Sonya Kovalevsky Day 2013

April 26th, 2013

Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Urban Assembly Institute

Schedule

Time Event
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
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

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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.