WSU Students Present at MAA-NCS
Joseph Knopp and Peter Roggenbuck gave a great talk on their research into mathematical modeling of bat populations!
Departmental Seminar
Abstract: How do you pick your NCAA Bracket? Do you value home wins, early season games, and blowouts against Division II and III foes? Or is it better to base everything on the last five games of the season? Bring your computer to fill out your NCAA Bracket and hear the math that has helped WSU Linear Algebra students finish in the top 90% of ESPN's Bracket Challenge.
Distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics
Tuesday, Jan 30th & Wednesday, Jan 31st
Dr. Pamela E. Harris
Finding and Creating Welcoming Mathematical Spaces
Tuesday, Jan 30th, at 6:30pm in SLC120
My identities include being a Latinx woman, mother and wife, member of the LGBTQ+ community, educator, advocate, and a mathematician. The journey to adding “mathematician” to my list of identities was not an easy one and it involved finding and creating mathematical spaces and communities in which I could be my authentic self. In this talk, I share how I have found and helped create welcoming mathematical spaces and the lessons I learned along the way that have helped me in comfortably saying “I am a mathematician!”How to choose your own mathematical adventures
Wednesday, Jan 31, at Noon in SLC120
What is mathematical research? How does a mathematician find problems to work on? How does one build mathematical collaborations? In this talk, I will share my journey to research mathematics, what it entails, how I have developed new research ideas, and how I have found my place within the mathematical community. Mathematical topics of discussion will include lattice point visibility, parking functions, and a connection between vector partition functions and juggling. No prior mathematical background on these topics is expected nor assumed as we will introduce all of the needed concepts from first principles. All that is needed is the willingness to wonder and ask the question: “what happens if…?”Dr. Pamela E. Harris is a Mexican-American mathematician and serves as Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her B.S. from Marquette University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Pamela E. Harris's research is in algebraic combinatorics and she is the author of over 70 peer-reviewed research articles in internationally recognized journals. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the Association for Women in Mathematics. Dr. Harris is also an award winning mathematical educator, receiving the 2022 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Excellence in Mathematical Education, the 2020 recipient of the MAA Northeast Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching, the 2019 MAA Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member, and the 2019 Council on Undergraduate Research Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division Early Career Faculty Mentor Award. She has supervised the research of over 120 undergraduate students, a majority of whom identify as members of groups historically excluded in higher education, has served as a research faculty mentor for undergraduate research programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, and she is a trained Entering Mentoring Workshop Facilitator. She is the President and co-founder of Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences, cohosts the podcast Mathematically Uncensored and is a coauthor of the books Asked And Answered: Dialogues On Advocating For Students of Color in Mathematics, Practices and Policies: Advocating for Students of Color in Mathematics, and Read and Rectify: Advocacy Stories from Student of Color in Mathematics.
For further information, contact Eric Errthum (eerrthum@winona.edu)
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