WELCOME TO RESEARCH DAY, Salem State’s annual showcase and celebration of research, scholarship, and creative inquiry. Join us at any point in the day for engaging presentations, panel discussions, performances, and more.
The day begins with the Undergraduate Research Symposium from 9 am to 12 pm, followed by the BIAC Plenary at 12:15 pm, and the Faculty and Graduate Research Symposium from 1:30 to 6 pm, with many events taking place throughout the day.
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Innovations and Movements: Lasting Legacies in Mathematics and Music 10:40 - 11:30 am | undergraduate panel session II Bertolon Central Classroom Building room 243
Trevor Tarr Faculty advisor: Pedro Poitevin Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Forgotten Inventor of Calculus
This paper will outline and bring to light Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s contributions to the foundations and development of Calculus, his disagreements with Isaac Newton regarding Calculus, and how his deep philosophical understanding of metaphysical and theological problems informed his views on Calculus. In particular, Leibniz’s intuitions about infinitesimals were shown correct in 1960 by Abraham Robinson, establishing the superiority of Leibniz’s approach to Calculus. In addition, this paper touches on various philosophical ideas of Leibniz in law, theology, modal logic, and on Leibniz’s mathematical notation and his collaborations.
Tommie Worrall Faculty advisor: Avi Chomsky La guitarra con sentido y razón: How the Chilean New Song Defined a Generation
This thesis analyzes the development of the New Song movement in Chile from its inception in the 1950s with the music recovery efforts of Violeta Parra, through its heyday in the 1960s and early 1970s during the years of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government, to its legacy following the Pinochet coup of 1973. This thesis examines the New Song movement’s musical origins, political messages, and connections to the most pressing issues of its time, including the domestic urban-rural divide and the involvement of the ordinary people in the nation’s political sphere.
