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Jen Lara

The daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, and the first in her family to attend college, Jen Lara grew up in the Corona, Queens, neighborhood of New York City. A mathematics major, Jen is passionate about education and helping more minority women enter STEM fields. 

Jen Lara

Jen Lara arrived at Bard intending to become a physics major with a future in engineering, but an important part of her Bard education included the realization that other interests were dearer to her heart. 
 
“I saw that my real passion is not in the world of engineering. It doesn’t hold the sparkle for me. I've always been teaching, I have always tutored, I've always worked with nonprofits. I want to work in education in the minority community to see women in STEM [science, technology, engineering, mathematics]. STEM is where I can use my talents and abilities to do what I'm really passionate about, which is helping my community to do better in these subjects.”
 
So she is majoring in mathematics, and spent time teaching STEM at a nonprofit and at a local middle school. “Everything in my life revolves around education,” she says.
 
The daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, and the first in her family to attend college, Lara grew up in the Corona, Queens, neighborhood of New York City. Her adviser convinced her to look at Bard, which, she says, was “the only school” that noted her first-generation status could be empowering rather than limiting. “They said, ‘We need to make a plan and find a space for you to be able to accomplish whatever you want to do. We’ll figure it out and we’ll make it happen.’ It was the first time I thought, ‘I don't have to do things by myself.’”
 
Lara became a  peer counselor (PC) at Bard—someone in the residence halls who is trained to deal with many of her fellow residents’ concerns—which helped bring her out of her shell. “My first year I experienced culture shock, and being a PC has made me more social. I like being a support system for students, and the students are just as much a role model for me as I am for them. I take as much as I give. I tell them, ‘Advocate for yourselves; it’s the best thing that you can do.’” 
 
In addition to being a PC and tutoring, she holds two jobs on campus while carrying her academic load. Nevertheless, she says, “I have students in my residence who run clubs and do athletics and their academics—that’s inspiring to me.” 
 
One surprising thing she has learned at Bard is that “I learn very differently from most students. The time and dedication the faculty invested to help me made me realize that there are many different ways to learn. The strong support system makes sure that the way they are teaching matches the way you are learning.”
 
She wants students who are interested in Bard to know the kind of education she is receiving in Annandale: “You really learn how to be confident in your abilities and not be hard on yourself when things go wrong,” she advises. “You should be hungry, when you get here, to build the community that you want. The fact that Bard gives you the opportunity to do that is not something you’ll find at any other school.”
 
“At Bard,” she adds, “you are going to do things that you never thought you were capable of doing. And they might make you feel uncomfortable, but the fact that you can create a support system means you can also create the path that you want to take.”

Post Date: 08-03-2022

Kate Belin BA ’04, MAT ’05, “Rock Star” Teacher, Talks Teaching Gerrymandering with Chalkbeat

Teaching without an agenda is not something that concerns Kate Belin BA ’04, MAT ’05. “I do have an agenda. I want to see a national shift in how we teach math, what math is, and who has access to it,” Belin said in an interview with Chalkbeat. In their role at the Bronx’s Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, they continue to teach the mathematics of gerrymandering, “an especially relevant topic” today, and one that “will likely continue to be.”

Kate Belin BA ’04, MAT ’05, “Rock Star” Teacher, Talks Teaching Gerrymandering with Chalkbeat

Teaching without an agenda is not something that concerns Kate Belin BA ’04, MAT ’05. “I do have an agenda. I want to see a national shift in how we teach math, what math is, and who has access to it,” Belin said in an interview with Chalkbeat. In their role at the Bronx’s Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, they continue to teach the mathematics of gerrymandering, “an especially relevant topic” today, and one that “will likely continue to be.” A winner of the 2021 Math for America (MƒA) Muller Award for Professional Influence in Education, Belin says their belief in the power of education was developed while at Bard, both as an undergraduate and graduate student. “I learned in college that mathematics was about creativity, patterns, problem-solving, and many more things that aren’t necessarily taught in K-12 school,” they said. “The master’s program at Bard College gave me hope that it was possible to bring more real mathematics into schools and that more students might fall in love with it, too.”
 
Read More on Chalkbeat

Post Date: 04-26-2022

Professor Japheth Wood Awarded the American Mathematical Society’s Epsilon Award for the Third Time

For the third time, the American Mathematical Society has awarded Japheth Wood, director of quantitative literacy and continuing associate professor of mathematics, and the Creative and Analytical Math Programs (CAMP) of the Bard Math Circle the Epsilon Award. The award aids and promotes programs that “support and nurture mathematically talented youth in the United States,” funding existing summer programs proven to reach and support high school students.

Professor Japheth Wood Awarded the American Mathematical Society’s Epsilon Award for the Third Time

For the third time, the American Mathematical Society has awarded Japheth Wood, director of quantitative literacy and continuing associate professor of mathematics, and the Creative and Analytical Math Programs (CAMP) of the Bard Math Circle the Epsilon Award. The award aids and promotes programs that “support and nurture mathematically talented youth in the United States,” funding existing summer programs proven to reach and support high school students. CAMP will return to an in-person format this year and will serve local and regional middle school students, with a staff that includes Bard alumni/ae and current students in mathematics and computer science.
 
Learn More

Post Date: 03-22-2022
More Math News
  • High School Mathematics Teacher and Bard Alumna Kate Belin Wins 2021 Math for America Muller Award

    High School Mathematics Teacher and Bard Alumna Kate Belin Wins 2021 Math for America Muller Award

    Kate Belin BA ’04, MAT ’05, who teaches at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, is one of two winners of the 2021 Math for America (MƒA) Muller Award for Professional Influence in Education. This honor is given to two New York City public school teachers who, during their tenure as MƒA Master Teachers, have influenced the teaching profession in exceptional ways.

    “Belin brings a creative approach to pedagogy and has dramatically improved math education at their school and beyond. She is being recognized for bringing her deep understanding of mathematics to all students and taking a leadership role to improve education and educational equity everywhere and for everyone,” writes MƒA. 
     
    “I am beyond grateful to MƒA for this recognition and for providing a space for teachers to come together as learners and leaders. This award also recognizes the work of the entire Fannie Lou community which has always understood that teaching is political,” said Belin. “We aren’t simply teaching subjects. We are teaching to fight injustices. Our job is to be activists and organizers in collaboration with our students—to mobilize youth for any issues that exist in their community, country, or world, and work together to make it better.”
     
    Belin was recognized for her impact on the teaching profession and awarded $20,000 during a virtual MƒA award ceremony on Monday, October 18. In addition, $5,000 was awarded to the school or organization of their nominator. Belin was nominated by representatives from the Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School.

    Kate Belin has taught mathematics at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School for the past 17 years, transforming the mathematics curriculum of the school and mentoring student teachers. She was a recipient of the 2011 Sloan Award for Excellence in Teaching Science in Mathematics and was a Fulbright Distinguished Awards Teaching Fellow to Botswana in 2016. Belin earned their B.A. in Mathematics and M.A.T. at Bard College and has been an adjunct professor at City College of New York, Bard College, and the Bard Prison Initiative.
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    Post Date: 10-19-2021
  • Professor Lauren L. Rose Selected as Association for Women in Mathematics 2022 Fellow

    Professor Lauren L. Rose Selected as Association for Women in Mathematics 2022 Fellow

    Associate Professor of Mathematics Lauren L. Rose has been selected as one of 13 scholars to join the Fifth Class of Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Fellows. These individuals are extraordinary researchers, mentors, and educators whose commitment to supporting and growing women across the mathematical sciences is praised by their students and colleagues. 

    Rose is being honored: “For broad efforts in the professional development of women in mathematics, especially undergraduate women; for her commitment to involving people from diverse communities in mathematics, through Math Circles and outreach in prisons; and for her creative contributions to the AWM including the We Speak Series and the Card Project,” states the AWM committee.

    “I am very happy to announce the 2022 list of new AWM Fellows. We recognize these individuals for their exceptional dedication to increasing the success and visibility of women in mathematics,” wrote Kathryn Leonard, AWM President. The AWM 2022 Fellows will be recognized during the AWM reception held in January. 

    The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics established the AWM Fellows Program to recognize individuals who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences. The Fellows epitomize the mission of the AWM, which is to promote equitable opportunities and support for women and girls in the mathematical sciences.

    Post Date: 10-14-2021
  • Bard Professor Japheth Wood Receives 2021 MAA Award for Top Expository Mathematical Writing

    Bard Professor Japheth Wood Receives 2021 MAA Award for Top Expository Mathematical Writing

    Japheth Wood, director of quantitative literacy and continuing associate professor of mathematics at Bard College, is recognized for his article “Chords of an Ellipse, Lucas Polynomials, and Cubic Equations,” coauthored by Ben Blum-Smith and published by the American Mathematical Monthly. “We are thrilled to be recognized for this honor, and to now have our names associated with Paul Halmos and Lester Ford, as well as the long list of other excellent expositors who have been so lauded,” said Wood and Blum-Smith.
    Read more at AMM
    Read the journal article

    Post Date: 08-03-2021
  • American Mathematical Society Recognizes Bard Math Circle’s CAMP Program and Its Founder, Professor Japheth Wood

    American Mathematical Society Recognizes Bard Math Circle’s CAMP Program and Its Founder, Professor Japheth Wood

    The Bard Math Circle’s Creative and Analytical Math Program (CAMP) and its founder, professor Japheth Wood, have been recognized with a 2020 Epsilon Award for Young Scholars Programs. The Epsilon Awards, given annually by the American Mathematical Society, support some of the most prestigious summer math enrichment programs in the United States.

    CAMP is not “summer camp.” It is a nonresidential academic program for middle school students that features mathematics in a creative learning environment. CAMP started in August 2014 with initial funding from the Dolciani Math Enrichment Grant Program, and it has grown to become a popular late-summer treat for math kids in the Mid-Hudson Valley and beyond. Experienced educators and undergraduate math majors lead classes and activities that emphasize hands-on math, teamwork, and outside-the-box thinking.

    This summer, CAMP was held online for the first time. During the first week in August, 49 middle schoolers and a staff of 15—including seven Bard math and computer science majors and two Bard math alumnae—got together via Zoom. “Since cyberspace shortened the distance between us, the Bard Math Circle received numerous applications from around the country,” says Wood. “We could see students’ excitement over running into old friends and connecting with new CAMPers in Zoom classrooms.”
    The cipher wheel used for decoding messages.


    This year’s CAMP theme was cryptography. Students explored cipher encryption (using a cipher wheel like the one at right), created artworks with encoded messages, made cryptograms, and more.

    “Though [CAMP] wasn’t around during my student days at Bard, an amazing community has developed since,” says Bard alumna and CAMP senior instructor Erin Toliver ’00. “I love seeing the look on a student’s face when they’ve discovered a new pattern, found a different perspective, or made a new connection for a deeper understanding of this glorious world of mathematics.”

    Learn more about the CAMP program at bardmathcircle.org.
    Full story at ams.org

    Post Date: 09-22-2020
  • Bard Assistant Professor of Mathematics Matthew Junge Talks with WAMC about National Science Foundation RAPID Grant to Study COVID-19 Forecasting Models

    Bard Assistant Professor of Mathematics Matthew Junge Talks with WAMC about National Science Foundation RAPID Grant to Study COVID-19 Forecasting Models

    “What’s really distinguishing [our study} from a lot of the studies that are being quoted by the national press . . . and the Administration is that we look at the local connections inside of communities, and those are usually ignored by bigger studies,” Junge tells WAMC’s Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne. “Our study’s taking this opposite perspective of really finally modelling person-to-person connections that come up in our day-to-day lives, like who we socialize with, where we work, connections of that sort, and we ask how the disease spreads in this sort of zoomed-in picture.”
    Full interview at WAMC

    Post Date: 05-20-2020
  • Bard College Professors Win National Science Foundation Rapid Grant to Develop Forecasting Models that Better Capture the Geographic and Social Complexity of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Bard College Professors Win National Science Foundation Rapid Grant to Develop Forecasting Models that Better Capture the Geographic and Social Complexity of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Bard College professors Matthew Junge, mathematics, and Felicia Keesing, biology; and Grinnell College professor Nicole Eikmeier, computer science, a $60,000 grant to develop network models that—by more accurately incorporating social distancing measures—better capture the geographic and social complexity of the COVID-19 pandemic. Awarded through the NSF’s Rapid Response Research (RAPID) program, which provides support for urgent scientific research that responds to emergencies and unexpected events, the grant includes funding for salaries, publishing costs, and several undergraduate research assistants over a six-month period.

    Junge, Bard assistant professor of mathematics and lead investigator on the project, says their project aims to develop network models and mathematical theory to test the robustness of some prominent models being used by governments to justify the extreme levels of intervention we are living through. One advantage of a network model, which tries to accurately describe the face-to-face interactions each individual in a society has and how an infection might spread, is that it is relatively easy to implement social distancing into the network.

    “Mathematicians are fairly adept at modeling the natural evolution of epidemics, but most ‘off the shelf’ models were not built to describe the dramatic levels of intervention—business closures, travel limitations, and social distancing—that we are living through during the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Junge. “The grant brings together a biologist (Felicia), computer scientist (Nicole), and mathematician (myself) as well as a few undergrad research assistants to tackle this problem over the next six months. Felicia is an expert in infectious disease, Nicole in modeling real world networks, and I am experienced in network infection models.”

    Matthew Junge, assistant professor of mathematics, comes to Bard from Duke University, where he served as William W. Elliott Research Assistant Professor. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Washington, where he also earned MS, BS, and BA degrees. His areas of interest include probability, statistical physics, and mathematical biology. Junge’s research takes a probabilistic approach to particle systems from physics and biology, including models for chemical reactions, species proliferation, and epidemic outbreaks. He also studies random structures from classical mathematics and computer science, such as permutations and fragmented spaces.

    Felicia Keesing, David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Computing, has been on the Bard faculty since 2000. She has a B.S. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1995, she has studied how African savannas function when the large, charismatic animals like elephants, buffaloes, zebras, and giraffes disappear. She also studies how interactions among species influence the probability that humans will be exposed to infectious diseases. Keesing also studies Lyme disease, another tick-borne disease. She is particularly interested in how species diversity affects disease transmission.

    Nicole Elkmeier is an assistant professor of computer science at Grinnell College. She has a PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University and a BA from in mathematics and computer science from Concordia College. Her research is in the field of Network Analysis, specifically focused on studying features of real data and constructing and analyzing graph models which maintain those features. A network, in this case, is a set of nodes (people, web pages, etc.) connected by edges (physical connection, collaboration, etc). She is interested in random graph models, which are used to study how well an algorithm may do on a real-world network, and for testing properties that may further improve algorithms. Her research is at the intersection of math and computer science.
     


    Post Date: 05-07-2020

Mathematics Events

  • 8/16
    Tuesday

    Tuesday, August 16, 2022
    Reem-Kayden Center, Laszlo Z. Bito ‘60 Auditorium 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Questions about the Math Placement? Confused about what math course to take? Japheth Wood, Director of Quantitative Literacy, will be available to answer your questions.

    4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Reem-Kayden Center, Laszlo Z. Bito ‘60 Auditorium
  • 8/17
    Wednesday

    Wednesday, August 17, 2022
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito ‘60 Auditorium 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Questions about the Math Placement? Confused about what math course to take? Japheth Wood, Director of Quantitative Literacy, will be available to answer your questions.

    4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito ‘60 Auditorium

Past Events

  • Tuesday, May 17, 2022 
    Reem-Kayden Center  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Abstract booklet below!


    Download: Senior Project Poster session booklet S22-1.pdf
  • Wednesday, May 11, 2022 
      Andrew Schultz, Wellesley College
    Hegeman 204A  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Binomial coefficients are a staple in the world of combinatorics. Their usefulness in enumeration is nearly unparalleled, but their humble beginnings belie intricate structure and surprising depth. In the pursuit of understanding binomial coefficients more completely, one can encode them in a family of polynomials called Gaussian coefficients. Do these Gaussian coefficients have their own structure and depth? In this talk we'll introduce the Gaussian coefficients and see some surprising ways in which they are (almost!) as nice as their more famous brethren (and maybe a way or two in which they are even nicer).

