Travel Grants for Graduate Students

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Tyler Clark

The American Mathematical Society, with support from a private gift, is now accepting applications for travel grants to provide partial support to graduate students in order to attend one of the Fall 2012 AMS Sectional Meetings. All full time graduate students in the mathematical sciences will be eligible. Applications will be accepted until July 19, 2012. The AMS Sectional Meetings Travel Grants Committee will consider all applications for the Fall 2012 Sectional Meetings as a group. Applicants will be notified of the decisions by early August, 2012. Continue reading →

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2013 JMM

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Tyler Clark

TeaserI have just found out some exciting news. The AMS Graduate Student Blog will have an exhibit space at the 2013 Joint Math Meetings in San Diego, CA. Make sure you stop by and meet our editors. A huge thank you to AMS Executive Director Dr. Don McClure for his help in making this happen. I would also like to thank Colin Swanson, AMS Membership Assistant. He has been working to help design items to be given away at the booth. A teaser of one of the designs can be seen to the right. Thanks to everyone who has been involved!

Please let us know if you are planning to attend the meetings. I am sure there are graduate students that are looking to find roommates for their time there. If this is something I see enough interest in, I can try to develop a system for helping readers find roommates to decrease hotel costs.

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Math Art

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Tyler Clark

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A reader (Robert Langton) suggested http://oliversin.eu/. It has a lot of beautiful paintings displayed on it. Many of them are math oriented. The artist’s bio is:

Oliver Šin is a Hungarian artist based in Budapest. His influences come from street art, underground and pop culture mixed with scientific interests. The focus of his artworks are built around some kind of prophets, visions with dates, real places and existing people. With direct brushwork, he mostly uses unmixed colors structurally, like an abstractionist, but in the service of a narrative agenda. Color holds his pictures together, and through it they command a room. Images can read without effort – the words, the colors and the construction -, but cannot be decoded accurately like a prognosis of a fortune-teller.

Check his work out and let me know what you think!

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What’s in a name?

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Jean Joseph

Taken from http://www.ntnu.edu/imf/

There are phrases that one very often sees and may fall in the habit of using without necessarily spending some time to question them. I am sure to try to do that for all words we use would be unbearable if not impossible, but to do it once in a while for certain words may be an enjoyable activity, at least for the mind. Well, I guess I’ve probably made you wait too much. Here is the conundrum, if one wants to call it that way: I’ve realized two names are used for many math departments; they are named either Department of Mathematics or Department of Mathematical Sciences. At first, I would say there should be something that each name wants to emphasize that the other does not have; otherwise, why then different names? A conjecture is that “mathematical sciences” would be used to Continue reading →

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Exam Studying

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Melanie Laffin

The vast majority of my summer will be spent studying for my qualifying exams in analysis and algebra. The point of this post is to essentially beg for any advice that those of you who have passed have in studying for qualifying/preliminary/comprehensive exams, or studying algebra or analysis for a large exam such as this.

For those of you who are studying with me, good luck! And make sure to take some time off to enjoy the summer.

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