Ryan Hynd, one of the undergraduates who is finishing his degree this year,
will be presenting a poster at a Sigma Xi national meeting in Los Angeles
this year. He will present work completed with Professor McCuan on
rolling curves, while both were at a Max Planck Institute in Leipzig Germany this past summer.
This meeting has a very wide set of interests and presentations. Many of them concern the promotion of mathematics and science in third world countries. The mathematicians that work in those countries can possess a quite decent talent, but they are terribly isolated, work for very little money, and have limited range of resources to offer their students.
Ryan will also participate in a Grad Student Recruitment Program at UC Berkeley in the month of October. While there, he'll likely meet up with
GT alum Andy Wand, who is studying for his PhD at Berkeley under the well known topologist Rob Kirby.