Join the Mathematics and Statistics Department for a variety of stimulating math talks. We will meet every Monday from 3:10 to 4 p.m. (unless otherwise noted). For those who are on our distribution list, instructions on how to join each virtual meeting will be sent to your Kenyon email. If you would like to be added to the distribution list, please email Emily Teater at teater1@kenyon.edu.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Shalmali Bandyopadhyay, joins us to discuss the Prüfer transformation and its applications in analyzing mathematical vibrations.
Fall 2025
Our first Math Monday of the new year is set for Sept. 1. Please join us for a Math Nature Walk, which will start at 3:10 p.m. Plan to meet at the outside doors to Hayes Hall. We will leave shortly after 3:10 p.m.
A drink station will be available before the walk, but you are encouraged to bring your own water bottles. This is your chance to catch up with old friends and meet new ones as we say hello to all our fellow math and stats faculty and students. We hope to see you there!
Meet and greet with your fellow math/stat students and the math and statistics faculty at this year's First-Year Welcome Tea. Say hello to our math community and hear about all the exciting news in math and statistics. Learn about exciting opportunities and our Math Monday series.
Join us on the Peirce Hall Patio (weather permitting) at 3:10 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 8. We will be offering a variety of snacks with lemonade and iced tea. Celebrate another year of mathematics and statistics here at Kenyon. We hope to see you there!
Every summer, many of our students participate in various summer research programs. Students work as full participants in the processes of creating a research plan, executing a research project and preparing results for presentation in a public forum. Learn more about the research done by your fellow mathematics and statistics students.
This week's panelists include a couple of students who worked off-campus for their research.
Kate Bogan '27 spent the summer participating in the Ohio 5 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, a program specifically for students from small, liberal arts colleges in Ohio. Using R simulations, she looked at different methods of evaluating vaccine efficacy, comparing a non-parametric method with an ordinal regression method.
Lucas Waite '28 researched Extremal graph theory at IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute and continued research after the program. Lucas’s focus was on bipartite Extremal numbers, and ultimately culminated in an observation about the extremal number for a specific class of trees. The research is still ongoing, but Lucas hopes to address some open problems posed by Yair Caro, Balázs Patkós and Zsolt Tuza in their recent paper “Bipartite Turán number of trees.”
Join us on Monday, Sept. 15, at 3:10 pm in Hayes Hall 109 to hear these exciting presentations and perhaps learn how you too can get involved in summer research programs. We hope to see you there!
Every summer, many of our students participate in various summer research programs. Students work as full participants in the processes of creating a research plan, executing a research project and preparing results for presentation in a public forum. Learn more about the research done by your fellow mathematics and statistics students.
This week's panelists include a couple of seniors who worked off-campus for their research.
Jimmy Baker ‘26 studied representation theory and lattice models, a concept first introduced in the field of statistical mechanics. His focus was to study certain solvable lattice models and prove that their associated generating functions match interesting special functions.
Owen Rodstrom ‘26 worked with the Polymath Jr. Program at Lewis University. Clostridiodes difficile is a common bacterial infection in hospitals and long-term care facilities. We used current literature to build a system of differential equations that models its spread in the community. We could then apply mitigation strategies to our system in order to find effective ways to prevent its emergence in hospitals.
Join us on Monday, Sept. 22, at 3:10 pm in Hayes Hall 109 to hear these exciting presentations and perhaps learn how you too can get involved in summer research programs. We hope to see you there!
When we pluck a guitar string or strike a drum, the resulting vibrations follow precise mathematical laws governed by differential equations. While these equations can be notoriously difficult to solve directly, mathematicians have developed clever geometric transformations that reveal hidden patterns in their solutions. This talk explores the Prüfer transformation, a technique that converts complex oscillation problems into simpler geometric relationships involving angles and distances. We'll see how this approach not only makes theoretical analysis more elegant but also provides practical tools for predicting when and where vibrations occur. The method applies to a broad class of problems that arise in physics and engineering, including systems where energy is not conserved situations that traditional methods struggle to handle.
Join us on Monday, September 29, at 3:10 p.m. in Hayes 109 to hear this exciting presentation from Shalmali Bandyopadhyay, assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee at Martin. We hope to see you there!