Here are some notes from the 2008 CMC North math conference at Asilomar. (CMC is the California Math Council. The Northern Section of CMC holds their annual conference at the Asilomar Conference Center, a stunning part of the California State Park system on the Monterey Penninsula, just north of Pebble Beach. The setting is stunning, with many buildings designed by Julia Morgan, a pioneering architect from a day when women were not welcome in that occupation. I’m rooming with Jerry Murdock (author of Discovering Algebra and Discovering Advanced Algebra), and our room has a patio overlooking the ocean. We could look out at night from the patio to see the moon reflecting off the water.

This is always an exciting and stimulating conference, so I made an effort this year to make notes about as many sessions as I could. Here are a few of those notes.

Asilomar 2008 Conference