You can look forward to many exciting events at YPMD III, including an ice cream social, a contra dance, the Yellow Pig Museum and 17 Board, and many shared times with alumni.
Plenary speakers will include
For full details, please see the drop-down schedule below.
Plenary speakers will include
- Josh Greene ’98, Professor of Mathematics, Boston College
- Ravi Boppana ’78, Research Affiliate, MIT; Director and Co-Founder of Math Prize for Girls
- Lisa Randall ’78, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
- Bjorn Poonen ’85, Distinguished Professor in Science, Professor of Mathematics, MIT
For full details, please see the drop-down schedule below.
Friday 7/14/23
- Meals on your own
- 3:00pm – 10:00pm, Registration open at Merrill
- 4:34pm, Prime Time Theorem, Kelly, Sex and the Single Statistician
- 7:17pm – 10:17pm, Join HCSSiM 2023 in Seventeen 17 Problems
Saturday 7/15/23
- 9am – 5pm, Registration outside Merrill
- 10am, Welcome Plenary, Josh Greene, The Square Pig Problem
- 11:17am – 12:34pm, Alumni in the Sciences Session
- 12:30pm – 1:17pm, Lunch
- 1:34pm, Opening Reception for The Yellow Pig Museum and 17 Board in the Library Gallery
- 2:51pm – 4:17pm, Math Potpourri Session
- 4:34pm – 5:34pm, Plenary, Ravi Boppana
- 5:34pm – 6:17pm, Dinner Saga
- 7:17pm, Math Movie night, including a preview of the upcoming YP Documentary, Kakeya Problem and Rolling Polygons made by HCSSiM, and National Filmboard of Canada fan favorites!
Sunday 7/16/23
- 9am-5pm, Registration FPH
- 10am, Plenary, Lisa Randall, Out to Catch a Plane
- 11:17am – 12:34pm, Alumni Outside Academia Session
- 12:34pm – 1:17pm, Lunch
- 1:17pm – 2:34pm, Alumni v Students Frisbee Game
- 2:34pm – 4:34pm, More Math! Session
- 2:51pm – 4:17pm, Math Intersections Session
- 4:34pm – 5:34pm, Plenary, Bjorn Poonen
- 5:34pm – 6:17pm, Dinner Saga
- 7pm, Contra Dance in the Red Barn
Monday 7/17/23 Yellow pigs day
- Registration 8:30am – 2:00pm Merrill
- Morning – Your Preference: E.g.: sit in on a Maxi’s first day, hike to the first vantage point (= Bare Mountain) of the Holyoke Range, visit Kelly and Al’s new (≥ 11/17/2008) house (across the street from Atkins), tour the Kern Center, …
- 12:34pm – 1:17pm, Lunch at Saga
- 1:34pm – 2:34pm, Math Puzzles Session
- 3pm, Ice Cream Social featuring Bart’s Ice Cream from Amherst
- 4pm Kelly, The Mathematical and Social History of 17
- 6:34pm, Alumni banquet Red Barn
- 9:34pm, Yellow pig cake & carols (you’re welcome to join problem sets until then)
Tuesday 7/18/23
- 10am, Panel discussion “The future of HCSSiM” There will be a zoom option for those unable to attend.
- 12pm, Conclusion, goodbyes, thank you for coming. Hope to see you at a future YP Day!
Other activities that will or may be scheduled
- Let’s go to the Moan and Dove and play backgammon 10:17 pm – ?
- Repair your YP T-shirt or make a new one
- Sunrise Hike