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Loretta Cheeks attended the CESTEMER conference in 2015 and wrote to reflect on her experience.

This year, Dr. Raquell Holmes and members of the improvscience team will be participating in the student programs at the The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known as SC, in a number of ways.  

Dr. Raquell Holmes has attended, and presented at, the Performing the World conference since 2001. She spoke with Dr. Neil Bardhan for an interview about her experiences with the PTW community.

Ben Taylor specializes in curriculum development that translates scientific research into hands-on educational resources for informal outreach and the K-12 classroom. He has been a professional improvisor with Atlas Improv Co. since 2008 and he attended the Cultivating Ensembles in STEM Education and Research conference (CESTEMER) in June 2015 in Berkeley. He wrote about his CESTEMER experience:

Jeremy Scott Hoffman attended the Cultivating Ensembles in STEM Education and Research (CESTEMER) conference in June 2015 in Berkeley and wrote about his experience for our blog.

doing research in math is, for most research mathematicians, a process of playing  around with ideas and figuring out new ways for them to fit together. It’s not different in spirit from what kids do naturally in a setting like [The Museum of Math], where there are so many things to play with. “Math is play!” - James Propp - in his recent post, Lessons of a Square-Wheeled Trike.

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