Like Math? Want to be involved?? Here are some ideas!

At MSU Denver:

• Come to a Math Club Talk. These are typically the first Friday of each month at 2:30pm in SI 1011. Look for flyers in the Science building as the date approaches.
  
• Join MWM, the Metro Women in Math Club. New officers and participants are needed now that we’re back to campus! See dr. diane davis for information.
  
• Join the Student Chapter of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
• Join the Actuarial Club.
• Present a Poster at the Math and Statistics Student Poster Presentation. This will resume its spring tradition now that campus life is back to normal.

Attend a math conference. Present a talk or a poster.

• Joint Mathematics Meeting. This is the largest math conference in the world! You might consider this conference if you are a senior math major and have taken several upper division math courses.
• Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics. This is a great conference to learn about graduate school and meet undergraduate math students from around the country!
• Pikes Peak Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. This conference is typically the last Saturday in February. This is a great conference to give a talk or to see other undergraduate students present their math research! The 2024 conference will be held on Saturday, March 2 at the US Air Force Academy. The deadline for registering is February 20!
  
• MAA Rocky Mountain Section Meeting. This is a great chance to attend a regional math conference and see what a math conference is all about!

Apply for a Summer Math Experience.

• REU = Research Experience for Undergraduates. Is an REU for you? Expect application deadlines to be around January or February for the following summer.
• Here are some sites that list several REU opportunities:
  • REU list maintained by Steve Butler from Iowa State
  • REU list maintained by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • REU list maintained by the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• Here are links to Individual Summer Math Programs:
  • PCMI, Park City Math Institute Summer Program.
  • Women and Mathematics, a Program of the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University.
  • RIPS, Research in Industrial Projects for Students. There are three locations: RIPS-Los Angeles at UCLA, RIPS-Beijing, and RIPS-Berlin.

Watch a math movie

• Hidden Figures.
• Agora. This is an historical drama set in early Egypt. A main character is Hypatia of Alexandra.
• Proof.
• Codebreaker. This feature length drama-documentary records the brilliance, and the destruction, of one of the 20th century’s greatest minds: Alan Turing.
• Imitation Game. This 2014 movie, also about Alan Turing, won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
• Secrets of the Surface The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani. This movie examines the life and mathematical work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field.

Surf the Web

• Check out this website: WeUseMath.org for careers in math, project ideas, and lots of other cool stuff.
• John Urschel. Meet this Penn State Football Player, Mathematician, and Calc 3 Instructor (Video 1). He played for the Baltimore Ravens and is a PhD student at MIT (Video 2), (Video 3). John Urschel also has a book Mind and Matter: a Life in Math and Football.
  
• Maryam Mirzakhani. Fields Medal has its first Female Winner.