Professor and Chair Stewart Johnson announced this year’s Math/Stats prizes at the annual gala Majors’ Dinner at the Williams Inn Tuesday evening, May 7, 2013 (photos below): ROSENBURG PRIZE for excellent senior: Carlos Dominguez and James Wilcox. GOLDBERG AWARD for best colloquium: Erich Trieschman “Lost in a Forest” WYSKIEL AWARD in… Continue reading »
Williams Biology Professor Wendy Raymond has been named the new Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Davidson College. Continue reading »
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 »
Williams College will be hosting a new one week summer math camp for mathematically talented high school students. The camp is July 8-12, 2013, and applications are due by Monday May 6. Current high school students who have completed or are enrolled in Algebra 2 or its equivalent are… 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 »