Special Events

• Monday March 6, 2017 at 15:00, Faculty Lounge - Wachman Hall

  Reception for Special Colloquium in honor of Cristian Gutierrez and Martin Lorenz.

   

• Wednesday March 8, 2017 at 12:00, Wachman 617

  Teaching in Mathematics, the Sciences, and Technology: Moving Beyond Good Teaching: Insights and Recommendations From the Mathematical Association of America National Study of College Calculus

  This Center for Advancement of Teaching series facilitated by alumni of the Provost's Teaching Academy offers faculty and TAs an opportunity to discuss how the research on teaching and learning applies to their disciplines. Faculty have found that the conversations are valuable across disciplines too, so please join us for any or all of these workshops.

  The event facilitators are Maria Lorenz, Irina Mitrea, and Shelby Stanhope (Mathematics).

• Friday March 31, 2017 at 16:00, 617 Wachman Hall

  Differentiated Mathematics Instruction in Tertiary Education

  Talking About Teaching Seminar, Speaker: Sherry Teti

• Friday April 28, 2017 at 11:00, 617 Wachman Hall

  Group discussion: reflections on the semester and ideas for the future

  Talking About Teaching Seminar

• Thursday October 12, 2017 at 11:45, TBA

  The Active Learning Lab: Introductory Workshop

  For the Fall 2017 semester, the Math Department's Talking About Teaching Series presents: The Active Learning Lab.

  Have you ever wondered what active learning means? Have you wondered how your fellow instructors are utilizing some of these techniques? How about whether it is possible (or practical) to teach a Math class this way?

  This series of workshops is designed to answer all of these questions, and more! The Introductory Workshop will introduce active learning techniques and strategies, and discuss specifically how they can be integrated into YOUR classes. The subsequent labs will provide an opportunity for you to learn more about such topics as group work, assessments, effective worksheets, and reviews, as well as help you develop specific activities to use in your classes. All are welcome to attend any and all of these sessions.

• Friday October 13, 2017 at 10:00, TBA

  The Active Learning Lab: Introductory Workshop

  For the Fall 2017 semester, the Math Department's Talking About Teaching Series presents: The Active Learning Lab.

  Have you ever wondered what active learning means? Have you wondered how your fellow instructors are utilizing some of these techniques? How about whether it is possible (or practical) to teach a Math class this way?

  This series of workshops is designed to answer all of these questions, and more! The Introductory Workshop will introduce active learning techniques and strategies, and discuss specifically how they can be integrated into YOUR classes. The subsequent labs will provide an opportunity for you to learn more about such topics as group work, assessments, effective worksheets, and reviews, as well as help you develop specific activities to use in your classes. All are welcome to attend any and all of these sessions.

• Monday October 23, 2017 at 16:15, SERC 110-A

  Creating Symmetries: Making Art With Waves

  Frank Farris, Santa Clara University

  Standing at the always-intriguing intersection of mathematics and art, Frank Farris introduces the mathematics of symmetry and how to create mind-blowing symmetrical images using his new waveform technique. He came up with this concept by rejecting the traditional wisdom that wallpaper patterns must be built up from blocks - a sort of potato-stamp method. Instead, he created patterns from continuous waves. Whether you like art or mathematics, or both, Farris will help you understand his process. He shows how wave functions draw on photographic images to create beautifully symmetric patterns. The focus is on art, but in the background you can glimpse such mathematical topics as group theory, functional analysis, and partial differential equations.

• Friday November 3, 2017 at 09:00, 617 Wachman Hall

  Mid-Atlantic Numerical Analysis Day

  A conference on numerical analysis and scientific computing for graduate students and postdocs from the Mid-Atlantic region. 
  Complete conference information can be found at: https://math.temple.edu/events/conferences/na-day/

Wednesday February 7, 2018 at 12:00, 527 Wachman Hall

Talking About Teaching - Book Group: MAA Instructional Practices Guide

All are welcome to attend!

• Monday April 11, 2022 at 10:00, Wachman 527

  Oral Preliminary Examination of Leah Leiner

  
  
  Please join us for the Oral Preliminary Examination of Leah Leiner.
  
