Math Day 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
This year’s speaker Math Day speaker is Dr. Alice Patania, who will give a talk entitled Beyond Numbers: How Abstract Math Illuminates Our World.
About Math Day
State and regional winners of the competition 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
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
the Innovation/Discovery Hall Complex on the UVM Campus at
Math Day in May, 2023