Megan Barber ’96 and Garden Featured in New York Times
The New York Times of February 14, 2013, features alum Megan Barber ’96, her family, and their downtown garden. Continue reading »
Mathematician, Actuary, Statistician Top Three Jobs
The latest study by CareerCast.com lists mathematician, actuary, and statistician as the top three jobs in the US. Continue reading »
SMALL Applications due Feb 6
Applications for our SMALL summer undergraduate research project are due Wednesday, February 6. Spend the summer here proving a theorem. Continue reading »
Students Featured at Bridge Conference
Students taking Prof. Morgan’s Winter Study on Tournament Bridge are competing in a six-day tournament in Rye, New York. Neeko Gardner ’15, Ben Hoyle ’15, Llewellyn Smith ’15, Caroline Atwood ’14 (not pictured), and Paul Friedrich were featured in the daily bulletin Update: Neeko and Paul won the Newplicate… Continue reading »
Wei and Montee Win Math Awards
Fan Wei and MurphyKate Montee, alumnae of the Williams College SMALL undergraduate research project, received the Morgan and Schafer prizes for undergraduate research at the joint annual mathematics meetings in San Diego January 10, 2013. For an account of MurphyKate’s work and a description of the flash mob… Continue reading »
MathBlast Draws 134 High School Students
134 students from Mt. Greylock and BArT High Schools attended this morning’s Williams College MathBlast, dedicated to the memory of founder Professor Olga R. Beaver, who passed on four days earlier. Sponsored by the Williams Center at Mount Greylock and the Williams College Math Department, MathBlast is a morning for 10th… Continue reading »
Olga R. Beaver
Our dear colleague, teacher, and friend, Ollie Beaver, who passed on Friday, was a mainstay of our department and the College. At a small gathering at the Faculty House Friday afternoon, Stewart Johnson (department chair), expressed our admiration and gratitude for her life amidst family and friends. Ollie… Continue reading »
Eureka
The first digital edition of the exclusive undergraduate mathematics magazine Eureka,with an amazing collection of articles from their long history, including famous articles by Wolfram, Penrose on pentagons and aperiodic tilings, Conway, Mellish on card shuffling, Dirac, Hawking, Erdös, and others:… Continue reading »
Hiring in Math and Stats
The Williams College Department of Mathematics and Statistics is hiring for fall, 2015: The Williams College Department of Mathematics and Statistics invites applications for one tenure track position in mathematics, beginning fall 2015, at the rank of assistant professor (in an exceptional case, a more advanced appointment may be considered). … Continue reading »
Williams/SMALL gathering in San Diego in January
There will be a Williams/SMALL gathering at the joint math meetings in San Diego, Friday, January 11, 2013, 5 pm, West Terrace of the Upper Level of the Convention Center, followed by Prof. Adams’s Mathematically Bent Theater at 6 pm. All welcome. Program. We will be celebrating SMALL’s 25th anniversary. It is rumored that… Continue reading »