Math Day 2026
This year’s Math Day will take place on the UVM campus on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. This year’s speaker is Dr. Mike Miller Eismeier, who will give a talk entitled Inside and Outside, in Practice and Theory.
About Math Day
State and regional prize winners are honored at Math Day, which is held on the University of Vermont campus in May. The Math Day program includes a math talk on an interesting topic chosen by the year’s speaker, and an awards luncheon. The prize winning students are invited to campus for Math Day along with their parents and a representative from their school.
Recent Math Day Talks
2025 – An Introduction to Polytopes
Dr. Spencer Backman
2024 – Beyond Numbers: How Abstract Math Illuminates Our World
Dr. Alice Patania
2023 – Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Society through Mathematics.
Dr. Chris Danforth
2022 – Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors: What Newspaper Subscriptions, Car Rentals, and Google (and Many Other Things) Have in Common
Dr. Taras Lakoba
2021 – Extremal Mathematics
Dr. Puck Rombach
2020 – The Mathematics of Epidemics
Dr. Daniel Velleman
2019 – Merry Deranging: Math and Gerrymandering
Dr. Gregory Warrington
2018 – Points, Lines, and Dimension: A Tour of the Kakeya Problem
Dr. Evan Dummit
2017 – The Number Theory Behind Cryptography
Dr. Christelle Vincent
2016 – Data for Social Good
Dr. Abigail Crocker
