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Author: max

  • The Internet on Stage

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    This summer, I had the pleasure of seeing a remarkable dramatization of the Internet, including both its technical and social dimensions, focusing on the difficult problem of cyber-bullying. While I can’t give my professional endorsement to every last detail of the show, I will say that I found it be both very enjoyable and very…

  • Sexual Promiscuity and Math (NY Times)

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    I had originally been planning to blog about the ownership of copyrights for the Unix operating system. But maybe no one else cares about that. Everyone’s minds are on more important topics, like sex. So imagine my pleasure in seeing that sex and math have had a rare convergence in the pages of The New…

  • MCS Folks Take Part in Community Coven

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    Our photographer couldn’t help notice that all species of folk associated with the Mathematics and Computer Science Department contributed to the St. Peter community’s Harry Potter party: faculty, students, and alumni. Department Chair Carolyn Dobler was once again transfigured into her alter-ego, Professor Vector. She is shown tutoring some young witches in the ancient science…

  • Advice for Budapest Semesters in Mathematics

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    Back at the start of the semester, I linked to Betsy in Budapest, a blog maintained by one of our students while studying in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics (a very well-reputed program). I hope you took my advice and followed that blog. If not, I hope you’ll catch up on it now. But in…

  • Gusties Take Gold for Statistics Project

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    As previously noted on this blog, Gustavus math majors Dan Johnson and Tyler Kramer were invited to the awards banquet at the US Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) along with their faculty advisor, Carolyn Dobler, in order to learn whether their project had won first, second, or third place in the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition…

  • Sign up for MCS Picnic

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    Those blog readers who are in St. Peter should pay a visit by this Thursday, May 10th, to the bulletin board in the third-floor lobby of Olin Hall. We’ve got a sheet there for you to sign up for the MCS Department picnic, which will be Tuesday, May 15th, rain or shine, at the Arboretum…

  • Rosoff Wins Swenson/Bunn Teaching Award

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    The Gustavus Student Senate presented Professor of Mathematics Jeffrey Rosoff with the 2007 Swenson and Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. This award, the only teaching award at Gustavus that is selected and presented exclusively by the student body, memorializes two Gustavus students killed in an automobile accident. Professor Rosoff was cited by the Student…

  • Statistics Project in the News

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    As previously noted in this blog, senior math majors Tyler Kramer and Dan Johnson received national recognition for their statistics project. Now Mankato Free Press columnist Brian Ojanpa has picked up the story as well.

  • Hvidsten Recognized for Meritorious Service

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    Prof. Holte reports: At this past weekend’s NCS-MAA [North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America] meeting at the College of St. Catherine, our own Mike Hvidsten was honored with the North Central Section’s Meritorious Achievement Award. He certainly deserves it. To mention just a few his services, I know that he has served…

  • Zupan Receives NSF Honorable Mention

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    Senior math major Alex Zupan added one more recognition to his growing collection with an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. (Alex already had awards from the NCAA, USA Today, and the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship program.) He will be entering graduate school in mathematics at the University of…