Conversation is a fundamental part of the research we engage in. While, as mathematical scientists, it is a given that deeply concentrated, distraction free thought is crucial to mastery and progress, it is also true that frequent interaction with others increases the rate at which progress is made and new ideas are injected into the awareness. Conversation is also powerful as an grounding antidote for thinking that has become tenuous or even untethered from important aspects of a larger perspective.
Starting Fall of 2019, in collaboration with Michael Forbes, started exploring creating immersive experiences aimed at encouraging innovation at the interfaces and disrupting the silos in academia that get in the way of this innovation. The sub-project of this larger vision that turned out to be sustainable is the Integrated Science and Mathematics (iSciMath) Project which is growing and is turning into the organizing principle of the instincts for collaboration, connection, collaboration and silo-disruption that characterizes our culture code.
weekly 3rd wave coffee fueled iSciMath jam sessions, currently held in the Band Conference Room (Webester 1243) every Thursday from 1:00 - 4:00 pm.
classes aimed at a parallel set of experiences serving not only students and faculty looking for deep expertise, but also enabling those from outside a discipline to master the intuitions and instincts and language in order to better work at the boundaries or interfaces between disciplines. Here is a link to a description of those classes.
A weekly Astronomy-Physics-Mathematics Data Driven Jam Session focused on data driven problems involving astronomy/astrophysics, quantum physics. and data challenges.
Although not explicitly an iSciMath activity, the The New WSU Analysis Seminar in the Mathematics and Statistics Department is run with this same spirit of conversation and exploration since I am solely responsible for organizing it and running it.
Lectures
While talks and lectures are frequent and often quite informal (and mostly unrecorded), there are some that have been recorded or slide/note driven. I will still the videos, slides, notes for those here. I am also including slides and videos for some rather old lectures/discussions.
The iSciMath Universe (and our research group) generates a regular stream of jam sessions, workshops, summer schools, short courses, visits by faculty and students from other schools/campuses, and visits be external scientists from industry and government labs. These events will be tracked here.
