Wednesday’s meeting was again held in Skiles room 255.
A good number of people showed up, including one person who skipped class to be there.
Here are the minutes from the meeting:
Item 1)
-High School Math Competition-
Nicole Larsen spoke about the competition and the need for volunteers.
Anyone interested in participating or writing questions should contact her at nlarsen@gatech.edu
Item 2)
-Yearly Dues-
Dues were changed from $10 per semester to $10 for the entire school year.
Dues should be paid to Treasurer Jon Ong.
Item 3)
-Flatland the Film-
The Secretary suggested using some dues money to purchase this movie on DVD.
It may even be possible to obtain the movie freely under academic license.
This matter will probably be voted on at the next meeting.
Short clips are available here:
http://www.flatlandthefilm.com/videos.html
Movie reviews can be seen here:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/flatland_the_film/?show=all
Item 4)
-Websites-
The club now officially has three different websites, so here’s a breakdown.
The *original* website is http://www.math.gatech.edu/~clubmath/
The *new and improved* website is http://gtclubmath.wordpress.com/
The Facebook group is
http://git.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2237719997
Item 5)
-Next Meeting-
Professor Lacey is expected to attend the next meeting and give a presentation on the application process for graduate schools.
This will not be for the entire meeting, so come even if you have already seen the presentation in the past.
The next meeting will be October 3 at 4:30PM in Skiles room 255.
In between these matters the meeting was spent playing Set, Spades and other games.
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All You Need To Know:
YEARLY Dues are $10.
High School Math Competition!
Check out the Flatland videos.
Three websites.
Lacey presentation next time.
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September 23, 2007 at 2:32 pm
I had marching band class(grade=attendance) during the meeting this week, so sorry for not coming. Here’s some afterthought additions to things to think about:
For those interested in doing a fun math/tutoring/mentoring program with a high school, middle school, or the elementary school nearby let me know and we’ll get something started. Please let me know of more specific ideas to contribute and of which age level you would prefer (we already have a connection with an elementary school, but high school connections might be a good idea as well.)
The Agnes Scott Math Club would like to join us occasionally, so if you have ideas of good ways to get together with them, we would appreciate them.
For the High School Math Competition, I am technically in charge of general volunteers and will be making the master list and instructions, so please email me at phillips@math.gatech.edu to volunteer for general High School Math Competition volunteering. If you are interested in test making or anything regarding the test, Nicole Larsen is in charge of that, so please direct those questions to her. Nicole, please email me volunteer information for non-test related volunteering, thanks.
September 24, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Cindy,
With respect to the Agnes Scott Club, did you notify them of this blog? If they do in fact want to get together with us on occasion, perhaps we can use the blog to discuss such events.
September 25, 2007 at 3:05 pm
i am in favor of interaction with agnes scott
October 4, 2007 at 10:27 am
I’m interested in joining club math, but I was wondering what are some activities that club math does around the year. From reading the blog, it doesn’t look like we do any math related problems (pure mathematics rather than applied) aside from helping at the High school Math Competition. So do we do any math in club? Are there any competitions whether internally or externally? I don’t know if I’ll be visiting this site again for a while, so could you email your response to me?
October 5, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Thanks for the interest Justin.
First let me say that the blog is relatively new and we have not gotten it running to its full capabilities yet which is why there isn’t a lot of actual math up here yet.
Many of the club members like to get together and play board and card games. That said, there are a few of us, like myself and club president AJ Friend, who are interested in the more serious aspects mathematics and like to converse with other members about mathematics and serious mathematical problems. Last year we had what amounted to two puzzle masters that brought problems (along with solutions) to every meeting; unfortunately, they graduated and we are currently in the process of delegating these duties to other members of the club (I brought a few problems to the last meeting, but few people seemed interested in looking at them).
For this upcoming semester, AJ is finding student and faculty researchers to present on their research.
On another note, I tried to get a group together to go to the Erd\”os conference in Memphis during Spring break, but there just didn’t seem to be enough interest. I will probably try to do this again this upcoming Spring.
With respect to competitions, unfortunately, the demand for mathematical competitions really drops off at the college level in favor of participating in research (and there are a number of research competitions both campus-wide and state-wide with cash prizes). You are probably already aware of this, but the Putnam competition is a very serious nationwide collegiate competition which takes place in the fall (usually the first Saturday in December). Professor Matt Baker is the coach of the Georgia Tech team.
Professor Lacey should be giving a presentation on attending graduate school in mathematics at the meeting next Wednesday; please consider attending the meeting if you are available (no obligation to join whatsoever) so that we can discuss this matter further.