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