Math Day 2026 Agenda

Main Events

7:45 am – 8:45 am 

Check-in at the Mathematics Table

Lobby outside the Grand Ballroom

Lory Student Center, 3rd-floor

9:00 am – 10:30 am 

Opening Session and Instructions

Guest Lecture by Trevor Hyde, Vassar College

“Down the rabbit hole: an introduction to p-adic numbers”

Grand Ballroom A & B

10:30 am – 10:45 am 

Sponsors Meet with their Students

Team Competition Room Assignments posted:

Monitors Outside the Grand Ballroom

11:00 am – 2:50 pm 

Team Competitions 

Large School – Begins at 11:00 am 

Small School – Begins at 11:20 am 

Room Assignments on Monitor

12:30 pm

Poster Judging Finalized

Pick up Posters & Prizes: 12:30 – 2:00 pm

Grand Ballroom C & D

2:45 pm – 3:50 pm 

Poster Awards Announced

Final Competition Begins

Awards & Closing  

Grand Ballroom A & B 

Elective Events

7:45 am – 2:00 pm (Open House)

Math Fair: Games, Activities, Student Projects 

Grand Ballroom C & D

12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Campus Tour

Meet: Mathematics Table 

Lobby Outside of the Grand Ballroom

1:00 pm – 1:40 Breakout Sessions: 

Ask a Student – Panel

CSU Undergrad & Graduate Students

Classroom: 384

Workshop for Educators: Obvious to Whom?

The Strange Life of Side-Angle-Side,

from Euclid to the Sphere

Jess Hagman, Faculty 

Classroom: 390

1:50 pm – 2:30 pm Breakout Sessions:

Hidden fractals in Pascal’s triangle

Mark Shoemaker, Faculty 

Classroom: 384

Getting Stuck In Space: An Exploration of

Gimbal Lock and Singularities

Jacob Cleveland, Grad Student

Classroom: 390