{"id":1788,"date":"2026-03-26T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:40:36","slug":"department-collaborates-for-pi-day-at-cheekwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/2026\/03\/26\/department-collaborates-for-pi-day-at-cheekwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Collaborates for Pi Day at Cheekwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the Public Engagement team at Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, and with the generous support of the Simons Foundation, the Department of Mathematics organized a Pi day event on (of course) March 14 at Cheekwood Gardens. At this science fair-type event, faculty members Sean McAfee, Alice Mark, Sam Sehayek, and Dan Margalit &#8211; along with special guests Lily Margalit and Kathleen Margalit &#8211; led discussions on pi, infinity, graph theory, symmetry, and the golden mean. It was a beautiful day with excellent attendance. Budding mathematicians of all ages encountered deep mathematics by drawing trees, enacting Zeno&#8217;s paradox, computing circumferences, and playing croquet on a graph. Thanks to everyone for participating in this great event!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1790\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/03\/IMG_2322-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/03\/IMG_2322-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/03\/IMG_2322-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/03\/IMG_2322-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/03\/IMG_2322-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/03\/IMG_2322-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the Public Engagement team at Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, and with the generous support of the Simons Foundation, the Department of Mathematics organized a Pi day event on (of course) March 14 at Cheekwood Gardens. At this science fair-type event, faculty members Sean McAfee, Alice Mark, Sam Sehayek, and Dan Margalit &#8211; along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/03\/394757d7-e8d5-42db-a218-fc9dd1677f37.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}