We are excited to announce Temple University's third Sonia Kovalevsky Day to be held Saturday, April 5, 2014. This will be a day full of mathematics enrichment activities including projects, workshops, and a competition. Learn more about the mathematician Sonia Kovalevsky here.
The tentative schedule is
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9:00am - 9:20am |
Registration and Welcome |
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9:30am - 10:10am |
Symmetry |
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10:20am - 11:00am |
Fibonacci Fun |
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11:10am - 11:50am |
Get Prime |
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11:50am - 12:20pm |
Lunch Discussions |
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12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Individual Competition |
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1:00pm - 1:40pm |
The Pythagorean Theorem |
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1:50pm - 2:30pm |
Math and Magic Eye |
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2:40pm - 3:00pm |
Awards Ceremony |
The day's activities will be held in the Howard Gittis Student Center on Temple's Main Campus.
To use Google or any other service to find directions to Temple, please use the following address:
Howard Gittis Student Center
1755 North 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Please plan to arrive between 8:45am and 9am and to depart at 3pm. To enter the Howard Gettis Student Center, you should use the south entrance located on 13th Street, which is at building 50B on this campus map.
If you want to drop your child off, there will be student volunteers outside (wearing t-shirts with our SK Day logo) who can escort your children up to the meeting room. If you would like to come up with your child, you will need to park and then walk to the Student Center. You can try to find street parking or use one of the pay lots on campus.
What to bring:
Please plan to arrive between 8:45am and 9am and to depart at 3pm. Our activities will all take place in the Howard Gittis Student Center. You should use the south entrance located on 13th Street, which is at building 50B on this campus map. For more information see the directions tab above.
If you want to drop your child off, there will be student volunteers outside (wearing t-shirts with our SK Day logo) who can escort your children up to the meeting room. If you would like to come up with your child, you will need to park and then walk to the Student Center. You can try to find street parking or use one of the pay lots on campus.
Jessie Hamm is a fifth year graduate student in mathematics at Temple University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berry College in 2006 with a BS in Mathematics. She minored in Secondary Education, receiving her 7-12 teaching certification, along with ESOL endorsement. Jessie then went on to receive a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from Wake Forest University in 2008. In 2009, Jessie taught high school mathematics at Griffin High School in Griffin, Georgia. She entered the PhD program at Temple University in 2010 and is hoping to finish in 2014. While attending Temple, Jessie has taught and assisted with several undergraduate courses and was the recipient of the 2013 College of Science and Technology Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student Award. Jessie has also been involved in many outreach activities and was an organizer for last year's SK Day as well as last year's Girls and Mathematics summer program.
Maria Lorenz is co-organizing the Sonia Kovalevsky Day at Temple for the third year in a row. She received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Southern California in 1991 under the direction of Susan Montgomery. Since graduation Lorenz has held teaching positions at the University of Texas at Austin, University of Pittsburgh, and Ursinus College. She has been a full time faculty member (currently Associate Professor, Teaching/Instructional) at Temple University since 2001 where she has been involved in many aspects of the undergraduate mathematics program. In particular, she has worked to organize special events for undergraduates including speakers from inside and outside Temple University and various media presentations involving mathematics. Maria is a member of the Provosts Teaching Academy at Temple University, meaning she completed, and now teaches to graduate students, a course on best teaching practices. Maria was also the recipient of the Steven Petchon Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching Math at Temple University in 2007 and recipient of the Excellence in Mentoring Award in 2013. Together with Irina Mitrea, Lorenz has also run the Temple University Math Circle for the past two years, and was as assistant director for the Girls and Mathematics Summer Program at Temple in 2012 and 2013.
Beca Lufi recently graduated from Temple University with a MA in mathematics. She graduated from Tennessee Technological University in 2006 with a BS in mathematics. Beca continued her studies at Tennessee Tech and received an MS on 2007, and taught for the department the following school year. In 2008, she worked as an actuary for a retirement consulting firm before returning to graduate school in 2009. Beca has taught hundreds of college students during her time as an instructor and graduate student, and continues to teach part-time at Immaculata University and Temple University.
Kathryn Lund loves kittens, cookies, and helping people. She's also a second-year graduate student in Temple University's mathematics program. When she's not hard at work on a homework problem, she's wracking her brain for ways that she can use math to make people smile. Lately, her research interests have turned towards mathematically modeling fluid flows in the human body, to help doctors and patients better understand various diseases. She had loads of fun teaching at SK Day the past two years at Temple, as well as at the 2013 Girls and Math summer program. With the support of her sassy cat and loving fiance (who has promised more cats), she is hoping to earn a PhD at Temple in the next few years.
Erin McCole Dlugosz is a fifth year graduate student in the Chemistry PhD program at Temple University. She graduated from Cabrini College in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a minor in Mathematics, and she hopes to work as a research scientist after graduating from Temple. Erin enjoys teaching math and science and has been an instructor for the Girls and Mathematics program at Temple the past two summers.
Elena Mendoza is a second year graduate student at temple, who loves math, art, dancing, glitter, sugar and fun. She has taught a little bit, tutored some, and been in charge of face painting some other, and hopes to add an awesome SK talk to that list of accomplishments.
Sarah Munson is a senior at Temple University studying mathematics. She has a particular interest in applying mathematics to studies of the environment in hopes of improving awareness of understudied environmental issues. Currently she is working in Dr. Sewall's lab where her primary focus is improving theoretical and empirical understanding of ecological interaction networks, and in particular plant-pollinator mutualistic networks (which involves math!). She has tutored many different levels of mathematics to all different levels of students. Sarah volunteered in 2013 at Temple's Sonia Kovalevsky day as an instructor. When Sarah isn't studying math, she likes to hula hoop (sometimes with fire), camp, and attend music/art festivals.
Julia Somers is a first year Master's student in Temple University's mathematics program. She graduated from the University of Delaware in 2009 with a degree in Mathematics Education and Philosophy. A captain of the Women's Cross Country and Track and Field teams at Delaware, Julia enjoys running half marathons and hopes to complete a triathlon someday soon. She has taught high school math for 4 years and loves teaching, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Philosophy and learning of all sorts.
Funding and support for this event is provided by the Mathematical Association of America, Temple University Mathematics Department, and and the National Defense Education Program and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division.