Michael Kleber, a mathematician at Google who is making the web faster, gave a community lecture at a recent math conference at Bowdoin
Bowdoin Professor of Mathematics Jennifer Taback says that Bowdoin is known for its strong math department. “If you meet an algebraist of a certain age, there’s a good chance they’ve been to Bowdoin,” she said, referring to well-regarded math summer programs held on campus during the 1960s. Today, math ranks as the third most popular major.
In keeping with that tradition, Bowdoin hosted the American Mathematical Society Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting in late September. Between 300 and 400 mathematicians visited, occupying between twenty and twenty-five classrooms on campus for a two-day conference that included three plenary speakers and eighteen special sessions on specific research topics. In addition, thirty-five undergraduate students presented research, including five Bowdoin students.
Though this is a regular conference, held biannually in each of four regions, Bowdoin’s was unusual in three ways. Read the story by Eliza Graumlich ’17.