(1997 – present)
These day-long workshops, held on the University of Arizona campus, are designed for high school classes. (We also occasionally hold workshops designed for middle school classes, as well as workshops geared specifically towards school teachers.) The workshops cover topics that are not commonly taught in school math classes. Through an intuitive approach to each subject, students are exposed to both interesting and active areas of contemporary mathematics research.
A secondary purpose of the high school workshops is to expose high school students to what an undergraduate education in mathematics includes, and to encourage them to add math classes to their schedule when they enter college.
If you are a teacher interested in bringing your class to a workshop, please contact the current program coordinator (see below).
Listed here are past workshop topics. We are always open to ideas for new topics.
Additional information on particular workshops (topic descriptions, dates, and participants) is available at various workshop-related websites:
Workshops in this outreach program are organized and run entirely by graduate students (with faculty encouragement and departmental administrative support). The program came into existence in Spring 1997 as one aspect of the SWRIMS project, when SWRIMS director Dr. William Vélez suggested this outreach program—and allocated SWRIMS funding—to graduate students Jennifer Christian-Smith, Aaron Ekstrom, and Alexander Perlis. (SWRIMS had already been involved in high school workshops on Population Biology and Honey Bees, which were organized by Dr. Joseph Watkins.)
Initially, graduate student program coordinators and workshop organizers were funded by SWRIMS. Since around 2000, the primary incentive for graduate student participation has been the vertical integration requirement for graduate students funded by the department's VIGRE Grant.
The following graduate students have organized (or otherwise participated in) one or more workshops: Jared Barber, Daniel Bartlett, Karl Bauer, Craig Beisel, Lisa Berger, Sam Chapman, Josh Chesler, Jennifer Christian-Smith, Dan Coombs, Geoffrey Cunningham, Dustin Ditchen, Aaron Ekstrom, Eric Forgoston, Cecilia Fosser, Sarah Frey, Kris Green, Derek Habermas, Tessie Huggard, Craig Hyde, Selin Kalaycioglu, Patrick Kano, Seogyoung Kim, Jessica Knapp, Laura Kondek, Dmitry Kondrashov, Rachel Labes, Andre Lehovich, Frederick Leitner, Ben Levitt, Scott Lietz, Jennifer Lowe, Guadalupe Lozano, Martha Maiers, David Marsden, David Marshall, Susan Hammond Marshall, Cameron McLeman, Tyler McMillen, Erin McNicholas, Julio Melendez-Morales, Justin Miller, Rob Pawlowski, Alexander Perlis, Katrina Piatek-Jimenez, Chris Rasmussen, Judith Reed, Jeff Selden, Patrick Shipman, Jeanine Smallwood, Adam Spiegler, Sacha Swenson, Ben VanDerLinden, Brian Walton, Brad Weir.
At some workshops, undergraduate students were invited by the graduate student organizers to participate: Jaime Balicanta, Imelda Murrieta, Catherine Ott.
At some workshops, postdoctoral or regular faculty were invited by the graduate student organizers to participate: Robert Beals, Russel Carlson, Bharath Narayanan.
Students from the following schools have attended one or more workshops:
In some years, the coordinator wrote a report of activities. When available, those reports are posted here.