Welcome to the HMC Math Club and SIAM Website Welcome back to the Spring Term 2012 at Mudd!
Last Update: 01/03/2011 HMC
SIAM Student Chapter/Math Club is a student-run club that organizes
math-related activities and invites math speakers. The club hosts
weekly Math Teas with food and drink and promotes student-faculty
bonding events. Some events that we've done before are: Prof.
Benjamin's Mathemagics, HMC/Caltech
Math Club Griffith Observatory Field Trip, Ambigrams
with Scott Kim, Graduate
School in Mathematics Presentation with Andrea Bertozzi, HMC
Integration Bee! (With prizes), Mini-golfing
with Profs, Rock
Climbing with Profs. The
club also works closely with the Math Department to organize
barbeques, speakers, etc. Harvey Mudd College is an official chapter of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematicians (SIAM). This is the chapter's third year! The mission of the SIAM chapter is to 1) involve undergraduates with applied mathematics, 2) Invite speakers. 3) Organize math-related activities and 4) make students aware of prizes and conferences sponsored by SIAM. Spring 2012 Plan (Tum's Plan: have not been discussed in a meeting yet): - discuss tea time's plan: Friday 2:30 - 4:00pm (after the department meeting) -- see this forum for the discussion (TODO: put the link here) - improve the announcement system from this website (and auto-notification system via email) + better web design - develop some way to promote this website (and notify if this website has a significant update)! - find a better tutoring opportunities handling system - think about SIAM meeting in the spring term (who is going this year?): _________ - integrate with the service provided by MuddSD club - create a live forum - some sort of math discussion or pretty much anything - organize a course selection discussion (whether it's with Profs or with fellow students) - idea: puzzle of the day/week/month? We can have a prize for this, using the budget we have. This way, we can keep people engaged in mathematical activities.  Announcements: - Note: we should take a photo of us together and put it here also! - Reminder: If you are interested in applying for doing research this Summer, I think it's a good idea to ask the Profs for writing letters of recommendation before the beginning of Winter Break. - Knot Theory Seminar (the second UnKn ot Conference this summer at Denison University in Granville, OH July 15-18, 2012). Talk to Prof. Bernoff for more details. - PCMI this year (2012)'s topic: Geometric Group Theory. It's July 1 - July 21, 2012. For more details, click here. ---------(PCMI 2012 Logo) ------- Past Events - Pancake with profs --- 10 PM (12/08/2011) this Thursday at Norm's - Recent contests: Putnam exam and Virginia Tech (congrats to Palmer and Jennifer!) Travel Funding for Conferences The Mathematics Department has travel funding for conferences due t o a generous donation by the Jonsson Family. To apply for funds, please fill out the Google form here well before your travel dates (as soon as you decide to go): https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=0AkzZ_k_DaadicDVxT1lQbHRzNVBwazg4YUl6V2ZuSEE&hl=en&pli=1#gid=0 Contact Prof Levy for further information. Leadership Math Club Co-Presidents: Sean Messenger (smessenger at g dot hmc dot edu) Curtis Heberle (curtis underscore herberle at hmc dot edu) Katie Hawlie (kmhawley at gmail dot com) SIAM Co-Presidents: Liz Sarapata (queenjadia at gmail dot com) Tim Yee (tim underscore yee at hmc dot edu) Eric Autry (e dot a dot autry at gmail dot com) Treasurer: Elly Schofield (eschofield at g dot hmc dot edu) Tea-Wranglers: Marina Johnson (marina underscore johnson at hmc dot edu) Liz Sarapata (queenjadia at gmail dot com) Connor Ahlbach (c underscore ahlbach at yahoo dot com) Taylor McAdam (taylor underscore mcadam at hmc dot edu) Kevin Varela-O'Hara (kvarelaohara at hmc dot edu) Math GRE-Subject Test Wrangler: TBD Webmaster: Tum Chaturapruek (tum underscore chaturapruek at hmc dot edu) Budget The Math Club was allocated $350 from ASHMC for the '11 - '12 school year. Subscribe Want to subscribe? To keep up with all that's going on, check our announcements or subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to listkeeper at hmc.edu with "subscribe math-club-l@hmc.edu" (no quotes) in the email body. If you have any questions, shoot an email to the leadership above. |
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