SJSU Math Club Google Group

Re: [SJSU Math] Joint Math Meetings

2009-12-16T06:44:46Z

I'm going!

I've received confirmation of my registration via email, but haven't gotten
anything in the mail yet.

-Chris

Joint Math Meetings

2009-12-16T06:02:40Z

I just received my JMM stuff in the mail and so I was wondering: Who
is going?
It would be great if all of us who are going can plan out what we want
to do.

Female Mentors for EYH

2009-11-30T20:51:59Z

Dr. Bergthold (bergth...@math.sjsu.edu) would like to talk to some female students about mentoring middle school girls. We are investigating the possibility of finding college mentors to some of the EYH girls. She just wants to talk to you. So, if anyone is interested, please contact her.

Thanks.

actuary book

2009-11-29T23:04:04Z

A while ago, I left an actuary book in the Math Club library with the thought that a member might want to borrow it, but I haven't seen it. I was wondering if anyone knows what happened to it.

Summer 2010 Undergraduate Research Opportunities

2009-11-13T02:33:40Z

Research Experience for Undergraduates sites are beginning to announce their
programs for 2010. While most of them do not have that information up yet, I
found a few that do. I can't encourage other students enough to explore what
they can do by participating in one of these over the Summer.
Over the many programs, there is a wide variety of projects - statistics,

Fwd: Student leadership position opening as the COSAC Peer Advisor Coordinator (position starts in Spring 2010)

2009-11-07T22:31:07Z

FYI, y'all. Application deadline is Thanksgiving.
Tim
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Coordinator (position starts in Spring 2010)
Good evening,
John Kim is the current coordinator of the peer advisors in the
College of Science Advising Center (CoSAC). Since he is graduating in
May 2010, CoSAC is looking for a student to take over the coordinator

FW: SCU Math/CS Special Pi Mu Epsilon colloquium, Tues Nov 10, 4pm

2009-11-06T03:43:33Z

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thu 11/5/09 2:08 PM
To: Frank Farris

Dear colleague:
Next week's colloquium will be hosted by our student chapter of Pi Mu
Epsilon, featuring special refreshments and an especially accessible and
interesting talk. Rob Beezer, SCU alumnus and Professor of Mathematics

dinner with colloquium speaker on wed

2009-11-03T07:32:32Z

so the colloquium speaker is interested in having dinner
after his talk on wed, and he's especially interested in
talking with students. anyone interested in pizza? now,
i can't promise that dinner will be free, as the math dept
will only pay for the speaker's dinner and my dinner.
however, i suspect prof. devadoss and i will be extremely

FW: Wanted: Student Organizer to fight for Higher Education

2009-10-22T16:42:02Z

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thu 10/22/09 9:33 AM

Dear CFA Members,

Please see the position listed below and share this opportunity with your students. Thank you.

Position: Student Organizer Intern at San Jose State University
Salary: $11.00/hour; 10-15 hours/week
Position open date: October 20, 2009

FW: SCU Math/CS Colloquium reminder: Tues Oct 20, 4pm

2009-10-19T20:11:08Z

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Mon 10/19/09 12:56 PM
To: Frank Farris

Dear colleague,

Just a reminder to encourage you to join us next Tuesday, October 20,
at 4 pm for a talk by Shirley Yap of CSU East Bay. The title of the
talk, "Differential Equations---Not Just a Bag of Tricks!," is also the

Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area - Registration & Carpool Thread

2009-10-19T04:03:47Z

Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area (BaMBA) will be held Saturday
November 14th, at UC Santa Cruz.
Details and (free!) registration are here:
[link]
Note that registration is limited, so it's suggested you not put off
registering!
If you are planning to attend BaMBA, please let us know:

BAD Math Day Carpooling: Meet 8:15am on street side of Duncan Hall

2009-10-15T23:07:43Z

If you need a ride from SJSU to BAD Math Day this Saturday, meet at 8:15am
on the street side of Duncan Hall. That's near 5th and San Salvador where
the bus/shuttle stop is.
Many thanks to Jake, Macken and Vinh for offering to drive! Some subset of
their vehicles will be going up to BAD Math Day.

