lectures and talks


COURSES I TEACH AT MCMASTER UNIVERSITY

Fall 2012 Math 1LS3 Calculus for life sciences

Fall 2012/Winter 2013 iSci 1A24 Integrated science (math)

Fall 2012 Math 1X3Math for math majors

Winter 2013 Math 1C 3 Math reasoning and fun with math


CONFERENCE TALKS, PUBLIC LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS [for more information: lovric@mcmaster.ca]

6 MAY 2013	Math Preparation fir University
9:00-10:30am and 10:45am-12:15pm	[York Region PA Day] Most teachers are interested in knowing whether or not students are well prepared for university and college. The math curriculum has changed quite extensively in the past 8 years and there is some uncertainty that students might be overwhelmed after high school. Topics like working with matrices, integration, and some other calculus topics have been removed from high schoolcourses. Some teachers still take the time to teach these concepts, but not all. Which concepts need to be solidified, how should they be taught?
Stephen Lewis Secondary School, Vaughan

6 MAY 2013

Math Preparation fir University

9:00-10:30am and 10:45am-12:15pm

[York Region PA Day]

Most teachers are interested in knowing whether or not students are well prepared for university and college. The math curriculum has changed quite extensively in the past 8 years and there is some uncertainty that students might be overwhelmed after high school. Topics like working with matrices, integration, and some other calculus topics have been removed from high schoolcourses. Some teachers still take the time to teach these concepts, but not all. Which concepts need to be solidified, how should they be taught?

Stephen Lewis Secondary School, Vaughan

11 MAY 2013	Math - How to Do Well and Be Happy
11:30-12:15 and 1:00-1:45	[May@Mac presentation] Title says it all.
McMaster University, Hamilton Hall, room 217

11 MAY 2013

Math - How to Do Well and Be Happy

11:30-12:15 and 1:00-1:45

[May@Mac presentation]

Title says it all.

McMaster University, Hamilton Hall, room 217

24-28 MAY 2013	Math for Planet Earth
	[Canadian Math Education Study Group meeting] TBA
Brock University

24-28 MAY 2013

Math for Planet Earth

[Canadian Math Education Study Group meeting]

TBA

Brock University

VIDEOS

To view my lecture Infinity: the Most Fascinating of all Ideas that I gave at Royal Canadian Institute on Sunday, 22 January 2006, click here [will open in new window/tab; it is now a podcast [I have no control over type of media used] and you might need an appropriate plug-in to view/listen; your browser will either start playing the video or else will probably identify the plug-in that you need to download]

Interview in the series of 3M teaching fellows interviews, conducted at McMaster University in summer 2010: Talking About Teaching [Youtube] part 1 [parts 2-5 linked to part 1]

Spotlight on Science episode (McMaster, October/November 2011)

Treehouse talk Toronto, 14 October 2011

PAST PRESENTATIONS, PUBLIC LECTURE AND CONFERENCE TALKS

6 MARCH 2013	What's Happening in Mathematics Today? Math Where You Would not Expect to See it
time TBA	[Math@Mac presentation] Case studies of present-day research afforts in mathematics: error correcting codes and computer security, data compression and transmission of large amounts of data; learning from animals; weather forecasting and understanding disasters (tsunami, freak waves).
location TBA

6 MARCH 2013

What's Happening in Mathematics Today? Math Where You Would not Expect to See it

time TBA

[Math@Mac presentation]

Case studies of present-day research afforts in mathematics: error correcting codes and computer security, data compression and transmission of large amounts of data; learning from animals; weather forecasting and understanding disasters (tsunami, freak waves).

location TBA

[PAST PRESENTATIONS, PUBLIC LECTURES, CONFERENCE TALKS, COURSES COMPREHENSIVE list]