1. Contributed Paper Session: Mathematical Sciences in Research on the Environment
Environmental challenges continue to play a major role in our society, requiring innovative approaches to understanding and addressing these issues. Analyzing complex data and modeling environmental phenomena are essential to meeting those challenges. The active engagement of the mathematical community can greatly enhance our ability to solve the complex problems that arise in these important systems.
We welcome talks about current research, undergraduate research, and classroom research projects at the intersection of environmental sciences and mathematical methodologies, including but not limited to mathematics, data science, and statistics. Join us in exploring how quantitative approaches can illuminate our understanding of environmental issues and contribute to effective solutions.
Organizers: Russ deForest, Pennsylvania State University and Amanda Beecher, Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP)
2. SEVA Exhibition: Sustainability and Environmental Visual Arts — Triangle Tessellation
To better understand sustainability or environmental topics, visualizations are often helpful — such as satellite imaging of the polar ice caps, graphs of CO2 levels on Mauna Loa, the Recycle your attitude plastic water bottle sculpture, and the Crochet Coral Reefs collaboration. It is through art, photography, data visualizations, and other visual representations that people attempt to interpret and communicate the world and its largest challenges.
The SIGMAA-EM Sustainability and Environmental Visual Arts (SEVA) Triangle Tessellation Exhibition will be installed in the MathFest 2026 Boston Conference Exhibit Hall, August 5–8, 2026, on upright panels. The shape of this year's SEVA entries will be two congruent isosceles right triangles, joined at their hypotenuses to form a square, rotated 45 degrees to create a diamond shape.
For more information or to contribute, visit the SEVA Triangle Tessellation Google Form.
3. Field Trip: Boston Museum of Science
Sponsored by SIGMAA EM
Join us for an engaging visit to Boston's Museum of Science, organized by David Sittenfeld, PhD, Director of the Center for the Environment. The experience will include a brief presentation highlighting the Museum's environmental initiatives and projects with mathematical connections, followed by a guided tour of select exhibits and spaces. After the tour, attendees are welcome to explore the Museum informally at their own pace.
Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. or 1:00 p.m.
Location: Meet at the museum entrance
Learn more about the Center for the Environment:
https://www.mos.org/centers/environment
https://www.mos.org/
4. Business Meeting and Invited Speaker
Details on the invited speaker coming soon.