| Next Meeting | Monday, March 31st, Aaron Wolbach will be presenting a talk on ruler and compass constructions. The talk will be at 5:30pm in LGRT 1521 D. with refreshments at 5:15 in the same room. | ||||||
| News/Information | Some
schools have started listing REU opportunities for next summer. You
can check out the current list here. If you would like to know more about REUs, the MAA has an interesting article that you can read here. SIBS (Summer Institutes for Training in Biostatistics) has opportunities at three different universitities this summer. For more information, follow the links below. Boston University Program North Carolina State Program University of Wisconsin-Madison Program There is a summer student research opportunity in mathematics and ecology at Kellogg Biological Station. You can find more information here. The Brown University Symposium for Undergraduates will be held on Saturday March 8, 2008. Many of you may be interested in attending this. You can find more information about that here. The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth has several opportunities for teaching talented middle and high school students this summer. This is a great program and I think many of you who are interested in teaching would enjoy and benefit from this opportunity. You can find more information about the program here. Springfield Public Schools are having information sessions and job fairs in the near future. You can find out more information on this flyer. MIT Lincoln Laboratory is recruiting undergraduates (and graduate students) for their summer research program. You can find out more information about the program, eligibility requirements, and application details here. | ||||||
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| Five College Events | On April 1st, the UCVC will be held at UMASS. Keith Conrad will be presenting a talk on Fractals and Fixed points. Abstract: Fractals are classically introduced in terms of a successive removal process (e.g., the Cantor set is constructed by removing middle thirds of an interval, then the middle thirds of what remains, and so on). We will discuss a much more interesting, flexible, and insightful way to think about fractals which is a special case of an important fixed point theorem in analysis. There will be a pizza party at 6:00pm (in LGRT 1634). Please r.s.v.p. by Monday if you intend to attend the pizza party. The talk will be at 7:00pm in the same room. | ||||||
| Fun Links | MathPuzzle PlanetMath Thinks The Geometry Junkyard Cut The Knot Art of Problem Solving Very Cool Video About Turning the Sphere Inside Out MIT Open Courseware (you can download MIT math courses for free) Jennie D'Ambroise's Study Guides | ||||||
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| Contact | Please email me at ridgdill@math.umass.edu if you have any questions or would like to give a talk. |