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The IUPUI Department of Mathematical Sciences in the
Community: The IUPUI Department of Mathematical Sciences is involved in various activities within the community-involving many different individuals and groups. For example, each spring the Department sponsors the IUPUI High School Mathematics Contest to encourage mathematics learning in high school and in college. Additionally, the Department, along with the Central Indiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, hosts a Statistics Career Day for high school and college students, teachers and parents. 2007-2008 K-12 Community Activities: IUPUI High School Mathematics Contest The IUPUI High School Mathematics Contest is a tool to encourage mathematics learning in high school and in college. The contest challenges students to solve four questions that require ingenuity but no advanced math skills and to write an essay on an application of mathematics. Students compete for prizes and scholarships, and the top school is awarded a traveling trophy. The contest is open to students in grades 9-12 in the 15-county area of Central Indiana: Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clinton, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Howard, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Morgan, Putnam, Shelby, and Tipton. The contest theme and questions are announced annually in February, with entries due in April. Statistics Career Day: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 The Statistics Career Day is a wonderful opportunity to meet statisticians from a variety of fields, to discover why they chose to pursue statistics as a career, and to learn how their careers developed over time. For more information about attending please visit Statistics Career Day online. Light lunch and parking provided; no participation fee. Grasp the Math Conference: Friday and Saturday, September 28-29, 2007 The conference is hosted by Jeffrey Watt, Jan Mitchener and Nancy Cruse, and is part of a nationwide program to train teachers on the new generation of graphing calculators produced by Texas Instruments. Specifically, this professional development workshop is targeted for high school math teachers in Central Indiana and is focused on the integration of TI-Nspire technology into the teaching of mathematics concepts. For more information, contact Jeff Watt, jwatt @ math.iupui.edu 2007-2008 Professional Development Activities: Undergraduate Research in Math and Biology The MATH CLUB is sponsoring presentations on "Undergraduate Research in Math and Biology" to give you an idea of what fellow math majors and Math Club members are doing. There will be four presenters, two in math and two in biology, who will talk about research they've completed over the past year. Each presentation will last 10 minutes and there will be time for questions, as well!
When: Friday, October 19, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Where: LD 229 What else: Free food and drinks! The presenters will be: Natasha Arora - genetics research Igor Minevich - math research Joe Underbrink - math research Amanda Wilson - biology research The Department will once again host the IRMC meeting this Fall. The Consortium is a part of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, founded in 1974 and is the only organization exclusively devoted to providing a national forum for the improvement of mathematics instruction in the first two years of college. For more information, contact Jeff Watt, jwatt @ math.iupui.edu. International Conference on Riemann-Finsler Geometry. February 15-17, 2008 First Illinois-Indiana Symplectic Geometry Conference IUPUI, March 15 & 16 , 2008. View the Conference Poster. International Conference on Dynamical Systems Bedlewo, Poland, June 30 - July 5, 2008. View the Conference Poster. |
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