22nd ACMS Biennial Conference
May 29 – June 1, 2019
Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion IN 46953
The Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences and the Indiana Wesleyan University Division of Mathematics & Computer Information Sciences held the 22nd ACMS Biennial Conference at the IWU Marion campus May 29 – June 1, 2019.
Invited Speakers
Ken Ono is serving as vice-president of the American Mathematical Society and will be chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of Virginia starting in the fall of 2019. Previously he was the Asa Griggs Candler professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a Sloan Fellowship, a Presidential Early Career Award, a Packard Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. A noted lecturer and teacher, Ken Ono was the recipient of the 2005 National Science Foundation Director’s Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award. Author of My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count which outlined his mathematical and spiritual journeys, Ken Ono was also the associate producer for the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity based on Robert Kanigel’s biography of Ramanujan.
Joan L. Richards is the Director of the Program of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of History at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as fellow at the Max Planck Institute. Her book Mathematical Visions: Non-Euclidean Geometry in Victorian England focuses on the reception of a geometrical theory in the wider culture of nineteenth century England. Her book Angles of Reflection was at once a memoir and an exploration of the logical work and family life of Augustus De Morgan. Her projects and mathematical historical articles are linked by an abiding interest in the ways that mathematics has served as a model of thinking that has developed in interaction with other approaches to the human mind, be they psychological, spiritual, physical, or phrenological.
A third speaker from the FBI’s cybersecurity squad will speak on threats and successes of cybersecurity.
Sessions & Schedules
Parallel sessions were held on content, pedagogy, history, and faith and integration topics in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. Preconference workshops on Early Career Professional Development and the R Statistical Package were held on May 29.
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