Day 14, Mat194: Mathematical Sciences Seminar

Today:

• Announcements:
  • Our last "topic" is a chance to reflect on how to create a presentation. So this is a very pragmatic, goal-oriented week.

• This week:
  • Your job is to begin to put together your presentation on the wiki.

  • This is a presentation -- you're presenting yourself. I will invite other faculty to come by and view your presentations. This is an opportunity to show off.

  • In our "presentation page" I provide a rough outline of how I have conceived this in the past. Usually we have a poster session, so this is quite different in some ways. On the other hand, it's a lot easier in many ways.

    As I was reflecting on this today, I sketched out an outline which you might consider following (but if anyone bullet points this, I'd be really unhappy that I ever mentioned it). It just gives you an idea for a flow, but don't follow it to the letter:

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    Your story (a thing of beauty):

    1. Early life:
       1. earliest experience with mathematics and statistics, STEM, etc.
       2. through high school:
          1. personal influences
          2. historical influences
          3. favorite subjects
          4. favorite problems

    2. More recent experiences (college)
       1. Career thoughts
       2. Reflections on your studies
          1. what's been good
          2. what could have been better?
       3. Related experiences

    3. What's next?

    4. Spotlight on a piece of mathematics
       • You will illuminate and illustrate and make exciting and lively and fun some piece of REAL mathematics.

       • You will educate your visitor. They will learn something, and be surprised and happy that they encountered your presentation.

         The best thing is to make it quite visual and exciting.

       • For those of you who did not participate in the KYMAA: you will produce -- in support -- a four-page paper about the mathematics, along the lines described in this page.

• Links:
  • Nothing for the moment.