Since 1992, Boston University has offered area high school students and their teachers the opportunity to come to the BU campus for a full day of mathematics activities. Students learn about current topics in mathematics, including fractals, chaos, and the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. The program includes computer demonstrations, videos, and exquisite graphic images that highlight the beauty and excitement of contemporary mathematics, and introduce some intriguing new ideas.

The next Math Field Days will be held on Tuesday, October 23 and Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at the BU George Sherman Union located at 775 Commonwealth Ave.

If you are a teacher, click here to register your students for either one of these programs.

For Directions, click here; and for the Agenda, click here.


If you are interested in hosting such an event at your institution, please send e-mail to Cynthia Brossman or Professor Robert Devaney.


If you would like to learn about other programs which Boston University offers for high school students, please click here.

We now have an on-line quiz to test how much participants at the Field Days actually learn (but anyone is welcome to take it). The quiz involves fractal images and animations as well as the chaos game. Click here to try the quiz.