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SMASAB & HR nominations due Wed

By Frank Morgan, September 17, 2012

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 »

Provoking Thought

By Edward Burger, September 16, 2012

What do you think?  How do you think?  And can you think even better? I’ve spent nearly ten years focusing on these and related questions. The result is a recently-published book, co-authored with Michael Starbird from The University of Texas at Austin, entitled The 5… Continue reading »

Majors and Careers

By Satyan Devadoss, August 17, 2012

The teaching of my first tutorial at Williams occurred in Spring 2012, on phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary trees.  As with most tutorials, I had ten students in my class, grouped in pairs, where their strengths included pure mathematics, biology, art, and computer science.  My tutorial was… Continue reading »

Burger Named Education Hero

By Frank Morgan, August 9, 2012

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

By Frank Morgan, July 24, 2012

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

By Frank Morgan, July 12, 2012

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 »