Converge 2025
Celebrating Three Years of the Queens Experiences in Discrete Mathematics REU and S-STEM Program at York College. Supported by NSF, Simons Foundation, the York College Auxiliary Fund and the Office of Academic Affairs.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Edray Goins
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Pomona College
Edray Herber Goins grew up in South Los Angeles, California; attended the California Institute of Technology, where he majored in mathematics and physics; and earned his doctorate in mathematics from Stanford University. He has held positions at the world's premiere research institutions and was a professor of mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, from 2004-2018. Currently, he is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Pomona College.
Prof. Goins spends most of his summers engaging underrepresented students in research in the mathematical sciences and currently runs an NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) titled "Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME).” Prof. Goins is interested in: (1) Selmer groups for elliptic curves using class groups of number fields, (2) Belyi maps and Dessins d’Enfants, (3) origami as branched covers of elliptic curves, and (4) Galois groups, monodromy groups, and etale fundamental groups. He maintains his own blog about Dessins d’Enfants.
He is also the lead for updating the Mathematicians of the African Diaspora database (also known as the MAD Pages), a resource dedicated to promoting and highlighting the contributions of members of the African diaspora to mathematics, especially contributions to current mathematical research
Full Program
Agenda
Thursday May 8, 2025
Time | Activity | Room |
|---|---|---|
12:00 - 2:00 pm | Mentoring that Uplifts Amidst Circumstances that Destroy: Claytor, Malone-Mayes, and the True Legacy of R. L. Moore by Dr. Edray Goins | AC-2M04 |
Lunch | AC-2M04 |
Friday May 9, 2025
time | Activity | Room |
|---|---|---|
10:00 - 10:30 am | Breakfast/Registration | AC-2M05 |
10:30 am - 12:00 pm | QED 25 Student Presentations | AC-2M05 |
12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch QED 24 / S-STEM Poster Presentations | AC-2C07 |
1:00 - 2:00 pm | An Introduction to Dessins d’Enfants: The Intersection of Graph Theory, Group Theory, and Differential Geometry by Dr. Edray Goins | AC-2M05 |
2:00 - 3:00 pm | Three years of QED & S-STEM : A Retrospective Networking Opportunities | AC-2M05 |
*Please note that the agenda and timing are subject to change.
Organizing Committee
- Dr. Rishi Nath
- Dr. Thitima Srivatanakul
- Dean George White
- Dr. Radoslaw Wojciechowski
Supporters
Supported by National Science Foundation (S-STEM Scholar Program & Queens Experiences in Discrete Mathematics REU), Simons Foundation, York College Office of Academic Affairs
Registration Form
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