Conversations for the Mathematics Community

Dear community members,

we are pleased to welcome you to this new MAA community! We very much look forward to discussing with you on this forum, and during our first webinar this coming Monday August 17. To prepare for the webinar, we hope you will be able to complete assignment 0 beforehand. This assignment is having you write a short math autobiography -- you can find the pdf in the library files under "assignments", but I have attached it here as well.

If you have registered for the session on Monday (it's not too late if you haven't!), we would appreciate if you could send a quick email to dei@maa.org before the 17th at noon eastern time, with title "Aug. 17 session", telling us:

• your name and institution;
• your role at your institution (undergraduate student, K-12 teacher, post-doc, etc);
• whether you would prefer to be in a Zoom breakout room, for small group discussions, with people in a similar role (for example, students might not want to be mixed with staff).

We also welcome receiving your assignment 0 answers in that email, but if you feel comfortable sharing them on this discussion board, others might find your stories inspiring and uplifting -- or just interesting!

Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux and Sara Rezvi, facilitators

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Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux, PhD (she/her/hers)
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
Conversations for the Mathematics Community
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The email dei@maa.org bounces back.  Can you please confirm or send another email.

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Suzanne Doree
Augsburg University
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-13-2020 15:34
From: Rosalie Belanger-Rioux
Subject: Please complete an assignment in advance of our first session on Monday!

Dear community members,

we are pleased to welcome you to this new MAA community! We very much look forward to discussing with you on this forum, and during our first webinar this coming Monday August 17. To prepare for the webinar, we hope you will be able to complete assignment 0 beforehand. This assignment is having you write a short math autobiography -- you can find the pdf in the library files under "assignments", but I have attached it here as well.

If you have registered for the session on Monday (it's not too late if you haven't!), we would appreciate if you could send a quick email to dei@maa.org before the 17th at noon eastern time, with title "Aug. 17 session", telling us:

• your name and institution;
• your role at your institution (undergraduate student, K-12 teacher, post-doc, etc);
• whether you would prefer to be in a Zoom breakout room, for small group discussions, with people in a similar role (for example, students might not want to be mixed with staff).

We also welcome receiving your assignment 0 answers in that email, but if you feel comfortable sharing them on this discussion board, others might find your stories inspiring and uplifting -- or just interesting!

Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux and Sara Rezvi, facilitators

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Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux, PhD (she/her/hers)
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
Conversations for the Mathematics Community
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Original Message:
Sent: 8/14/2020 11:27:00 AM
From: Suzanne Doree
Subject: RE: Please complete an assignment in advance of our first session on Monday!

The email dei@maa.org bounces back.  Can you please confirm or send another email.

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Suzanne Doree
Augsburg University
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-13-2020 15:34
From: Rosalie Belanger-Rioux
Subject: Please complete an assignment in advance of our first session on Monday!

Dear community members,

we are pleased to welcome you to this new MAA community! We very much look forward to discussing with you on this forum, and during our first webinar this coming Monday August 17. To prepare for the webinar, we hope you will be able to complete assignment 0 beforehand. This assignment is having you write a short math autobiography -- you can find the pdf in the library files under "assignments", but I have attached it here as well.

If you have registered for the session on Monday (it's not too late if you haven't!), we would appreciate if you could send a quick email to dei@maa.org before the 17th at noon eastern time, with title "Aug. 17 session", telling us:

• your name and institution;
• your role at your institution (undergraduate student, K-12 teacher, post-doc, etc);
• whether you would prefer to be in a Zoom breakout room, for small group discussions, with people in a similar role (for example, students might not want to be mixed with staff).

We also welcome receiving your assignment 0 answers in that email, but if you feel comfortable sharing them on this discussion board, others might find your stories inspiring and uplifting -- or just interesting!

Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux and Sara Rezvi, facilitators

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Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux, PhD (she/her/hers)
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
Conversations for the Mathematics Community
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HI - I registered for this but can't remember the time on MOnday. ALso, will we be sent zoom instructions/reminder?  THanks

Jennifer Galovich

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Jennifer Galovich Professor Emerita
St. John's University
Collegeville MN
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-13-2020 15:34
From: Rosalie Belanger-Rioux
Subject: Please complete an assignment in advance of our first session on Monday!

