The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) invites your family to a series of free public presentations celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics.   

“Patterns in Permutations: the hidden and surprising structures that emerge from ordered lists” with Lara Pudwell

A “permutation” is a list where order matters.  Despite this humble definition, permutations offer a wealth of beautiful mathematics that can be applied across scientific disciplines.  Starting simply, with small ordered lists, mathematician Lara Pudwell demonstrates how smaller permutations can be embedded into larger permutations.  The results are both unexpected and delightful — not only do some familiar patterns suddenly appear, but this embedding gives rise to a host of interesting counting problems with connections not just to mathematics, but to computer science, chemistry, and more.

Special introduction by Dr. Jennifer Quinn, Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington Tacoma, and President, Mathematical Association of America.

This is a live-streamed event.  Occasional video recordings are made available for a fee at videos.momath.org. There are two sessions occurring on this day, one at 3 pm CDT and another one at 6 pm CDT.

For more details and registration, please see here. For a list of their current events, check out their calendar.  If you find yourself in New York City this summer, they could be worth a visit with your children.