  • Monday, May 9, 2022 
    Matt Kerr
    Washington University-St. Louis

    Hegeman 204A  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Then first you'll have to construct the table, which game regulations insist must pass through five given points. When you're done with that I’ll pick N<10, and to beat me you have to shoot the ball (from wherever I put it) so it returns in exactly N steps to where it started.

    If you're not put off by a vector space of polynomials, you can make the elliptic table; and if you know how to spot a complex torus, then (with practice and foci) you can win. This is how I trap unsuspecting students into learning a bit of algebraic geometry.

    Because the real title of this talk is: two theorems on conics in the plane!

  • Wednesday, April 20, 2022 
    Shira Zerbib, Iowa State University
    Hegeman 204A  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    The KKM theorem, due to Knaster, Kuratowski and Mazurkiewicz in 1929, is a topological lemma reminiscent of Sperner's lemma and Brouwer's fixed point theorem. It has numerous applications in combinatorics, discrete geometry, economics, game theory and other areas. Generalizations of this lemma, in several different directions, were proved over the years (e.g., by Shapley, Gale, Komiya, Soberon) and have been widely applied as well. We will discuss a recent common generalization of all these theorems. We will also show two very different applications of KKM-type theorems: one is a proof of a conjecture of Eckhoff from 1993 on the line piercing numbers in certain families of convex sets in the plane, and the other is a theorem on fair division of multiple cakes among players with subjective preferences.

  • Wednesday, April 13, 2022 
    Marcus Michelen, University of Illinois-Chicago
    Hegeman 204A  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Consider a polynomial of degree n whose coefficients are -1 or 1 independently and randomly chosen. What do its roots typically look like?  It turns out that random polynomials are an example of a very common phenomenon: large random structures typically exhibit a lot of predictable behavior. I'll discuss some common examples of this phenomenon, discuss the case of random polynomials, and also explain some applications of these random objects to other fields of math and computer science. No experience in probability will be expected or required; the goal is to give a gentle introduction to some deep facts.

  • Wednesday, March 16, 2022 
    Natalie Frank, Vassar College
    Hegeman 204A  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    "Aperiodic order" is the study of highly ordered structures that fall just short of being periodic. Geometric questions in mathematics and decidability questions in logic provided early theoretical models of such structures. The Nobel Prize-winning discovery of physical quasicrystals in the 1980s led to the wider interest in aperiodically ordered structures. This talk will describe the mathematics of symmetry, the central role symmetry played in the discovery of quasicrystals, and the mathematical models that are used to describe quasicrystals today. 

  • Wednesday, February 23, 2022 
    Caitlin Leverson, Math Program
    Hegeman 204A  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Knots, which you can think of as a string knotted up with the ends glued together, are simple to define but are challenging to tell the difference between. We will discuss a few interesting invariants, algorithms to associate a number to a knot, which we can use to help differentiate between knots. We will also talk about a related notion of knots, called Legendrian knots, where we add a geometric condition. No previous knowledge of knots will be assumed.

  • Friday, February 11, 2022 
      Andrew Harder, Lehigh University
    Hegeman 107  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    An elliptic Lefschetz fibration is a smooth 4-manifold M (possibly with boundary) which admits a map to a surface S (possibly with boundary), and so that all but a finite number of fibers are diffeomorphic to a 2-torus, and the rest are homeomorphic to a “pinched” 2-torus. The classification of elliptic Lefschetz fibrations can be reduced to a (hard) problem in linear algebra whose solution is known in several cases — for instance, a theorem of Moishezon and Livné says that if S is just the 2-sphere then it is known that any elliptic Lefschetz fibration has 12n fibres which are pinched 2-tori for some integer n, and that the topology of M is completely determined by n.

    Surprisingly, the situation where S is a 2-dimensional disc, despite being well studied, is not completely understood. In this talk, I will discuss an answer to this problem under certain conditions on the boundary of M and on the number of fibres which are singular. We reduce this problem to a question about linear algebraic objects called pseudo-lattices and apply a theorem of Kuznetsov to give a concrete description of a class of elliptic Lefschetz fibrations. Finally I will discuss my motivation for considering this problem and how this classification theorem reflects the numerical classification of weak del Pezzo surfaces in algebraic geometry. This is based on joint work with Alan Thompson.

  • Tuesday, December 14, 2021 
    Reem-Kayden Center  4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, December 7, 2021 
    Justin Shin, University of Pittsburgh
    Hegeman 102  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    US law recognizes that statistical evidence can play an important role in determining whether or not an organization is guilty of discrimination. At the same time, legal scholars have cast doubts on the appropriateness of mathematical evidence and probabilistic standards in jurisprudence. As Laurence Tribe famously notes, mathematical evidence poses a special danger because it is often both impressive and inscrutable to the typical juror. How do we square concerns about statistical evidence with its use in discrimination law? One solution is to recognize the causal nature of discrimination and understand the concerns with statistical evidence as concerns to do with causal relevance. With recent developments in causal modeling, new kinds of statistical evidence give rise to fresh concerns about the role of statistics in law while breathing new life into old complaints. Discrimination has inescapable causal baggage, and some reform in discrimination law and jurisprudence as a whole is needed if evidence from causal modeling is to be appropriately digested by US courts.

  • Tuesday, November 16, 2021 
      Hegeman 102  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Tina Giorgadze
    "Building an Agent-based Computational Model of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Immunotherapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Using Binary Distribution of Antigens"

    Hannah Kaufmann
    "Minimal Presentation Sizes of Numerical Semigroups"
    A numerical semigroup is a subset of integers closed under addition, while a minimal presentation is a choice of minimal relations between generators of the numerical semigroup. It is a well-known fact that if m is the smallest positive element, then the size of the minimal presentation is at most m choose 2. Finding the possible minimal presentation sizes of numerical semigroups whose smallest positive element, or multiplicity, is m has been a long-standing open problem. In this talk, we introduce the role of embedding dimension in determining the attainable minimal presentation sizes. For each pairing of multiplicity and embedding dimension, we present multiple classes of numerical semigroups and pose upper and lower bounds. Our methods are not only combinatorial, but also involve posets and betti elements.

    Verity Scheel
    "Embedding Dimensions of Simplicial Complexes on Few Vertices"
    As the result of summer research with Steve Simon (Bard) and Florian Frick (CMU), we found a straightforward characterization of simplicial complexes on few vertices that embed into the d-sphere. Simplicial complexes can be studied both as geometric objects embedded into space and as combinatorial set systems, and our result provides a simple combinatorial property that corresponds to topological characteristics of the same object. In particular, a simplicial complex on d+3 vertices embeds into the d-sphere if and only if its non-faces do not form an intersecting family. Like the case of planar graphs, we show in addition that such complexes satisfy the rigidity property that continuous and linear embeddability are equivalent.

  • Wednesday, November 3, 2021 
      Hegeman 308  12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Talia Willcott, Ansel Tessier, Rachael Yoder, Andrew Stafford, Verity Scheel, Julia Sheffler

  • Tuesday, November 2, 2021 
    Amalia Culiuc, Amherst College
    Hegeman 102  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    In 1807, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier's study of the theory and flow of heat led to the publication of his "Mémoire sur la propagation de la chaleur dans les corps solides" (Treatise on the propagation of heat in solid bodies). This work, which introduced the notion of representing continuous functions in terms of sums of trigonometric functions, continues to be celebrated today as a foundational collection of ideas for the modern mathematical field of harmonic analysis. With applications ranging from signal processing to medical imaging, Fourier theory remains an active area of research to this day. In this talk we will give a brief introduction to Fourier series, their convergence properties, and the beautiful mathematics they helped create. No background beyond a second semester calculus course will be assumed.

  • Friday, October 22, 2021 
    Join our students in presenting their summer research!
    Reem-Kayden Center  4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Friday, October 22, 2021 
      Dani Schultz
    Merck Pharmaceuticals

    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  12:10 pm – 1:10 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Aspects of this session will highlight my journey from a small town in northern Wisconsin to the bustling east coast where leaning into discomfort has been critical in driving my career at Merck and the chemistry that I have pursued. Throughout my career, I have tapped into my ability to forge meaningful collaborations, internally and externally, to challenge the status quo and drive disruptive thinking – both in chemistry but also in improving STEM culture. I’ll briefly touch upon some recently completed academic-industrial research collaborations that aimed to empower early-career female professors and provide a platform to mentor and train female professors and students in pharmaceutical research. Throughout all of this, I have a passion for diversity, equity and inclusion and will share how I’ve navigated raising important, and at times difficult, topics and how to influence workplace culture. I’ve learned a lot through failed experiments along the way and I am looking forward to an active discussion with fellow changemakers!

    Dani Schultz received her PhD from the University of Michigan working with Professor John Wolfe and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Professor Tehshik Yoon. Since joining Merck in 2014, Dani has been a member of Process Chemistry and Enabling Technologies in Rahway, NJ and as of 2021 became the Director of the Discovery Process Chemistry group in Kenilworth, NJ. Throughout her time at Merck, Dani has been involved in the development of synthetic routes for drug candidates spanning HIV and oncology – forging meaningful collaborations, both internally and externally, to address the synthetic challenges that occur during pharmaceutical development. Most recently, she has served as co-host to the Pharm to Table podcast that aims to elevate the people and stories behind #MerckChemistry.

  • Thursday, October 21, 2021 
      Chuck Doran, University of Alberta
    Olin 306  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Starting from a humble pair of points, we will “twist” our way up Calabi-Yau fibered spaces, through the hidden geometries of String Theory and Mathematics.  Along the way, we’ll explore the subtle interplay between geometry, algebra, and topology.  This talk is designed to be broadly accessible to undergraduates.  All are welcome. 

  • Tuesday, October 19, 2021 
    Miriam Kuzbary, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Hegeman 102  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Knot theory is a rich and active area of research involving questions of interest both to mathematicians and to researchers outside of mathematics, and many of these questions boil down to a single essential query: how can one tell when two knots are different? In this talk, we will discuss why this is a difficult question to answer. In particular, we will learn about polynomials used to detect properties of knots and the surprising geometric implications of some knot polynomials.

  • Wednesday, October 6, 2021 
    Join MoMath for "QUADS: a SET®-like game" featuring Lauren Rose, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bard College
    Online Event  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    How good are your pattern-recognition skills?  Find out as you learn this exciting, new SET®-like card game, QUADS.  Join us for an evening of fun as Lauren Rose, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bard College, shares the rules of this engaging game she co-invented, then dive beneath the surface to see how combinatorics, probability, and algebra are the underlying mathematical engines that drive the fun.

    Special introduction by Liz McMahon, Professor of Mathematics at Lafayette College, and Gary Gordon, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Mathematics at Lafayette College.

    You can join in by participating in a live-stream broadcast of the event. 
    Registration is free.  Choose from two sessions:

    Math Encounters (online)
    Register for 4:00 pm ET (New York) session
    Register for 7:00 pm ET (New York) session
    Math Encounters (mathencounters.org) is MoMath's popular free public presentation series celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics, produced with support from the Simons Foundation.

  • Tuesday, October 5, 2021 
      John Cullinan, Mathematics Program
    Hegeman 102  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Much of modern number theory involves studying solutions to equations with integer coefficients.  By combining techniques of geometry and abstract algebra, mathematicians have been able to solve fundamental questions, such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Sato-Tate Conjecture.More recently, statistics has become an important tool for studying number theoretic problems that resist classical techniques.  In this talk, we will introduce this area of mathematics by focusing on three specific examples taken from three different areas of number theory.  We will also do some real-time computation and data generation.  This talk should be accessible to anyone who has taken Proofs and Fundamentals.

  • Tuesday, September 21, 2021 
    Ludlow Tent  5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Join us in the Ludlow tent for the Math Program Open House!  Find out more about courses, program requirements and meet some faculty!  Refreshments will be available!

  • Tuesday, September 21, 2021 
    Orsola Capovilla-Searle, University of California-Davis
    Hegeman 102  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Contact topology arose from the study of Hamiltonian dynamics, and is a field with applications to dynamics, optics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, geometry, and topology. A 3-dimensional space with a contact structure is a space with a plane associated to every point where the planes twist in a specific way. Legendrian submanifolds of a contact 3-dimensional space are special submanifolds that lie tangent to the planes in the contact structure. 

    A knot in 3-dimensional space is a tangled string whose endpoints have been glued together. A link is a disjoint union of knots. A Legendrian knot is a knot that also lies tangent to the planes in the contact structure in the 3-dimensional space. Two Legendrian knots are distinct if I can't "wiggle" one to the other while always staying tangent to the planes in the contact structure. 

    If one considers a 4-dimensional space X with a 3-dimensional boundary Y , one can study surfaces in X whose boundary is a link in Y. By adding geometrical constraints to such a space X and the surface, the link can be Legendrian. I will talk about some results on Lagrangian surfaces whose boundary are Legendrian links.

    **Following the seminar, please join us in the Ludlow tent for the Math Program Open House!  Refreshments available!**

  • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 
    Adam Lowrance, Vassar College
    Hegeman 102  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Take off your shoelaces, tie them up, and fuse the two ends together to form a continuous lace without ends. Now you have a mathematical knot. Two knots are the same if you can move, bend, and stretch one until it looks exactly like the other. Now take a flashlight and point it at your knot. The shadow of your knot on the wall is called a knot diagram or a knot projection.

    One common way to study knots is via their invariants, quantities that are associated with the knot that do not change regardless of how the knot is presented. One such invariant is the Jones polynomial. In this talk, we define the Jones polynomial of a knot and discuss what the Jones polynomial tells us about a knot.

  • Thursday, May 20, 2021 
    Join our graduating seniors in presenting their research!
    Main Commencement Tent  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Please see the abstract booklet below for full descriptions of students' research.


    Download: Senior Project Poster session booklet S21.pdf
  • Wednesday, May 5, 2021 
    Ismar Volić, Wellesley College
    Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Simplicial complexes are versatile objects in the intersection of graph theory, combinatorics, topology, and geometry. While mathematicians have always appreciated the fact that simplicial complexes are extremely powerful in spite of being easy to define and relatively easy to work with, their usefulness in real-world applications  has increased dramatically just in the last decade or so.

    In this talk, I will first discuss the definition and the basic constructions that can be performed with simplicial complexes, toggling back and forth between combinatorics and topology. I will then give an overview of some of their recent applications in signal processing, neuroscience, data analysis, and social sciences. I will in particular describe ongoing work by several undergraduates at Wellesley College in which certain types of political systems and their interactions are modeled by simplicial complexes. 

    This talk should be accessible to anyone who has had some exposure to combinatorics (basics of combinations and permutations).

    Zoom Info: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86398169686?pwd=M0pvT25ETmFhbUhkb1FUc2FuaGl0QT09

    Meeting ID: 863 9816 9686
    Passcode: 742619

  • Wednesday, April 28, 2021 
    Mona Merling '09, University of Pennsylvania
    Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    To avoid misleading anyone, this talk will not be about the sociology of topologists! "Social choice" is a model for decision making in economic, social, and political contexts. For example: suppose that each person gets to vote on their favorite location where they would like to place a statue on an island. Is there a fair way based on these votes to choose the location? This will turn out to be a topological, even a homotopical, problem, depending on the topology of the island. In this talk we will explore social choice models and answer the question about when they exist using algebraic topology.

    The purpose of this talk is to serve as an advertisement for algebraic topology and basic category theory. I will not assume any background other than calculus (in particular the notion of continuity so that I can give an intuition about topology). Familiarity with abstract algebra will help, but I will err on the side of defining what a group is, and I will give a crash course in category theory.

    Zoom Info: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86398169686?pwd=M0pvT25ETmFhbUhkb1FUc2FuaGl0QT09

    Meeting ID: 863 9816 9686
    Passcode: 74261

  • Wednesday, April 21, 2021 
      Hala Nelson, James Madison University
    Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Today's popular AI is mostly software, algorithms, and big data processing. Mathematics powers most of these AI techniques that are rapidly integrated into every aspect of our society and are useful for a vast array of applications. AI agents only understand numbers, more specifically, blobs of zeros and ones. In this talk we will use undergraduate mathematics to make an AI agent process our natural language, recognize what she sees, and make intelligent decisions. We will work out simple examples that have wide applications in the Artificial Intelligence sphere. This is an extremely undergraduate friendly talk and you only need to have calculus and linear algebra backgrounds.

