Schedule
Time | Event | |||
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10:00-10:30 | Welcome and overview of the day. The James Room | |||
10:30-11:30 | Workshop A: "The Mathematics of Card Shuffling" Barnard 407 |
Workshop B: "Fighting Fraud with Numbers" Barnard 302 |
Workshop C: "Jump Ropes and Arithmetic" Barnard 409 |
Workshop D: "Does 0.99999... = 1?" Barnard 404 |
11,45-12:45 | Lunch! The James Room | |||
1-2 | Workshop A: "The Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio" Barnard 407 |
Workshop B: "Music Meets its Match: Mod-12 Math and Melody" Barnard 302 |
Workshop C: "Weaving Polyhedra" Barnard 409 |
Workshop D: "The Mathematics of SET" Barnard 404 |
2:00-2:15 | Closing remarks. The James Room |
Speakers
Speaker | Topic | Speaker | Topic | ||
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Dave Bayer | "The Mathematics of Card Shuffling" | Jennifer Hom | "Jump Ropes and Arithmetic" | ||
Dusa McDuff | "The Mathematics of SET" | Noam Pillischer | "The Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio" | ||
Lauren Spencer | "Music Meets its Match: Mod-12 Math and Melody" | Paul Siegel | "Fighting Fraud with Numbers" | ||
Japheth Wood | "Weaving Polyhedra" | Daniel Zaharopol | "Does 0.99999... = 1?" |
More on Sonya Kovalevsky
(or Sofia Kovalevskaya?)
- Sofia Kovalevskaya on Wikipedia.
- Gender in Russian names (Wikipedia).
- More coming soon...
Behind the Scenes
Organizers. Noam Pillischer (UAI), Daniela De Silva (Barnard), Robert Lipshitz, Davesh Maulik (Columbia).
Funding. This event was supported by the National Science Foundation grant, DMS-1149800.
The AWM maintains a list of other Sonya Kovalevsky Day events here.