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Math Day 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Math Day<\/strong>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Math Day Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 – An Introduction to Polytopes<\/em>
Dr. Spencer Backman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 – Beyond Numbers: How Abstract Math Illuminates Our World<\/em>
Dr. Alice Patania<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023 – Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Society through Mathematics<\/em>.
Dr. Chris Danforth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 – Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors: What Newspaper Subscriptions, Car Rentals, and Google (and Many Other Things) Have in Common<\/em>
Dr. Taras Lakoba<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 – Extremal Mathematics<\/em>
Dr. Puck Rombach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 – The Mathematics of Epidemics<\/em>
Dr. Daniel Velleman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 – Merry Deranging: Math and Gerrymandering<\/em>
Dr. Gregory Warrington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 – Points, Lines, and Dimension:<\/em> A Tour of the Kakeya Problem<\/em>
Dr. Evan Dummit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 – The Number Theory Behind Cryptography<\/em>
Dr. Christelle Vincent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 – Data for Social Good<\/em>
Dr. Abigail Crocker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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