    Zoom Info: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86398169686?pwd=M0pvT25ETmFhbUhkb1FUc2FuaGl0QT09

    Meeting ID: 863 9816 9686
    Passcode: 742619

  • Wednesday, April 14, 2021 
    Florian Frick, Carnegie Mellon University
    Online Event  1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    How do you fairly divide rent among roommates, a necklace among thieves, or a pizza between friends? Such questions of fair division can often be understood with the tools of geometry and topology — even for those problems that are not geometric to begin with. We will discuss how to do this, and why topology is useful for problems that appear to be unrelated to topology. In particular, we will explore a relation between fairly splitting a necklace and inscribing shapes into curves. No prior knowledge of topology is needed, and this talk is available to all who are familiar with some linear algebra or multivariable calculus. 

     https://bard.zoom.us/j/86398169686?pwd=M0pvT25ETmFhbUhkb1FUc2FuaGl0QT09

    Meeting ID: 863 9816 9686
    Passcode: 742619

  • Wednesday, April 7, 2021 
    Galen Dorpalen-Barry '15, University of Minnesota
    Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    In 1943, J. L. Woodbridge of Philadelphia submitted the following problem to American Mathematical Monthly: “Show that n cuts can divide a cheese into as many as $(n+1)(n^2 - n + 6)/6$ pieces.”

    This question and its solution are deeply connected to the study of collections of lines in $mathbb{R}^2$, planes in $mathbb{R}^3$, and more generally hyperplanes in $mathbb{R}^n$. We will explore the solution and a more general version: given n (hyper)planes in a real, d-dimensional vector space, how can we figure out the number of chambers of an arrangement of hyperplanes, without necessarily being able to see and count them?

    There are many wonderful solutions to this question. We present one provided by the Varchenko-Gel’fand ring, which is the ring of functions from the chambers of the arrangement to the integers with pointwise addition and multiplication. Varchenko and Gel’fand gave a simple presentation for this ring, which can be computed using simple facts about linear algebra.

    We will assume very little background but expect that the audience is familiar with linear independence and dependence. We will give a ring-theoretic solution to this problem, so it may be helpful (but not necessary) to be familiar with quotient rings.

    Zoom Info: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86398169686?pwd=M0pvT25ETmFhbUhkb1FUc2FuaGl0QT09

    Meeting ID: 863 9816 9686
    Passcode: 742619

  • Wednesday, March 31, 2021 
    Ethan Bloch, Bard College
    Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    In this talk we discuss the interplay between curvature and the distance between points on polyhedra.  We start by discussing the curvature of polyhedra, which is concentrated at the vertices, and we then consider the question of whether or not a shortest path between two points on a polyhedron can pass through a vertex.  We then discuss an attempt, not yet successful, at finding a polyhedral analog of Myers' Theorem for smooth surfaces, which relates positive curvature to distances between points.  Along the way we consider some questions about the unfolding of polyhedra (for example, unfolding a cardboard box so that it is flat).  This talk is open to all.

    Zoom Info: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86398169686?pwd=M0pvT25ETmFhbUhkb1FUc2FuaGl0QT09

    Meeting ID: 863 9816 9686
    Passcode: 742619

  • Wednesday, March 17, 2021 
    Lauren Rose, Bard College
    Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Generalized splines on a graph G with edge weighted by ideals a commutative ring R are R-vertex labelings such that if two vertices share an edge in G, the vertex labels are congruent modulo the edge ideal. When R is a principal ideal domain, we introduce collapsing operations that reduces any simple graph to a single vertex and carries along the edge ideal information. This corresponds to a sequence of surjective maps between the associated spline modules, and leads to an explicit construction of an R-module basis in terms of the edge ideals. We also solve an interpolation problem, i.e., given a partial vertex labeling, when can it can be extended to a generalized spline?

    Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86398169686?pwd=M0pvT25ETmFhbUhkb1FUc2FuaGl0QT09
    Meeting ID: 863 9816 9686
    Passcode: 742619

  • Wednesday, March 3, 2021 
    Pablo Soberón, Baruch College
    Online Event  3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EST/GMT-5
    Given a family of convex sets in R^d, how do we know that their intersection has a large volume or a large diameter?  A large family of results in combinatorial geometry, called Helly-type theorems, characterize families of convex sets whose intersections are not empty.  During this talk we will describe how some bootstrapping arguments allow us to extend classic results to describe when the intersection of a family of convex sets in R^d is quantifiably large.  The work presented in this talk was done in collaboration with undergraduate students.

    Join Zoom Meeting
    https://bard.zoom.us/j/86398169686?pwd=M0pvT25ETmFhbUhkb1FUc2FuaGl0QT09

    Meeting ID: 863 9816 9686
    Passcode: 742619

  • Thursday, April 16, 2020 
    For underrepresented students in STEM.
    https://meet.google.com/azc-hvgc-cus  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Join us for a conversation on virtual learning and internships in math and the sciences. 

  • Sunday, March 15, 2020 
      A place to work on homework, study with classmates, or talk to a tutor! 
    Reem-Kayden Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Sundays-Wednesdays in RKC 101. 

  • Wednesday, March 11, 2020 
      A place to work on homework, study with classmates, or talk to a tutor! 
    Reem-Kayden Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Sundays-Wednesdays in RKC 101. 

  • Tuesday, March 10, 2020 
      A place to work on homework, study with classmates, or talk to a tutor! 
    Reem-Kayden Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Sundays-Wednesdays in RKC 101. 

  • Tuesday, March 10, 2020 
      On-Campus Interviews For Full Time Positions
    Campus Center, Yellow Room 214  10:00 am – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Interested in a career in education? Apply now for an on-campus interview!

  • Monday, March 9, 2020 
      A place to work on homework, study with classmates, or talk to a tutor! 
    Reem-Kayden Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Sundays-Wednesdays in RKC 101. 

  • Monday, March 9, 2020 
      Campus Center, Red Room 202  12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Interested in teaching children in early and elementary programs? Hear about Sarah Lawrence’s Art of Teaching, Child Development, and Social Work Programs.

  • Sunday, March 8, 2020 
      A place to work on homework, study with classmates, or talk to a tutor! 
    Reem-Kayden Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Sundays-Wednesdays in RKC 101. 

  • Wednesday, February 5, 2020 

    A national math contest for high school students

    Reem-Kayden Center  4:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    The AMC 10/12 is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examination in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.

  • Wednesday, December 18, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, December 17, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, December 17, 2019 
      Reem-Kayden Center  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
    Join our December graduating seniors in presenting their senior projects.
    Light refreshments will be served

  • Monday, December 16, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, December 15, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, December 11, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, December 10, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, December 9, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, December 8, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, December 4, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, December 3, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, December 2, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, December 1, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, November 27, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, November 25, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, November 24, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, November 20, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, November 19, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, November 18, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, November 17, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, November 13, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, November 12, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, November 11, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, November 11, 2019 
    Campus Walk Above Kline  9:30 am – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    In a rare occurrence, the planet Mercury will pass in front of the Sun on the morning of November 11. However, this is not a celestial event that one can view by looking to the heavens with an unaided eye, since

    a) Mercury is very small compared with the Sun, and

    b) You shouldn't look directly at the Sun.

    In order to view the transit (clouds permitting) the Physics Program will have a telescope with a solar filter set up on Campus Walk, just up the hill from Kline. Drop by anytime from 9:30am until the transit ends at 1pm to check out this planetary alignment for yourself.

    Note the next chance to view a Mercury transit from Bard will be on May 7, 2049.

  • Sunday, November 10, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, November 6, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, November 5, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, November 4, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, November 3, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, November 3, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, October 30, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, October 28, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, October 27, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, October 23, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 22, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, October 21, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, October 20, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, October 16, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 15, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, October 14, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, October 13, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, October 9, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 8, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, October 7, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, October 6, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, October 2, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 1, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, September 30, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, September 29, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, September 25, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, September 25, 2019 
    Sydney Weaver
    RKC 111  4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Come to this interactive presentation about the history of the Rubik’s cube, some of the mathematics involved in analyzing the cube, and a demonstration of solving techniques. 

    No prior knowledge of the Rubik’s cube is assumed. 

    Sydney Weaver, 21, is a nine-time gold medalist professional Speedcuber. She loves sharing mathematics with people of all ages typically using the Rubik’s Cube as an interesting medium.

  • Tuesday, September 24, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, September 23, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, September 22, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, September 18, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, September 17, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, September 16, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, September 15, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, September 11, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, September 10, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, September 9, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Sunday, September 8, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, September 4, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, September 3, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, September 2, 2019 
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY  •  HEG 308  •  7–10 PM

    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.

  • Monday, May 20, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, May 19, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, May 16, 2019 
    Reem-Kayden Center  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Join our seniors in presenting their Senior Project research!

  • Wednesday, May 15, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, May 14, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, May 13, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, May 12, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, May 8, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, May 7, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, May 6, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, May 5, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, May 1, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, April 30, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 29, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, April 28, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Saturday, April 27, 2019 
      A team-based competition for girls in grades 3-8
    Reem-Kayden Center  1:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Girls' Adventures in Math (GAIM) is a themed mathematics competition for upper elementary and middle school girls, followed by strategy-based games. Teams of students will work on challenging problems, contextualized in a comic book containing the stories of pioneering women from history.

    The competition is organized by Math-M-Addicts New York, Inc. The Bard Math Circle hosts this event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and mathematics enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.

  • Wednesday, April 24, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, April 23, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 22, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, April 21, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, April 17, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, April 16, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 15, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, April 14, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, April 11, 2019 
    Locations: LA, NYC & Bard
    Campus Center, Red Room 202  2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Have an interest in being a Math Summer Camp Counselor in LA, NYC, or Bard? Interview and meet with the Beam Math recruiter today!

    Click here for more info.

  • Wednesday, April 10, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, April 9, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 8, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, April 7, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, April 3, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, April 2, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 1, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, March 31, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, March 26, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, March 25, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, March 24, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, March 20, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, March 18, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, March 17, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, March 13, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, March 12, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, March 11, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, March 10, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, March 6, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, March 5, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, March 4, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, March 3, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, February 27, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, February 26, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, February 25, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, February 24, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, February 20, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, February 19, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, February 18, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, February 17, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2019 
    A national math contest for high school students
    Reem-Kayden Center  4:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    The AMC 10/12 is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examination in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.

    The contest is paired with an engaging math talk at the high school level, presented by a Bard mathematician.

    The Bard Math Circle hosts this annual event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and math enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.

  • Tuesday, February 12, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, February 11, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, February 10, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, February 5, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, February 4, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, February 3, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, January 30, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, January 28, 2019 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, December 20, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, December 19, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, December 18, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, December 18, 2018 
      Join our December graduating seniors in presenting their senior projects
    Reem-Kayden Center  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
    Light refreshments will be served.

  • Monday, December 17, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, December 16, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, December 13, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, December 12, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, December 10, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, December 9, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, December 6, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, December 4, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, December 3, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, December 2, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, November 29, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, November 28, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, November 26, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, November 25, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, November 22, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, November 20, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, November 19, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, November 18, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, November 15, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, November 14, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, November 13, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, November 13, 2018 
    Sponsored by the Bard Math Circle
    Reem-Kayden Center  4:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
    The AMC 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.
    The contest is paired with an engaging math talk at the middle school level, presented by a Bard mathematician.
    The Bard Math Circle hosts this annual event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and math enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.

  • Monday, November 12, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, November 11, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, November 8, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, November 7, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, November 6, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, November 5, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, November 4, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, November 4, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Friday, November 2, 2018 
      Dr. Kathryn E. Stein ’66
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Kathryn Stein ’66, PhD, an immunologist with more than 30 years of experience, received the John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science from Bard College.

  • Thursday, November 1, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, October 30, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, October 29, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, October 28, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, October 25, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, October 24, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, October 23, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, October 22, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, October 21, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, October 18, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, October 17, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, October 15, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, October 14, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, October 11, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, October 9, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, October 8, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, October 7, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, October 4, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, October 1, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, October 1, 2018 
    Michael Weinman, Professor of Philosophy, Bard College Berlin
    RKC 103  5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Drawing on arguments from The Parthenon and Liberal Education (SUNY, 2018), a monograph recently coauthored with my Bard College Berlin colleague Geoff Lehman, I will point to the resonance of the work in number theory, astronomy, and harmonics of Philolaus, a near contemporary of Socrates, with central features of the design principles of the Parthenon. In this way, I hope to show that the Parthenon can be seen as a mediator between the early reception of Ancient Near-Eastern mathematical ideas and their integration into Greek thought as a form of liberal education, as the latter came to be defined by Plato and his followers. Prominently in its pursuit of harmonia (harmony; joining together) without resolving tensions between opposites, the Parthenon engages dialectical thought as we encounter it in Plato's dialogues and in ways that are of enduring relevance for the project of liberal education.

  • Sunday, September 30, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, September 27, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, September 24, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, September 23, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, September 20, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, September 19, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, September 18, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, September 17, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, September 16, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, September 13, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, September 12, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, September 11, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, September 10, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, September 9, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, September 6, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, September 6, 2018 
      3rd floor Albee Math Lounge  4:45 pm – 5:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
    On behalf of the math faculty, I would like to welcome everyone back from what was hopefully a fun and relaxing summer break!

    To celebrate your return, the Math Program will be having a get-together this Thursday, September 6, in the math common room from 4:45 to 5:45 pm. There will be light refreshments and delightful conversation.

    We would love if you could make it to hang out, talk, and reconnect. See you then!!

  • Wednesday, September 5, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, September 4, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, September 3, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
    Hegeman 308  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Friday, June 15, 2018 
    Jennifer L. Carter, SUNY Albany
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    The idea that worlds exist beyond our solar system, exoplanets, dates back to the Greek times, but it was not until 1992 that the first exoplanet discovery was accepted by the scientific community. Detections of exoplanets continued at a crawl until the Kepler mission began in 2009. To date, over 3,700 exoplanets have been confirmed using a variety of techniques. The types of exoplanets detected range from incredibility hot, Jupiter-size exoplanets to Earth-like exoplanets that may be habitable for life.
                                                                                                             
    First, we’ll discuss the motivation behind exoplanet science and explore the subject from a historical perspective. We will investigate how some of the detection methods work and discuss their relative successes. Finally, we will conclude by exploring the reflected light of exoplanets in more detail and will discuss two methods of modeling that light.
     

  • Tuesday, May 22, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, May 21, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, May 20, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, May 17, 2018 
    8:30 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Buses leave from Kline South stop at 8:30 pm.

    Join us at the Montgomery Place visitor center for a short talk by Prof. Antonios Kontos on the science of Jupiter—from the days of Galileo to the latest NASA missions—followed by telescope viewing of Jupiter and its moons, a guided tour of the night sky, and a round of ask-a-physicist-anything.

     

  • Thursday, May 17, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, May 17, 2018 
    Join Science, Mathematics & Computer graduating seniors in presenting their senior projects.
    Reem-Kayden Center  6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, May 15, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, May 14, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, May 13, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, May 10, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, May 9, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, May 8, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, May 7, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, May 6, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, May 3, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, May 2, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, May 1, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 30, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, April 29, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, April 26, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, April 25, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, April 24, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 23, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, April 22, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, April 19, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, April 18, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, April 17, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 16, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, April 15, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, April 12, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, April 11, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, April 10, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 9, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, April 8, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, April 5, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, April 4, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, April 3, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, April 2, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, April 1, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, March 29, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, March 28, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, March 27, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, March 26, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, March 25, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, March 22, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, March 21, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, March 20, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, March 19, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, March 18, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Thursday, March 15, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, March 13, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Monday, March 12, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Sunday, March 11, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Friday, March 9, 2018 
      Amanda Katharine Serenevy, Ph.D.
    Executive Director, Riverbend Community Math Center

    Hegeman 204  1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
    We will discuss the differences among several prevailing math instruction philosophies, including traditional math instruction, conceptual math instruction, inquiry/project based learning, and math circle instruction. We will talk about the motivations behind some of these approaches, the reasons that math instruction is changing, and how to incorporate the various approaches when working with students.

