Outreach

The Junior Math Club

The Junior Math Club is for middle and high school students. Check out the Junior Math Club page and see what you may be missing!

The Math Club

The UL Lafayette Math Club provides a venue for students, faculty, and others who are interested in mathematics to meet, interact, and learn. The math club operates more like a seminar (discussion group) than a club. Since the math club is not a formal organization, there is no need to join. Everyone is welcome and you do not need to attend every meeting -- just come when you feel like it.

We are meeting on Fridays at 1:30 for the Fall 2026 semester. Please try to join us.  Remember that you do not have to come every week.  Come whenever you can.

We are open to suggestions for activities. Please let us know what is appealing to you (by email at mathclub@louisiana.edu or at a meeting).

Science Day

Science Day is a college of sciences annual Fall semester event. Roughly one thousand high school students join us to learn about the college and all of our academic units. The mathematics department sets up a large collection of interactive exhibits that demonstrate basic mathematical concepts. Our exhibit activities are manned by our undergraduate and graduate students who explain the mathematics needed to understand in the exhibits. This interaction between our students and the high school students has benefits for everyone involved. The high school students are exposed to some valuable new ideas and gain some useful insights about mathematics. And, in the process of explaining and answering questions our students deepen their understanding of the mathematics, too.

Lafayette Science Museum

The mathematics department has created several interactive exhibits for the UL Lafayette Science Museum. These exhibits are copies of exhibits we use in our Science Day event. Our students are able to volunteer as museum docents and periodically host STEM Saturday events at the museum.