Field Trips (SPWM)

One day each week is devoted to an area of application of mathematics and an associated field trip. These activities bring the participants into contact with women mathematicians in their own workplace and expose the participants to current issues at the forefront of mathematics, the wide variety of applications of mathematics, the depth and complexity of the kinds of mathematics involved, and the possibilities for careers related to mathematics.
 

In 2001, our field trips were to

Dibner Library, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (July 5)


A rare book from the year 1469

Some more rare books from Dibner Library

Definitions of Mathematics and a quadrant from Dibner Library
 

International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO 2001) at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (July 10)
IMO 2001 Awards Ceremony at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, DC (July 13)

Group on the campus of George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia                          Program for the closing ceremony of IMO 2001

Science Committee Room, U.S. House of Representatives, Capitol Hill (July 11)

Group pictures outside the U.S. Capitol building

Group inside the Science Committee room                                 Group in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda
 

National Security Agency and National Cryptologic Museum, Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland (July 18)

U.S. Census Bureau, Suitland, Maryland (July 25)

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), McLean, Virginia (July 31)

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