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African-American Mathematics: Building Pipelines

Seventh in the Annual Series of Symposia
"Without Number: Mathematics and Culture"

Saturday, April 22, 2006
Boston University, Stone Science Building (STO Room B50)
675 Commonwealth Avenue
STO Room B50 (access basement from Tsai Ctr 685 Comm Ave)

Start Time: 10:00 am - End Time: 5:00 pm

Continental Breakfast and Poster Session:
Showcasing the work of African-American Students 10:00-10:45 am

WELCOMING REMARKS 10:45
Kenneth Elmore, Dean of Students

Panel Discussion 11:00-12:30
African-American Mathematics: Narrow the Gaps

Luncheon Reception: 12:30-2:00

Keynote Address 2:00-3:00

Arlie O. Petters (Duke University)

"A Promising Future in Mathematics and Science"

Coffee Break 3:00-3:30

Panel Discussion 3:30-5:00
African-American Mathematics: Embracing the Profession

Confirmed Panelists: Terrence Richard Blackman (Medgar Evers College), Peter Blair (Duke University), Pierre-Richard Jean Cornely (Raytheon Company and UMass, Lowell), Nathaniel Dean (Texas Southern University), Roscoe Giles (Boston University), Jillian E. McLeod (Mount Holyoke College), Arlie O. Petters (Duke University), Joan Y. Reede (Harvard Medical School), Donald F. St.Mary (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Links to Visit

Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

Mathematical Association of America's SUMMA: Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora

Tenth Annual Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University

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For more information about the event please contact the Symposium organizer:

Emma Previato: ep@bu.edu

THANKS Partial support of this event by The Boston University Humanities Foundation, as a Humanities Enhancement Project of the Boston University Student Chapter of the Mathematical Association of America, is very gratefully acknowledged, as is the Department of Mathematics and Statistics' generosity in matching the grant and providing a home to the symposium

Partial support for participants from Partner Institutions under the Northeast Alliance Program were generously provided by the Boston University AGEP Office: special thanks to Assistant Director Jeremy Goodman for valued advice and also Program Manager Richard Rowley for extensive help