Another QED is in the books! Thank you:
- Bridget Tenner, our wonderful speaker!
- Lawrence Tanzmann, for another intriguing Guesstimathon!
- Mike Caines, for running the show!
What’s a Guesstimathon? Well, what’s the world record for the number of people doing the Floss Dance? And no googling–Guesstimate! See this year’s Guesstimathon questions and rules if you are interested. 
Dr. Tenner talked about how her tastes in math developed when she started out–Sudoku, origami, crafts, the Game of Set, Logic puzzles, Dots and Boxes. This led her to Combinatorics–where the problems can be easy to understand but very hard to solve! She went on to talk about the surprising mathematics of avoidance–some strings are easier or harder to avoid than you think!
Lots of work goes on behind the scenes–thanks to Mike Caines for his hard work making sure that QED came off without a hitch. We had students from across the city, and judges from across the mathematical world–professors, Phd Students, secondary and primary teachers, engineers, data scientists, and everything in between. Be sure to check out the photos in my last blog post, and we hope to see all of you at QED 2019!