Conference madness, part II: Sage Days 50 – Women in Sage

Group photo of the ladies of Sage. Left to right: yours truly, Yiwei She, Kristin Lauter, Beth Malmskog, Amy Feaver, Michelle Manes, Christelle Vincent, Ursula Whitcher, Jen Berg, Aly Deines, Kate Thompson, Yasemin Kara, Anne Ho, Lily Khadjavi. Not pictured: Alina Bucur, Jen Balakrishnan.

Group photo of the ladies of Sage. Left to right: yours truly, Yiwei She, Kristin Lauter, Beth Malmskog, Amy Feaver, Michelle Manes, Christelle Vincent, Ursula Whitcher, Jen Berg, Aly Deines, Kate Thompson, Yasemin Kara, Anne Ho, Lily Khadjavi. Not pictured: Alina Bucur, Jen Balakrishnan.

Almost immediately after the Journees Arithmetiques, I went to Seattle for Sage Days 50 – Women in Sage. The workshop ran from July 10-15, but I had to leave early on the 14th (more on that later). Last year I attended the same workshop, and I described it in some detail on another blog post. So in an effort not to repeat myself too much, on this post I just want to share the things that were different from my previous Sage Days.

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Conference madness, part I: Journees Arithmetiques

I have spent the past three weeks attending back-to-back conferences (hence the title and lack of blog posts). I thought that instead of cramming all of the experiences into one long post, I would write about them separately this week. The plan is to write one post a day for the next three days, describing my July conference experiences. Hence, today I will tell you about the Journees Arithmetiques, which I attended from July 1 to July 5, in Grenoble, France.

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Dynamo: a photo-blog post

A few weeks ago, I attended an art exhibit called Dynamo, at the Grand Palais in Paris. It was a delightfully mathy exhibit featuring optical and kinetic artists from around the world. I don’t know about you, but I really like finding math in unconventional places. A great place for sharing some of that is the MAA Found Math Gallery, to which I have contributed a couple of times. Ivars Peterson’s blog, The Mathematical Tourist, also features many examples of found math. For this post, I wanted to share some of my photos from the exhibit: the ones I found the most mathy and intriguing, of course!

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