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  • Student Testifies on Online Voter Registration

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    Sophomore Tucker Saude testified before the Minnesota Senate’s Subcommittee on Elections at a March 10, 2014, hearing regarding online voter registration. Saude based his testimony on his experience serving as an Election Judge for the 2012 general election, while he was taking the First Term Seminar course “How Do We Vote?” with Professor of Mathematics…

  • Gustavus Math Prof’s “Letter of the Day”

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    Professor Jeff Rosoff wrote to the Star Tribune to chide them about Fermat’s Last Theorem; they selected it as their letter of the day.

  • DHS Seeks Student Volunteers

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    The Department of Homeland Security has just opened a call for student volunteers with a closing date of January 17, 2014. They have unpaid positions in a variety of places. [Updated: originally posted with closing date of January 3rd, which was extended.]

  • Faulty Logic or Faulty Logic about Faulty Logic?

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    Take a look at this MinnPost article by Joel Kramer and the comment on it by Paul Birnberg. The subject matter is Minneapolis’s Ranked Choice Voting tabulation process. Kramer offers a proof sketch that a more efficient process would necessarily give the same results. Birnberg offers a proof sketch that the results of Kramer’s process…

  • Math Careers Night with Alumni

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    The Math Career Night is this Tuesday, Oct. 29th from 5:30-7:30 in the third floor Olin lobby! Enjoy free pizza and pop while meeting alumni who majored in Math or who have careers in math. Take this opportunity to get a feel for what math-related careers are out there after graduation and get advice from…

  • Cool Mathematical Art at the MIA

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    I don’t blog much about events that don’t have a direct connection to the department, but I was blown away by a very mathematically-oriented artwork I saw today at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The photo on their web site doesn’t do it any justice. Trever Nicholas‘s Luma is based on the concept of a…

  • Tom LoFaro Named Clifford M. Swanson Professor in Mathematics

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    Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Thomas LoFaro, who has been named the inaugural Clifford M. Swanson Professor in Mathematics, supported by an endowment fund created by Clifford ’32 and Delores ’32 Swanson. We are grateful to the Swansons for their support of our department’s mission and to Tom for his dynamic teaching, research, and leadership.…

  • Cyber-Security Competition

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    Students interested in a career in IT or cyber security can sign up for Cyber Aces Online. Organizers say that “top scorers will be invited to participate in the Minnesota Cyber Aces State Championship at Inver Hills Community College event in Spring 2014 to compete to win top honors, and the best performers may earn…

  • LinkedIn Group

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    I just received another job posting and did with it what I’ve decided to do in general: I posted it to the Gustavus MCS group on LinekdIn. Didn’t know about that group? Now would be a good time to join, not just for job postings but to network with other alumni.

  • Research Opportunity at Department of Energy

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    We commonly hear from agencies and companies who have opportunities for graduates of programs such as ours, or sometime students still enrolled. Here’s the latest.