Month: October 2017

Alumni Career Panel Thursday November 2

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Panelists:
Trevor Adriaanse ’17 Math, Analyst, Department of Defense
Jeff Miller ’17 ECMA, Analyst, Axtria – Ingenious Insights
Jin On ’12, Math, Data Scientist, Geneia
Laura Papili ’17 Math, Actuarial Analyst at Willis Towers Watson

Hear advice and perspectives from Bucknell alumni who will examine career paths that utilize the mathematics degree while discussing their work and available opportunities. The conversation will include a question and answer period.

12:00 P.M.  Olin 268, Panel with  PIZZA/CALZONES

4:00 PM  OLIN 383
And an informal MEET and GREET with the panel (refeshments)

 

 

Student talk: Tom Cooney October 19, noon in Olin 268

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Quantum Games and Quantum Computing

Thursday, October 19, 12:00 P.M. ROOM 268 in the Olin Science Building

Abstract: What’s the shortest message you can send someone? It might seem like the answer is a single bit: a 0 or a 1.

But the world is much stranger than that! We can also send quantum bits (or qubits) that can be 0 or 1 or “both” 0 and 1 at the same time.

These quantum messages have surprising power for computing and sending information. I’ll talk about how we can better understand these strange quantum messages by studying games that use quantum messages instead of classical messages.

Fibonacci at Bucknell!

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Leonardo of Pisa (a.k.a Fibonacci) has a remarkable connection with Bucknell, and to celebrate this fact we are holding an interdisciplinary conference on October 14. Featured speakers include:
Mario Livio – an astrophysicist and author of popular science books,
Keith Devlin – NPR’s “Math Guy” and the author of numerous popular mathematics books,
William Goetzmann – Director of the International Center for Finance, Yale University

This event will be in the Langone Center from 10:00 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

Lunch tickets are available in Olin 380, or by writing to math@bucknell.edu

Learn more here.

Summer Opportunities for Math Majors, October 5 at noon in Olin 268

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A special panel discussion featuring:

Maddie Brown `18 – NSF REU in mathematical analysis and applications at University of Michigan – Dearborn.

Caroline Edelman `18 – REU in dynamical systems at Boston College

Nate Mattis `19 – TEU program at Brown University

Alexander Murph `18 – Nielsen Professional Summer Analytics Experience (PSAE)

Leo Orozco `18 – Summer Security Intensive, IT Lab Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University

Pizza and sodas for everyone!