Math Awareness Week

Time:  9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Campus/Room:  Palm Beach Gardens Campus, SC161

Presentation:  Use AI to Turbocharge Your Creativity & Learning - This presentation will explore how Jesse Rogers uses ChatGPT for tasks like programming, writing articles, and creating customized original artwork for projects. 

Presenter:  Learning Specialist Jesse Rogers

Time:  11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Location:  Boca Raton Campus, HT103

Presentation: Rubik's Cube Demonstration & Competition - This presentation will explore the Rubik’s cube and students will have the chance to compete.

Presenter:  Professor Dr. Laura Heath

Time:  12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

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Presentation: My Journey Into Mathematical Creativity - This presentation will take you on an excursion down “memory lane” of Professor Pick’s diverse careers. Along the way, you will encounter many real-world applications of Mathematics and discover that Mathematics is both a collection of cute creative tricks and deep creative concepts.

Presenter: Professor Joseph Pick

Time:  2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

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Presentation: Math Creativity Is Us - This presentation will show a collection of innovative mathematical concepts, explanations, and solution techniques created by famous mathematicians from the past, Math Olympiad competitors, and Joe-Is-Us. The purpose of this presentation is to highlight that we all (“Us”) can be mathematically creative.

Presenter: Professor Joseph Pick

Time:  9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Location: Lake Worth Campus, TC 213

Presentation: Math, Stats & Coding - Oh My! - In the last year, generative AI (i.e. ChatGPT, etc.) has advanced enough to reliably "do" math, stats, and coding.  In fact, a major advancement AI was just announced (12 March) with the release of Devin, a "groundbreaking AI that acts as a software engineer, capable of coding, debugging, and even developing apps and websites." [daily.dev].  We will explore the possibilities that AI code generators allow for "doing" math, stats, and game programming.

Presenter: Dr. Nelson Daniel

Time:  11 a.m. - noon

Location: Palm Beach Gardens Campus, SC 161

Presentation: Storytelling With Data: Critical Thinking Using Facts & Statistics For Problem Solving. Math is more than numbers, more than formulas and calculations. Humans thrive on stories and legends, and in the 21st century, legends are created through the narrative of data.

Presenter: Professor Robin Fiedler

Time:  12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location: Lake Worth Campus, CBP 103

Presentation:  Patterns, Numbers & Sequences - Improve your critical thinking and reasoning skills...how fast can you guess the NEXT pattern or number in the sequence?

Presenter:  Professor Dr. Terri Speights

Time:  2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

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Presentation: Movie Showing: "Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension". A documentary exploring the world of fractals, mathematical patterns found in nature and art. It discusses their discovery, applications across different fields, and showcases their beauty through captivating visuals and expert interviews.

Time:  9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

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Presentation: The Amazing Art Of Kirigami - You may have heard about Origami (paper folding), but what about Kirigami (paper cutting)? In this talk, I will discuss the geometry behind a few Kirigami examples. In addition, creative examples of Kirigami will be shown in lighting fixtures and other interesting places. Lastly, let's make a few cuts in a 2D square piece of paper and see it transform into a beautiful 3D piece of art. Skill needed? the ability to cut a line with a pair of scissors. Participation not required, but if you so desire, please join me with a pair of scissors and a square piece of paper.

Presenter: Author Elayn Martin-Gay

Time:  11 a.m. - noon

Location: Lake Worth Campus, CBP 103

Presentation: Creative Thinking In Mathematics: Clever Episodes From the Past - In this session, we will look at how mathematicians have used creative thinking to make major breakthroughs by using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create new and exciting ideas in mathematics.

Presenter: Professor Dr. Tony Piccolino

Time:  12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location: Lake Worth Campus, CBP 103

Presentation: Mathemagics - Arthur Benjamin is a mathematician, magician, and educator known for his entertaining math performances. He's a professor at Harvey Mudd College and has popularized math through TED Talks and TV appearances. Dr. Benjamin is one of the world's fastest lightning calculators!

Presenter: Dr. Arthur Benjamin  |  View website

Time:  2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Campus/Room:  Palm Beach Gardens Campus, SC161

Presentation:  Use AI to Turbocharge Your Creativity & Learning - This presentation will explore how Jesse Rogers uses ChatGPT for tasks like programming, writing articles, and creating customized original artwork for projects.

Presenter:  Learning Specialist Jesse Rogers

Time:  9 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Location: Boca Raton Campus, HT 103

Presentation: Digital SIGNAL Processing with Applications in Engineering and Science - This presentation is for students interested in electrical and computer engineering, digital signal processing and image processing. This is most beneficial to students in pre-calculus/trigonometry, calculus I, II, III and differential equations.

Presenter:  Professor Mike Talebi  |  View Flyer

Time:  11 a.m. - noon

Location: Boca Raton Campus, HT 103

Presentation: Robots In The Library - Talk with BOB as he goes through the challenges and successes of being one first public libraries to have a robot independently on the floor helping customers. A discussion on the pros and cons, and demonstrating the robot in action.

Presenter: Robert “BOB” Anstett

Time:  12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location: Palm Beach Gardens Campus, SC 161

Presentation: STEM Career Panel Lunch & Learn - Professionals from various occupations will speak about how they use math in their work and discuss ways that math is connected to the 'real world'.

Time:  2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Location: Boca Raton Campus, HT 103

Presentation: Podcasts, Why & How?  We will talk about how podcasts work, we will walk through YouTube and Spotify settings and potential issues for various audiences. Then we will collaboratively do a podcast together. I will walk through how I do the Tech Talk Weekly podcast, and a person from the audience can be my co-host to do the podcast live in front of everyone. Feel free to stick around in HT103 to view the podcast Tech Talk Weekly being recorded live 4:00-4:30pm!

Presenter: Robert “BOB” Anstett