Category: Conferences

6th Annual SPUYTEN DUYVIL Undergraduate Mathematics Conference

Saturday April 2, 2011
Manhattan College,
Riverdale, NY

Keynote Address:
Mathematics, Biology and Very Powerful Computers
Dr. William Pulleyblank
United States Military Academy, West Point

Abstract:
“Biology is undergoing a major transformation, from being mainly a lab science to being a field critically dependent on computer simulation and data analysis. In part, this is because problems that we encounter in biology are many times more complex than those we encounter in other fields. This transformation is being enabled by new mathematical ideas which enable us to address new types of problems and to exploit these new types of supercomputers, which may have hundreds of thousands of processors.

Some of the areas of mathematics that are enabling these advances are discrete and continuous optimization and simulation, efficient network design as well as methods for the creation of systems with very high degrees of reliability. Some of the biggest challenges arise from dealing with multi-scale phenomena. I will discuss these and their importance.”

The primary purpose of the conference is to give undergraduates the opportunity to discuss mathematics with their peers. We invite the submission of an abstract for a presentation or a poster. The deadline for abstract submission is March 5, 2010. We encourage talks by undergraduates!

Presentations should be 15 minutes long, and may range from topics of general interest to presentations of undergraduate research projects. Submitters should indicate whether the talk will be Level I, suitable for any undergraduate, or Level II, suitable for upperclassmen. Students would prefer to present a poster may do so. In addition to student presentations and the keynote address, there will be a film, Between the Folds, at the end of the day. All attendees should pre-register on-line. The conference will begin at 8:30 Am, and will end around 4:30 pm. A light lunch will be provided. Please encourage your students and colleagues to attend the conference, and to consider making a presentation!

For more information contact conference director Dr. Kathryn Weld:
Kathryn.weld@manhattan.edu

SDUMC is an MAA NSF-RUMC sponsored activity, funded by NSF Grant DMS-0846477 and by Manhattan College.
Mathematical Association of America

The 25th annual Long Island
Math Conference
Limacon
SUNY College at Old Westbury Campus Center
Keynote speaker: Dr. J. Michael Shaughnessy, President, NCTM
Check out these talks:
Japheth Wood, NYMC and Bard MAT, Combinatorial Games and Winning Strategies
Richard Kalman, MOEMS, The Magic of Magic Triangle Sums
Glenn Whitney, Museum of Mathematics, Math Games from MoMath
Dr. Abe Mantell, Nassau County Community College, Just How Big is a Googol? How About a Googolplex?

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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
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(Honoring Ralph McKenzie, Hiroakira Ono and Andrzej Wronski on the occasion of their 70th Birthdays)

June 6-10, 2011

Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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This meeting shares the goals of the conference with the same title, held Nashville in June 2007, and continues the tradition of related conferences in Prague, Novi Sad and Szeged.

Recent years have witnessed increased research activity on the interface between logic and universal algebra. In particular, the use of algebraic methods has proved to be fruitful in the study of non-classical logics as well as in investigations related to the constraint satisfaction problem. The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from these fields to foster collaboration and further research.

FEATURED AREAS
The featured areas include, but are not limited to, the following (in alphabetical order):

• Algebraic logic
• Algorithmic problems in algebra
• Applications of universal algebra to logics
• Applications of universal algebra to the constraint satisfaction problem
• Complexity and other algorithmic problems
• Duality theory for algebraic structures
• Lattice theory
• Modal logics
• Non-classical logics
• Ordered algebraic structures
• Ordered sets
• Proof theory
• Residuated structures and substructural logics
• Tame congruence theory and applications
• Topological methods in algebra and logic

The scientific program consists of 50-minute plenary lectures, and 20-minute contributed talks.

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Libor Barto (Prague)
• Nikolaos Galatos (Denver)
• Mai Gehrke (Nijmegen)
• Keith Kearnes (Boulder)
• Tomasz Kowalski (Lisbon)
• Tadeusz Litak (Leicester)
• Petar Markovic (Novi Sad)
• Miklos Maroti (Szeged)
• Vicenzo Marra (Milan)
• George McNulty (South Carolina)
• George Metcalfe (Bern)
• Daniele Mundici (Florence)
• Kazushige Terui (Kyoto)
• Matthew Valeriote (Ontario)
• Ross Willard (Waterloo)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Details regarding conference registration, submission of abstracts of contributing talks, and local accommodations will be included in the forthcoming second announcement.

ORGANIZERS

• Wieslaw Dziobiak, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
• Pawel Idziak, Jagiellonian University
• Marcin Kozik, Jagiellonian University
• Constantine Tsinakis, Vanderbilt University

Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) is an exciting approach to mathematics education that has a track record and great potential. The challenge is how to you make this approach work in your classroom and for your students?

I attended the annual Legacy of R.L. Moore Conference in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and hope to return sometime soon.

The Legacy of R.L. Moore Project helps popularize this method and assist math educators to take steps to bring it to their classrooms.

Long Island Math Conference
Nassau County Math Teachers Association

Date: Friday, March 18, 2011
Time: 7:45 A.M. to 2:35 P.M.
Location: SUNY College at Old Westbury Campus Center
URL: http://ncmta.net/limacon.htm

This is the annual Long Island Math Teachers’ Conference.

Dates: July 26-30, 2010
Location: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Theme: The Theorem of Pythagoras

This week-long residential program is focused on creative and insightful mathematical problem solving for middle school math teachers. The high level mathematics activities and classes are led by NYMC instructors and Bard math professors.
Participants will engage in a wide variety of mathematical investigation, problem solving, and classes that explore and develop a deep appreciation and understanding of the Theorem of Pythagoras and its consequences. Specific topics include geometric dissections, quadratic number system extensions, Diophantine equations, historical development, and a study of Euclid’s original proof, which dates back over 2000 years.

Webpage: http://nymathcircle.org/2010workshop

June 28-July 2, 2010, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
This week-long workshop is run by math professors John Cullinan (Bard) and Allison Pacelli (Williams), with a focus on Unique Factorization and its extensions, especially in quadratic number fields.
http://math.bard.edu/cullinan/prep/