Upcoming National Award Events – GRFP/Churchill/Luce/DAAD

Monday October 2 – 5:30 – 6:30 – Hutton Honors College room 108
Learn about the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
Session will be led by fellowship advisor and a faculty member who has served as a reviewer at the national level. NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) generously fund graduate study in a variety of disciplines including the social sciences and education. Deadlines occur in late October and vary according to discipline.

October 11 – Deadline to apply for a Churchill Scholarship for seniors in sciences, mathematics and engineering who seek graduate study at Cambridge University can apply for a. Contact campus representative (Paul Fogleman; pfoglema@iu.edu) about applying. Application requires you to apply to Cambridge University by October 11.

October 16 –Campus deadline to apply for a Luce Scholarship to fund a long-term experiential stay in an East Asian country. National deadline is November 1.

October 16 – Campus deadline for a DAAD scholarship for study or research in Germany. National deadline is Nov. 4.

Filed under: Scholarships and Awards

Computing award for young women in Indiana

This means you, creative coders, designers, and otherwise techy teens.

Do you know a young woman interested in computing or IT? The IU Center of Excellence for Women in Technology (CEWiT) is sponsoring the Indiana Award for Aspirations in Computing, honoring high school-age women with computing-related aspirations or interests. Applicants don’t have to be adept with computing, but should wish to become so.

The award is offered in conjunction with a national award sponsored by the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT). Any student who applies is automatically eligible for the national award too. Twenty winners of the Indiana award will receive cash prizes and scholarships to Indiana colleges (including IU).

Learn more and apply for the award here >>

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Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education

Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education (BSME) is designed for undergraduates and recent graduates interested in the learning and
teaching of secondary mathematics. BSME was conceived by the founders of Budapest Semesters in Mathematics (BSM), and the two programs
share a common goal—to experience the mathematical and general culture of Hungary. BSME is specifically intended for students who are not only
passionate about mathematics, but also the teaching of mathematics.

http://www.bsmeducation.com

Filed under: Overseas Study, Teaching

2nd 8 weeks discussion on Diversity, Difference, and Inclusion at IU

In keeping with this Themester’s focus on Diversity • Difference • Otherness, the College is offering a four-session discussion for 1 credit: “The Welcoming Campus: Diversity, Difference, and Inclusion at IU Bloomington. ”

The course is led by Prof. Jane McLeod in Sociology. More information at https://themester.indiana.edu/academics/courses/welcome-to-the-college-x211.html.

Filed under: Academic Help

Check Out Vault’s Top 50 Consulting Firms

Interested in a career in consulting? Want to know where you can start to research consulting firms? Look no further! Check out Vault’s Top 50 Consulting Firms.

Not sure how to break into the field? Want advice on how to tailor your resume for a consulting position? Make an appointment with a career coach today!

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Account Executive // Digital Advertising

Located in San Francisco, Phoenix, Chicago, New York & Washington D.C.

Yelp was created to connect people with great local businesses. As an Account Executive, you’ll be working directly with these local businesses to help them achieve their goals through Yelp’s advertising programs. You’ll provide a consultative approach to every sale and work with each client to determine their business’s needs and aspirations, because we succeed when we help our clients grow their businesses.

People are at the center of everything we do, and you’ll be on the front lines educating business owners about Yelp’s platform and customizing solutions that fit them. You’ll be helping us change the world by supporting our mission, and ultimately giving consumers a better experience.

In this role, you will be directly responsible for selling advertising space on Yelp to local businesses across the US and Canada. Success in this role is measured by hitting and exceeding monthly sales goals, consistently staying ahead of daily metrics, and handling rejection in stride, all in a team-focused environment.

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Sport & Business Professional Panel

Thursday, October 12, 2017
5pm – 6pm
IMU – Oak Room
Learn more: http://bit.ly/2ucnu8l

Learn from professionals working in the sport and business fields. Take part in a panel presentation before the Sport & Business Career Focus Fair to learn about career paths and gain professional insight.

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Connect: Teach for America Tabling Session

Wednesday, September 27, 2017
10am – 3pm
Outside Ballantine Hall

Join Teach for America for tabling outside of Ballantine Hall to learn more about the organization and their opportunities.

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Filed under: Careers, Teaching

Math Club Meeting Tonight (September 27th)

Hello Math Club,

Tonight we will meet at 6:30 PM in Rawles 104 for a talk by Professor Larry Moss on “Majority Rules”
There will once again be free pizza and some cool math.

I hope to see you there!

Best,
Jordan Lenchitz

Abstract: Medieval education presented logic as one of the three components of the ‘trivium’, along with grammar and rhetoric. The topics in logic studied would have included syllogisms. In modern terminology, people would have seen logical facts such as

All X are Y
All Y are Z
_________
All X are Z

We would say that for any sets X, Y, and Z, if X is a subset of Y, and Y a subset of Z, then X is a subset of Z.

For the most part, the logical tradition has dispensed with syllogisms in favor of reasoning with quantifiers like “for all” and “there exists”. However, I have a research program of re-examining versions of the syllogism but with much more ‘stuff’ around. This talk takes up ‘most’, with the meaning of ‘a strict majority of’. For example, two of the following are valid rules, and one is not. Can you tell which?

Most X are Y
Most X are Z
——————-
Some Y are Z

All Z are Y
Most X are Z
——————
Most X are Y

All X are Y
Most X are Z
——————
Most Z are Y

What are all the valid ‘majority’ rules?

This topic does not even come up in the usual treatments of logic, since ‘most’ goes beyond the usual system of logic, first-order logic.

In this talk, I’ll discuss some very new results about ‘majority rules’, the logic of ‘most’ together with other quantifiers. Most of the work was done right here at IU. This included contributions by a former math (combinatorics) grad student, Tri Lai, and a visiting professor, Joerg Endrullis. Further, I’ll show off a computer program that handles a few of the interesting inferences involving ‘most’.

The talk doesn’t assume any knowledge of logic.

Filed under: Club Events, Math Majors

volunteer tutors needed at Templeton Elementary

Dear Math Majors,

We have been asked if we could provide some community support for math tutoring at Templeton Elementary School. The Monroe County Public Library provides tutoring, but some parents of struggling learners at Templeton lack the transportation required to transport their students to the library and get them back home.

Email me If you are willing to volunteer to tutor at Templeton (which is about a mile from the Rawles Hall).

Thanks,
Prof. Jee Koh
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Filed under: Volunteer Opportunity