April 15 Day 1133: You Know You Are A Mathematician When…

Posted byJenny QuinnPosted inMAA, mathematicsTags:, ,

…your license plate equals -1.

…you road trip from Arizona, across New Mexico, to El Paso with your friends to present your results on a Saturday morning. And you are excited to hear your advisor talk afterwards.

Undergraduates from ASU and South Mountain Community College with Advisors Malena Espanol and Bechir Amdouni.
The foreground of this image could use some help from the speakers. (Haven’t seen a disposable camera in years.)
Looks more like art than Mars. What a cool project.
Dr. Malena Espanol from ASU

…the audience for your contributed talk is filled with former students now successfully teaching in the math community.

Dr. Helmut Knaust from UTEP.

…you are sad the math meeting is over and already hoping to reconnect with new friends at MathFest in Tampa in August!

Othello Gamboa
Me, Joanne Peeples, and Fan Chen.

Published by Jenny Quinn

Mathematician. Mother. Wife. Leader. I am a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Tacoma. Mother of Anson and Zachary. Wife to Mark. President of the Mathematical Association of America 2021-2022. Past-President of MAA 2023.

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