  Date:  Monday, April 11, 2022 
  
  Time:  10:00 am to 12:00 pm 
  
  Location:  Wachman 527

• Tuesday April 19, 2022 at 11:50, Wachman Hall 617

  Final presentations - Mathematical Modeling Course

   

  On behalf of everyone involved in this year’s Mathematical Modeling Course, we would like to invite you to attend the following final presentations:

   

  11:50 AM - Exploring the Stability of Running Lizards With VMI-SLIP (in collaboration with Tonia Hsieh’s lab, Department of Biology, Temple).  Presented by Nour Khoudari, Vahid Mahzoon, Jacob Woods

   

  12:30 PM - On Optimizing the Stretchability of Mozzarella Cheese by Way of Rennet Coagulation Time (in collaboration with Linden Dale Farm,Lancaster County, PA).  Presented by Andrew Higgins, Madison Shoraka, Nicole Zalewski

   

  In the modeling course student teams collaborate with industry partners who pose an open and relevant research question at the beginning of the semester. Supported by weekly update presentations and discussions with faculty and industry partners, the teams develop new strategies, based on mathematical modeling, to tackle the problems.

   

  Information about past events can be found here: https://math.temple.edu/research/groups/applied/modeling/

   

  We hope to see you there!

   

  Best,

   

  Isaac Klapper, Gillian Queisser, Benjamin Seibold, Daniel Szyld

   

   

• Thursday April 21, 2022 at 11:00, Tuttleman 401B

  Mathematical Modeling and Simulation

   

  You are invited to attend final project presentations for MATH2121: Mathematical Modeling and Simulation on Thursday, April 21 from 11:00 am - 12:20 pm in Tuttleman Room 401B. 

  The tentative presentation titles are the following:

  • YouTube Modeling Project  
  • Forest Fire Simulation 
  • Simulating Release Dates of Video Games Using Agent Based Modeling
  • The Effect of Mask Type on the Spread of COVID-19 on a College Campus
  • The Change in Support for a Sports Team with Newfound Success
  • Simulating a Solar Powered Neighborhood 

  MATH 2121 is a new course in the department that focuses on agent-based modeling techniques. Over the course of the semester, students learn of different agent-based models and develop skills on how to implement them in Matlab. For the course project, students choose a topic of interest to them and create agent-based simulations investigating different questions on that topic. 

   

  Hope to see you all there. 

   

• Wednesday May 4, 2022 at 09:45, Wachman 527

  Oral Exam of Jingfeng Xia

  Please join us for Jingfeng Xia's Oral Exam.

• Friday May 6, 2022 at 11:30, SERC 108

  Spring Movie Book Club: Coded Bias

   

  The CST DEI Committee is hosting an in-person event Friday, May 6 at 11:30 am to watch the movie “Coded Bias” and then have a follow up discussion at 1:00 pm in SERC 108.  The film “Coded Bias” explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

  It will be a wonderful opportunity for the CST community to get together, discuss bias in AI, and enjoy a boxed lunch together at the end of this semester. Participants may also choose to watch the movie (access through TU library) and then join us at 1:00 pm for the discussion. Please register if you plan to attend the movie and discussion or just the discussion so that we have accurate numbers for planning.

   

  Please register to attend and get a boxed lunch: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3p19rqW58APvelmXpJJmPKS5N0piR-d5jasjV4YGTHacH4g/viewform

  Movie access via the library: https://sites.temple.edu/tulvid/coded-bias/

   

• Wednesday May 25, 2022 at 13:00, Wachman 617

  Apo Demirelli's Oral Exam

  Please join us for Apo Demirelli's Oral Exam.

• Tuesday May 31, 2022 at 11:00, Wachman 617

  Oral Exam of Rob Oakley

  Please join us for Rob Oakley's Oral Exam on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm in Wachman 617.

• Friday June 3, 2022 at 11:30, Wachman 617

  James Rosado's Thesis Defense

  
  
  Please join us for James Rosado's Thesis Defense on Friday, June 3rd at 11:30 AM in Wachman 617.
  
  Thesis Title: Ultrastructural NeuronalModeling of Calcium Dynamics under Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
  
  Attendees can also join the defense via the ZOOM details below:
  
   

  • Zoom Meeting: https://temple.zoom.us/j/98438130388
  • Meeting ID: 984 3813 0388
  • Dial by your location: (929) 205 6099 US (New York)

• Monday March 25, 2024 at 16:00, Wachman 617 (Hybrid)

  Discussion on Mastery Based Grading

  Stan Yoshinobu�(University of Toronto)
  will join us for a discussion of mastery based grading. We'll describe key features of these systems and discuss their advantages as well as the challenges they present, especially for multi-section coordinated courses. We'll share some examples that we've used in our own classes, and leave plenty of time for any questions you may have.
  
  
  
  (Hybrid in Wachman 617 and via Zoom:https://temple.zoom.us/j/99038206090)