Sonya Kovalevsky Day

We are excited to announce Temple University's fourth Sonia Kovalevsky Day to be held Saturday, March 14, 2015. This will be a day full of mathematics enrichment activities including projects, workshops, and a competition. Learn more about the mathematician Sonia Kovalevsky here.

Saturday, March 14th 2015, 9am -- 3pm

Schedule

The tentative schedule is 

Directions

The day's activities will be held in the Tuttleman Learning Center on Temple's Main Campus.

To use Google or any other service to find directions to Temple, please use the following address:

Tuttleman Learning Center 
13th Street & Montgomery Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Please plan to arrive between 8:45am and 9am and to depart at 3pm. To enter the Tuttleman Learning Center, you should use the south entrance located on 13th Street, which is at building 60 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.

Information for Participants

What to bring:

• We will provide a folder with some paper. You should bring a pencil and possibly a notebook. A calculator is not necessary, but you are free to bring one.
• Students should bring their own lunches.

Please plan to arrive between 8:45am and 9am and to depart at 3pm. Our activities will all take place in the Tuttleman Learning Center. You should use the entrance located on 13th Street, which is at building 60 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 Tuttleman. You can try to find street parking or use one of the pay lots on campus.

Organizers

Maria Lorenz is co-organizing the Sonia Kovalevsky Day at Temple for the fourth year in a row.  She is an Associate Professor (Teaching/Instructional) in the Mathematics Department at Temple University.  In addition to being involved in many aspects of Temple’s undergraduate mathematics program, she has co-organized several outreach programs including the Temple University Math Circle and the Girls and Mathematics Summer Program.

Irina Mitrea is a Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. In the last 10 years she has created, organized, and run a number of mathematical outreach activities involving more than 3000 students (graduate, undergraduate, middle school and high school), a significant portion of which were specifically designed to benefit women in mathematics.  

Instructors

Ramya Ailavajhala is a second year PhD student in the Bioengineering department at Temple University. She graduated from Temple University in 2012 with her bachelor's degree in Biology. Ramya was an instructor in the Girls and Mathematics program in the summer of 2014, which has generated her interest in teaching. In her free time, Ramya enjoys running and playing tennis. She is excited to participate in her first Sonia Kovalevsky day this year. 

Sogol Baharlou is a third year PhD student in the Bioengineering department at Temple University. She graduated her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical engineering in 2012 and entered graduate school right afterwards. Currently she is working in Dr. Lelkes’s lab which is an integrated tissue engineering and regenerative medicine laboratory (with great use of math every day). Sogol was an instructor in the Girls and mathematics program in the summer of 2014. In her free time, she enjoys playing piano and reading. 

Erin McCole Dlugosz is a sixth 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 three summers.

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 and 2014 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 second 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.

Acknowledgements

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.