Pictured: Kathryn Bryant at CTY with her class, flashing the “theorem proved” sign!

Mathematics graduate students Hannah Schwartz and Kathryn Bryant served as teaching assistants for the Center for Talented Youth (CTY). CTY brings exceptionally bright middle- and high-schoolers together for three-week intensive academic programs. Graduate students, professors, teachers, and other professionals then teach undergraduate-level courses to these students, who are between 12 and 16 years of age. It is an internationally renowned program, and there are sites located at colleges and universities all around the U.S.. Hannah worked nearby at Haverford College for a program that explored the relevance of Math in Art; Kathryn participated in the program at Johns Hopkins University focusing on Mathematical Logic.

Hannah and Kathryn also attended a week-long workshop at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University. The topic was Combinatorial Link Homology Theories, Braids, and Contact Geometry, which relates both to Hannah’s masters’ research and Kathryn’s doctoral research.