The NCN Spring 2019 Discrete Math Day was hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Laura Colmenarejo, Alejandro Morales, Ga Yee Park, Annie Raymond, Jordan Tirrell, and Ashley Wheeler worked hard to make this event a success.
The meeting consisted of 5 invited lectures, a poster session and a networking lunch, with a total of 50 participants.
Diego Cifuentes (MIT) discusses a more efficient alternative to Gröbner bases.
Lauren Williams (Harvard) introduces combinatorial and algebraic ideas to help understand the asymmetric simple exclusion process.
Lunchtime poster session
Student posters at lunchtime on the 16th floor of Lederle Tower at UMass
The posters triggered many research conversations.
Faculty and students mix over lunch
Stefan Grosser explains his research project
Joanna Ellis-Monaghan (St. Michael's) and Tom Tucker (Colgate, emeritus)
Afternoon attendance