Author Archives: Melanie Laffin

New Trends in the Workplace

Time Magazine recently had an interesting article enumerating trends that Millennials (people born after 1980) tend to expect in the workplace, thus reshaping certain standards. The article (linked below) is a nice quick read which brings up a lot of … Continue reading

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With great power comes great responsibility

At a conference for Women in Mathematics, a distinguished professor spoke about reaching out to the greater community being one of the best parts of her job. In particular, she volunteered tutoring remedial math for adults. Many of her students … Continue reading

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Calling all Combintorex!

The 8th annual Graduate Students Combinatorics Conference (GSCC8) will be held April 13th-15th at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. Registration is open, and today is the last day to apply for funding. The GSCC conferences are a great … Continue reading

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More on Motivation

Most of us really struggle at some point (if not most of the time) with motivation. Every winter break Jan Allen from Columbia University sends out break writing tips to help you with writing your thesis.The most recent one is … Continue reading

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Critical Math

Sometimes I think about basic ideas in mathematics that that the general public would greatly benefit from. In particular, I think that mathematicians often take for granted that these things are natural to us, and that to most people it’s … Continue reading

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