Dear community members,

we are pleased to welcome you to this new MAA community! We very much look forward to discussing with you on this forum, and during our first webinar this coming Monday August 17. To prepare for the webinar, we hope you will be able to complete assignment 0 beforehand. This assignment is having you write a short math autobiography -- you can find the pdf in the library files under "assignments", but I have attached it here as well.

If you have registered for the session on Monday (it's not too late if you haven't!), we would appreciate if you could send a quick email to dei@maa.org before the 17th at noon eastern time, with title "Aug. 17 session", telling us:

• your name and institution;
• your role at your institution (undergraduate student, K-12 teacher, post-doc, etc);
• whether you would prefer to be in a Zoom breakout room, for small group discussions, with people in a similar role (for example, students might not want to be mixed with staff).

We also welcome receiving your assignment 0 answers in that email, but if you feel comfortable sharing them on this discussion board, others might find your stories inspiring and uplifting -- or just interesting!

Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux and Sara Rezvi, facilitators

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Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux, PhD (she/her/hers)
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
Conversations for the Mathematics Community
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Thanks to everyone who has sent us their info over email, we are taking this into account for Monday! Also, to see the time and Zoom link for the event tomorrow (and the next two) you can click on "events" when logged into our community on MAA Connect, and you will see the details!

Also, a heads-up that you will have an assignment to complete between each webinar as well, and we'll use the discussion boards to discuss those (and other things we want to discuss) online in-between the webinars!

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Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux, PhD (she/her/hers)
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
Conversations for the Mathematics Community
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-13-2020 15:34
From: Rosalie Belanger-Rioux
Subject: Please complete an assignment in advance of our first session on Monday!

Dear community members,

we are pleased to welcome you to this new MAA community! We very much look forward to discussing with you on this forum, and during our first webinar this coming Monday August 17. To prepare for the webinar, we hope you will be able to complete assignment 0 beforehand. This assignment is having you write a short math autobiography -- you can find the pdf in the library files under "assignments", but I have attached it here as well.

If you have registered for the session on Monday (it's not too late if you haven't!), we would appreciate if you could send a quick email to dei@maa.org before the 17th at noon eastern time, with title "Aug. 17 session", telling us:

• your name and institution;
• your role at your institution (undergraduate student, K-12 teacher, post-doc, etc);
• whether you would prefer to be in a Zoom breakout room, for small group discussions, with people in a similar role (for example, students might not want to be mixed with staff).

We also welcome receiving your assignment 0 answers in that email, but if you feel comfortable sharing them on this discussion board, others might find your stories inspiring and uplifting -- or just interesting!

Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux and Sara Rezvi, facilitators

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Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux, PhD (she/her/hers)
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
Conversations for the Mathematics Community
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Dear participants,

Just a reminder for today's workshop -- we'll see you in about 35 minutes! If you have not registered, it's not too late, but please come a few minutes early since you'll have to register on the fly when you click on the zoom link (info in my previous reply.

Sincerely,
Rosalie

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Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux, PhD (she/her/hers)
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
Conversations for the Mathematics Community
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-13-2020 15:34
From: Rosalie Belanger-Rioux
Subject: Please complete an assignment in advance of our first session on Monday!

Dear community members,

we are pleased to welcome you to this new MAA community! We very much look forward to discussing with you on this forum, and during our first webinar this coming Monday August 17. To prepare for the webinar, we hope you will be able to complete assignment 0 beforehand. This assignment is having you write a short math autobiography -- you can find the pdf in the library files under "assignments", but I have attached it here as well.

If you have registered for the session on Monday (it's not too late if you haven't!), we would appreciate if you could send a quick email to dei@maa.org before the 17th at noon eastern time, with title "Aug. 17 session", telling us:

• your name and institution;
• your role at your institution (undergraduate student, K-12 teacher, post-doc, etc);
• whether you would prefer to be in a Zoom breakout room, for small group discussions, with people in a similar role (for example, students might not want to be mixed with staff).

We also welcome receiving your assignment 0 answers in that email, but if you feel comfortable sharing them on this discussion board, others might find your stories inspiring and uplifting -- or just interesting!

Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux and Sara Rezvi, facilitators

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Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux, PhD (she/her/hers)
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
Conversations for the Mathematics Community
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