Upcoming Meetings
*We meet in LGRT
1521D, and at each meeting we have refreshements (usually pizza) 30
minutes prior to the talk unless otherwise noted.* | | Wednesday, April 14th, 6:00pm, Nicky Reyes will be presenting a talk relating group theory and music theory. | | Wednesday, April 21st, Elizabeth Drellich will be presenting a talk on planar graphs. More info coming soon. | On Wednesday, April 28th, Penny Ridgdill will be presenting "The Theory of Voting."
Abstract: Have you ever wondered how various voting systems work? What criteria can we use to judge the fairness of a voting system? All political discussion aside, the basic mathematics behind the theory of voting ends up giving us with some rather interesting phenomena. |
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Information and Events for Math
Majors
*You can also check the Announcements Page
for Undegraduates on the Department's Webpage.* | | There is a great opportunity for summer research for undergraduates at UCLA through the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. They offer the Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS), and it would be a terrific opportunity for those of you considering a career in industry. The will host programs in Los Angeles, and in Bejing. The deadliine for applications is February 15, 2010. For more information, please check here. | | Mathematica Policy Research is looking to hire 2010 graduating math majors, and majors in other select fields, for research assistant and programmer positions. They will begin reviewing applications at the end of February. If you are interested, you can find more information here. |
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| Five College
Events | | There
are many upcoming events of interest at Mount Holyoke which can be
found here. | | More information can be found about Smith
math events here. |
| More information about Amherst College math events can be found here. | | We also offer a very accesible graduate seminar called TWIGS which may be of interest to some of you. For more information, please check here. |
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| Math Fun | |