Outreach Activities: Frank Sottile
General Mathematical Talks
- Computational Thinking in Pure Mathematics,
Short talk at NSF CDI workshop on The Role of Symbolic, Numeric and Algebraic
Computation in
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI), 31 October 2007.
Text of talk.
- The IMA program on Applications of Algeraic
Geometry,
IMA PIC/IAB meeting, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
20 June 2007.
Text of talk.
- Introduction to moduli spaces,
20 May 2005,
Special Seminar, Texas A&M University.
- Convexity for lines in
Rd,
23 September 2004,
Graduate Student Seminar, Texas A&M University.
Abstract
- What Is a Real Algebraic Curve?,
10 March 2003, TWIGS Seminar, University of Massachusetts.
Abstract.
- What is a Hopf Algebra?
And what do Hopf Algebras have to do with Combinatorics?,
16 October 2002, TWIGS Seminar, University of Massachusetts.
Abstract.
- Common transversals and tangents,
11 December 2001, TAP Seminar,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Abstract.
- Graduate Student Forum: Life after PhD?, 18 April 2001,
Graduate Student Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- The Real, complete story of conics,
6 December 2000, TAP Seminar,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Abstract.
- The Complete Story of Conics,
23 February 2000, Undergraduate Mathematics Club,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Abstract.
- The Complete Story of Conics, 7 March 1997,
`Club Zero', University of Texas El Paso Undergraduate Mathematics Club.
- Employment in the Mathematical Sciences,
1 September 1995, Special Graduate Student
Seminar, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Talks and Activities with High School
Students
- To infinity and Beyond!: the mathematical theory of the inifinite,
Summer Honors
Invitational Program, 9 June 2008.
- The Science of Shape, Summer Educational Enrichment in Math
(SEE Math)
Texas A&M University, 17 July 2007.
- Euler Island, 25 October 1997, University of Toronto's
Mathematical Sciences Day.
- Lines in Space, 27 May 1996, Upper Canada College
Mathematics Club.
- Lines in Space, 27 April 1996, University of Toronto's
Mathematical Sciences Day.
- The Cantor Set, 26 February 1996, Upper Canada College
Mathematics Club.
- Symmetry and Card Shuffling, 3 December 1995,
University of Toronto Mathematics club.
- Transfinite Numbers, 5 November 1995, Upper Canada
College Mathematics Club.
- The Five Colour Theorem, 23 May 1995,
Upper Canada College Mathematics Club.
- Cantor's Theory of Infinity, 14 May 1995,
University of Toronto Mathematics Club.
- The Combinatorial Classification of Surfaces,
29 April 1995,
University of Toronto Mathematical Sciences Day.
- The Science of Shapes, Discover Science Day,
a University (of Toronto)-wide initiative to
encourage High School girls to study Science or Engineering.
22 November 1994, 22 February 1995, 9 November 1995,
and 9 May 1996.
- Assisted with the University of Toronto Math Club (for
Toronto area secondary school students) Spring 1995 - Summer 1996.
Valley Mathematical Sciences day
Modified since: 20 June 2008