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Lower division, Undergrad courses

Math Jam Fall 2024

Math Jam is a huge review session where LAs, TAs and instructors come together to help students prepare before finals week.

To register to Math Jam for Fall 2024, click here.

The Fall 2024 version of Math Jam will be held on Friday, December 13th from 9am to 2pm on the 3rd and 4th floors of Keller.  All students from Math 134, 140X, 215, 241, 242 and 252A are invited to this event.

For more information, you may contact mathjam@math.hawaii.edu

We are looking forward to see you there!

Math 134, Math 140, Math 241, Math 242, Math 251A, Math 252A

Review before your math final

When: December 13 (Friday), from 9am to 2pm.

Where: Keller Hall (3rd and 4th floor)

Ask your instructor for more information

Donuts, coffee, math? RSVP here.

Map of rooms

UH News report

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Outreach, Undergrad courses, Undergrad posts

Math 100 students fight pollution in Ala Wai Canal

As part of a project for their Math 100 course–taught by math faculty members Monique Chyba and Sarah Widiasih Post and gradaute students Moriah Aberle, Shubham Joshi, John Dukes, Christa Gogue– undergraduate students worked to combat pollution in in the Ala Wai Canal in Honolulu.  In mid-October, students made 1972 genki balls, which are balls of dense soil that contains nutrients and beneficial microorganisms, guided by their professors, TA’s, and volunteers from the  Genki Ala Wai Project.  In class, students performed computations with scientific notation and analyzed data to understand the positive effects that these genki balls could have on the ecosystem of the canal.  The balls were released into Ala Wai Canal on November 9, and the event was covered by UH News and by KITV.

 

“Quantitative reasoning and critical thinking are incredibly important skills to develop to understand and adapt to environmental as well as societal changes,” said Professor Monique Chyba.  “Math 100 is designed to teach those skills in context, students are exploring how to mathematics are interconnected with relevant aspects of their life regardless of their majors. The Genki balls project served as a bridge to expose the students to the benefits of a mathematical approach to maximize the impact of actions in environmental issues. “

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People, Research, Uncategorized

Meet Forrest Glebe

Forrest Glebe is a new postdoc in our department.

DE:  Let me first say: welcome to our department! What type of mathematics are you interested in?

FG: I am interested in operator algebras and group theory. So far I have studied so-called “stability properties” of groups. My research has been to come up with explicit “almost representations” of the group that are “far” from actual representations.

 

DE: Do you have a favorite open problem?

FG: One open question I’m interested in is whether or not all groups are MF (matricial field). Roughly the MF condition says that all groups have enough “almost representations” to separate points in the group. This is the operator norm version of the more famous problems, “Are all groups hyperlinear?” and “Are all groups sofic?”

 DE: What’s your opinion? Do you think this could be true or are you looking for counterexamples?

FG: I think this is probably too good to be true, but who knows?

 

DE: What types of courses are you most excited to teach?

FG: When I first took an intro to proofs class it really changed the way I thought about math. I’m teaching 331 next semester, and I’m excited about it!

 

DE: What have you liked the most about Hawai’i so far?

FG: I’ve really enjoyed the sunrise and sunsets so far!

 

DE: Can you tell us something about yourself that might be surprising?

FG: In high school I was a theatre kid.  I was Professor Plum in our school’s adaptation of the film Clue.

 

DE: Thank you!