ASA DataFest
On April 5th – 7th, forty Wake Forest students competed at the . They spent the weekend with nearly 400 other undergrads building models and creating visualizations for a large data set. Well done, Wake teams!!
Moduli problems and root constructions in algebraic geometry
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Andrew Kobin University of Virginia Thursday, March 28, 2019 11am Manchester Hall, Room 018 “Moduli problems and root constructions in algebraic geometry” Many classification problems in math – usually stated as “describe all isomorphism classes of (blank)”, or “how many (blanks) are…
Making Mathematics
College Board of Visitors Lectures
Teaching Introductory Statistics: Implementing GAISE Recommendations Monday, April 8 at 5:30 p.m. ZSR Library 404 Auditorium I will present the six recommendations for teaching introductory statistics endorsed by the American Statistical Association in its GAISE (Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education) report (www.amstat.org/education/gaise/). For each recommendation I will…
The Wild World of Infinite Groups
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Talia Fernós University of North Carolina at Greensboro Monday, March 18, 2019; 4pm – 5pm Manchester Hall, Room 020 “The Wild World of Infinite Groups” The study of infinite groups is wild; it is known that not all questions concerning them are solvable….
Calculus Meets Electromagnetism and Thermodynamics: A Tale of Two Disciplines
Joint Colloquium Departments of Physics and Mathematics & Statistics Tevian Dray, PhD Department of Mathematics Oregon State University “Calculus Meets Electromagnetism and Thermodynamics: A Tale of Two Disciplines” Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 4:00 pm George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall (Olin 101) Calculus as taught by mathematicians typically involves a large toolbox…