MSP 2012 ANNUAL CONVENTION
18-19 May 2012, De La Salle
Lipa, Lipa City, Batangas
The 2012 MSP Annual Convention takes place this
week in De La Salle Lipa! It will
feature plenary talks on mathematics and mathematics education, a set of
invited talks on teaching strategies and mathematics education research,
numerous short paper presentations in all areas of pure and applied
mathematics, computing and statistics and poster presentations.
The following have been invited to give 45-minute
plenary talks - Sinai Robbins (Nanyang
Technological University), Ederlina Nocon (De La Salle
University), Joseph Pasia (University of the Philippines), Rosemarivic Villena
(Philippine Normal University). The Convention will culminate with a public
lecture by Prof Jin Akiyama (Tokai University)
on Mathematics behind Art and Music.
Download the announcement
. The conference program is here. All speakers,
take note of your presentation schedule.
Public
Lecture: MATH Behind ART and MUSIC by Prof JIN AKIYAMA
12:30 PM, 19 May 2012, De La Salle Lipa, Batangas
On Saturday May 19, mathematician Jin Akiyama will give a talk on “The
Math Behind Art and Music”. Jin Akiyama is professor of mathematics in Tokai University, Japan and is known for his work
in the areas of combinatorics, graph theory, discrete and computational
geometry and mathematics education.
He is also a popular public communicator for math and science. His
lecture is the last activity of the 2012 Annual Convention of MSP and is
open to the public. See the announcement.
14th
PHILIPPINE MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD NATIONAL FINALS
28 January 2012, UP Diliman
The National Finals of the 14th Philippine Mathematical Olympiad
will be held on January 28, 2012 (Saturday). The finals is composed of two
portions, oral and written. The written portion will be held in the morning
of January 28 at the Institute
of Mathematics, U.P.
Diliman but is not open to the public. As had been done in the past years,
the orals will be held at the NISMED Auditorium, U.P. Diliman, from 1:30 to
5:00 pm, and is open to the public.
The PMO Champion and the two runners up will be announced during the
awarding ceremonies to be held after the orals at the Bulwagang Tandang
Sora, College
of Social Work and
Community Development, U.P. Diliman.
Over 3,500 students took part in the Qualifying Stage of this
academic year's PMO. Only 203 moved on to the Area Stage of the
competition. Of those, only the top 20 moved on to the National Finals.
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