Frank Morgan

The 2012 Lehigh University Geometry-Topology Conference was as warm and welcoming as ever. Here’s a photo from the final day.

Car Talk Saturday, May 26, announced me as the winner of the Puzzler. As they did on Saturday, January 25, 2004. For the same puzzle. Which I never answered. At that time I wrote to my congratulatory friends:

Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:21:35 -0500
Dear Friends,

It was great to hear from you about a curious announcement on Car Talk yesterday of my winning the Puzzler, curious since I did not even submit an answer to that particular question! I have six theories, successively less plausible: Continue reading ‘I win Car Talk puzzler again?’ »

On May 30, 1984, while at MIT I appeared in a short segment on the nationally syndicated “PM Magazine” TV show:

Walked this Easter morn as far as you can drive up the old Petersburg Road without hiking the rest of the way to Petersburg Pass. Williamstown is just a dim memory in the distance. The old tree marks the spot.

Select episodes of my live call-in MathChat TV show are now available on YouTube:

February 11, 1996 with co-host Eric Watson ’97

March 2, 1996 with co-host Aaron Dupuis ’99

April 13, 1997 with special guest Benoit Mandelbrot

October 6, 1997 with special guest John Conway, at Princeton University

November 24, 1997 with special guest Freeman Dyson, at Princeton University

The first three are at Williams on Willinet.

Also check out my MathChat column archive and my Math Chat book. Continue reading ‘MathChat Videos’ »

ICMS workshop on “Isoperimetric problems, space filling, and soap bubble geometry” in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 19-22, 2012, described in my Huffington Post blog on “Soap Bubbles in Scotland”; research blog.

Video of Simon Cox, Aberystwyth University, organizer. Continue reading ‘ICMS “Isoperimetric Problems…” 19-22 March 2012 Edinburgh’ »

Perfect winter day for my first-ever hike of the Class of 1998 Trail to the top of Pine Cobble. Two and a half hours round-trip from home. Chestnut Trail off Chestnut Street, left on Class of 1998 Trail, right on Appalachian Trail, right on Pine Cobble Trail, back to Williamstown. Photos: (1) illusory cave, (2) first nice view, (3) reaching a high point on ’98, (4)  junction with Appalachian Trail, (5-7) top of Pine Cobble.

On the occasion of its centennial, the Royal Spanish Math Society has published a commemorative issue of their Revista. Mathematicians describe some early influential encounters with mathematics.

Continue reading ‘Mathematicians Tell Stories’ »

For undergraduate mathematics research opportunities, we usually refer students to the AMS website, the SIAM website, our headline, and our SMALL webpage on other programs. Prof. Vélez has put together the following excellent list of programs with special features. Comments are most welcome either below or by emailing Frank Morgan.

Summer_REU_and Internship Programs 2021 by William Yslas Vélez, University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Continue reading ‘Undergraduate Math Research Opportunities’ »

The National Science Foundation supports about 70 sites for Research Experiences for Undergraduates in mathematics across the country. Proposals for the next summer are due the fourth Wednesday in August. A good proposal includes the following elements. Continue reading ‘Elements of Good NSF REU Proposal’ »