Math Matters - Maple in Mathematics Education and Research
This conference is dedicated to exploring different aspects of the math software Maple, including Maple's impact on education, new symbolic computation algorithms and techniques, and the wide range of Maple applications. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the latest research, share experiences, and interact with Maple developers.
The conference will take place online, and will include live presentations and discussions as well as recordings and chatrooms, in order to accommodate time zones. Maplesoft staff will also offer Maple training sessions on a variety of topics during the conference.
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Keynote Presentations:
Dr. Gabor Domokos
The Gömböc and the Shapes of Nature
Dr. Gabor Domokos spent most of his career at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). In 1989-1990 he spent one year teaching at Cornell University where he is adjunct professor. In 2004 he was elected as the youngest member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2008-2009 he spent one year as a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 2015 Domokos gave the Hooke Lecture at the University of Oxford on the Gömböc and the evolution of natural shapes.
Dr. Juana Sendra Pons
Bohemian Matrices: Past, Present and Future
Dr. Juana Sendra received her B. Sc in Mathematical Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1991, and her Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1999. She has taught mathematics at several universities in Madrid, including the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Dr. Laurent Bernardin
Building the Right Tools for Math Education
Dr. Laurent Bernardin is President and CEO of Maplesoft. He has been with Maplesoft for over 20 years and prior to his appointment to his current role, he held the positions of CTO and COO. Bernardin is a firm believer that mathematics matters. Under his leadership, Maple has grown from a research project in symbolic computing to a complete environment for mathematical calculations used by hundreds of thousands of engineers, scientists, researchers and students around the world.
Maplesoft has been building tools for math education for over 30 years. But building the "right" tools needs to take a lot of factors into account, from advancements in technology, to evolving trends in education, to the impact of a global pandemic. In this presentation, Dr. Laurent Bernardin will discuss Maplesoft's vision for how math tools should evolve to give educators and students the right tools for the times, for today, in the near feature, and beyond.
A matrix family is called Bohemian if its entries come from a fixed finite discrete (and hence bounded) set, usually integers. We look at Bohemian matrices, specifically those with entries from {-1, 0, +1}. The name is a mnemonic for Bounded Height Matrix of Integers. Such families arise in many applications (e.g. compressed sensing) and the properties of matrices selected "at random" from such families are of practical and mathematical interest.
In this talk we present a Bohemian Matrices tour, exposing their appearance in the past, their promising present and their hopeful future.
The Gömböc, whose original constructive proof relied on Maple computations, and the theory leading to its discovery is centrally connected to the understanding of the evolution of shapes in the non-living nature. Prof. Domokos will highlight the essence of this connection and illustrate it with examples from earth and planetary sciences.