Science Days, 2023 and 2024
Most springs Dartmouth graduate students from all STEM departments hold a day of activities for local elementary through high school students and their families to come learn about science.
I have participated in this each time it was held. The below lists my contributions each year.
2024: co-led an activity with graduate students Benjamin Shapiro and James Schmidt on Error Correcting Codes. We introduced binary, and the 4,7-Hamming Code. Participants played a game of telephone with the code words to demonstrate how errors could be corrected.
2023: co-led a workshop with graduate student Grant Molnar and Post Doc Longmei Shu, on the game of Hackenbush and the Surreal numbers. We handed out packets for participants to learn the rules, and how to associate game states to numbers. Further references are:
- A website where you can play Hackenbush interactively and make your own games.
- Two sets of notes about the math behind this game.
- A short story explaining another way to construct the Surreal numbers:
- A Youtube video explaining this game.
