Math Beyond the Horizon

The Vermont State Mathematics Coalition offers a bi-weekly series of online interactive explorations of math, science, and technology topics beyond the traditional K-12 math curriculum. This series is oriented toward strong high school math students interested in new topics, but is open to anyone. Registration is free, but required for each session.

If you have suggestions for topics you’d like us to cover, or potential presenters, let us know.

Upcoming sessions

No future sessions currently scheduled.

Past sessions

• December 11, 2021: When Will We Run Out? Some Mathematical Models of the Depletion of Nonrenewable Resources, Mike Olinick (slides)
• November 13, 2021: Using Math to Create Robots … and Xenobots, Josh Bongard (website)
• October 16, 2021: DNA self-assembly. How small is that?, Jo Ellis-Monaghan
• May 8, 2021: The Shannon expansion and BDDs – Representing Boolean functions in a computer, David Hathaway (slides)
• April 24, 2021: Can you hear the shape of a drum?, Carolyn Gordon (slides)
• April 10, 2021: Where Am I – How does your GPS Work?, David Hathaway (slides, transcript)
• March 27, 2021: Bell Inequalities and XOR games, Mary Beth Ruskai (slides)
• March 20, 2021: No regular Math Beyond the Horizon occurred this week so people could attend a special event: The 2021 American Mathematics Society Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics by Professor Abba Gummel of Arizona State University on Mathematics of Infectious Diseases. Video of this talk will be available here when posted.
• March 6, 2021: Quantum Cryptography, Mary Beth Ruskai (slides)