Celebration of Mind

The Celebration of Mind is a world-wide, annual tribute to Martin Gardner, a mathmagician of sorts, who engaged generations with mathematics and magic, puzzles, games and ideas. It was mathematics pursued, not for importance or power, but simply for beauty and fun. His long-running column in Scientific American broke stories on advances from the highest reaches of mathematics and, as such, Gardner is a personal hero to several members of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. 

The event is open to the public and all ages. Members of the Department will host activities for attendees to do which show why we love mathematics and have made careers of it.

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While the event starts at 10:00am, volunteers may arrive at 9:00am for helping us set up. Closing and cleanup should happen promptly and be over by 2:00pm but we may run half an hour over.

Some of the duties that are offered will be to monitor the front table to collect email and contact information for those who may be interested in receiving updates on future events and being an assistant at one of our 10 booths (I will assign you to a booth).

Not much prior experience is required besides an interest in Mathematics and soft skills for interacting with people of all age groups.

Once you sign up, please send me an email at mjduffy@uark.edu.