After a lengthy hiatus (there was this nasty virus going around), I’m excited to be doing some events again, both digitally and in person. To inquire, just email the name of the blog at gmail!
Upcoming Events:
- Saturday, 10/7/2023, 4pm: Math with Bad Drawings paperback book launch! @ the superb STEM bookstore The Thinking Spot in Wayzata, MN.
- Friday, 10/20/2023, 1pm: I’ll be the humbled guest at a meeting of MATYCONN (organization of two-year colleges) in Farmington, CT.
- Monday, 10/30/2023, 12pm: I’m excited to be giving one of my go-to talks, “Math vs. Science,” at my home institution of Saint Paul College in Saint Paul, MN.
- Thursday, 11/2/2023: An evening @ Broadway Books in Ashland, KY.
- Saturday, 11/3/2023: I’ll be keynoting a math games session at the Shawnee Game Conference in Portsmouth, OH.
- Friday, 8/9/2024: I’ll be delivering an invited address (and organizing an invited paper session) at the MAA’s annual MathFest in Indianapolis, IN.
- Friday, 11/8/2024: I’ll be delivering the keynote at the annual conference (this year’s theme: “Growing Mathematical Minds”) of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State (AMTNYS) in Albany, NY.
A needlessly comprehensive list of past events:
- 9/26/2018: Holyoke Community College
- 9/26/2018: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 9/27/2018: Williams Bookstore
- 10/4/2018: Yale University
- 10/8/2018: Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference (slides)
- 10/11/2018: Emmanuel College
- 10/11/2018: Northeastern University
- 10/19/2018: National Museum of Mathematics
- 10/20/2018: Freakonomics Radio Live in NYC (podcast)
- 10/29/2018: Kutztown University
- 10/30/2018: Dickinson College
- 10/30/2018: Gettysburg College
- 10/31/2018: Mount Saint Mary’s University (video)
- 11/1/2018: George Washington University
- 11/2/2018: College of Southern Maryland
- 11/5/2018: University of Maryland, College Park
- 11/6/2018: University of Mary Washington
- 11/6/2018: College of William and Mary
- 11/8/2018: Read Science! (on YouTube)
- 11/8/2018: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 11/9/2018: Appalachian State University
- 11/12/2018: Hofstra University
- 11/12/2018: Stony Brook University
- 1/9/2019: Google in Cambridge, MA (video on YouTube)
- 1/10/2019: Commonwealth School in Boston, MA
- 1/19/2019: Joint Math Meetings in Baltimore (write-up by the great Anna Haensch)
- 1/31/2019: Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT; keynoted a Connecticut Association of Independent Schools conference on “Writing in Math”
- 2/13/2019: UT Dallas
- 2/14/2019: Baylor University
- 3/7/2019: Smith College
- 3/14/2019: Collegiate School, NYC
- 4/3/2019 and 4/4/2019: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 4/8/2019: University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- 4/11/2019: Association of Mathematics Teachers in Massachusetts (ATMIM) Spring Conference, keynote address, at Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA
- 4/12/2019: Montgomery College, keynote address at undergraduate STEM research conference, Germantown, MD
- 11/6/2019: Greensboro, NC, keynote speaker for the Leadership Seminar of the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- 11/7/2019: Greensboro, NC, keynote speaker for the annual conference of the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- 11/12/2019: Next Chapter Booksellers, Saint Paul, MN
- 12/15/2019: Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN
- 2/12/2020: University of Houston in Houston, TX
- 2/13/2020: Lone Star College in Houston, TX
- 5/4/2020: Grinnell College (digital, class visit)
- 5/20/2020: King Edward’s School (digital)
- 10/23/2020: National Museum of Mathematics (digital)
- 12/3/2020: Macalester College (digital)
- 2/9/2021: Colgate College (digital)
- 2/19/2021: McGraw Hill Keynote Session (digital)
- 4/6/2021: New England Association of Two-Year Colleges (digital)
- 8/17/2021: Art of Problem Solving Math Jam (digital)
- 9/18/2021: Rochester Mathematics Festival (digital)
- 10/25/2021: Minnesota Correctional Facility, Shakopee (class visit)
- 11/2/2021: Los Gatos High School Math Club (digital)
- 2/5/2022: The Thinking Spot Bookstore in Wayzata, MN
- 3/3/2022: Chicago Latin School in Chicago, IL (math department mini-retreat)
- 3/4/2022: Metropolitan Mathematics Club of Chicago in Chicago, IL (evening lecture)
- 3/31/2022: Willamette University (digital)
- 4/7/2022: Yale Science & Engineering Association Alumni Talk (digital)
- 4/9/2022: A morning of mathematical games with MGCT Choices in Edina, MN
- 5/20/2022: The Thinking Spot Bookstore in Wayzata, MN
- 5/26/2022: Maryland Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (digital keynote)
- 6/17-19/2022: Sci Foo Conference @ Google in Mountain View, CA (invited guest)
- 7/17/2022: Art of Sciences Camp Welcome Address @ Saint Olaf College in Northfield, MN
- 8/30/2022: Math on a Stick, Visiting Mathematician, MN State Fair, in Saint Paul, MN
- 9/17/2022: Rochester Mathematical Festival (keynote) in Rochester, MN
- 9/20/2022: NC Triangle Math Teachers’ Circle (online talk)
- 10/7/2022: Rosebud Books in Helsinki, Finland
- 10/8/2022: Finnish STEM Teachers Association in Espoo, Finland
- 10/19/2022:Â Volumes (online event) at the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC
- 11/19/2022: American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (keynote address) annual conference in Toronto, Ontario
- 12/9/2022: Manitoba Remote Learning Support Center (online event) in Winnipeg, Manitoba
- 12/18/2022: Tween Primes (online event) at the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC
- 2/2/2023: The Annual Heard Lecture at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA