Session Description: The first MathFest Exhibition of Mathematical Art will include up to 50 artworks contributed by mathematical artists, as well as a group display organized by SIGMAA EM, with images contributed in advance highlighting mathematics and the environment, as well as an opportunity for MathFest 2025 visitors to make their own images and submit them to the display. The EM organizers have created a fun hexagonal template that invites participants to contribute to a honeycomb pattern of environmental math/art."
For more information about the artwork for the SEVA interactive display, click here!
For information about the entire MathArt at MathFest Exhibition, click here.
To just submit artwork for the SEVA interactive display, click here.
2. Business Meeting and keynote address
Keynote: Dr. Alan Hastings, University of California at Davis
3. Joint
Session with BioSIGMAA,
"Environmental and Biological Research in
Mathematics, in and out of the Classroom"
4. Workshop
on "Communicating the Complex and the Conflicted"
The workshop will leverage the fields of acting improvisation and conflict resolution theory to achieve two goals.
- Help participants learn ideas for developing their skills in communication, particularly complicated or conflicted topics.
- Share ideas on how these ideas can be taught in a classroom for STEM majors.
Because of the improv nature, a full listing activities and other resources will be shared after, rather than before, the workshop. A partial list of readings will be provided before the conference to aid participants in preparation.
Organizers:
Eric Marland, Appalachian State University
Russ deForest, Pennsylvania State University
Sponsor: SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics (SIGMAA EM)