    Amanda Serenevy has been active with the Math Circle movement to connect mathematicians with young students interested in mathematics for many years. As a graduate student, Amanda first became involved with Math Circles as an instructor in Bob and Ellen Kaplan's Math Circle program in the Boston area. In November 2006, Amanda accompanied a group of American mathematicians during a trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg to learn about Russian math outreach programs. Amanda regularly co-organizes events for mathematicians and teachers from around the country who are interested in starting their own outreach programs, and has mentored many new Math Circle leaders. Amanda continues to offer Math Circles in the South Bend area.  In 2006, Amanda and her husband Dean founded the Riverbend Community Math Center. Amanda continues to serve as the executive director, designing curricula and lessons, and leading professional development sessions for teachers and hands-on math activities for people of all ages.

  • Thursday, March 8, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, March 7, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, March 6, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, March 5, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, March 4, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, March 1, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, February 28, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, February 27, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, February 26, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, February 26, 2018 – Monday, April 2, 2018 
      Guidelines and Application Instructions

    Download: DSS application memo 18-19 .pdf
  • Sunday, February 25, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Friday, February 23, 2018 
      Jeff Suzuki, Brooklyn College
    Hegeman 204  1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
    Suppose you're one of a group of people responsible for a decision: choosing which applicant to hire into a job; deciding what food to have available at a banquet; or choosing who's going to represent you in Washington, D.C. How can you do it?  Social choice theory is the branch of mathematics that studies how groups can make decisions. We'll take a look at some problems, some solutions, and some paradoxes that result when groups try to make decisions.

  • Thursday, February 22, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, February 21, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, February 20, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, February 19, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, February 18, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Friday, February 16, 2018 
    Sunita Vatuk, City College of New York
    Hegeman 204  1:30 pm EST/GMT-5

    There is a lot of talk about math being &lquo;everywhere&rquo; in &lquo;daily life,&rquo; and I would argue that most (all?) mathematicians understand how to find it. But the process of finding math in unexpected places is something that most of us learned by osmosis rather than consciously.

    Many South Indian Hindus have at least one god in their home—a statue that they worship every day. The daily &lquo;puja&rquo; often involves making a design out of rice powder in front of the god. We will look at two variations of this design, called a Hridaya kolam. (Hridaya = heart, kolam = designs made from powder in South India.)

    After learning to make the two standard designs, we will embark on an exploration to find some mathematics in them—making algorithms, generalizing, looking for structure, explaining what we find, coming up with useful notation, deciding on definitions, and so on. Different students will be free to follow different paths through the exploration.

    Sunita Vatuk has a Ph.D. in differential geometry from Princeton University. As part of her teaching at the University of Colorado (Boulder), Rutgers University (Piscataway), and City University of New York she has worked extensively with high school math teachers. That work sparked an interest in the existence and nature of mathematical thinking outside of research mathematics, including but not limited to origami and textile production. This talk is based on over 80 interviews with kolam experts and hundreds of designs she learned as a Fulbright scholar affiliated with the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.


  • Thursday, February 15, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, February 15, 2018 
    A national math contest for high school students
    Reem-Kayden Center  4:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    The AMC 10/12 is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examination in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.

    The contest is paired with an engaging math talk at the high school level, presented by a Bard mathematician.

    The Bard Math Circle hosts this annual event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and math enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.

  • Wednesday, February 14, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, February 13, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, February 12, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, February 11, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, February 8, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, February 7, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, February 6, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, February 5, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Sunday, February 4, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, February 1, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Thursday, February 1, 2018 
    Albee 3rd floor Math Lounge  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    The math program extends a hearty welcome back to all.

    In transitioning from what we trust was a relaxing winter break to what promises to be an illuminating and fun semester stuffed to the gills with wondrous mathematics, we will be having a get-together this Thursday, 2/1, 4:45-6pm in the math common room (Albee).

    Please come by to hang out and reconnect over tea, cocoa, cookies, and similar light fare. See you then!!

  • Wednesday, January 31, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, January 29, 2018 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak with a math tutor
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Tuesday, December 19, 2017 
    Reem-Kayden Center  6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Join our December graduating seniors in presenting their senior projects

  • Tuesday, December 5, 2017 
    Sunita Vatuk, City College of NY
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    "It is notoriously hard to give a satisfactory answer to the question, 'What is mathematics?'" —Timothy Gowers

    "One proposal, made in desperation, is 'What mathematicians do.'" —Ian Stewart

    This women's art form is not part of academic research mathematics, and most of the experts in it are not formally educated, but the kolam-maker and the mathematician do share many patterns of thought. The range of mathematical connections found in kolams make it a particularly rich arena in which to explore that elusive definition of mathematics, by focusing on mathematical thinking outside of academia.

    Dr. Vatuk has a PhD in differential geometry from Princeton University. As part of her teaching at University of Colorado (Boulder), Rutgers University (Piscataway), and City University of NY she has worked extensively with high school math teachers. That work sparked an interest in the existence and nature of mathematical thinking outside of research mathematics, including, but not limited to, origami and textile production. This talk is based on over 80 interviews with kolam experts and hundreds of designs she learned as a Fulbright scholar affiliated with the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
     

  • Tuesday, November 28, 2017 
      Kariane Calta, Vassar College
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    In this talk, I will begin by describing how a question about the geodesic flow on translation surfaces led to an exploration of continued fraction algorithms associated to triangle groups. My aim is to describe how apparently different areas of mathematics can work together to give rise to interesting and sometimes surprising results.

  • Tuesday, November 14, 2017 
    Nicholas A. Scoville
    Ursinus College

     

    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Digital images surround us. They are found in our computers, iPhones, televisions, and more. Because they are so integrated into our lives, there is a constant need to manipulate and investigate these images. Anything that one might want to do with a digital image will inevitably involve some kind of mathematics, whether it be linear algebra, geometry, or topology. In this talk, we will introduce not only the topology of digital images, but topology in general. We'll discuss some of the main ideas in topology and use them to figure out what topology would mean in a digital setting. Our newfound knowledge of digital topology will then allow us to dene a digital version of the Hopf fibration, a function between spheres of different dimensions which links together circles in a beautiful and profound way. This talk will be accessible to undergraduates.

  • Tuesday, November 7, 2017 
    Heidi Burgiel, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Learn to fold a star-building unit -- a modification of the Sonobe module for unit origami.  These modules combine to form right angled pyramids over equilateral triangles.  Participants will have the opportunity to stellate a tetrahedron (creating a cube) and to explore the eight strictly convex deltahedra.

     

  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017 
      Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Sam Baumgartner
    Yuming Liu
    Andres Mejia
    Kirill Shakhnovskiy
    Yida Shao
    Darren Tirto
    Eric Zhang
    Lingxin Zhao

  • Tuesday, October 24, 2017 
    Ming-Wen An, Vassar College
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    In the final stages of a long and costly drug discovery process, a drug compound is introduced into humans as part of a clinical trial. A clinical trial is a research study with a pre-defined protocol and is conducted in different phases. In oncology, as many as 60% of drug compounds that reach the last phase (Phase III) fail this final step. This high failure rate may reflect inappropriate evaluation of compounds in preceding Phase II trials, in which the primary endpoint is often binary tumor response, based on the Response Evaluation Criteria for Solid Tumors (RECIST). This motivates the search for alternative Phase II endpoints. In this talk, we will introduce clinical trials and survival analysis to contextualize the problem. Then we will describe our work evaluating alternative categorical and continuous tumor measurement-based endpoints for their ability to predict overall survival using data from real clinical trials.

  • Tuesday, October 17, 2017 
      Hegeman 204  11:40 am EDT/GMT-4
    Teagan DeCusatis
    Jessica Liu
    Rachel Nalecz
    Thuy Linh Nguygen
    Odett Salcedo
    Peter Servatius
    Kaylynn Tran
    Christian Yost

  • Tuesday, October 3, 2017 
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Eric Zhang, ’18
    COMPACTNESS OF RIGID GRAPH
    Given a graph G, a framework is a straight line embedding of a G into d-dimensional space. Two frameworks of G are equivalent if the corresponding edges in the two frameworks have the same length. Given a collection of equivalent frameworks of G, a framework is compact if the distance between all pairs of vertices is minimal among the collection. We are mainly considering generic frameworks, in which the coordinates of the vertices of G are algebraically independent. In this paper, we studied compact frameworks in R and R^2.

  • Thursday, September 28, 2017 
    Reem-Kayden Center  6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2017 
      Hema Gopalakrishnan
    Sacred Heart University

    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Recurrence relations arise in many fields of study. To solve a recurrence relation is to find an explicit formula for the numbers of the sequence generated by the recurrence. Informally, an ordinary generating function is a power series whose coefficients are the terms of
    a given sequence. In this talk, we will introduce the method of generating functions for solving linear recurrence relations with constant coefficients and apply this method to solve the Fibonacci recurrence
    relation.

  • Tuesday, September 19, 2017 
      Kerri-Ann Norton, Computer Science Program
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Breast tumor development is influenced by the individual properties of the tumor cells but also by other non-cancerous cells within its microenvironment. Based on experimental data, each tumor cell’s intrinsic properties are modeled, taking into account properties like cancer cell type and receptor numbers. In addition, we model the microenvironment’s influence on individual cancer cell properties, such as migration and proliferation. Then using agent-based modeling, we examine how individual cells interact with their microenvironment to form tumors and show how changes in that environment affect the tumor’s growth and invasion. From these results, we make predictions for potential therapies based on the interplay between the tumor and its microenvironment.


     

  • Tuesday, September 12, 2017 
    Moshe Cohen, Vassar College
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A line arrangement is a finite collection of lines in the plane.  We can study this combinatorially by looking at intersections of lines.  We can study this topologically by looking at the complement (in complex projective space).  We can ask if the combinatorial information forecasts the topological information. When this does not occur, we obtain two different geometric arrangements; we call this a Zariski pair.  There is no such pair of up to nine lines.  Examples have been found with thirteen lines by Rybnikov in 1998 and with twelve lines by Guerville-Balle in 2014.  Together with Amram, Sun, Teicher, Ye, and Zarkh, we investigate arrangements of ten lines.   Together with an undergraduate student Liu last year, we investigate arrangements of eleven lines.

     

  • Monday, September 11, 2017 
      3rd floor Albee lounge  6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Come and learn how you can help the Bard Math Circle provide access to mathematics enrichment throughout the Hudson River Valley. All Bard students are encouraged to attend and eat pizza, play puzzles and games, and find out more about the Bard Math Circle.

  • Monday, September 11, 2017 
    Albee 3rd floor lounge  5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    On behalf of the math faculty, I would like to welcome everyone back from what was hopefully a fun and relaxing summer break!

    To celebrate your return, the math program will be having a get together this Monday 9/11 in the math common room from 5-6pm. There will be light refreshments and delightful conversion.

    We would love if you could make it to hang out, talk, and reconnect. See you then!!

  • Thursday, July 6, 2017 
      Antonios Kontos, Physics program
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    With three detections and counting, the Advanced LIGO gravitational-wave observatories have opened a new window into the Universe. For now, all the detected gravitational-waves originated from collisions of two black holes. The effect that these gravitational-waves have as they pass through space is to stretch and compress space-time, much like sound waves stretch and compress the air. To understand the challenge of detecting this effect here on Earth, imagine (if you can) that a reasonably strong gravitational wave changes the length of one kilometer by one thousandth of a proton's diameter. At this level of sensitivity, quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle start playing a significant role and if we want to listen further into the Universe, we need to manipulate the quantum nature of light to our advantage. In this talk I will give an overview of gravitational waves, how LIGO detects them, and why quantum mechanics matters when measuring distances with such precision.

  • Thursday, May 18, 2017 
    Reem-Kayden Center  6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Join Science, Mathematics & Computer graduating seniors in presenting their senior projects.

  • Thursday, April 27, 2017 
    Amir Barghi, Mathematics Program
    Hegeman 308  4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
    At a dinner party, each guest is assigned a seat along a long table, which seats 12 people. However, when all guests arrive, they decide to change things a little up by swapping seats. In order to minimize the amount of chaos, they have to follow the following three rules: a guest can keep their seat; two guests sitting next to each other or across the table can swap seats; three or more guests can swap seats in a cyclic
    fashion, provided that each person is moving one seat to the left or to the right or across the table. Assuming that all guests have showed up, how many possible seating rearrangements are there? Now consider the graph on the left. We want to place dominoes along some of the edges of this graph so that each vertex is covered by exactly one domino. We call any such placement of dominoes a domino tiling. How many domino tilings of this graph exits?

    In this talk, we will explore the connection between these two problems by defining what the factorial of a graph is.

    Prerequisites: A familiarity with graphs and counting arguments is a plus, but not
    required.

  • Thursday, April 20, 2017 
    Maria Belk, Mathematics Program

     

    Hegeman 308  4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
    In this talk, we investigate the important question of how many zombies are required to catch and eat a person in an enclosed structure.  We model the structure with a graph, and we assume that the person can move much faster than the zombies.  The minimum number of zombies required to catch an intelligent person is called the zombie number of the graph.  This is a variation on the "cops and robbers" game from graph theory, which can be used to define the treewidth of a graph.  We will discuss how the zombie number of a graph relates to the treewidth, and we will determine which graphs have zombie number 1 and 2.  This talk will be accessible to anyone who is taking or has taken a 200-level mathematics course.

     

  • Thursday, April 13, 2017 
    Lauren Rose, Mathematics Program
    Hegeman 308  4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Splines are piecewise polynomial functions that are often used to approximate complicated functions. They arise in various branches of applied mathematics, computer science and engineering. Applications include computer graphics and computer modeling, airplane design, and approximating solutions to partial differential equations. More recently, splines have been studied for their algebraic properties, and their defining equations have been generalized to arbitrary rings.

    In this talk, I will describe Integer Splines on a graph, where both the edges and vertices of the graph are labeled with integers. The vertex labeling is called a spline if the difference between vertex labels is divisible by the corresponding edge label. I will report on recent work with Bard students, and open problems for the future.

    Prerequisites: Familiarity with Linear Algebra and modular arithmetic is helpful, but not required.
     

  • Thursday, April 6, 2017 
    Stefan Mendez-Diez
    Mathematics Program

    Hegeman 308  4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
    The purpose of this talk is to explore the interplay between mathematics and physics by taking a closer look at the theory of Electricity and Magnetism. We will start with the normal physicist's formulation of Maxwell's equations and then rewrite them from the perspective of a mathematician. This will allow us to describe what charge is as a mathematical object. We will then give a mathematical generalization of Maxwell's equations motivated by string theory and explore how physical phenomena can inform our understanding of the underlying mathematical structures. This talk should be accessible to anyone who has taken Math 213 or above.

  • Thursday, March 30, 2017 
    Steve Simon, Mathematics Program
    Hegeman 308  4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Given any 3 shapes in R3 (e.g., a piece of ham, a hunk of cheese, and a slice of bread), does there exist a single plane that simultaneously cuts each shape into two pieces of equal volume? Can any shape in R2 be dissected into four pieces of equal area by some pair of perpendicular lines? By exploiting hidden geometric symmetries, we will show how equipartition problems such as these can be solved using powerful techniques from the seemingly unrelated eld known as algebraic topology. For instance, the positive answer to the rst problem above { the so-called Ham Sandwich" Theorem { ultimately reduces to a very deep result of Borsuk and Ulam: for any continuous map from a sphere to a plane, there must exist a pair of antipodal points on the sphere whose images coincide. While fairly advanced mathematics is not too far away, this talk requires only a familiarity with the intermediate value theorem to be understood. All are welcome to attend!

  • Thursday, March 9, 2017 
    Japheth Wood, Mathematics Program

     

    Hegeman 308  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    Come learn several historical methods to compute the area under a parabola, including approaches from Archimedes, Pascal, and Riemann. This talk is suitable for curious math students from Calculus I and beyond, and illustrates how creative approaches to problem solving can open up beautiful mathematical ideas.

     

  • Thursday, March 2, 2017 
    Jim Belk, Mathematics Program
    Hegeman 308  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    A fractal is a geometric figure that exhibits a self-similar structure, meaning that the same patterns appear at a range of different scales.  In this talk, I will explore the notion of symmetry in mathematics, and then describe some symmetries of fractal shapes that reflect their self-similar structure.  The algebra of these symmetries can have certain unusual features, and I will discuss some surprising results that have been uncovered about this algebra as part of my research.  This talk should be accessible to all math majors.

