QED, a conversation about
math and math education
A monthly online series hosted by Ingrid Daubechies
Next Up
QED, featuring Kenneth Fan
Hosted by Ingrid Daubechies
Tuesday, May 28
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm ET
(online)
Join MoMath’s 2023-2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor Ingrid Daubechies as she welcomes Kenneth Fan to the MoMath stage for an engaging conversation about math and math education.
C. Kenneth Fan is the founder of Girls’ Angle, a nonprofit math club for girls based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After earning a PhD in mathematics from MIT, he became a Professor at Harvard and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study before leaving academia to pursue a career as a painter. During that time, he also freelanced in math educational publishing, which sparked his desire to improve math education. Ken has served on MoMath’s exhibition development team, helping to create MoMath’s Math Midway exhibition for the 2009 World Science Festival. More recently, he served on the Girls and Mathematics Panel at the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics conference.
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QED in June
QED, featuring Sybilla Beckmann
Hosted by Ingrid Daubechies
Thursday, June 13
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm ET
(online)
Join MoMath’s 2023-2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor Ingrid Daubechies as she welcomes Sybilla Beckmann, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia, to the MoMath stage for an engaging conversation about math and math education.
Sybilla earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and taught at Yale University before her tenure of 32 years at the University of Georgia. Sybilla began her career doing research in arithmetic geometry, but she became interested in mathematics education as her children entered school. She developed courses for prospective elementary and middle school teachers that were designed to go deeply into the ideas of elementary and middle school mathematics; her textbook for such courses is now in a sixth edition! Sybilla was a member of numerous national committees and writing teams to improve math education for students and teachers, and she has received numerous awards and honors for her work in education. Sybilla continues to do research in mathematics education.
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About QED
Join MoMath’s 2023-2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor Ingrid Daubechies each month as she welcomes special guests to the MoMath stage for engaging conversations about math and math education.
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These are online-only events. Occasional video recordings are made available for a fee at videos.momath.org.