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Gustavus Math/CS prof Mike Hvidsten is on leave this year at UIC in Zhuhai China, and the robotics course he is teaching is a real hit there. The course is modeled on one he taught at Gustavus along with Physics professor Tom Huber.

Seminar by Jonathan Kujawa, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma and 1997 Gustavus Mathematics Major Monday, April 12, 2010 at 11:30AM in Olin 321216 We will discuss how serious problems from biology and playful problems from mathematics surprisingly coincide. The answer to both involve developing algorithms within the symmetric group. I’ll tell…

Gustavus Adolphus College invites nominations and applications for a one-year position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science to begin September 1, 2010. This position may be continued to include the 2011/2012 academic year. We seek candidates who have an earned doctorate in Computer Science or in a related field, but will consider candidates with…

Russ Park was still in his first week of teaching in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science when he proved himself a winner. Specifically, he won the annual faculty chili cook off sponsored by Gustavus’s faculty development program. This is no small matter for our department, given the historical context. MCS department members dominated…

The Hillstrom Museum of Art reports that from February 15 through April 18, 2010, they will be exhibiting FOCUS IN/ON: Henry Schnakenberg’s Dominoes, featuring “an essay co-written with Carolyn Pillers Dobler, Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, which will consider Schnakenberg and his career, and the elements of pattern and chance that…

MCS Seminar by Prof. Ron Rietz Wed., Dec. 9, 2009, 11:30 AM, Olin 321 The AM – GM inequality states that for positive numbers ak, (1/n)(a1 + a2 + . . . + an) is greater than or equal to (a1a2…an)1/n, with equality when and only when all of the terms ak are equal. If some of the ak…