    Refreshments to follow immediately in the Math Common Room.

  • Thursday, February 23, 2017 
    Ethan Bloch
    Mathematics Program

    Hegeman 308  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    A very useful number associated with polyhedra is the Euler characteristic, which in the 2-dimensional case is V - E + F, where V, E and F are the number of vertices, edges and faces of a polyhedron, respectively. In this talk we consider the question of whether the Euler characteristic is locally determined, which means that it can be calculated as the sum of numbers determined in a neighborhood of each vertex of the polyhedron; there are combinatorial and geometric versions of this question, where the geometric version goes back to an idea of Descartes, from before Euler. We will then ask the analogous
    question regarding the Charney-Davis quantity of a polyhedron, which in the 2-dimensional case is 1 - (1/2)V + (1/4)E - (1/8)F. This talk should be suitable for all students who are currently in Math 261 (Proofs and Fundamentals) or beyond.

    Refreshments to follow immediately in the Mathematics Common Room
  • Thursday, February 16, 2017 
    John Cullinan, Mathematics Program
    Hegeman 308  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    In 1909 Arthur Wieferich proposed a way to attack Fermat's last theorem by introducing a variant on Fermat's little theorem.  His idea has since been refined and now forms what is known as the "Wieferich Conjecture".  Even though Fermat's last theorem has been proved, the Wieferich conjecture remains open and a major area of research in modern number theory.  In this talk, I will explain the Wieferich conjecture, its modern geometric interpretation, and my current research project.  This talk should be suitable for all students who are currently in Math 261 (Proofs and Fundamentals) or beyond. In particular, we will make extensive use of modular arithmetic. 

    Refreshments to follow immediately in the Math Common Room.

  • Thursday, February 16, 2017 
    Zammy Diaz
    Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition

    Campus Center Lobby  11:00 am – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Join Zammy Diaz, IHN Communications Center, to learn why the one-year MS Program in Nutrition Science may be a great gap or glide year for you.

  • Thursday, December 15, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, December 14, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, December 13, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, December 13, 2016 
      Reem-Kayden Center  6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Monday, December 12, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, December 11, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, December 8, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, December 7, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, December 6, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, December 5, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, December 4, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, December 1, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, November 30, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, November 29, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, November 28, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, November 27, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, November 24, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, November 23, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, November 22, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, November 21, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, November 20, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, November 17, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, November 16, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, November 15, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, November 15, 2016 
    Sponsored by the Bard Math Circle
    Reem-Kayden Center  4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    The AMC 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.
     The contest is paired with an engaging math talk at the middle school level, presented by a Bard mathematician. The Bard Math Circle hosts this annual event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and math enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.

  • Monday, November 14, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, November 13, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, November 10, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, November 9, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, November 8, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, November 7, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, November 6, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, November 6, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, November 3, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, November 2, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, November 1, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, October 31, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, October 30, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, October 27, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, October 26, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, October 24, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, October 23, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Friday, October 21, 2016 
      Hegeman 204  2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Rebecca Schiavo, Senior Assistant Director from Columbia's Office of Undergraduate Admissions, will be coming to talk about the 3+2 and 4+2 BA/BS Combined Plans. This is an ideal opportunity to get definitive answers to your specific questions. She visits only once in two years, so don't miss her talk.  

     

  • Thursday, October 20, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, October 19, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, October 18, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, October 17, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, October 16, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, October 13, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, October 12, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, October 11, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, October 10, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, October 9, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, October 6, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, October 5, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, October 4, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, October 3, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, October 2, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, September 29, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, September 29, 2016 
      Reem-Kayden Center  6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, September 27, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, September 26, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, September 25, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, September 22, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, September 21, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, September 20, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, September 19, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, September 18, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, September 15, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, September 14, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, September 13, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, September 12, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, September 12, 2016 
      We want you to participate in trying out a new Science Literacy assessment developed here at Bard!

    Assessment sessions are being held on Sunday, September 11 at 3 p.m. and on Monday, September 12 at 7 p.m.

    RKC second floor pods  7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    The assessment is done in pairs, takes a little more than 90 minutes to complete, is designed to see how you go about finding the answer to a science-related question, and is pretty fun to do! Treats provided for all who participate!

    **science majors are always welcome!**

    Bring a laptop for the assessment

  • Sunday, September 11, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, September 8, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, September 7, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, September 6, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, September 5, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Sunday, September 4, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Thursday, September 1, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Wednesday, August 31, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, August 30, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Monday, August 29, 2016 
    Sunday–Thursday, RKC 111, 7–10 p.m.
    RKC 111  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    A place to do math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor

  • Tuesday, May 17, 2016 
    Reem-Kayden Center  6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  • Saturday, April 16, 2016 
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Join a panel of professors from Bard and other local colleges for a discussion on gender, sexism, and empowerment in science.  The panel is hosted by Women in S.T.E.M. at Bard, a group which aims to provide inspiration and support to underrepresented minorities in science and their allies.

    Q&A and reception with refreshments will follow.

  • Friday, April 8, 2016 
    Steven Simon, Wellesley College
    RKC 111  12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Can any three shapes in ℝ3 be simultaneously cut into two pieces of equal volume by a single plane? Can any shape in ℝ2 be dissected into four pieces of equal area by two perpendicular lines?  By exploiting hidden symmetries, we will show how equipartition problems such as these (as well as a variety of other questions from combinatorial geometry) can be solved using techniques from the seemingly unrelated field of algebraic topology. For instance, the positive answer to the first problem above -- the so-called "Ham Sandwich" Theorem -- ultimately reduces to a deep result of Borsuk and Ulam: for any continuous map from a sphere to a plane, there must exist some pair of opposite points on the sphere whose images coincide. Although group theory, topology, number theory, and even Fourier analysis are all truly at play, no background in these fields is required to appreciate the fascinating interplay of the continuous and the discrete at the heart of topological combinatorics. All are welcome to attend!

  • Thursday, March 10, 2016 – Friday, April 1, 2016 
      Please see the link below for information on applying for a Distinguished Scientist Scholar Award.
    Application deadline is Friday, April 1


    Download: DSS application memo 16-17.pdf
  • Friday, March 4, 2016 
      Ivan Ventura, 
Harvey Mudd College
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Inverse problems are a large class of both theoretical and applied problems that have captivated the mathematical community for over half a century.  During this time numerous applications have arisen in in a variety of fields, such as medical imaging and cloaking. In the first half of this talk  I will discuss, by example, general inverse problems and how they arise in the real world. In the second half I will focus specifically on spectral inverse problems, starting with the classic "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" problem in the case of the sphere. Finally I will present an analogous result for semiclassical Schrödinger operators.
     

  • Tuesday, March 1, 2016 
      Ursula Whitcher
    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

    RKC 111  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    If you have a rubber band and a pegboard, how many polygons can you make that have only one peg in the center?  The answer to this question is highly interesting to string theorists, who use shapes like these to write equations for the predicted "extra" dimensions of the universe. We'll talk about the way mathematicians use intuition from string theory to make mathematical discoveries.

  • Wednesday, February 17, 2016 
      A national math contest for high school students
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  4:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    The AMC 10/12 is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examination in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.

    The contest is paired with an engaging math talk at the high school level, presented by a Bard mathematician.

    The Bard Math Circle hosts this annual event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and math enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.

  • Friday, February 12, 2016 
    Stefan Mendez-Diez, Utah State University
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    In physics, supersymmetry is a pairing between the carriers of mass and energy appearing in theories of subatomic particles. These physical theories can be described using graphs known as Adinkras. We will tour the mathematics of supersymmetry by illustrating how we can construct Adinkras using binary cubes and error correcting codes. We will discuss recent results that allow us to give a geometric interpretation of these physical theories using Grothendieck’s theory of dessins d’enfants, or “children’s drawings.” This will lead us to consider spin structures and discrete Morse functions as a natural part of supersymmetry.

  • Tuesday, February 9, 2016 
      Nora Youngs
    Harvey Mudd College

    RKC 111  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    Navigation and spatial memory are two of the most vital functions of the brain. Without the ability to construct an internal map of our environment and remember how to get from one place to another, we would be lost (literally)! In 2014, the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to John O'Keefe for the discovery of place cells, a particular type of neuron essential to spatial memory. In this talk, we will consider an algebraic method to store spatial information received from place cells, and explore ways to reconstruct topological features of a spatial environment from that stored data.
     

  • Friday, February 5, 2016 
    Mario Micheli, Bowdoin College
    Hegeman 204  12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    In this talk I will give an overview of the exciting and growing field of image processing, by introducing how images and video can be modeled and manipulated mathematically. I will give examples of the typical problems that are studied in this discipline, and present an array of applications in medicine, astronomy, atmospheric science, security, navigation systems, and others in information technology. Also, I shall present the research problem of image reconstruction under "optical turbulence", i.e. the optical phenomenon caused by light rays being refracted to form distorted images at the observer's location: this typically occurs when looking at objects at a distance in hot climates, or underwater in the presence of temperature gradients  (i.e., when the water temperature is not the same at different locations)​. The results of an imaging recovery algorithm will also be illustrated.

  • Monday, February 1, 2016 
      Ying Zhou, Ohio State University
    RKC 111  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    We live in an environment that is constantly changing. On a large time scale, climate change has a global effect on the dynamics of plant populations. On a smaller scale, there are seasonal changes of local habitats, for example, flooding and drying of wetland habitats. In this talk, I will present a spatial perspective of the effects of environmental changes. What happens when the suitable habitat of a population changes its location, or its size over time? Are there limits of the population’s ability to cope with these spatial changes? How does the life history of plant species affect their persistence in the presence of environmental change? I will present a set of mathematical models aiming at answering these questions.

  • Thursday, December 17, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, December 16, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, December 15, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, December 15, 2015 
    Lauren Childs
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    Wolbachia are intracellular bacteria that are widespread in mosquito species and are known to limit the spread of insect-borne human pathogens including dengue, malaria and worms. The success of Wolbachia is attributed to a variety of ways in which the bacterium manipulates its host to promote fitness of infected females and increase transmission as bacteria are passed from mothers to offspring. Although long-proposed as a tool for the control of dengue, until recently it was thought that Anopheles mosquitoes, the vectors of human malaria, were unable to be infected by Wolbachia. Recent observations in Burkina Faso showed stable but low persistence of Wolbachia infections in Anopheles mosquitoes. Here, I present an ordinary differential equation model of Wolbachia infection in Anopheles mosquitoes developed in collaboration with students from the Summer Research Program in Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. We demonstrate the persistence of Wolbachia at low prevalence in the context of varied reproductive phenotypes. Through analysis of our model, we determine which phenotypes are most important for persistence of Wolbachia infection, aiding survival of Wolbachia infected laboratory populations.

  • Monday, December 14, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, December 13, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, December 10, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, December 10, 2015 
      Reem-Kayden Center  6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  • Wednesday, December 9, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, December 9, 2015 
    Professor Frank Scalzo
    Health Professions Adviser

    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Professor Frank Scalzo will introduce the pathways leading to post-baccalaureate degrees in the health professions including, traditional medicine, allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, optometry, etc. etc. The discussion will be tailored to the interests of the audience. If you are interested in a health profession, you should attend this discussion.  
     
    For more information, please contact Professor Frank Scalzo at [email protected].

  • Tuesday, December 8, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, December 8, 2015 
    Eyvindur Ari Palsson
    Williams College

    RKC 111  4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
    One of Erdos' greatest contributions to geometry was his problem on distinct distances that asks: what is the least number of distinct distances among n points. This seemingly innocent inquiry inspired many other related questions, some of which are still being worked on today. In this talk we will start with an introduction to the original distinct distance problem and then move on to some related questions, such as the unique distance problem and heavy lines. There will be a special emphasis on crescent configurations that were tackled by the Number Theory and Harmonic Analysis group in the Williams undergraduate summer research program in 2015.

  • Monday, December 7, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, December 6, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, December 3, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, December 2, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, December 1, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, November 30, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, November 29, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, November 26, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, November 25, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, November 23, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, November 22, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, November 19, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, November 18, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, November 17, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, November 17, 2015 
      Olin, Room 201  7:00 pm – 8:30 am EST/GMT-5
    Want to tutor Bard Prison Initiative students next semester? Come to our first info session to learn how to apply.

  • Tuesday, November 17, 2015 
    Sponsored by the Bard Math Circle
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  The AMC 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.

    The contest is paired with an engaging math talk at the middle school level, presented by a Bard mathematician.

    The Bard Math Circle hosts this annual event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and math enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.


  • Monday, November 16, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, November 15, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, November 12, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, November 11, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, November 10, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, November 9, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, November 8, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, November 5, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, November 4, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, November 3, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, November 2, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, November 1, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, November 1, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, October 29, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, October 28, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, October 27, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, October 26, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, October 25, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, October 22, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, October 21, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, October 19, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, October 18, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, October 15, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, October 14, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, October 12, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, October 11, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, October 8, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, October 7, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, October 6, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, October 5, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, October 4, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, October 1, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, September 30, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, September 29, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, September 28, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, September 27, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Friday, September 25, 2015 
      The language of experience and evaluation: Logical and linguistic investigations into subjective judgment
    Reem-Kayden Center Room 101  Abstract: We’re all in the business of evaluation. We evaluate basketball players and beers, movies and motels, students and teachers. Philosophical discussions both contemporary and classical have elevated the notion of a judge or point of view in explaining the central puzzling feature of evaluation — the tug-of-war between the subjective genesis of and objective standards of correctness for evaluative judgments. In recent years there has been a torrent of work at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics on so-called "faultless disagreements" — disputes (e.g. over whether vanilla ice cream is tastier than chocolate ice cream) that seem to concern mere personal preferences. I argue that popular accounts misconstrue the meaning of evaluative expressions and that the claims at issue concern norms of experience. On the way to this conclusion, we’ll touch on a number of issues in logic and linguistics: quantification, genericity, modality, and aspect.

    Alex Anthony is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy.  After completing his undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University he participated in Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in College Park, Maryland before enrolling at Rutgers. At Wesleyan he received the Wise Prize for the best paper in Philosophy. At Rutgers he received the Presidential Fellowship, one of ten awarded annually university-wide to an outstanding doctoral student.

    this is the last seminar in the series



  • Thursday, September 24, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, September 24, 2015 
      Reem-Kayden Center 
  • Wednesday, September 23, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, September 22, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, September 21, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, September 20, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Friday, September 18, 2015 
      The language of experience and evaluation: Logical and linguistic investigations into subjective judgment
    Reem-Kayden Center Room 101  Abstract: We’re all in the business of evaluation. We evaluate basketball players and beers, movies and motels, students and teachers. Philosophical discussions both contemporary and classical have elevated the notion of a judge or point of view in explaining the central puzzling feature of evaluation — the tug-of-war between the subjective genesis of and objective standards of correctness for evaluative judgments. In recent years there has been a torrent of work at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics on so-called "faultless disagreements" — disputes (e.g. over whether vanilla ice cream is tastier than chocolate ice cream) that seem to concern mere personal preferences. I argue that popular accounts misconstrue the meaning of evaluative expressions and that the claims at issue concern norms of experience. On the way to this conclusion, we’ll touch on a number of issues in logic and linguistics: quantification, genericity, modality, and aspect.

    Alex Anthony is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy.  After completing his undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University he participated in Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in College Park, Maryland before enrolling at Rutgers. At Wesleyan he received the Wise Prize for the best paper in Philosophy. At Rutgers he received the Presidential Fellowship, one of ten awarded annually university-wide to an outstanding doctoral student.

    this is the last seminar in the series



  • Thursday, September 17, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, September 16, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, September 15, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, September 14, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, September 13, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Friday, September 11, 2015 
      The language of experience and evaluation: Logical and linguistic investigations into subjective judgment
    Reem-Kayden Center Room 101  Abstract: We’re all in the business of evaluation. We evaluate basketball players and beers, movies and motels, students and teachers. Philosophical discussions both contemporary and classical have elevated the notion of a judge or point of view in explaining the central puzzling feature of evaluation — the tug-of-war between the subjective genesis of and objective standards of correctness for evaluative judgments. In recent years there has been a torrent of work at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics on so-called "faultless disagreements" — disputes (e.g. over whether vanilla ice cream is tastier than chocolate ice cream) that seem to concern mere personal preferences. I argue that popular accounts misconstrue the meaning of evaluative expressions and that the claims at issue concern norms of experience. On the way to this conclusion, we’ll touch on a number of issues in logic and linguistics: quantification, genericity, modality, and aspect.

