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Student Dinner with Prof. Moon Duchin, Tufts University

Moon Duchin is a mathematician at Tufts University, where she also serves as director of the interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
6:15pm – 7:15pm
Morrison Commons, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Students-Graduate, Students-Undergraduate
Categories: Free Food

Professor Duchin's mathematical research areas are low-dimensional geometric topology, geometric group theory, and dynamics. Recently she has been intensely interested in applications of metric geometry to political redistricting. Professor Duchin holds a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation and was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

The student dinner follows her public talk, "Political Geometry: What Do Shapes Have To Do with Fair Electoral Representation?" (5:00-6:00 pm, Rockefeller 003)

For more information, contact:
Joanne Needham
joanne.b.needham@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2207
Permanent URL to this event: https://students.dartmouth.edu/ugar/events/event?event=47335

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