Colloquium, Wed Oct 14: Bruno Sanso, UC Santa Cruz, "Are the oceans warming?"

2009-10-13T20:26:09Z

Hi Math Club folks: Just wanted to update y'all on our
colloquium schedule, and also, to let you know that Prof.
Sanso will be having lunch and coffee with faculty and
students before his colloquium, to discuss the UC Santa
Cruz doctoral program in applied math and statistics. If you
are interested in going to either lunch (noon-1:30) or coffee

Re: [SJSU Math] Sorry, disregard, Re: Math Club Excomm business - BAD Math Day Drivers

2009-10-13T06:28:26Z

Just because many of us have cars and can drive ourselves separately
doesn't mean we should. If anyone else is planning on staying for
dinner and would like to carpool to minimize carbon emissions, I'd
happily meet at SJSU (or somewhere else more mutually convenient) and
offer the 3 other seats in my car (or 2 if Kate claims one of them;

Re: Book donation

2009-10-12T23:58:52Z

The math club is always accepting donations. We do keep a collection
of books in the math club and more is appreciated. Are the books in
your room? Should we arrange a pickup?

--Alex

Re: Sorry, disregard, Re: Math Club Excomm business - BAD Math Day Drivers

2009-10-12T22:04:40Z

I would have no problem meeting at SJSU if I wasn't driving from
Fremont. If no one else will, I could drive down and pick you up. But
it sounds really ridiculous and I'd be surprised if there wasn't
someone else. Can't someone else help out?

Miranda

Sorry, disregard, Re: Math Club Excomm business - BAD Math Day Drivers

2009-10-12T19:19:27Z

Well that was embarrassing, I was hoping to cut down on everyone's
email by just mailing the people who agreed to drive. Sorry for the
spam.

Math Club Excomm business - BAD Math Day Drivers

2009-10-12T19:04:20Z

Yay mailing list abuse!
Okay I looked over the thread again and it seems like I am the only person
in the state without a car. However, there's probably some quiet scragglers
who are just waiting for 'meet here at this time' to be posted, so I feel
like we should have at least one car going from SJSU. I know it's a big pain

Book donation

2009-10-12T01:00:27Z

hi math club: i'd like to donate some books to y'all, mostly
biographies of mathematicians and physicists. (useful for
math 104, i suspect.) i forget, do y'all have a collection of
such things, or should i donate the books to the king
library instead?

tim

Undergraduates: What we need to get you a SIAM membership

2009-10-01T22:16:33Z

If you would like a free SIAM membership, please email me (privately) with
the name, email, and mailing address you would like to sign up with. We will
be forwarding a compiled list to Dr. Jackson on Monday.
Kate

Meeting Minutes 10/1 & LAST CALL to register for BAD Math Day

2009-10-01T20:54:35Z

Meeting called to disorder at 1:36pm.
Plan to get $500: Undergraduates: Tell us you want to join SIAM and we will
forward your name to faculty with the power to nominate you. Then sign the
sheet at the club so we can get SIAM funding to the Joint Math Meeting.
Plan to get other $$$: How many people want to go to the JMM January 13-16th

Re: [SJSU Math] Re: Help us get funded by SIAM

2009-09-30T17:33:35Z

I am an undergraduate member, and I'll sign.
Dave

Re: Help us get funded by SIAM

2009-09-30T06:57:00Z

so here are the rules on free student membership:

[link]

undergrad student membership is available for free to any student
at any department that's an academic member of SIAM. this
includes SJSU (look near the bottom of the page):

[link]

Joint Math Meeting 2010

2009-09-30T03:20:37Z

Up til now, I've heard from a bunch of people interested in going up
to San Francisco, but now I'm not sure where everyone's plans are. To
help get more concrete picture of what the trip will look like and
make better estimates of the costs so we can get it funded, please
post here if you're planning to attend. Also let us know if you'd be

Re: Help us get funded by SIAM

2009-09-29T01:17:45Z

I believe that I am a grad student and I am a member of SIAM! If you
need my signature let me know!

