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SK Day 2019 is a free half-day event scheduled for Saturday, March 30, 2019 from 9am - 2:30pm at the UA Math Building (617 N. Santa Rita Ave). The graduate students at UA will host workshops and provide refreshments, lunch, and a chance to meet women mathematicians at all stages in their careers. We anticipate being able to accommodate up to 40 middle and high school students and chaperones on a first-come, first-serve basis.
How to Register
Register groups of 1-10 middle/high school girls plus a chaperone by either filling out the following Google Form or emailing the following Group Registration Form to awmofficers@math.arizona.edu. Registration has closed.
All participants are required to fill out the following Release Forms. Once you are registered for the event, you may either email the participant release forms to awmofficers@math.arizona.edu or bring them on the day of the event.
If you have registered, but are unable to attend please notify us at least 48 hours before the event.
About SK Day 2019
Every year in the Department of Mathematics at UA we celebrate Sonia Kovalevsky Day to honor one of the best female mathematicians of all time. Local area high school students are invited to participate in the day-long workshop designed and run by the graduate students within the Department of Mathematics and held on the UA Campus. The purposes are to encourage young women to continue their study of mathematics, to assist them with the sometimes difficult transitions between middle school and high school mathematics and between high school and college mathematics, to assist the teachers of women mathematics students, and to encourage colleges and universities to develop more extensive cooperation with middle schools and high schools in their area.
There are talks, activities and prizes and the students get hands-on experience with different mathematical fields. Participants also have the opportunity to meet professional women who do math for a living. For information about last year's workshops, please see SK Day 2018.
All activities will take place at the University of Arizona Math Building (617 N. Santa Rita Ave). Free parking will be available at the 6th street garage.
Tentative Schedule
8:30-9:00 Arrive and check in
9:00-10:00 Welcome
10:00-11:00 Workshop #1
11:00-12:00 Workshop #2
12:00-1:00 Lunch + Keynote Address
1:00-2:00 Workshop #3
2:00-2:30 Closing and pick up
Keynote Speaker
Joellen L. Russell
Associate Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Prof. Joellen Russell is the Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair of Integrative Science and an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Geosciences. Her research uses global climate and earth system models to simulate the climate and carbon cycle of the past, the present and the future, and develops observationally-based metrics to evaluate these simulations. Prof. Russell is the lead for the modeling theme of the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project (SOCCOM) including its Southern Ocean Model Intercomaprison Project (SOMIP). She currently serves as a member of the NOAA Science Advisory Board’s Climate Working Group, as an Objective Leader for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s AntarcticClimate21, and on the World Climate Research Program’s Southern Ocean Region Panel. Prof. Russell is one of the 14 scientists behind an amicus curiae brief supporting the plaintiff in the historic 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision on carbon dioxide emissions and climate change, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Before joining UA, Dr. Russell was a Research Scientist at Princeton University and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA/GFDL). She received her A.B. in Environmental Geoscience from Harvard and her PhD in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
Tentative Workshops
“How Music Looks, How Cosines Sound”
In this workshop we will explore the formulas that might be used to synthesize musical sounds from different instruments. Students will get to test out their intuition about the connections between music and math.
"Rational Tangles"
In this workshop students will perform the "rational tangle dance". During the rational tangle dance, two ropes are be tied into a knot. Students will explore how mathematics can help them to untie the knot that they created.
"Math in Art"
In this workshop students will learn about how math appears in art. They will also use the mathematics they learn to create an art project.
Acknowledgements:
We would like to give special thanks to the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona for sponsoring this event.
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