Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium

Date: Friday, June 19
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Room 159 Thorvaldson Building, 110 Science Pl., Saskatoon

Free and open to the public

About this event

How to Inspire Students to Ask Creative Questions and Use AI Tools When Teaching Math Effectively for the Digital Economy

Speaker: Dr. Sam Shen (PhD), San Diego State University

This is an informal seminar about the modernization of math teaching in the AI era. Several aspects of the modernization will be discussed: the RUM principle (relevant, useful, and modern) of textbooks, modern computer technology, learning-by-doing pedagogy, and the reinforcement learning method. The speaker will give a 20-minute presentation and leave the remaining time for discussion.

Sam Shen worked in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Saskatchewan as an Assistant Professor from 1989 until 1991, when he moved to the University of Alberta. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University (SDSU) and a Visiting Research Mathematician at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California – San Diego. Formerly, he served as Department Chair of SDSU Mathematics and Statistics, McCalla Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta, and President of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society. His website is shen.sdsu.edu.

The Colloquium Committee gratefully acknowledges that our colloquium series is supported in part by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.

Info: colloquium@math.usask.ca