Programs and Activities of Particular Interest to Students
Many opportunities and events of interest to students and young mathematicians are offered at this meeting. Please see the list below; however it is not exhaustive.
The Student Hospitality Center is open Wednesday–Friday, 9:00 am– 5:00 pm, and Saturday, 9:00 am–2:00 pm, organized by Richard and Araceli Neal, American Society for the Communication of Mathematics, and sponsored by the MAA Committee for Undergraduate Student Activities.The Center contains calm places to hang out with chairs & tables, puzzles, handouts, and light snacks. Location: Skybridge Area, Exhibit Hall 4D, Washington State Convention Center.
Funding Available
Travel Grants available for Graduate Students - Submission deadline - September 25, 2015, 11:59 p.m. Eastern time
Travel Grants available for Undergraduate Students - Submission deadline - October 11, 2015, 11:59 p.m. Eastern time
Lectures/Panels/Sessions
- Current Events Bulletin
- Joint Prize Session
- Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
- MAA Student Poster Session
- MAA Lecture for Students - The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set
- Panel Discussion on Recent Graduates, What we Wish we had Learned
- Panel Discussion on Success in Graduate School (and the Rest of Your Life)
- YMN/Project NeXT Poster Session
- Session on Finding a Thesis Topic and Advisor
- Session on Career Options for Undergraduates
- Session on Poetry+Art+Math
- Session on How to Think Brilliantly and Creatively in Mathematics
- Session on High School Quadratics: How to Think About and Do Everything About Them Brilliantly and Creatively
- Sessions for High School Students and Teachers
Activities
- AMS Employment Center
- Backgammon Lessons
- Grad School Fair
- Exhibits (commercial)
- Knitting Circle
- Mathematical Art Exhibition
- Math Circle Demonstration
- Math Wrangle Demonstration
- Play - Mathematically Bent Theater
- Film - Navajo Math Circles
- Radical Dash - a Scavenger Hunt
- Reception for Undergraduates
- Reception for Graduate Students and First-Time Participants
- Student Hospitality Center
- Who Wants to Be a Mathematician—National Contest