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20 February 2024 • STEM Encouraging Women in Math
Students presented at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics and will share their experience on campus.
In January, Siena Bertolino ’26, Djeneba Diop ’25, Madelyn Krueger ’26 and Lucille McWilliams ’26 participated in the annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.
On Wednesday, March 6, the students will present a colloquium on their experience at the conference at 4:45 p.m. in Napier 201.
Supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency, the three-day conference of presentations, forums, networking events and receptions is organized by the University of Nebraska “to encourage and mentor undergraduate women in mathematics to pursue graduate study in mathematics and to seek mathematical careers.”
During the conference, which offered students an opportunity to connect with other women in the field, Diop gave a talk on her research completed at Moravian University’s Research Challenges of Computational Methods in Discrete Mathematics REU last summer.
Diop’s presentation, “Different Variations of Toggle,” analyzed winning strategies for a two-player version of the commercial one-player game Lights Out on “various finite simple graphs” using “impartial game theory to determine which player has a winning strategy given an initial Toggle configuration.”
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HWS has been organizing and sponsoring students to attend the conference since 2007.
Their trip was sponsored by the William Smith Deans Office, The Tapper Fund, the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, and a grant through the conference itself.
Top: Djeneba Diop ’25, Lucille McWilliams ’26, Madelyn Krueger ’26 and Siena Bertolino ’26 pose at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics
