We have a guest this week, so we are going to brave the chaos of the quarter's final week and have a Brown Bag on Thursday, June 1. Our guest is Eva Browder, and I asked her to describe her topic, so here it is:

A little over three years ago a new kind of program was founded at Rutgers University to involve motivated high school students in independent and innovative mathematics learning through problem solving by correspondence and e.mail. This program is the creation of the celebrated Russian mathematician I.M. Gelfand, who emigrated to the US in 1989 and who created a similar and very succesful program centered in Moscow for over thirty years. This program is based on 3 unusually clear books on high-school mathematics topics written by Gelfand and his collaborators, and now adapted for American students. Eva Browder is a consultant to this program and will discuss the details of the program and invite dicussion.

We will meet at noon on Thursday, again in C-36, but be of good cheer--that turns out to be where the sofas from the lounge have migrated to!