Math Mondays

Our first Math Monday of the new year is set for September 2. Please join us for a Math Nature Walk, which will start at 3:10 p.m. Plan to meet at the outside doors to Hayes Hall. We will leave shortly after 3:10.

A drink station will be available before the walk, but you are encouraged to bring your own water bottles. This is your chance to catch up with old friends and meet new ones as we say hello to all our fellow math and stats faculty and students. We hope to see you there!

Meet and greet with your fellow math/stat students and the math and statistics faculty at this year's First-Year Welcome Tea. Say hello to our math community and hear about all the exciting news in math and statistics. Learn about exciting opportunities and our Math Monday series.

Join us on the Peirce Patio (weather permitting) at 3:10 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9. We will be offering a variety of snacks with lemonade and iced tea. Celebrate another year of mathematics and statistics here at Kenyon. We hope to see you there!

Every summer, many of our students participate in the summer research program. Students work as full participants in the processes of creating a research plan, executing a research project, and preparing results for presentation in a public forum. Learn more about the research done by your fellow mathematics and statistics students. 

This week's panelists include several students who worked both on and off campus for their research.

Jimmy Baker '26 worked with Professor Holdener this summer through the Kenyon Summer Science Scholars program on the abundance index and triperfect numbers, a topic within number theory.

Kyle Kelley '25 engaged in a remote research experience through Virginia Commonwealth University researching how polynomials of graphs represent themselves in respective Lie algebras.

Christophe Leblanc '25 worked with Professor Snipes this summer through the Kenyon Summer Science Scholars program on the Lavrentiev Phenomenon, which is a problem in the calculus of variation.

Lief Schaumann '25 was a part of the REU Program at Moravian University where he worked with several other participants on a topic in number theory known as integer covering systems.

Join us on Monday, Sept. 16, at 3:10 p.m. in Hayes Hall 109 to hear these exciting presentations and perhaps learn how you too can get involved in summer research programs. We hope to see you there!

Every summer, many of our students participate in the summer research program. Students work as full participants in the processes of creating a research plan, executing a research project, and preparing results for presentation in a public forum. Learn more about the research done by your fellow mathematics and statistics students. 

This week's panelists include some of our sophomores and juniors and their studies over the summer.

Wisdom Akanwe ‘27 worked as a data analytics intern and business consultant at Impact Academy in Tulsa. Wisdom’s group was tasked with proposing a viable business plan for Circle Cinema (the first arthouse Cinema in Tulsa) to expand its audience to Hispanic and Black communities.

Moe Belgith ‘26 and Godwin Idowu ‘27 worked with Professor Aydin through the Kenyon Summer Science Scholars Program.

Peter Dunson ‘27 worked through the BDSI at the University of Michigan, using Bayesian clustering to find meaningful subgroups of ICU-admitted heart failure patients.

Join us on Monday, Sept. 23, at 3:10 p.m. in Tomsich 101 (note the new location this week) to hear these exciting presentations and perhaps learn how you too can get involved in summer research programs. We hope to see you there!

Noah Aydin, professor of mathematics, and Marissa Gee, assistant professor of mathematics, will present a double feature of mathematics research for Math Monday, sharing more information on their work and its impact in the greater mathematical community.

Aydin will give a brief introduction to coding theory and talk about the ongoing undergraduate research program at Kenyon and how you might get involved.

Gee will speak on work involving optimal control questions. Mathematical models are powerful tools for predicting the world — given some input, they can tell us about likely outcomes. In some scenarios, there are parameters in the model that we can control, like the rate of fishing when modeling a commercial fishery, or the direction of motion when modeling an autonomous vehicle. Optimal control is the study of how we can choose the parameters that will give us the "best" outcome, like maximizing profit or minimizing cost, based on a particular model. Gee's research uses techniques from math modeling, differential equations, and numerical methods to answer optimal control questions like how a rover can safely navigate the terrain on Mars, or how an animal can find food while avoiding being eaten by a predator.

Join us on Monday, Sept. 30, at 3:10 p.m. in Tomsich 101 (note the new location this week) to hear these exciting presentations and perhaps learn how you too can get involved in mathematics and statistics research hear at Kenyon. We hope to see you there!

Every summer, many of our students participate in the summer research program. Students work as full participants in the processes of creating a research plan, executing a research project, and preparing results for presentation in a public forum. Learn more about the research done by your fellow mathematics and statistics students. 

Join us on Monday, Oct. 21, at 3:10 p.m. in Hayes 109 to hear these exciting presentations and perhaps learn how you too can get involved in summer research programs. We hope to see you there!