    Alex Anthony is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy.  After completing his undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University he participated in Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in College Park, Maryland before enrolling at Rutgers. At Wesleyan he received the Wise Prize for the best paper in Philosophy. At Rutgers he received the Presidential Fellowship, one of ten awarded annually university-wide to an outstanding doctoral student.

    this is the last seminar in the series



  • Thursday, September 10, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, September 9, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, September 8, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, September 7, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, September 6, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Friday, September 4, 2015 
      Olin 102  Interested in applying for a Fulbright Scholarship, a Watson fellowship, or another postgraduate scholarship or fellowship? This information session will cover application procedures, deadlines, and suggestions for crafting a successful application. Applications will be due later this month, so be sure to attend one of the  two information sessions!

  • Thursday, September 3, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, September 2, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Monday, August 31, 2015 
    SUNDAY-THURSDAY RKC 111 7-10 P.M.
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tuto

    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, July 1, 2015 
      an exhibition of digital prints by artist (and Bard alum) Steven Salzman
    Reem-Kayden Center 
    Download: SS_BARD_060215copy.pdf
  • Tuesday, May 12, 2015 
    Reem-Kayden Center  Join the graduating seniors in the Science, Mathematics and Computing Division in presenting and celebrating their senior project work

  • Thursday, March 12, 2015 
      Applications are due to Megan Karcher, [email protected], by Friday, April 3
    Reem-Kayden Center  Distinguished Scientist Scholar (DSS) AwardGuidelines and Application Instructions All current students concentrating in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics or physics are eligible to apply for a Distinguished Scientist Scholar (DSS) Award. These awards are given to exceptional students who have distinguished themselves academically in one of the above-mentioned disciplines in the division of Science, Mathematics and Computing. The exact amount of each award is determined by the Financial Aid office, on average $5000 for each academic year, and includes the opportunity to apply for a summer research stipend to participate in NSF or NIH sponsored summer research programs at other institutions, if the student is not already eligible for federal funding. Like other science students at Bard, DSS recipients are also eligible for BSRI funding for summer research at Bard. Please note that this is a very competitive process and only a few awards will be given out each year. ·             Eligibility: To apply for a DSS award (commencing in the fall), a student must meet the following eligibility criteria:o   Concentrating in one of the following programs: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics.o   Not currently receiving a DSS scholarship or award.o   Cumulative GPA of 3.0 overall in the college.o   Cumulative GPA of 3.5 in courses in the SM&C Division. ·             Application Procedure:o   Write a letter of request to the DSS Committee. The letter should discuss your plan of study in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and/or physics.o   Write an essay about an experience in science or math that you found particularly interesting.o   Ask two Bard faculty members to write you letters of recommendation. At least one of these faculty members must be in the SM&C Division. They should submit their letters directly to Megan Karcher.o   Submit this information as attachments via e-mail to the SM&C Division secretary, Megan Karcher ([email protected]) ·             Selection Criteria:  Awards will be granted to students showing exceptional qualifications in their areas of study and based upon the following:o   College academic records.o   Letters of recommendations from the faculty.o   A strong interest in working in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, or physics.o   Availability of funds. ·             Deadline: Applications must be submitted no later than Friday, April 3rd, 2015. The DSS Committee will meet shortly after that, and will make recommendations to the Director of Financial Aid, who will determine the final awards. You should receive word of whether you have been selected to receive a DSS award by early May.  Questions?  Contact Robert McGrail, Chair of the Division of Science, Math and Computing, [email protected]



    Download: DSS application memo 15-16.pdf
  • Wednesday, February 25, 2015 
      The national AMC 10B/12B math contest
    Reem-Kayden Center  As part of its competition program, the Bard Math Circel hosts the AMC 10B/12B contests followed by an engaging math talk by a Bard math professor.

    The AMC contests are 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examinations in secondary school mathematics containing problems which can be understood and solved with algebra and geometry concepts (AMC 10B) and pre-calculus concepts (AMC 12B), but very challenging. 

    Please join the Bard Math Circle for this and other events. For more information, visit bardmathcircle.org or email [email protected]

  • Friday, February 13, 2015 
    A lecture by Robert Thompson, Harvey Mudd College
    RKC 111  Butterfly wings, snowflakes, and Romanesco cauliflower are all great examples of the beautiful symmetry found in nature. But symmetry also has a second life as a powerful tool for reducing the complexity of mathematical problems. In this talk I'll introduce this second life of symmetry and highlight some of its unlikely applications, including a very impractical scheme to get rich by reassembling broken eggshells.


  • Monday, February 9, 2015 
    A lecture by Victor Barranca, New York University
    RKC 115  Mathematics plays an increasingly crucial role in understanding the mechanisms underlying brain activity. This talk introduces fundamental problems in neuroscience and explores how mathematical analysis may provide new solutions, impacting technological advances such as prosthetics and artificial intelligence. We focus on information processing in sensory systems, and study how data may be encoded by neuronal dynamics. Using a large-scale network model of the visual system with nonlinear dynamics, we demonstrate how stimuli may be efficiently compressed by sensory systems and reconstructed through novel signal processing techniques. Especially drawing from the theory of differential equations, probability, and linear systems, this talk highlights the central role of applied mathematics in the interdisciplinary field of computational neuroscience, linking principles from physics, biology, computer science, and engineering.

  • Friday, February 6, 2015 
    A lecture by Kristine Snyder, University of Michigan
    RKC 111  While walking and running are everyday activities for most of us, researchers still have a rather limited understanding of how the brain and body interact to produce human locomotion.  In this talk, I will offer some examples of how mathematics can be used to help explain the neural processes involved in walking and running. These include identifying the processes involved in minimizing energy expenditure, analyzing the effect of mechanical artifact on mathematical analyses of electroencephalography during walking, and using mathematical modeling to examine dynamic causality between neural sources. I will then discuss how mathematical models, experimental analysis, and the development of appropriate mathematical measures can interact to help us answer some remaining fundamental questions about neural activity during gait.

  • Thursday, December 18, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, December 17, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, December 16, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, December 15, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, December 14, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, December 11, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, December 11, 2014 
      Reem-Kayden Center  Students presenting: 

    Oliver Bruce, Michael DiRosa, Jacob Fauber, Andy Huynh, Caitlin Majewski, Henry Meyers, Cameron West, Clare Wheeler

    Advisers:
    Rebecca Thomas, Matthew Deady, Keith O’Hara, James Belk, Csilla Szabo, Sven Anderson, Sarah Dunphy-Lelii, Christopher LaFratta



  • Wednesday, December 10, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, December 9, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, December 8, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, December 7, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, December 4, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, December 3, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, December 2, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, December 1, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 30, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, November 27, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, November 26, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 25, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, November 24, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 23, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, November 20, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, November 19, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 18, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 18, 2014 
      A middle school math contest and engaging math talk.
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  The AMC 8 Contest contains engaging math problems that are challenging at the middle school level. The exam is intended to inspire, promote enthusiasm, and a healthy attitude towards mathematics. Students will be exposed to the richness of middle school level mathematics at a deeper level than ordinarily encountered in the schools.

    After the exam, students will be treated to an engaging math talk from a Bard math professor.

    Students need to register in advance to participate in this on-campus event. For more information, email [email protected] or visit bardmathcircle.org.

  • Monday, November 17, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, November 17, 2014 
    Lisa Warshauer Lowrance, United States Military Academy, West Point
    Hegeman 204  Consider the problem of information passing in a network. When one person is given a piece of information in a network and every person is allowed to pass this piece of information to exactly one person at any discrete time step, we give an optimal algorithm to pass this information to every person in the network in the fewest number of time steps. A similar algorithm is used to find the optimal starting person. These algorithms are applied to specific classes of graphs and also interpreted to give applications to cyber-security. ** Only an algebra background needed for the talk


  • Sunday, November 16, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Saturday, November 15, 2014 
      Middle school math circle
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  The Bard Math Circle is a mathematical enrichment program geared toward middle school and elementary students. Each month features puzzles and games, challenging problems, and a hands-on project that students can take home. We help students strengthen their critical thinking skills and make math more fun.

    Students need to register in advance to participate in this on-campus event. For more information, email [email protected] or visit bardmathcircle.org.

  • Thursday, November 13, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, November 12, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 11, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, November 10, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 9, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, November 6, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, November 5, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 4, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, November 3, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 2, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 2, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 30, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, October 29, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, October 27, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, October 26, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 23, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, October 22, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, October 21, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, October 20, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, October 19, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Saturday, October 18, 2014 
      Middle school math circle
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  The Bard Math Circle is a mathematical enrichment program geared toward middle school and elementary students. Each month features puzzles and games, challenging problems, and a hands-on project that students can take home. We help students strengthen their critical thinking skills and make math more fun.

    Students need to register in advance to participate in this on-campus event. For more information, email [email protected] or visit bardmathcircle.org.

  • Thursday, October 16, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, October 15, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, October 15, 2014 
    Dinner will be served.
    RKC 200  Please join us for the most in-depth information about the Levy M.S. program. Levy Institute Scholar and Director of Applied Micromodeling Thomas Masterson will be available to discuss the program curriculum as well as the research that takes place at the Institute.Dinner will be catered by Rusty’s Farm Fresh Eatery and the Bard Farm. Please RSVP by e-mailing Azfar Khan ([email protected]) and indicate your choice of meal: vegetarian, vegan, or nonvegetarian.Early Decision deadline: November 15 | Regular Decision deadline: January 15Visit us at www.bard.edu/levyms. 

  • Tuesday, October 14, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, October 13, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, October 12, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 9, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, October 8, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, October 7, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, October 6, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, October 5, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 2, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, October 1, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 30, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, September 29, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, September 28, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, September 25, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, September 24, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 23, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 23, 2014 
      Reem-Kayden Center  Join faculty and students who participated in this year's Bard Summer Research Institute in presenting their work!


  • Monday, September 22, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, September 21, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Saturday, September 20, 2014 
    The Science, Mathematics & Computing Division will be sending a bus down to the New York Hall of Science in Queens, NY on Saturday, September 20. Space on the bus is LIMITED. The bus will depart RKC promptly at 9 a.m. and return to campus at approximately 7 p.m.

    Tickets to get into the Faire and a spot in the van are $30.00.  

    CASH ONLY, EXACT CHANGE ONLY.
    Reservations will be accepted until Friday, September 12

    TO RESERVE YOUR TICKET AND A SPOT IN THE VAN, 
PLEASE SEE MEGAN KARCHER, RKC 219. Office hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00-4:00 p.m.


  • Thursday, September 18, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, September 17, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 16, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, September 15, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, September 14, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, September 11, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, September 10, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 9, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, September 8, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Sunday, September 7, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Thursday, September 4, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, September 3, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 2, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, September 1, 2014 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor. Sunday – Thursday, 7–10 p.m.


  • Monday, August 25, 2014 
      RKC 101  Professor Frank Scalzo
    Health Professions Adviser, Bard CollegeProfessor Scalzo will introduce the pathways leading to post-baccalaureate degrees in the health professions, including allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, optometry, etc. etc. The discussion will be tailored to the interests of the audience.  If you are interested in a health profession, but have not attended a similar previous discussion, you should attend this one.


  • Monday, May 19, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, May 18, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, May 15, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, May 15, 2014 
    Reem-Kayden Center 
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, May 13, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, May 12, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, May 11, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, May 8, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, May 7, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, May 6, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, May 5, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, May 4, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, May 1, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, April 30, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, April 29, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, April 28, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, April 27, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, April 24, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, April 23, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, April 22, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, April 21, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, April 20, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, April 17, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, April 17, 2014 
      A lecture by Peter Winkler, Dartmouth College
    Hegeman 308  Humans are not born with perfect mathematical intuition, to say the least, yet most decisions we make are based on "feel," not calculation. Today you will hear some mind-boggling puzzles (some with solutions, some without) that are designed to help you adjust your intuition when it's about to run off the rails. This talk is aimed at college students (and at anyone who likes to have their mind boggled!).


  • Wednesday, April 16, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, April 15, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, April 14, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, April 13, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, April 10, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, April 9, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, April 8, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, April 8, 2014 
      A lecture by Rachel Roe-Dale, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Skidmore College
    Hegeman 204  Several experimental and clinical studies have documented that the order in which chemotherapy drugs are administered affects the outcome of cancer treatment.  I present a brief discussion of a simple mathematical mechanism to explain this order dependence in conjunction with more detailed models which investigate the specific relationship between drug order and treatment response in breast cancer chemotherapy and gastric cancer chemotherapy. In all cases, I simulate treatment by bolus injection and employ a pulsing condition to indicate cell kill. I then extend this type of treatment model to my current investigation which considers the dynamics of bacteria and yeast populations. I model these populations as competitive species and simulate antibiotic treatment to investigate how this treatment alters the behavior and dynamics of the populations perhaps leading to an infectious state.



  • Monday, April 7, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, April 7, 2014 
      A lecture by Taalaibek Imanaliev, AUCA
    RKC 102 
  • Sunday, April 6, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, April 3, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, April 2, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, April 1, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, March 31, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, March 30, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, March 27, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, March 26, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, March 25, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, March 24, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, March 23, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, March 20, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, March 19, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, March 18, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, March 17, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, March 17, 2014 
      A presentation by Dr. Robert Moniot, Chair, Department of Computer & Information Science, Fordham University and Dr. Damian Lyons, Director, FRCV Lab, Fordham University

     


    RKC 100  The first presentation overviews the Computer and Information Science (CIS) department at Fordham University and introduces the CIS graduate program in Computer Science.

    In the second presentation, three pieces of ongoing research at the FRCV Lab will be overviewed: visual homing, multirobot exploration and formal analysis of robot behavior to generate performance guarantees.

    Visual homing is a navigation approach first proposed as a model of inspect behavior. Because it requires only visual image comparisons, it is a simple and general approach. However, goal directed motion in the absence of distance information can be error prone. Nirmal & Lyons (2013) proposed a stereocamera based visual homing whose performance improves on that of regular visual homing.

    In deploying a team of robots to explore an area for search and rescue or C-WMD missions, it is preferable for the team to spread out and cover the area as quickly as possible. It is difficult to design a simple, decentralized dispersion algorithm that works with a wide range building layouts. Liu and Lyons (2014) developed a simple yet general potential field approach based on the concept of generating a potential in empty space that reflects coverage.

    It would be preferable to deploy autonomous teams rather than teleoperated robots to handle C-WMD missions given the potential for widespread and serious damage. However, autonomous robots can behave very unpredictably. Formal verification techniques, such as model-checking, could be applied to this problem, but the requirement parallel activities, time-constrained and probabilistic action, and real-number variables all cause extreme state-space size issues. Lyons and Arkin (2012) propose an approach to verification of behavior-based robot systems based on a process algebra model of recurrence a dynamic Bayesian network for probabilistic filtering. They show that this can be used for efficient verification of performance guarantees and validate the guarantees with extensive experimentation.


  • Sunday, March 16, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, March 13, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, March 13, 2014 

    A lecture by Yan Zhang, University of California, Berkeley


    Hegeman 308  Adinkras are graphical tools created for the study of representations in supersymmetry. Besides having inherent interest for physicists, adinkras offer many easy-to-state and accessible open problems for mathematicians from different trades (by the end of the talk, I will have pretended to have known stuff about Clifford algebras, posets, coding theory, switching graphs, and algebraic topology...), but especially combinatoralists! I will include my original results, but mostly, I just want to share my enthusiasm for these pretty objects. No specialist knowledge required.

