On Thursday, April 11th, 2013 Youngstown State University College of STEM held its first Sonia Kovalevsky Day. Although the very first time for YSU STEM, Sonia Kovalevsky events are held about the country to add the great arena of math to young ladies.
“Mathematics is a discipline where historically females have been a minority. These events where founded to develop mathematics among women, and to tell them that math is way beyond anything they learn in school and everything things they are able to apply a math degree,” says Dr. Alicia Prieto Langarica, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics.
During manufactured, women within the area believed speakers and panelists, met women with careers in mathematics, and even built polyhedra at among the list of four workshops. The 2010 keynote speaker was Professor Eve Torrence, from Randolph-Macon College, Ashland Virginia. Her lecture, “Classical, Renaissance, and Modern Polyhedra,” informed students techniques the 3-dimensional continues to be study regarding many mathematicians throughout historical background and what is different their thinking.
Other speakers and panelists included Carla Gerberry, who graduated YSU in 2003, Tara Martin, who graduated YSU in 2008, and Melissa Marshall, who graduated YSU in 2005. In 2010, there was clearly eight participating schools: Boardman Senior high school, Chaney Twelfth grade, Hubbard Secondary school, James A. Garfield High school graduation, Kenston Highschool, Lincoln (Ellwood City) Secondary school, South Range High School, and Warren G. Harding School.
