Category Archives: General

Student Seminar

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Brian Simanek

By Brian Simanek This semester, my university is beginning a regular graduate student seminar.  All of the talks are given by graduate students and are intended to be accessible by anyone who has completed their qualifying exams.  Last week, the … Continue reading →

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Conference Presentations

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Tyler Clark

I will be presenting at the Western Kentucky University Mathematics Symposium this Friday and Saturday and have been working on my presentation. I have seen many speakers using Beamer, but I had not yet explored it.

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Organizing my organizations

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Melanie Laffin

As a graduate student for the past two years, I’ve had the opportunity to have an a free or significantly reduced fee membership for the AMS, MAA, Association for Women in Mathematics, Association for Computing Machinery and SIAM. While I … Continue reading →

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My summer doing math on the beach in Thailand

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Luke Wolcott

I took a leave of absence in the spring quarter, in order to focus on my graduate research. So from March to June I stayed put, and averaged 38 hours per week of productive math – on a beach in … Continue reading →

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WW2 Computerettes

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Melanie Laffin

While I was procrastinating the other day, I came across a documentary entitled Top Secret Rosies: Female computers of WW2. Now, I am competent enough to know that “computers” referred to people. During World War II it was largely women … Continue reading →

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