EAWLC is excited to invite you to an engaging talk by Po-Shen Loh, former national coach of the USA Math Olympiad team for a decade and a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who has travelled around the world, and brings math and performing arts together in education.
Parents and students, educators and home-makers, everyone is welcome to the lecture, listen to the living experience of a worldwide speaker, educator and entrepreneur, and have a dialogue with Po-Shen on how education must evolve to meet the challenges of the AI age, in a multi-cultural society!
Time: Saturday November 8 at 6:30–8 P.M. (Eastern Time)
Location:S3PACE Business Event Center
205 Placer Court #main level Toronto, ON M2H 0A9
Free English(or Mandarin?) In-person Event
Seats are limited. Please RSVP using below registration link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1720913240829
DESCRIPTION
AI has transformed the world. People everywhere are using AI tools to write essays, send emails, and even write software. Fresh college grads are already having difficulty finding jobs, and AI lab leaders predict that half of all entry-level white collar jobs will be gone in 5 years. In that case, how should people approach education and career preparation, at all levels from K-12 to university?
The speaker travels to 100+ cities per year, to have real-world conversations with people from Jackson to San Francisco, Kuala Lumpur, and London. He observes what people are doing in technology, business, and education, while providing novel solutions of his own. Each talk, which is meant to combine mutual learning, thinking, and entertainment, is also a way to bring together and connect parents, educators, students, and anyone in each region who have common passion around contributing to and steering the future of human society.
Speaker BIO
Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor, working across the spectrum of mathematics, education, and healthcare, all around the world. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and served a decade-long term as the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team from 2013–2023. He has pioneered innovations ranging from a scalable way to learn challenging math live online at comparable engagement to live-streaming entertainment, to a new way to control pandemics by leveraging self-interest.
As an academic, Po-Shen has earned distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. His scientific research considers a variety of questions that lie at the intersection of combinatorics (the study of discrete systems), probability theory, and computer science. As an educator, he was the coach of Carnegie Mellon University’s math team when it achieved its first-ever #1 rank among all North American universities, and the coach of the USA Math Olympiad team when it achieved its first-ever back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016, and then again in 2018 and 2019. His research and educational outreach takes him to cities across the world, reaching over 10,000 people each year through public lectures and events, and he has featured in or co-created videos totaling over 25 million YouTube views.
Po-Shen received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Caltech in 2004, graduating with the highest GPA in his class. He received a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2005, where he was supported by a Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship. He continued his studies at Princeton, supported by a Hertz Foundation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, where he completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the end of 2009, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University ever since.
Here are a few notable highlights of Prof. Loh’s recent reach and impact:
- Wall Street Journal: The Brilliant Math Coach Teaching America’s Kids to Outsmart AI
- @entreprenuership_opportunities interview (2.4 million views): https://youtu.be/JpYA7WXkHyI?si=R2FRK89djpL0LKJl
- CNN: Why this math professor is putting actors in classrooms
- New York Times: This Professor’s ‘Amazing’ Trick Makes Quadratic Equations Easier
- Quanta Magazine: The Coach Who Led the U.S. Math Team Back to the Top
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