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Steve Trettel
Steve Trettel
Steve Trettel is a Szego Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, and his research focuses primarily on low dimensional topology and differential geometry.
Steve grew up in Minnesota and completed his undergraduate at the University of Minnesota before moving to California to pursue a PhD at UC Santa Barbara.
Steve is passionate about mathematical illustration, and particularly enjoys tackling difficult visualization problems with a computer.
Steve is speaking Friday, February 26 at 7:30pm on the topic: Ray optics, geodesics, and curved space.
Marty Weissman
Marty Weissman
Marty Weissman is a professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz. His interests are in number theory and representation theory -- the network of conjectures and theorems known as the Langlands program. Recently, he has explored the visualization of mathematics through programming and graphic design. This has proved useful in pure research, using new kinds of diagrams to solve old problems. In his spare time, he remains hunkered down at home or chases a toddler around the parks and playgrounds. See Marty's website for more.
Marty is speaking Saturday, February 27 at 10:15am on the topic: The modern life of ancient fractions.
Hortensia Soto
Hortensia Soto
Hortensia is a professor in the mathematics department at Colorado State University. She has published in various areas of mathematics education including assessment, mathematical preparation of elementary teachers, outreach efforts for high school girls, and especially in the area of teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics. Her current research efforts are dedicated to investigating the teaching and learning complex analysis, where she adopts an embodied cognition perspective and is part of the Embodied Mathematics Imagination and Cognition community. Since her days as an undergraduate student, Hortensia has mentored young women and promoted mathematics via summer outreach programs. She has also been involved with facilitating professional development for K-16 teachers in Nebraska, Colorado, and California. Currently, she is delivering professional development to collegiate teachers as part of Project PROMESAS SSC (Pathways with Regional Outreach and Mathematics Excellence for Student Achievement in STEM). Hortensia is a working member of the Mathematical Association of America and currently serves as the Associate Secretary and is an editor of the MAA Instructional Practices Guide. Most recently, she received the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.
Hortensia is speaking Saturday, February 27 at 2:00pm on the topic: Intentionally bringing diversity awareness into the classroom.
Emily Clader
Emily Clader
Emily Clader is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at San Francisco State University, where her primary research interests lie in algebraic geometry and moduli spaces. Alongside this research program, she is passionate about communicating mathematics, and she is co-authoring a textbook on algebraic geometry at the undergraduate level. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2014 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. When not thinking about mathematics, she can most commonly be found climbing boulders or (in non-pandemic times) singing with her choir, Resound Ensemble. See Emily's website for more.
Emily is speaking Saturday, February 27 at 4:00pm on the topic: Why twelve tones? The mathematics of musical tuning.
Curious about this picture?
It is a simulation of earth in orbit around a black hole.
Come to Steve Trettel's talk on Friday, February 26 to find out more!
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