The 44^th Annual Fall Conference was held in Monterey on Dec, 9-10 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Spa.

CMC³ invites community college mathematics students to participate in student poster session at our Fall conference. We encourage all types of posters that present some aspect of mathematics (math history, math education, problem solving, mathematical modeling, algebra, calculus, topology, statistics, etc), and provides guidelines for your poster and information on how they will be judged.

This year’s winning poster was Optimizing Volume of a Hanging Mass by Christian Eckhart, Mark McCullough, and John Stevens of Lake Tahoe Community College. Their advisor was Larry Green.

Is space and time fundamental, or are both concepts derived from powerful, yet abundant, quantum correlations underlying the very fabric of reality? We will touch upon a few examples of "mechanisms of emergence", those hidden-in-plain-sight mathematical assumptions that have the power to transform abstract mathematical spaces into highly structured "physical" spaces, where laws of physics emerge from randomness and spacetime manifests from a shapeless, timeless and completely random vector living in a large Hilbert space. To build intuition about these quantum correlations, we will discuss the development and gameplay of Quantum Chess and see why the "quantum realm" is the best place to look for superpowers.

Spiros holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UC Davis. Currently at Caltech, he splits his time between research on quantum many-body physics and outreach to the public. He has worked with Google to design qCraft, a mod introducing quantum mechanics into the popular video game, Minecraft. His collaboration with Jorge Cham, creator of PHD Comics, has produced popular animations on different aspects of quantum science, such as Quantum Information and Topological Quantum Computing. Spiros is also a science consultant for Hollywood, introducing the "quantum realm" in the superhero movie, Ant-Man. He recently convinced Stephen Hawking to play Quantum Chess against Paul Rudd in a viral video narrated by Keanu Reeves.

There are two internets. There is the internet students use in their home lives and the internet they use in their school lives. The school internet is often dreary and the home internet is often engrossing. Students often learn more on the personal internet also. So why is the math education internet so dull and so uneducational so often? What lessons can we draw from the home internet and how can we apply them to all of our classes, and particular to developmental math?

Dan Meyer taught high school math to students who didn't like high school math. He has advocated for better math instruction on CNN, Good Morning America, Everyday With Rachel Ray, and TED.com. He earned his doctorate from Stanford University in math education and is the Chief Academic Officer at Desmos where he explores the future of math, technology, and learning. He speaks internationally and was named one of Tech & Learning’s 30 Leaders of the Future. He lives in Mountain View, CA

Other Events

There will be a pre-conference orkshop titled Enriching Mathematical Learning and Improving Student Success: An Introduction to Carnegie Math Pathways, Statway and Quantway, 5:00 to 7:00 pm in the Big Sur Room.

Schedule of the Saturday Concurrent Sessions

Presentations provided can be found below.

Future CMC³ Conferences

Information about future conferences can be found here. For conference information, contact the Conference Chair. For registration information contact the Membership Chair