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Here you will find information about upcoming seminars, departmental events, and updates on the achievements of departmental members.
11/06/2021
Experts Discuss Redistricting in North Carolina DURHAM, N.C. -- As North Carolina lawmakers debated new district maps for the state legislature and the United States House of Representatives, two Duke experts spoke to journalists about what the newly drawn maps could mean for North Carolina voters and future elections for the next decade: Watch t...
10/29/2021
A Puzzling Saga - Meet Duke Math's Breakout Star! - Research Blog When I think of crosswords, I think of young and old alike gathered around a couch, scribbling away on a freshly arrived newspaper on a clear Sunday morning. When I think of math, I think of passionate professors covered in chalk dust from a hard day’s work of etching out complicated Greek symbols...
10/29/2021
The Godmother of the Digital Image The mathematician Ingrid Daubechies’ pioneering work in signal processing helped make our electronic world possible — and beat a path for women in the field.
02/26/2021
https://today.duke.edu/2021/02/three-duke-named-sloan-fellows
Three From Duke Named Sloan Fellows Three Duke faculty have been selected to receive Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. They are among 128 early-career researchers to receive the fellowships this year. The two-year, $75,000 fellowship is intended to advance the recipient’s research. Candidates are nomina...
02/02/2020
A New Look at Ancient Handwriting | Research Researchers have been analyzing the handwriting on these 2,800-year-old pottery fragments, with help from artificial intelligence. Duke mathematician Barak Sober and colleagues at Tel-Aviv University used a machine learning algorithm they developed to determine how many people wrote on pieces of bro...
Duke professor Adam Levine will be giving the pi lecture:
When: Feb. 13 at 6 PM
Where: Jewish Life at Duke
Title: Jewish Geometry: Pi in the Bible and Talmud
Abstract: A famous Biblical passage describes a circular object that is 10 cubits in diameter and 30 cubits in circumference. This suggests 3 as a value for pi... or does it? We'll look at how the Talmud and various commentators throughout the centuries have wrestled with that passage and its implications for religion and science. All are welcome regardless of Jewish or mathematical knowledge, and pi(e) will be provided!
01/26/2020
Mathematics Pioneer Ingrid Daubechies Has More Barriers to Break Best known for her work on “wavelets,” she wants to reduce the obstacles to women entering the sciences.
12/16/2019
A new mathematical event is set for 2020. Lillian Pierce, WAM committee member, shared with us the newly created event sponsored by Duke University, Duke Math and the NSF. If you are interested in finding out more information or applying please go the page link below and follow the instructions on the advertisement. As well, please share this with your colleagues.
“A room of own’s own." For mathematicians with “intense daily human care responsibilities” to spend the weekend in a hotel in their home town, finishing a paper. All mathematicians are welcome to join in (working from home if possible), but we are prioritizing funding for those with human care responsibilities, be it elder care, dementia care, special needs care, sickness care, or childcare.
https://services.math.duke.edu/~pierce/AROOO_2020.shtml
10/14/2019
10/02/2019
Senior Duke math major, KatieRose Orr, talks about being 'out' in STEM.
Being 'Out' in STEM: Katie-Rose Orr T'20 (Math) Katie-Rose speaks out on the challenges she's encountered as a woman and as a le***an pursuing her degree in mathematics -- and the allies she made along the...