BAMO is tomorrow!

We hope that you enjoy the 27th BAMO, which takes place TOMORROW (February 25)!

And don’t forget to come to the awards ceremony at Santa Clara University on Sunday, March 8 from 230–430PM, featuring a cool math talk by James Tanton, the founder, among many other things, of the Global Math Project.

Here is the title and description. James Tanton was trained as a topologist, and specializes in mathematics that one can see and touch.

How to Fold Things into Thirds and Other Awkward Fractions: A Lead-In to Artin’s Conjecture. I am continually struck by how seemingly simple, school‑level questions can unravel into deep and still‑unresolved mathematics. One such question arises from an unexpectedly familiar activity: folding. Is it possible to fold a tie into exactly three equal parts? Into fifths? Into other “awkward” fractions? Let’s play with folding and see how deep theory can emerge naturally from the simplest curiosities.

We will post more information about the awards ceremony after BAMO day.