Save the Date: Barry Nussbaum
Barry Nussbaum has agreed to serve as our 2018-2019 Gentry Lecturer. His public lecture will be at 5:30pm on Monday, November 12 and his department lecture will be at 11:00am on Tuesday, November 13.
Hausdorff dimension of shrinking-target sets: Fractal geometry and dynamical systems
Marco Lopez Thursday, September 6, 2018 Manchester 020, 11:00am Hausdorff dimension of shrinking-target sets: Fractal geometry and dynamical systems The ” shrinking target problem” refers to the study of the set of points in a metric space whose orbits under a dynamical system it infinitely often a ball with radius…
Save the Date: Allan Rossman
Allan Rossman of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has agreed to give a lecture and a demonstration on pedagogy in math and statistics. This will be funded by the College Board of Visitors as part of Sarah R’s leadership award in the spring. It will be similar to the Gentry lectures…
The Nexus of Climate Data, Insurance, and Adaptive Capacity
WORKSHOP: The Nexus of Climate Data, Insurance, and Adaptive Capacity: November 2018, Asheville, NC Societies depend on insurance to help recover from natural disasters, and also to help guide the development of resilient infrastructure and markets. However, decision makers in the insurance industry are faced with rising climate risks, which…
Dr. Robinson receives teaching award.
Mathematical Association of America Southeastern Section Distinguished Teaching Award Stephen Robinson The Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America instituted the Award for Distinguished College of University Teaching of Mathematics at its meeting in San Francisco, California, on January 15, 1991. There will be awards at both the…
Technology helps a blind student see math clearly
Evening the odds WFU faculty finds technology to help blind student see math clearly By Will Ferguson and Bonnie Davis Office of Communications and External Relations Kathryn Webster listens to her computer spit out a rapid-fire stream of numbers and symbols in a metallic voice. To the average person, the…