  • Wednesday, March 12, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, March 11, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, March 10, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, March 9, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, March 6, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, March 6, 2014 
      A lecture by James Gatewood, United States Military Academy
    Hegeman 308  We present an urban network that takes into account how streets and neighborhoods interact and influence each other.  This two-mode urban structure presents another approach to analyze urban environments.  We use GIS to construct a network map of an American city and then apply network analysis to evaluate how the network structure influences such features as traffic flow, density and housing considerations. Also, given the rise of African cities, where some are being completely designed and developed in lieu of developing organically, the results of this project will make recommendations for effective metropolitan growth structures.

  • Wednesday, March 5, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, March 4, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, March 3, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, March 2, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, February 27, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, February 26, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, February 24, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, February 23, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, February 20, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, February 19, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, February 18, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, February 17, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, February 16, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, February 13, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, February 11, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, February 10, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, February 9, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, February 6, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Tuesday, February 4, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Monday, February 3, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Sunday, February 2, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, January 30, 2014 
    A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor
    RKC 111 
  • Thursday, December 19, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, December 18, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, December 17, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, December 16, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, December 15, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, December 12, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, December 11, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, December 10, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, December 10, 2013 
    Reem-Kayden Center  Students presenting:
    Julia Les
    Maxwell McKee
    Lydia Meyer
    Eric Reed


  • Monday, December 9, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, December 8, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, December 5, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, December 4, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, December 3, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, December 2, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, December 1, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, November 28, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, November 27, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 26, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, November 25, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 24, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, November 21, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, November 21, 2013 
    Hegeman 204  A lecture by Zachary Hamaker '08

    A sorting network is a way to reverse a list of numbers by swapping adjacent entries in the list using as few swaps as possible. We will discuss what a random sorting network looks like. To do so, we will highlight the role of simulation in mathematics, use combinatorial and probabilistic techniques and explore what it means to describe a random object. There will be open problems. There will be surprising conjectures. We will look at the best pictures. The target audience is all Bard students.

  • Wednesday, November 20, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 19, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 19, 2013 
      Reem-Kayden Center  The Bard Math Circle will host the AMC 8 Math Contest for the second year. The AMC 8, first offered in 1985, is an annual contest in middle school mathematics sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America. In 2012, more than 150,000 students from 2,300 schools participated in the AMC 8 contest, including 49 students at Bard College from around the Mid-Hudson Valley. The AMC 8 program at Bard will include an inspirational talk by Bard mathematics professor Sam Hsiao, and a panel discussion for parents entitled "Supporting Your Child as a High Achiever in Math and Science."

    Note: The location of Sam Hsiao's talk has been moved to the Olin Language Center, room 115. The rest of the AMC 8 program will remain in the RKC.


  • Monday, November 18, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 17, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, November 14, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, November 14, 2013 
    Hegeman 204  A lecture by
    Natasha Komarov
    Carnegie Mellon University

    We consider a pursuit-evasion game played on a graph in which the pursuer—here referred to as “hunter”'—is not constrained by the graph but must play in the dark against a “mole.” It turns out that the graphs—which we will call “hunter-win”—on which the hunter can guarantee capture of the mole in bounded time have a nice characterization: a graph is hunter-win if and only if it is a lobster. We also define an optimal hunter strategy (and consequently an upper bound on maximum game time on hunter-win graphs) and note that an optimal hunter strategy need not take advantage of the hunter's unconstrained movement.

  • Wednesday, November 13, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 12, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, November 11, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 10, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, November 7, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, November 6, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, November 5, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, November 4, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 3, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, November 3, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Saturday, November 2, 2013 
    Reem-Kayden Center  Please join us for The Fourth Biennial Mid-Hudson Mathematics Conference for Undergraduates

    Plenary Address by Sam Vandervelde of St. Lawrence University: "Path-Counting for Pleasure and Profit"
     The conference will be held in the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation at Bard College. Continental breakfast and lunch are complimentary and registration is free. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty are invited to give 20-minute talks.   To register and/or submit an abstract, go to math.bard.edu/mhmc2013.
     Abstract deadline: Friday, October 18.

    Please register soon, even if you are not giving a talk. Funding for this conference is provided by Bard College and by NSF grant DMS-0846477 through the MAA Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences program.

  • Thursday, October 31, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, October 30, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, October 29, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, October 28, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, October 27, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 24, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 24, 2013 
    Hegeman 204  A lecture by
    Brigitte Servatius
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

    A bar-and-joint framework in the plane with degree of freedom 1 is a mechanism. A famous simple example of a mechanism is the Watt engine, also called Watt's parallel linkage. It consists of two grounded bars (or links) whose free ends are connected by a third link. In Watt's patent specification of 1784 for the Watt steam engine he explains that the midpoint of the connecting link is constrained to move on a (good approximation to a) straight line. This fact is still used in automobile suspensions, allowing the axle of a vehicle to travel vertically while preventing sideways motion.

    It is well known that the operations of 0-extension  and 1-extension, the so called Henneberg moves, may always be done on a mechanism to preserve the degree of freedom infinitesimally and generically. But, is it true that for a given generic realization of a mechanism these operations may be performed without restricting the motion?

  • Wednesday, October 23, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, October 22, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, October 21, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, October 20, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 17, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, October 16, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, October 15, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, October 14, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, October 13, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 10, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 10, 2013 
      Hegeman 204  A lecture by
    Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner
    The Institute for Advanced Study

    The "Ehrhart polynomial" is an important tool for counting lattice points in triangles and other polygons. An Ehrhart polynomial has a "period", and the relationship between the coordinates of the vertices of a polygon and the period of its Ehrhart polynomial can be quite mysterious. Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner will present recent joint work with Aaron Kleinman relating the periods of the Ehrhart polynomials of some simple triangles with recursive sequences like the Fibonacci numbers and the Pell numbers. Interestingly, this is linked to a curious staircase arising in a special geometry called "symplectic" geometry.

  • Wednesday, October 9, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, October 8, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, October 7, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, October 6, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 3, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, October 3, 2013 
      Reem-Kayden Center  Students presenting:
    Emin Atuk, Tedros Balema, Griffin Burke, Kathleen Burke, Desi-Rae Campbell, Kody Chen, Yan Chu, Matt Dalrymple, Tom Delaney, Georgia Doing, Leila Duman, Colyer Durovich, Matthew Greenberg, Sumedha Guha, Asad Hashmi, Emily Hoelzli, Nushrat Hoque, Seoyoung Kim, Muhsin King, Midred Kissai, Julia Les, Lei Lu, Yuexi Ma, Katherine Moccia, Gavin Myers, Van Mai Nguyen Thi, Matthew Norman, Molly North, Nathaniel Oh, Ian Pelse, Linh Pham, Christina Rapti, Joanna Regan, Diana Ruggiero, Iden Sapse, Clara Sekowski, Sabrina Shahid, Min Kyung Shinn, Anuska Shrestha, Eva Shrestha, Shailab Shrestha, Olja Simoska, Ingrid Stolt, Henry Travaglini, Shuyi Weng, Clare Wheeler, Noah Winslow

    Advisers: Craig Anderson, Sven Anderson, Paul Cadden-Zimansky, John Cullinan, Olivier Giovannoni, Swapan Jain, Brooke Jude,  Christopher LaFratta, Robert McGrail, Emily McLaughlin, Keith O’Hara, Bruce Robertson, Lauren Rose, Rebecca Thomas



  • Wednesday, October 2, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, October 1, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, September 30, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, September 29, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, September 26, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, September 26, 2013 
      Hegeman 204  A lecture by
    Branden Stone
    Mathematics Program

    The Hilbert series of a module over a commutative ring is a generating function that captures many invariants of the module. In the case of zero dimensional standard graded rings, the Hilbert series is a polynomial and we call the coefficients the h-vector. As it turns out, the number of such h-vectors of length n is bounded above by the nth Fibonacci number. In this talk, we will define the Hilbert series and give some basic examples. We will also discuss the sequence defined by the number of h-vectors of a given length and its relation to the Fibonacci numbers and partitions. This talk will be accessible to anyone who has taken (or is currently taking) linear algebra.



  • Wednesday, September 25, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 24, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, September 23, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, September 22, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, September 19, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, September 18, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 17, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, September 16, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, September 15, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, September 12, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, September 11, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 10, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, September 9, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Sunday, September 8, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Thursday, September 5, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Wednesday, September 4, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 3, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Tuesday, September 3, 2013 
    Albee 3rd Floor Common Room  All Mathematics students are welcome!

  • Monday, September 2, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Sunday - Thursday ●  RKC 111 ● 7-10 p.m.


  • Monday, June 3, 2013 
      Bard College Campus 
  • Monday, May 20, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, May 19, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, May 16, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, May 16, 2013 
      Reem-Kayden Center  Students presenting:
    Adenike Akapo, Raed, Al-Abbasee Ammar Al-Rubaiay, Perry Anderson, Michael Anzuoni, Jeremy Arnstein, Nina Bar-Giora, Ian Barnett, Brendan Beecher, Abhinanda Bhattarcharyya, Cara Black, Sheneil Black, Laura Bradford, Cameron Brenner, Ross Cameron, Emily Carlson, Matteo Chierchia, Diana Crow, Kierstin Daviau, Jonathan De Wolf, Ha Phuong Do Thi, Katharine Dooley, Alexia Downs, Kimara DuCasse, Amy Eisenmenger, Jose Falla, Margo Finn, Joseph Foy, Prabarna Ganguly, Nabil Hossain, Matthew Hughes, Linda Ibojie, Miles Ingram, Lena James, Blagoy Kaloferov, Sun Bin Kim, Thant Ko Ko, Ruth Lakew, Hsiao-Fang Lin, Sam Link, Amy List, Weiying Liu, Julia Lunsford, Iliana Maifeld-Carucci, Claire Martin, Andres Medina, Jose Mendez, Tiago Moura, Jonathan Naito, Anam Nasim, Rachit Neupane, Mark Neznansky, Jeffrey Pereira, Liana Perry, Anisha Ramnani, Lydia Rebehn, Nolan Reece, Jonah Richard, Loralee Ryan, Perry Scheetz, Joy Sebesta, Erin Smith, Will Smith, Frank Stortini, James Sunderland, Oliver Switzer, Jacqueline Villiers, Weiqing Wang, Jasper Weinrich-Burd, Michael Weinstein, Layla Wolfgang, Fanya Wyrick-Flax, Sara Yilmaz, Anis Zaman, Wancong Zhang, Feifan Zheng

  • Wednesday, May 15, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, May 14, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, May 13, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, May 12, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, May 9, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, May 8, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, May 7, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, May 6, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, May 5, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, May 2, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, May 1, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, April 30, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, April 29, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, April 28, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, April 25, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, April 24, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, April 23, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, April 22, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, April 21, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, April 18, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, April 18, 2013 
      Hegeman 308  A lecture by
    Tristan Hübsch
    Professor of Physics, Howard University
    Symmetry is recognized throughout nature and our descriptions of it. Mathematically, it requires that varying some quantity results in no observable change: rotate a well-formed clover leaf by 120 degrees, and it looks the same. Supersymmetry is such a transformation, the only one known to guarantee our Universe from decaying into another, and then another, and again, and again. Yet, this transformation maps physical quantities measured in terms of ordinary numbers into quantities measured in numbers that square to zero. The study of this supersymmetry being underway for about half a century, it is surprising that a complete (so-called off-shell) representation theory is only now emerging---and it includes certain binary encryption codes, of the kind used by your browser to insure that the downloaded page is a faithful copy of the original on a web-site! This fascinating syzygy of diverse ideas opens doors to new discoveries in physics, mathematics and encryption alike.
This talk does not assume any advanced background in mathematics or physics.
    Refreshments will be served afterwards in the Albee Math Lounge.

  • Wednesday, April 17, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, April 16, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, April 15, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, April 14, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, April 11, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, April 10, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, April 9, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, April 8, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, April 7, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, April 4, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, April 3, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, April 2, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, April 2, 2013 
      EXTENDED DEADLINE
    Applications due Tuesday, April 30

    All current students concentrating in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics or physics are eligible to apply for a Distinguished Scientist Scholar (DSS) Award. These awards are given to exceptional students who have distinguished themselves academically in one of the above-mentioned disciplines in the division of Science, Mathematics and Computing. The exact amount of each award is determined by the Financial Aid office, on average $5000 for each academic year, and includes the opportunity to apply for a summer research stipend to participate in NSF or NIH sponsored summer research programs at other institutions, if the student is not already eligible for federal funding. Like other science students at Bard, DSS recipients are also eligible for BSRI funding for summer research at Bard. Please note that this is a very competitive process and only a few awards will be given out each year.Eligibility: To apply for a DSS award (commencing in the fall), a student must meet the following eligibility criteria:o   Concentrating in one of the following programs: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics.o   Not currently receiving a DSS scholarship or award.o   Cumulative GPA of 3.0 overall in the college.o   Cumulative GPA of 3.5 in courses in the SM&C Division. Application Procedure:o   Write a letter of request to the DSS Committee. The letter should discuss your plan of study in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and/or physics.o   Write an essay about an experience in science or math that you found particularly interesting.o   Ask two Bard faculty members to write you letters of recommendation. At least one of these faculty members must be in the SM&C Division. They should submit their letters directly to Megan Karcher.o   Submit this information as attachments via e-mail to the SM&C Division secretary, Megan Karcher ([email protected])Selection Criteria:  Awards will be granted to students showing exceptional qualifications in their areas of study and based upon the following:o   College academic records.o   Letters of recommendations from the faculty.o   A strong interest in working in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, or physics.o   Availability of funds.Deadline: Applications must be submitted no later than Friday, April 12th, 2013.The DSS Committee will meet shortly after that, and will make recommendations to the Director of Financial Aid, who will determine the final awards. You should receive word of whether you have been selected to receive a DSS award by early May. Questions?  Contact Sven Anderson, Chair of the Division of Science, Math and Computing, [email protected]

  • Monday, April 1, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, March 31, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, March 28, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, March 27, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, March 26, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, March 25, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, March 24, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, March 21, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, March 21, 2013 
      RKC 111  A lecture by
    Csilla Szabo
    Candidate for the position in Mathematics

    Networks are all around us! From our social interactions to the neurons in our brains to financial markets, we find network structure. Network science can help us to better understand how these complex systems in our world work. We will begin our discussion with a brief introduction to network science; including the components of a network, how we measure the center of a network and other network metrics. I will present some interesting applications of network science that you may encounter in your daily life. Finally, I will conclude with an overview of three ongoing projects in network science. The first looks at how use network structure to classify a financial market. Second, we will explore how Twitter can be used to predict an event such as a protest or revolution during the time of the Arab Spring. Finally, I will present a project examining the links between water, energy and social networks in developing countries and plans of how this multi-layered network can be synchronized to build a resilient and robust network, which could supply more people with these resources.


  • Wednesday, March 20, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, March 19, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, March 18, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, March 18, 2013 
      Dominoes, Problem-Solving & Graph Theory
    Reem-Kayden Center  A Math Teachers' Circle is a community of math teachers, math professors, & professional mathematicians, coming together to do fun, open-ended math. Typically, we engage in open-ended, brain-teasing, fun problems that require us to think in new and creative ways. Then, we talk about the math together and share ideas and resources for bringing the math into the classroom.  Each teacher will receive manipulatives and other take-aways related to the problems at hand, and dinner will be served.

    Please join us for an afternoon designed to celebrate the excitement of math, to deepen our understanding of both content and math practice standards, and to explore classroom-ready resources.  For more information about math teachers circles in general, visit http://www.mathteacherscircle.org/

    Steering Committee for the Mid-Hudson Math Teachers Circle: Lauren Rose, (Professor of Mathematics, Bard College), Jeff Suzuki (Professor of Mathematics, Brooklyn College), Sheila Shaffer (Math Teacher, Bailey MS, Kingston), Beth Goldberg (Math Teacher, Red Hook Schools) & Dana Fulmer (Supervisor, Professional Development, Ulster BOCES) 

    Co-sponsored by Bard College & Ulster BOCES. 

