other talks, most by students, in 19 parallel sessions. See the … Continue reading »
Prof. Adams gave an interview for the March 2013 Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report, “Tied up in Applications for Knot Theory.”… Continue reading »
A video of the Knot Flashmob at the 2013 joint math meetings in San Diego features Colin Adams and other Williams faculty and students. Continue reading »
March 3, 2013, the NPR Sunday Puzzle was math: “Eight people are seated at a circular table. Each person gets up and sits down again — either in the same chair or in the chair immediately to the left or right of the one they were in. How many… Continue reading »
Prof. Bernhard Klingenberg and Scott Lewis won the annual Latke-Hamentaschen debate, against a noble effort by Prof. Scott Wong and Dean Dave. Continue reading »
Professor Dick De Veaux was quoted in the Wall Street Journal March 2, 2013, in an article on “Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus”: “It’s just a great time to be a statistician. … Finding Ph.D.s in statistics who are willing to devote themselves to teaching is getting… Continue reading »
Talk and poster submissions for the Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences (SUMS) at Brown March 9, all expenses paid, are due by noon next Saturday, February 23. Continue reading »