Appreciation

I am very excited to be a part of the inaugural MOVES conference at the Museum of Mathematics in New York City!

The focus of the conference is the Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects, and it features an amazing lineup.  Erik Demaine, Dave Richeson, and Henry Segerman are among invited speakers, and Tim Chartier and Colm Mulcahy will be part of special evening of mathematical entertainment!

I will be running a Family Track activity at the Museum on Monday afternoon.  This workshop, Sphere Dressing, is inspired by the activity I submitted for the 2012 Rosenthal Prize.

The conference runs August 4-6.  You can find out more information here, and see the entire conference program here.

I am very proud of my students, Ahmed and Jason, who presented their peer-to-peer math enrichment program MathMatters! at this year’s TEDxNYED conference.

Ahmed and Jason created a program where NYC high school students travel to middle schools and run workshops on advanced and extra-curricular mathematics.  Their goal is to spread the beauty and fun of mathematics to younger students.

Ahmed and Jason put together a team of 20 high school students to develop and deliver fun and engaging lessons on Number Theory, Game Theory, Graph Theory, and many other topics.  And although they are graduating this year, Ahmed and Jason have ensured that MathMatters! will live on by training the next generation of student-leaders.  They also hope to continue to grow the program while at college.

You can learn more about their program MathMatters! here,  and you can watch their full TEDx talk here.