Mike Raugh Michael Raugh Mike Raugh

Retired Mathematician, Stanford Ph.D.

Brief Professional Bio

Michael dot Raugh atsign gmail dot com

Latest Talks

2012 What was on Top of Archimedes' Tomb?, talk given Mar 2 at the 27th annual Los Angeles City College Math Contest (an abreviated version of the New Mexico Math Contest talk)

2012 For the New Mexico Math Contest of Feb 4: Archimedes' Law of the Lever and How He Used it to Deduce the Volume of the Sphere: Poster, Talk

Talks

2010 The Innkeeper's Problem and Tale
2009 Irrationality of pi, with companion notes Transcendentality of e
2008 How do you know what time it is?
2007 Hey, who really discovered that theorem!
2006 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, a chalk talk, first talk in a series for the Los Angeles City College High School Math Contest

Activities

2001–2011 Director of the summer Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) Program at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. IPAM is an institute of the National Science Foundation.

RIPS accepts applications from students around the world. If you are an undergraduate with interest in working on a team applying mathematics to a challenging real problem posed by an industrial or non-academic institutional sponsor, please consider applying. Application forms appear early each year for the following summer session; look for a link on IPAM's Upcoming Programs.

My approach to managing the RIPS program, presented to the panel Starting and maintaining a student industrial research progam in the mathematical sciences at the MAA's MathFest of Aug 4, 2007 in San Jose, CA.

Service

2011 I participated in review panels for the NSF and for the S. -T. Yau High School Mathematics Awards.

2007–present, Instructor at the LACES Calculus Camp (four days in April), the creation of Robert Vriesman, Chairman of the Math Department at the LACES magnet school in Los Angeles.

Informal

Math Notes

Photos and Slide shows

(Last modified Feb 10, 2012)