Updates
You Can Do It! Talk at CSUN on March 20th
Join the CSUN Oviatt Library and the Bonita J. Campbell Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Endowment for a presentation by Jill Tietjen, President and CEO of Technically Speaking and co-author of the bestseller Her Story: A Timeline of Women Who Changed America. The topic is: You Can Do It! The Keys are Passion, Determination and Persistence
When: March 20, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.
Where:Jack & Florence Ferman Presentation Room of the Oviatt Library, California State University, Northridge (18111 Nordhoff St. Northridge, CA 91330)
RSVP: Reservations may be made by phone (818) 677-2638 , or Online.
Would you like to be on the SWE-LA Nominating Committee?
The SWE-LA Nominating Committee is looking for committee members. This committee is responsible for identifying candidates for each of the section officer positions, presenting a slate to the section members for a vote, receiving the votes, and reporting the results. Members of the Nominating Committee may not be candidates for this year’s slate. If you’re interested or have any questions, please contact Penny Wirsing.
Outreach Opportunity!
SWE-LA, along with SWE-UCLA, would like to host a Wow! That's Engineering! event for middle school aged girls near the end of April. This event will bring girls to the UCLA campus for a half day of engineering fun. If you'd like to volunteer to help plan this event, please contact Chantee
K-12 Outreach
Help us to meet our goal of reaching out to 25,000 K-12 students! If you are participating in any type of outreach such as speaking in classrooms, meeting with Girl Scouts, and judging science fairs, let us know so that we can account for it. Send details to Chantee
Judges Needed for LA County Science Fair March 30th
Judges are still needed for the LA County Science Fair, which will be held on March 30th. Judging will be one-day, going from 7am-7pm and judges will receive breakfast, lunch, dinner, and free parking at the California Science Center. Sign up to be a judge through 3/7 by filling out this form: http://cis.lacoe.edu/science/science_fair/judges/registration.asp
The Engineers’ Council Technical Conference – TechCon 2012 –April 20th
The San Fernando Valley Engineers’ Council Annual Technical Conference will be held on Friday April 20th 2012 at CSUN. Conference theme is Innovation, Communication, and Processes in the Field of Engineering. For the list of presentations, speakers, and to register please go to . SWE members get discounted rate, students get special low rate.
Fun and Interesting Facts-- Fermat's Last Theorem
In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than two.
This theorem was first conjectured by Pierre de Fermat in 1637, famously in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica where he claimed he had a proof that was too large to fit in the margin. No successful proof was published until 1995 despite the efforts of countless mathematicians during the 358 intervening years. The unsolved problem stimulated the development of algebraic number theory in the 19th century and the proof of the modularity theorem in the 20th. It is among the most famous theorems in the history of mathematics and prior to its 1995 proof was in the Guinness Book of World Records for "most difficult mathematical problems".
(Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem)
Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS (born 11 April 1953)[1] is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory. He is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
Starting in the summer of 1986, based on successive progress of the previous few years of Gerhard Frey, Jean-Pierre Serre and Ken Ribet, Wiles realised that a proof of a limited form of the modularity theorem might then be in reach. He dedicated all of his research time to this problem in relative secrecy. In 1993, he presented his proof to the public for the first time at a conference in Cambridge. In August 1993, however, it turned out that the proof contained a gap. In desperation, Wiles tried to fill in this gap, but found out that the error he had made was a very fundamental one. According to Wiles, the crucial idea for circumventing, rather than closing this gap, came to him on 19 September 1994. Together with his former student Richard Taylor, he published a second paper which circumvented the gap and thus completed the proof. Both papers were published in 1995 in a special volume of the Annals of Mathematics.
(Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles)
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