You should ask Dr. Jackson about signing up. I know that I became a
member through Dr. Foster.
He asked my 143M class a year ago if we'd like to join for free; all
he needed was our emails.

Re: Help us get funded by SIAM

2009-09-28T16:05:58Z

I emailed the person in charge of membership and yes, you'll need to
join SIAM first before you sign the petition, and in general, this
means undergrads pay $25 each :(

Well, I suppose we could look to some of the grad students to help out
by snagging their free memberships. We might also consider investing

Re: Help us get funded by SIAM

2009-09-28T14:36:55Z

So, San Jose State University is listed as a free membership school,
but it seems that that free membership only applies to graduate
students. It seems that undergrads have to be nominated by the
department chair. This isn't what I remember, so let me ask about
this.

Meanwhile, the petition also allows prospective members to sign,

Re: [SJSU Math] Help us get funded by SIAM

2009-09-28T06:00:26Z

Alex,

I don't see SJSU listed under the free membership schools.

Kate

Help us get funded by SIAM

2009-09-28T04:46:46Z

Hey all,

I'm putting together the packet to get the math club affiliated with
SIAM. As a student chapter, we'll be supplemented with $500. Like AS
funding, we can only use the money on specific things, like trips to
industry and SIAM meetings (this includes JMM 2010!) Also, they'll pay
for some supplies and food where AS doesn't, which is great. The only

Facebook group

2009-09-21T05:58:49Z

I went ahead and made a Facebook group for the Math Club. Hope you
don't mind.
[link]

Re: [SJSU Math] Re: BAD Math Day Carpool Thread

2009-09-17T23:41:08Z

Hi Math Club, I thought I'd take a shot at answering Dave's
question. So the speakers and their general topic areas
are (probably):
10:00 Hannah Markwig, algebraic geometry (tropical
geometry)
10:45 Raman Sanyal, discrete geometry (e.g., counting
faces of higher-dimensional analogues of polyhedra)
11:30 Tom Edmunds, discrete math used in national

Re: [SJSU Math] Re: BAD Math Day Carpool Thread

2009-09-17T22:44:42Z

I finally got around to registering, and I claimed to be planning on
staying for dinner. My car could fit 3 others without great
discomfort, but SJSU is not exactly on my way. The 3 extra seats are
definitely available for rides back to SJSU for hungry people whose
rides from SJSU aren't staying for dinner. I could probably be talked

Math Club Meeting Minutes / News

2009-09-17T20:56:27Z

1. Reminder: LaTeX Install Party and Workshop next week at this time
(Thursday at 1:30pm) in 221. Therefore there will be no Math Club Meeting
next week.
2. The club passes a resolution that yesterday's Grad School Workshop was
awesome.
3. Bake Sale still on for October 14 (Wednesday), volunteers for food or

Re: Club Roll Call

2009-09-11T22:11:14Z

So if my name's on the list, then I'm good to go, right?

Stephanie

Re: [SJSU Math] Re: BAD Math Day Carpool Thread

2009-09-11T18:52:31Z

I was looking at the featured presentations though, and only one abstract is
posted. Does anyone have a better idea of what the topics will be? If there
is something interesting, I can go (and I can if that helps). I don't have
any plans that Saturday so I can stay for dinner.
Dave

Re: Club Roll Call

2009-09-11T09:03:47Z

I LOL'd (kinda) at my "last name" on the roster. Could you please fix
it, though?

