Current Activities
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SEVA 2026 Triangle Tessellation
Submit your mathematical artwork for the Third Annual SEVA Exhibition at MathFest 2026 in Boston!
Learn More & Submit View 2025 Gallery View 2024 GalleryUpcoming Events & Sessions
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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.
Organizers: Russ deForest, Pennsylvania State University and Amanda Beecher, Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP)
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2. SEVA Exhibition: Sustainability and Environmental Visual Arts — Triangle Tessellation
The SIGMAA-EM SEVA Triangle Tessellation Exhibition will be installed in the MathFest 2026 Boston Conference Exhibit Hall on upright panels. This year's entries will be two congruent isosceles right triangles, joined at their hypotenuses to form a square, rotated 45 degrees to create a diamond shape.
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3. Field Trip: Boston Museum of Science
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.
Time: 12:00 p.m. — Meet at the museum entrance
Learn more: Center for the Environment | Museum of Science
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4. Business Meeting and Invited Speaker
Details on the invited speaker coming soon.
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Call for Contributions
SIGMAA-EM is actively ramping up its activities. We welcome:
- Suggestions for future sessions and activities
- Proposals for contributed paper sessions
- Ideas for collaborative projects
- Educational resource recommendations
- Volunteers for leadership positions
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