High School Outreach Activities
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15th Annual Mathematics Field Day
October 23, 2007
Since 1992, Boston University has offered area high school students and their teachers the opportunity to come to the BU campus for a full day of mathematics activities. Students learn about current topics in mathematics, including fractals, chaos, and the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. The program includes computer demonstrations, videos, and exquisite graphic images that highlight the beauty and excitement of contemporary mathematics, and introduce some intriguing new ideas. For more information on the Mathematics Field Day, click here.
For the 2007, Field Day, Dr. Gary Benson gave a talk entitled, The Mathematics of Genetics and Disease, which covered chromosome and disease inheritance, crossing over in chromosomes, and the use of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) markers to locate chromosomal regions which are linked to disease inheritance.
For a copy of the talk, click here.