Math Awareness Week 2025

Time: 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Location: Online via Teams
Presentation: A Trip to Infinity (Movie Showing)
Can we experience the infinite? The world's most modern scientists and mathematicians embark on a search for the infinite and its amazing effects on the universe.

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Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location:  Palm Beach Gardens campus (SC 127) or join online via Teams 
Presentation: Scavenger Hunt
Join us for an exciting Math Scavenger Hunt across the PBG campus! Solve puzzles, find clues and test your math skills for a chance to win prizes, meet friends and have fun.

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Time: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Online via Teams 
Presenter: Carol Williams
Presentation: Cengage author Carol Ann Williams has channeled her lifelong fascination with the presence of mathematics in art, music and nature into a rewarding career in education.

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Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Location: Lake Worth campus(CE 119) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Todd Bates
Presentation: Showcase of the University of Florida’s Geomatics Program.

Time: 9 - 11 a.m.
Location: Boca Raton campus (HT 103) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Mike Talebi 
Presentation: Digital Signal Processing with Applications in Science and Engineering.
High-tech applications of advanced mathematics in analyzing signals in electrical engineering and biomedical image processing will be presented. Most suitable for students enrolled in calculus courses.

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Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: Lake Worth campus (CE 119) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Juan Pena
Presentation: Math and Music.
Learn the role math plays in music!

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Time: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Lake Worth campus (CE 119) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Anthony Piccolino
Presentation: The Human Side of Mathematics.
This presentation explores a wide variety of problems and personalities that have shaped the mathematical landscape. Some of the problems are still unsolved, and some of the colorful characters you will meet prove that mathematicians are real people, too!

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Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Location: Lake Worth campus (CE 119) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Joseph Pick
Presentation: Hey, Do You Want a Proof or Do You Want a Simulation?
This presentation will show how simulations can be used to intuitively verify theorem results, solve complex problems and visually explain and reinforce mathematical concepts and behavior.

Time: 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Location: Palm Beach Gardens campus (SC 127) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Mark McKay 
Presentation: Million Dollar Blackjack.
Learn how to enter a casino and leave with big money. Using simple mathematics, a player can gain a 52% advantage over the casino.

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Boca Lunch and Learn Event
Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: Boca Raton campus (HT 103) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Luc T. Wille 
Presentation: Ask not what mathematics can do for physics; ask what physics can do for mathematics.
Dr. Wille will showcase his work (and that of others) on the use of simulated annealing to solve problems in combinatorial mathematics.

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PBG Lunch and Learn Event
Time: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Palm Beach Gardens campus (SC 127) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Dave Sobecki 
Presentation: Somebody's Going to Win. But Not You.
Maybe we can do some math to decide whether we should gamble, or just throw our cash into the nearest dumpster.

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Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Location: Palm Beach Gardens campus (SC 127) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Jesse Rogers 
Presentation: AI is Math in Action.
In this demo, learn to use modern AI systems in bold ways. Become empowered to solve problems and take actions that were previously difficult or impossible.

Time: 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Location: Palm Beach Gardens campus (SC 127) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Carrie McDonald
Presentation: Math and Dancing.
Join us for a free ballroom dancing workshop that will highlight connections with math.

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Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: Palm Beach Gardens campus (SC 127) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Bob Anstett
Presentation: Teaching Technology to the Public.
A conversation with someone working in the field of teaching technology to the public in a library setting.

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Time: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Online via Teams
Presenter: Julie Miller
Presentation: Mathematics in the Media for Humor and Relevance.
Join the presenter to investigate funny (ha ha) and funny (strange) implementations of mathematics in the media.

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Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Location: Palm Beach Gardens campus (SC 127) or join online via Teams 
Presenter: Career Panel 
Presentation: Professionals from various occupations will speak about how they use math in their work and discuss ways that math is connected to the "real world."