This weekend marks the beginning of the end-of-semester concert season, featuring the Stevens Orchestra’s performance tomorrow, with Concert Band (December 2), Jazz Band (December 8), and Choir (December 9) following Thanksgiving break.
Posts published by “Charles Beall”
In a shift back to personal math stories after the recent columns on national and global (tangentially) math-related events, I attended my first conference a couple weekends ago.
The town of Empty Interior, NY was a place of spell-bound mathematics. Fantastical concepts like infinities acting the same as other numbers, or horrifying ones like a curse to fail every math exam for eternity, held a high degree of intrigue among the townspeople.
שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם
ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ
Peace be upon you
One of the many poignant scenes in the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game occurs just after the famous mathematician and computer scientist cracks the Enigma Code.
While political intrigue may not excite the general readership as much as prison breaks, I found myself equally on the edge of my seat reading about how the US government narrowly avoided a shutdown as I was following the story behind my last column.
For those who followed the escape and eventual capture of the convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante over the past couple of weeks, you were in for a crime documentary playing out in real-time.
I recently watched The Social Dilemma, a documentary that dissects the darker aspects of social media platforms and similar tech mega-services like Google and YouTube.
True to senior fashion, we came up with this article idea a few days before our senior essay was due. Don’t worry though – procrastination also means that we put a lot of thought into it before actually writing!
Yesterday, graduating Stevens students took part in the Wittpenn Walk, a long-standing sendoff-type event leading up to Commencement later in May.
Today marks the 2023 Innovation Expo, a culmination of sorts for the seniors at Stevens who have worked for the past school year on design or thesis projects.