Williams professor Steven J. Miller and his class built the Legos Star Destroyer in 10 minutes and 21 seconds. Click here for video. Coverage in Williams Record and Williams Magazine. Course homepage Video from camera 1 Video from camera 2… Continue reading »
The Math/Stat department will host a Winter Study Colloquium Fest on January 27, 2014. Ten math seniors will give talks during the day.There will be three parallel sessions in the morning and two parallel sessions in the afternoon. Majors attending the talks can get colloquium credits. In addition, pizzas will… Continue reading »
The annual joint mathematics meetings in Baltimore January 15-18, 2014, featured many Williams and SMALL speakers. A Williams/SMALL gathering followed Prof. Colin Adam’s humorous theater. SMALL alum Sarah Peluse won the AWM Alice Schafer Prize for undergraduate research. Continue reading »
Math at Oxford II: Reflections After the First Term Hey Williams! Congratulations on finishing up finals. I hope everyone has an amazing break. In this post, I'll focus on what I have learned about the math(s) curriculum at Oxford since the beginning of term. Then, I will discuss sports at Oxford in comparison to sports at Williams and conclude by sharing a few more pieces UK slang. Continue reading »
Recent New York Times editorial (December 8, 2013). Continue reading »
While December 7 will always justly live in infamy, this year we’ve added a good reason to remember it. Over 2% of the Williams’ campus took the 2013 Putnam exam; 44 students at Williams and 2 in Budapest. To be precise, the registrar says there are… Continue reading »
To participate in the notorious supernational Putnam Mathematics Competition contact Prof. Steven Miller and/or show up at 9:45 am Saturday in Bronfman 106. Last year the Williams team of Carlos Dominguez, Jared Hallett, and Wei Sun finished 19th in the nation on the infamous William Lowell Putnam… Continue reading »
Nathan Kaplan, who worked with Prof. Allison Pacelli in our 2005 SMALL Undergraduate Mathematics Research Project and who gallantly competed September 13 on Million Second Quiz, gave our Faculty Seminar Friday November 22 on “Curves and Surfaces Over Finite Fields and Coding Theory.” Kaplan is… Continue reading »
Good to see some of you at our little Homecoming gathering for alums, faculty, and students at the Purple Pub 5 pm Friday, November 8. Photo shows Tracy Hu ’13 with Professor Mihai Stoiciu. Followed by Graduate School Panel at 1 pm undergraduate colloquium Monday, November 11. Continue reading »
Last two years have been close in the Green Chicken. In 2013 no seniors or juniors participated for Williams, but fortunately our school has depth! Our all frosh/soph team of Philip Brockman, David Burt, Sam Donow and Ben Kaufman stepped up and retained the Green Chicken in another tight match,… Continue reading »