Re: BAD Math Day Carpool Thread

2009-09-11T04:17:50Z

1) Doug
2) I can drive (only 3 people besides me though, my car has some weird
issues when I fit the full 5)
3) I cannnot stay for dinner, I'm not gonna have to leave early, but
last time dinner ended up going to like 9:30 or something, and I
can't stay that late.

Club Roll Call

2009-09-11T03:42:42Z

I'm in the middle of updating the member list, and here's what I have
at the moment:

[link]

If you hang out at the math club even a little more than seldom,
consider joining the club officially by emailing me your student ID.

--Alex

Re: BAD Math Day Carpool Thread

2009-09-11T03:08:53Z

Just registered myself. Also, you guys have my car at your disposal
(though there is no working stereo or AC).

--Alex

PhD Night

2009-09-09T03:32:40Z

Got ambitions for a PhD? The word is, there'll be a discussion and
you might learn something if you attend. More info to come, but for
the moment:

Where: MH 426
When: 2pm to 4pm on Wednesday, September 16, 2009
What:
- what to think about before applying to a PhD program
- how to choose from many possible schools

BAD Math Day Carpool Thread

2009-09-03T21:29:01Z

If you are planning to attend BAD Math Day, please let us know:
1) Your Name
2) If you are willing to drive from campus or you need a ride from
campus
3) If you are planning on staying for dinner (since some drivers will
and some won't)

You may just reply to this thread. If you prefer to remain more

Upcoming Conferences

2009-09-03T21:21:21Z

Here are upcoming conferences we have already decided to attend!

Saturday, October 17 - BAD (Bay Area Discrete) Math Day @ CSU, East
Bay
[link]
Registration open (and FREE.) Register by October 2nd! Carpooling
thread for this to follow.

Saturday, November 14 - BaMBA (Biology and Mathematics in the Bay

Math Club Meeting Minutes

2009-09-03T21:14:54Z

different math event is planned. Come join us!

follow shortly. Funding for these conferences... Alex is looking into
it.

about citation style again! Proof revisions made lazy! Stop confusing
lower case epsilon with 3!

Plans:
- Date will be confirmed next meeting. Aiming for some Thursday

Re: Anyone got a DS?

2009-08-29T17:18:40Z

The thing will be along the main street on campus on 7th street, where
you saw all the Greek letters last week. Sign-in is 15 minutes before
it starts at 10am. Tables aren't designated, so we can grab one for
ourselves after sign-in.

So I'll take care of the table from 10-12 then, passing it off to Doug

Anyone got a DS?

2009-08-28T04:36:39Z

With the student organization faire next Wednesday, it'd be pretty fun
to get 4 player Big Brain Academy going or something. Does anyone have
it and wanna bring it in?

It's from 10am to 2pm, anyone willing and able to spend some time to
man the table and take IDs/emails? I have class through that time but

Re: Fwd: First Announcement for BADMath XIX

2009-08-26T22:29:34Z

I'd be interested but what day is it?

Miranda

So you want to major in math, Wed Aug 26, 3-4pm, MH 320

2009-08-22T20:45:54Z

Hey math club folks, we're running an event called "So you
want to major in math" at the following time and place:

Time: 3-4pm
Place: MacQuarrie Hall 320
[link]

Those of you who aren't math majors yet, this is your chance
to see what that's like and what you can do with a math

Fwd: First Announcement for BADMath XIX

2009-08-22T17:24:52Z

So this semester, BAD Math Day is back to CSU East Bay for
the first time in a long time. (In fact, I think CSUEB was still
CSU Hayward last time BAD Math was there.) Should be a fun
day, so if you're interested in going, please sign up on the
website. Also, please drop me an email if you want to

Re: You can add classes to 18 units now!

2009-08-19T00:29:33Z

I wish I knew this a few days earlier. Apparently, registration
activity has been disabled for this week and I'll have to spring into
action on Monday at the earliest. I plan to make myself the 10th
person in number theory at that time.

--Alex

You can add classes to 18 units now!

2009-08-15T18:39:14Z