    Reem-Kayden Center, room 115



  • Sunday, March 17, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, March 14, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, March 13, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, March 13, 2013 
    RKC 102  A Lecture by Amir Barghi, Candidate for the Position in Mathematics

    In the Firefighter Problem, a fire starts at a vertex of a graph (a tree in an orchard or a forest). In discrete time intervals, the fire spreads from burning vertices to their neighbors (from burning trees to the ones close by) unless they are protected by one of the firefighters that are deployed every turn. Once burned or protected, a vertex remains in that state. This process terminates when the fire can not spread any longer. In the case of finite graphs, firefighters wish to minimize the damage or the time that the fire rages. When a fire starts in an infinite graph, the key question is whether the fire can be stopped. In this talk, two different models for an infinite forest on a flat terrain will be introduced and conditions under which a fire can be stopped will be discussed.


  • Tuesday, March 12, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, March 11, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, March 10, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, March 7, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, March 6, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, March 5, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, March 4, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, March 4, 2013 
      Hegeman 308  A lecture by
    Emma Norbrothen
    Candidate for the Position in Mathematics

    Rational numbers can construct the real numbers by using the absolute value metric. Under different metrics, rationals can construct different types of numbers. In particular, the p-norm evaluates how much a prime, p, is a factor in a given rational. We will explore some consequences of the p-norm and what kind of numbers it creates from the rationals. 


  • Sunday, March 3, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, February 28, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, February 28, 2013 
      RKC 111  A lecture by
    Avner Halevy
    Candidate for the position in Mathematics

    Go ahead, put on your n-dimensional goggles. To be sure, we’re not talking n=3 (for kids and the faint-hearted). Think higher; so high your head has almost disappeared; so high your neighbors are all suspiciously alike and almost perfectly different. As thrill-seeking mathematicians, we’ll go where no man has gone before (well, except for those other thrill-seeking mathematicians). We’ll explore some mind-bending high-dimensional phenomena, including: Surprising methods for eliminating surprises, low-distortion inter-dimensional travel, what the laws of large numbers don’t tell you, how geometry and probability are sometimes the same thing, easily mowing your hyper-spherical lawn, and where to look for your hat in a high-dimensional room.

  • Wednesday, February 27, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, February 26, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, February 25, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, February 24, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, February 21, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, February 21, 2013 
      RKC 111  A lecture by
    Amanda Redlich
    Candidate for the position in Mathematics

    When is it possible to glue two graphs together? When is it possible to slice a large graph? What does "first-order logic with parity quantifiers" mean, and what does it have to do with gluing and cutting graphs? In this talk I will answer all four of these questions. No previous knowledge of parity, first-order logic, graphs, scissors, or glue will be assumed.

  • Thursday, February 21, 2013 
      Website  Anyone who is interested in submitting a scientific research paper or scientific review to be peer-reviewed should send in their submissions to [email protected] by March 1st.

    For more details on our submission guidelines, check out our tumblr at bardsciencejournal.tumblr.com or email us and ask for a pdf copy.

  • Wednesday, February 20, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, February 19, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, February 19, 2013 
      Hegeman 308  Nathanial Burch
    Candidate for the Position in Mathematics

    Mathematical models are used across the sciences to help understand complicated processes, e.g., the life expectancy of a nuclear reactor, the spread of a contaminant, the risk of a disease outbreak, the sustainability of an endangered species, and so on.  In this talk, we introduce sensitivity analysis as a tool for studying the dynamics of such a model and identifying which parameters have a significant impact on its output. This analysis plays a crucial role in informing viable and effective management strategies while also helping to quantify the effects of uncertainty in parameter values. Examples from biology and epidemiology will be presented throughout the talk.


  • Monday, February 18, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, February 17, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, February 14, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, February 13, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, February 12, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, February 11, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, February 10, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, February 7, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Wednesday, February 6, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Tuesday, February 5, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Monday, February 4, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Sunday, February 3, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, January 31, 2013 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates,
    or find a math tutor

  • Thursday, December 20, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Wednesday, December 19, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, December 18, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, December 17, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, December 16, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, December 13, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, December 13, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Thursday, December 13, 2012 
    Reem-Kayden Center  Students Presenting:
    Stephanie Dunn
    
Adviser: Felicia Keesing

    Justin Gero
    
Adviser: Felicia Keesing

    Liza Miller
    
Adviser: Brooke Jude

    Keaton Morris-Stan
    
Adviser: Philip Johns

    Megan Naidoo 

    Adviser: Philip Johns

    Jonah Peterschild 

    Adviser: Felicia Keesing

    Damianos Lazaridis Giannopoul
    
Adviser: John Cullinan

  • Wednesday, December 12, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, December 11, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, December 10, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, December 9, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, December 6, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, December 6, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, December 5, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, December 4, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, December 3, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, December 2, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 29, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 29, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, November 28, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, November 27, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, November 26, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, November 25, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 22, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 22, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, November 21, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, November 20, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, November 19, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, November 18, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 15, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 15, 2012 
    RKC 111  A lecture by
    Courtney Gibbons
    University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    If you love math and games, you've probably done a few Sudoku puzzles in your day.  Have you noticed that all Sudoku puzzles have some properties in common (the sum of every row is 45, for instance)? We'll see how to formalize these observations by using polynomials to set up the Sudoku "game space."  Then we'll figure out how to solve specific "game boards" in this space using some tools from (abstract) algebra.

    Don't worry; even if you haven't taken any abstract algebra, you'll be able to follow this talk  (all you really need is a background in Calculus II). 


  • Thursday, November 15, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, November 14, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, November 13, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, November 12, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, November 11, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 8, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 8, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Thursday, November 8, 2012 
      RKC 111  Fanya Wyrick-Flax
    4:30 p.m.

    Mark Neznansky
    4:38 p.m.

    Ruth Lakew
    4:46 p.m.

    Weiying Liu
    4:54 p.m.

    Layla Wolfgang
    5:02 p.m.

    Joy Sebesta
    5:10 p.m.

    Jeffrey Pereira
    5:18 p.m.

    Illiana Maifield-Carucci
    5:26 p.m.

    Anam Nasim
    5:34 p.m.

    Laura Bradford
    5:42 p.m.

  • Wednesday, November 7, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, November 6, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, November 5, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, November 4, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, November 4, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 1, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, November 1, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Thursday, November 1, 2012 
      RKC 111  Anisha Ramrani
    3:20 p.m.

    Emily Carlson
     3:28 p.m.

    Ian Barnett
    3:44 p.m.

    Joseph Foy
    3:52 p.m.

    Jacqueline Villiers
    4:00 p.m.

    Will Smith
    4:08 p.m.

    Abhinanda Bhattacharyya
    4:16 p.m.

    Nabil Hossain
    4:24 p.m.

    Jasper Weinrich-Burd
    4:32 p.m.

    Fiona Do Thi
    4:40 p.m.

  • Wednesday, October 31, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 30, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, October 29, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, October 28, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, October 25, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, October 25, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, October 24, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 23, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, October 22, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, October 21, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, October 18, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, October 18, 2012 
    RKC 111  A lecture by
    Ruth Haas
    Smith College
    A proper coloring is an assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph G so that neighboring vertices have different colors. Graph coloring has been a motivating topic for much of graph theory.

    Suppose we change the color of just one vertex in a graph coloring. Can we get from one coloring to another by a sequence of vertex changes so that each step along the way is a proper coloring? The answer is of course yes, if we are allowed an unlimited number of colors.   What is the fewest colors we can have for this to work?

    We introduce a new graph called the coloring graph to analyze this situation. The coloring graph, and similar constructions, can be used to solve problems ranging from counting the possible number of graph colorings to modeling spin configurations in atoms.

  • Thursday, October 18, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, October 17, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 16, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, October 15, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, October 14, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, October 11, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, October 11, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, October 10, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 9, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, October 8, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, October 7, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, October 4, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, October 4, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, October 3, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, October 2, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, October 1, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, September 30, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, September 27, 2012 
    Reem-Kayden Center  Students presenting:Michael Anzuoni, Tedros Balema, Amanda Benowitz, Cara Black, Sheneil Black, Max Brown, Celeste Cass, Matteo Chierchia, Nikesh Dahal, Francesca DiRienzo, Leila Duman, Jose Falla, David Goldberg, Sumedha Guha, Nabil Hossain, Linda Ibojie, Lena James, Seoyoung Kim, Thant Ko Ko, Lila Low-Beinart, Yuexi Ma, Keaton Morris-Stan, Mark Neznansky, Matthew Norman, Ian Pelse, Liana Perry, Min Kyung Shinn, Olja Simoska, William Smith, Nathan Steinauer, Xiaohan Sun, James Sunderland, Weiqing Wang, Michael Weinstein, Clare Wheeler, Sara YilmazAdvisers: Craig Anderson, Christian Bracher, John Cullinan, Swapan Jain, Philip Johns, Brooke Jude, Tanay Kesharwani, Christopher LaFratta, Barbara Luka, Emily McLaughlin, Keith O’Hara, Lauren Rose



  • Thursday, September 27, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, September 27, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, September 26, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, September 24, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, September 23, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, September 20, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, September 20, 2012 
      Albee 3rd floor common room  Mathematics TeaTea and cookies will be served
    All mathematics students are welcome!


  • Wednesday, September 19, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, September 18, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, September 17, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, September 16, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, September 13, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Thursday, September 13, 2012 
    Albee 3rd floor common room  All mathematics students are welcome!

  • Wednesday, September 12, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, September 11, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Monday, September 10, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Sunday, September 9, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor.

  • Tuesday, May 22, 2012 
    Albee 3rd floor lounge  In honor of the 2012 Mathematics Seniors:
    Jeanette Benham, Ke Cai, Siyao Du, Yunxia Jia, Adriana Johnson, Sankalpa Khadka, Stergios Mentesidis, Mariya Mitkova, Lindsey Scoppetta, Evan Seitchik, Giang Tran, Kimberly Wood, Zhiwei Wu, Dimin Xu, Yongqing Yuan, Changwei Zhou

    All current and prospective mathematics majors are welcome to attend

  • Monday, May 21, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Sunday, May 20, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, May 17, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, May 17, 2012 
    Reem-Kayden Center  Graduating Seniors:
    Daniela Anderson, Lilah Anderson, Nadya Artiomenco, Conor Beath, Rachel Becker, Jeannette Benham, Matthew Boisvert, Samantha Brechlin, Ke Cai, Nicole Camasso, Curtis Carmony, Deven Connelly, Shellie Ann Dick, Sara Doble, Siyao Du, Madison Fletcher, Briana Franks, Abigail Fuchsman, Kira Gilman, Erin Hannigan, Lucas Henry, Andrew Hoffman-Patalona, Maxwell Howard, Yunxia Jia, Adriana Johnson, Axel Kammerer, Nicole Kfoury, Sankalpa Khadka, Youseung Kim, Sining Leng, Emily Mayer, Stergios Mentesidis, Mariya Mitkova, Samantha Monier, Jessica Philpott, Jega Jananie Ravi, Laura Schubert, Lindsey Scoppetta, Evan Seitchik, Hannah Shapero, Abhimanyu Sheshashayee, Eli Sidman, Gabriella Spitz, Veronica Steckler, Joshua Tanner, Emma Taylor-Salmon, Isabelle Taylor, Giang Tran, Will Wisseman, Kimberly Wood, Zhiwei Wu, Dimin Xu, Jing Yang, Yongqing Yuan, Changwei Zhou

  • Wednesday, May 16, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Tuesday, May 15, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Monday, May 14, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Sunday, May 13, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, May 10, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Wednesday, May 9, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Tuesday, May 8, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Monday, May 7, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Sunday, May 6, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, May 3, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Wednesday, May 2, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Tuesday, May 1, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Monday, April 30, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Sunday, April 29, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, April 26, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, April 26, 2012 
      Hegeman 308  A lecture by
    Elizabeth Russell
    Department of Mathematical Sciences
    United States Military Academy

    In this talk, we will discuss the sets of the complex plane on which chaos occurs (the Julia set) for families of iterated polynomial and rational maps. Specifically, we will see how well-known Julia sets like the basilica, rabbit, and rat behave when perturbed by the addition of a pole at the origin. Some of the objects that will appear in the talk are Cantor sets, Cantor sets of simple (and not so simple) closed curves, and Sierpinski curves.


  • Wednesday, April 25, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Tuesday, April 24, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Monday, April 23, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Sunday, April 22, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, April 19, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, April 19, 2012 
    Hegeman 308  A lecture by
    Elizabeth McMahon
    Lafayette College
    The cards in the game of SET are an excellent model for the finite affine geometry AG(4,3).  We will explore how to use the game to visualize the structure of the geometry.  We will focus on complete caps, which correspond to largest possible collections of cards with no sets.  There is an interesting structure to these caps, and even more, the geometry can be partitioned into disjoint complete caps together with a single point closely related to the caps.

  • Wednesday, April 18, 2012 
    Campus Center, Multipurpose Room  A lecture by
    Elizabeth McMahon
    Lafayette College

    The card game SET is an award-winning, addictive game played with a special deck of 81 cards. We can learn a lot about the game through combinatorics, probability, linear algebra and geometry.  In this talk, we will explore some of the things we can learn about the game by looking at the mathematics behind it, and we'll also see that you can learn more about mathematics using the game to help with visualization.  If you would like some practice with the game before the talk, go to www.setgame.com for the rules and a Daily Puzzle.

    Dr. Elizabeth McMahon is Professor of Mathematics at Lafayette College. She earned an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, an M.S. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Originally trained in non-commutative ring theory, her current research interests are in combinatorics, finite geometry, and Cayley graphs. She has held visiting positions at numerous institutions, including the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, UK and the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. She has been recognized for her teaching through several awards, including the James P. Crawford EPADEL Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 2005.

    This event, intended for a general audience, is free and open to the public.

  • Wednesday, April 18, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Tuesday, April 17, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Monday, April 16, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Sunday, April 15, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, April 12, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, April 12, 2012 
      Hegeman 308  A lecture by
    Jo Ellis-Monaghan
    St. Michael's College
    Recent advances in DNA self-assembly have resulted in nanoscale graphs: cubes, octahedrons, truncated octahedra, and even buckyballs, as well as ultra-fine meshes. These constructs serve emergent applications in biomolecular computing, nanoelectronics, biosensors, drug delivery systems, and organic synthesis.

    One construction method uses k-armed branched junction molecules, called tiles, whose arms are double strands of DNA with one strand extending beyond the other, forming a 'sticky end' at the end of the arm that can bond to any other sticky end with complementary Watson-Crick bases. A vertex of degree k in the target graph is formed from a k-armed tile, and joined sticky ends form the edges. Another construction method 'threads' a single strand of DNA through the graphical structure and then uses short 'staple' strands to fold the DNA into the desired geometric realization of the graph. A third method uses circular single strands of DNA to trace the faces of a topological embedding of the graph.

    We use graph theory to determine optimal design strategies for biologists producing these nanostructures, and conclude with a discussion of how the same mathematics, on the macroscale now, may be adapted to space applications.

    This is joint work with Greta Pangborn, with undergraduate research
    participation.

  • Wednesday, April 11, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

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    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Tuesday, April 10, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
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  • Monday, April 9, 2012 
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    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
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  • Sunday, April 8, 2012 
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    Every Sunday-Thursday
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    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, April 5, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Wednesday, April 4, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Tuesday, April 3, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Monday, April 2, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Sunday, April 1, 2012 
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    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, March 29, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
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    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, March 29, 2012 
    Hegeman 308  A lecture by
    Branden Stone
    University of Kansas, Candidate for the BPI position in Mathematics
    A generating function is is said to be "a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display."  We will define and give examples of this notion.  Further, we use the concept of a generating function to count the number of ways there is to make change for a dollar.  Also, we will briefly explore where generating functions appear in mathematical research, in particular, commutative algebra.
    The talk should be accessible to anyone who has taken Calculus II.


  • Wednesday, March 28, 2012 
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    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Tuesday, March 27, 2012 
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    Every Sunday-Thursday
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    7-10 p.m.

  • Monday, March 26, 2012 
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    Every Sunday-Thursday
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  • Sunday, March 25, 2012 
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    Every Sunday-Thursday
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    7-10 p.m.

  • Thursday, March 22, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
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    7-10 p.m.

  • Wednesday, March 21, 2012 
    RKC 111  A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or find a math tutor

    Every Sunday-Thursday
    RKC 111
    7-10 p.m.

  • Tuesday, March 20, 2012