Manhattan College is pleased to host the sixth annual Spuyten Duyvil Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. This one day conference will feature presentations by undergraduate students and faculty in mathematics and related disciplines.

The primary goal of the conference is to offer undergraduates the opportunity to attend and actively participate in a professional mathematics meeting and to discuss mathematics with their peers. Attendees may apply to give a 15 minute talk or submit a poster.

The day will end with a film: Between the Folds.


» The Conference Schedule is now posted here.

» Non-presenting participants are requested to register by March 25 (if possible) as an aid to the planners,
but late registrants may still register at the door.

Directions to Manhattan College can be found here.

SDUMC is an MAA NSF-RUMC sponsored activity, funded by NSF Grant DMS-0846477.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Mathematics, Biology and Very Powerful Computers

Biology is undergoing a major transformation, from being mainly a lab science to being a field critically dependent on computer simulation and data analysis. In part, this is because problems that we encounter in biology are many times more complex than those we encounter in other fields. This transformation is being enabled by new mathematical ideas which enable us to address new types of problems and to exploit these new types of supercomputers, which may have hundreds of thousands of processors.

Some of the areas of mathematics that are enabling these advances are discrete and continuous optimization and simulation, efficient network design as well as methods for the creation of systems with very high degrees of reliability. Some of the biggest challenges arise from dealing with multi-scale phenomena. I will discuss these and their importance.

– SDUMC is an MAA NSF-RUMC sponsored activity, funded by NSF Grant DMS-0846477.
– Spuyten Duyvil graphic by Kristen Buccanich, Manhattan College '06.