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Tuesday March 9

Sokol Seminar Room, Science Hall
Lecture: Contributions of Ancent Chinese Mathematicians

Chuang Peng, (Mathematics, Morehouse College) will give an overview of Chinese contributions to mathematics over 1500 years, with wide applications to many fields, including land surveying, astronomy, trade and taxation.
Co-sponsored by the Mathematics Department Sokol Seminar Series
   

 

Tuesday March 23 4:00 p.m.
Sokol Seminar Room, Scence Hall
Workshop: Calculations with Chinese Abacus

This workshop by accountant Hanping Yu and mathematics professor Aihua Li will include an introduction to the history of Chinese abacus. Participants will perform simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication calculations, with a competition between Ms. Yu on abacus and participants utilizing calculators or computers.
Co-sponsored by the Mathematics Department and the student math club.




Tuesday April 22, 10:00 a.m..
Sokol Seminar Room, Scence Hall
Panel: Environmental Sustainability in China and the United States
Lizhong Yu (President, East China Normal University), Dekui Yuan (Tianjin University) and Montclair State University environmental scientists will discuss China's growing environmental issues related to urban economic development and international collaborative responses.
The Environmental Studies panel has been canceled due to speaker scheduling and visa issues

 

 

 

This Festival was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. All views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in this festival do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.