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Special Exhibit at the Computer History Museum:
Be inspired by the remarkable life of English mathematician and visionary Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852). Drawing on the Lovelace papers held at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries, Thinking Big: Ada, Countess of Lovelace features reproductions from the Bodleian's exceptional collection that highlight Lovelace's mathematical prowess as well as her creativity and imagination. Discover rare historical documents from Lovelace's childhood and later correspondence to and from her distinguished tutors, including Augustus De Morgan, Charles Babbage, and other well-known Victorian thinkers. Visitors can also see paintings and photographs from Lovelace's life, and hear special audio readings of four select papers.
More info available at: http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/thinkingbig/
"Bay Area Math Adventure. The next in this series of free public lectures will be on Friday, January 19, at 7:30 PM at San Jose State University. Paul Zeitz (USF, co-founder of Proof School, author of "The Art and Craft of Problem Solving") will speak on"Continued Fractions and Hyperbolic Geometry".
Julia Robinson Math Festival. There will be a Julia Robinson Math Festival for 5th-8th graders from 9:30 AM -- noon on January 20th, 2018 at Bullis Charter School in Los Altos (it is open to students outside the school)."
Past Events:
"The first Bay Area Math Adventure (free public mathlectures at Santa Clara and SJSU) for this year will be Jayadev Athreya from the University of Washington. He'll be speaking at 7:30 PM on Friday, September 22 at Santa Clara University (in Daly Science 207) on the topic "Benford and Billiards".
The next Julia Robinson Math Festival I know about is in Santa Cruz on September 23rd, but there are festivals in early October in Menlo Park and at Berkeley. See http://jrmf.org/register.php for a listing."
""Mathematical physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf will give a public lecture at Stanford University on October 5th at 7:00 PM. He will speak about quantum mathematics and the fate of space, time, and matter.
The next BAD Math Day will be held on October 7th. This is a biannual one-day conference on discrete mathematics that moves around from college to college in the greater Bay Area each time. This time it will be at Saint Mary's College in Moraga. The organizers of this conference generally do a good job of getting good speakers who talk about interesting topics, and I encourage anyone interested in getting started going to conferences to attend this one."
"October 18th, Scott Aaronson will give a public lecture in Berkeley on Black Holes, Firewalls, and the Limits of Quantum Computers. This talk is aimed at a general audience, so in particular no background in theoretical computer science is assumed. Scott Aaronson is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in complexity classes and quantum computation, and he has written a book called Quantum Computing Since Democritus. In addition, he is the author of a very popular blog on theoretical computer science and related topics, called Shtetl-Optimized. The talk will be at 6:00 PM at the David Brower Center."
"Keith Devlin will give the 2017--18 Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture on "When the precision of mathematics meets the messiness of the world of people." This event will take place on November 2nd at 4:10 PM at UC Berkeley. Click here for more information."
"On Wednesday, November 8, at 7:30pm, Francis Su, past president of the Mathematical Association of America, will be giving a talk on "The Mathematics and Magic of Card Shuffling" on the campus of Santa Clara University in the Daly Science complex, room 207. He will show a selection of card tricks based on the mathematical principles of shuffling, no sleight of hand is required. The talk is free and open to the public."
MathCounts 2017 Champion Announced — A 13-year-old boy from Texas won a national math competition on Monday with an answer rooted in probabilities — and a dash of farming. The boy, Luke Robitaille, took less than a second to buzz in at the Raytheon Mathcounts National Competition with the correct answer. The question: In a barn, 100 chicks sit peacefully in a circle. Suddenly, each chick randomly pecks the chick immediately to its left or right. What is the expected number of unpecked chicks?
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