22nd MME Staff and Graduate Student Colloquium 2026
Date: Thursday 12 November 2026
Time: 4.30pm - 8.30pm
Venues: LT5 (Math Edn) & TR 201 (Math)
Registration will close on 5 November 2026 or when 50 people have signed up
Programme | Abstracts
| 4.30pm - 5.00pm | Registration (LT 5) |
| 5.00pm | Opening remarks by Head MME (LT 5) |
| 5.15pm - 6.15pm | Concurrent Session I (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion) Mathematics Education Chair: A/P Leong Yew Hoong Looking back – problem posing TAY ENG GUAN A collaborative experience with poetic inquiry PAULINE TIONG Mathematics Chair: Prof Dong Fengming High-Dimensional Central Limit Theorems: Gaussian Approximation and Statistical Inference
SHU HAOZHEN How Much First-Stage Accuracy Does Plug-in Discrete Selection Need? XU TIANMING |
| 6.15pm - 7.00pm | Dinner |
| 7.00pm - 8.30pm | Concurrent Session II (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion) Mathematics Education Chair: A/P Leong Yew Hoong Augmented reality (AR) in Primary Mathematics: Effects on spatial skills WANG LUONA Mathematical creativity in schools: a review of literature and theoretical frameworks SUN DAOJUN Beyond problem posing: Reimagining mathematical inquiry through noticing, wondering, and extending HANG KIM HOO Mathematics Chair: Prof Dong Fengming Directed Spaces and Isbell Function Spaces: A Universal Characterisation EMIL LUA BOON TIONG Spanning trees and resistance distances in graphs XU SHAOHAN Spectral radius and maximum degree of a tree DONG FENGMING |