Announcements
Our annual bagel day will be held in EXPL 4106 at 10:30am on Monday, November 18th in celebration of August Möbius’s 234th birthday! Please join us for breakfast to learn how to slice a Möbius band into a bagel and spread cream cheese onto a single connected component. We will also be announcing Spring 2025 MEGL projects at the event!
Congratulations to MEGL researchers William Carey and Stefan Popescu as well as faculty mentor Rachel Kirsch and graduate mentor Matthew Kearney for finishing their paper “Universal partial tori”! Read the preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12417 .
Congratulations to MEGL researchers Mark Brant, Gabriela Castaneda Guzman, and Gina Thomas for another paper resulting from the Surface Tension for Floating Objects project, led by Dr. Daniel Anderson and Dr. Evelyn Sander with the help of graduate mentor Patrick Bishop! “Stability of floating objects at a two-fluid interface” can be accessed here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/ad5ca8 .
Congratulations to MEGL researchers William Carey and Stefan Popescu for presenting a poster at the annual MATRX conference at John Hopkins University and winning one of two best poster prizes! This poster was a result of the work of undergraduates William Carey, Stefan Popescu, and Charles Landreaux, as well as graduate mentor Matthew Kearney, during the MEGL project “Universal Cycles in Higher Dimension” which began in Fall 2023 and is being run by faculty mentor Rachel Kirsch.
President Washington met with the College of Science for the first time on November 4.
On behalf of the Mathematics Department, MEGL Director Anton Lukyanenko presented President Washington with a 3D-printed mathematical sculpture designed by MEGL students Quincy Frias and Marvin Castellon.
Learn how to make your own here!
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