{"id":1816,"date":"2026-03-31T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:00:35","slug":"colloquium-talk-by-dr-yvonne-laiuniversity-of-nebraska-lincoln-april-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/2026\/03\/31\/colloquium-talk-by-dr-yvonne-laiuniversity-of-nebraska-lincoln-april-9-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium \u2013 Talk by Dr. Yvonne Lai(University of Nebraska-Lincoln): April 9, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 9, 2026 (Thursday) 4:10-5:00 PM SC 5211<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Yvonne Lai<\/strong>&#8211; University of Nebraska-Lincoln<\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><strong>Unreasonably effective, and unreasonably taught?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">When scholars wrote that mathematics is &#8220;unreasonably effective&#8221;, they meant the application of mathematical structure for the doing of the sciences and engineering; but what about for the teaching of mathematics in and for the sciences? In this talk, I will give (emerging) ways to view the time-and-again press for more applications in mathematics education. I will also address the question of what it means to know mathematics as a teacher, so as to set students up to see mathematics as connected to a science or engineering discipline. (The substance of this talk represents joint projects with Kristen Amman and Allan Donsig, and with Alon Pinto.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 9, 2026 (Thursday) 4:10-5:00 PM SC 5211 Dr. Yvonne Lai&#8211; University of Nebraska-Lincoln Unreasonably effective, and unreasonably taught? When scholars wrote that mathematics is &#8220;unreasonably effective&#8221;, they meant the application of mathematical structure for the doing of the sciences and engineering; but what about for the teaching of mathematics in and for the sciences?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/03\/Dr.-Yvonne-Lai.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"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\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}