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Category Archives: outreach
I’m your new co-editor
Welcome! I am Alexander Diaz-Lopez, your new co-editor for this blog. I’m a faculty at Villanova University (go Nova!), got my PhD in 2016 from the University of Notre Dame, and work in the areas of Coxeter group theory and … Continue reading
Posted in interviewing, math in the media, meeting famous mathematicians, outreach, research collaborations, Welcome!
Tagged interviews, Notices of the AMS, professional development, Welcome
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Here is a new awesome text-based math game. Happy New Year!
Thank you, Mike Spivey, for writing and sending me a link to A Beauty Cold and Austere (ABCA), a new math-filled, text-based, interactive fiction game. What is text-based interactive fiction, you ask? Or maybe you don’t because you know … Continue reading
Posted in active learning, outreach
Tagged A Beauty Cold and Austere, interactive fiction, math computer games, Mike Spivey
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Math-tivism
Mathematicians have a super power: problem-solving. This power must be good for more than wowing our students with trig substitution. Lately I have run into some inspiring examples of mathematicians working to help address some bigger problems in the larger … Continue reading
Posted in joint math meetings, outreach, service, women in math
Tagged activism, climate change, conference travel, girls' angle, social justice and mathematics
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