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Dr. Francis Su of Harvey Mudd College will be presenting a series of three Distinguished Lectures in Mathematics at Winona State University. On Tuesday, September 13, at 12:45 p.m. he
Marietta College is pleased to announce that it has rescheduled the Phi Beta Kappa Public Lecture with Francis Su for 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 17th. His virtual visit will be highlighted by his Phi Beta Kappa Public Lecture entitled, Mathematics for Human Flourishing. The lecture will be presented as a Zoom Webinar.
Dr. Su was originally scheduled to visit Marietta College in March 2020 as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, but his visit was postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Francis Su is the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and a former president of the Mathematical Association of America. His research is in geometric combinatorics and applications to the social sciences. In 2013, he received the Haimo Award, a nationwide teaching prize for college math faculty, and in 2018 he won the Halmos-Ford writing award. His work has been featured in
Dr. Francis Su, who is virtually visiting Marietta College as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, will give a presentation entitled, The Game of Cycles on Zoom at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 16th. The Game of Cycles, introduced in his new book,
Mathematics for Human
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ourishing (2020), is played on a simple connected planar graph together with its bounded cells, and players take turns marking edges with arrows according to a sink-source rule that gives the game a topological flavor. Dr. Su first started playing this game with Christopher Jackson, an incarcerated man who is a featured contributor in his book. With Jackson and several other mathematicians, they wrote a paper together about this game, and Dr. Su will share some of the things they discovered.