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Author: tlofaro

  • Summer 2014 Opportunities for Undergraduate Students for Training in Biostatistics

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    Eight Summer Institutes for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS) are scheduled for the summer of 2014. SIBS are open to all US undergraduate and beginning graduate students (US citizens or permanent residents) and are sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Center for Research Resources. The programs have been very successful,…

  • Aon Benfield Seeks Risk Analysts

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    tlofaro

    Aon Benfield is looking to hire Catastrophe Risk Analysts and a 2010 alum has asked me to share this with Gustavus math and CS students who may be looking for a job. Here is what she says about these opportunities. The job listings are here: http://jobs.aon.com/aon/catastrophe-risk-analyst-0 http://jobs.aon.com/aon/catastrophe-risk-analyst Here is a brief description of the job:…

  • MCS and Physics Administrative Assistant Retires

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    tlofaro

      Long-time MCS and Physics Administrative Assistant Linda Hewitt is retiring!  For years Linda has managed the day-to-day operations of the MCS department and kept a long string of department chairs from disaster by gently guiding them through the intricacies of budget oversight, student employment, and every other aspect of departmental management. Linda’s relaxed and…

  • Women, Jobs, and a Bit of Mathematics and Computer Science

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    tlofaro

    Planet Money, the economics reporting unit of National Public Radio, ran a great story this morning (9/11/13) entitled “Why Women (Like Me) Choose Lower-Paying Jobs.”  Although not strictly about mathematics or computer science, the reporter Lisa Chow was an applied math major in college, earned an MBA, and is pursuing a career not directly related…

  • MCS Seminar

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    tlofaro

    Speaker: Ananya Das, Lake Forest College Candidate for MCS faculty position Talk: Efficient Data Encoding In computer science we often encode and store data files in their binary representation. When the data files are very descriptive, such as audio or video files, the binary representations may be inefficiently large. In this talk I will discuss…

  • MCS Department Seeks Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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    tlofaro

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science Mathematics and Computer Science   Gustavus Adolphus College invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science to begin September 1, 2013. We seek candidates who have an earned doctorate in Computer Science or a related discipline, but will…

  • MCS Department Seeks Assistant Professor of Statistics

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    tlofaro

    Assistant Professor of Statistics Mathematics and Computer Science   Gustavus Adolphus College invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science to begin September 1, 2013. We seek candidates who have an earned doctorate in Statistics or a related discipline, but will consider candidates who…

  • Holte Honored by Students at MCS Picnic

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    tlofaro

    Professor John Holte, who is retiring after 36 years of service to Gustavus Adolphus College, was honored by current students with a gift of a framed Word Cloud created on the Worldle web site.  Meghan Peterson, President of the MCS Club, presented John with this framed gift at the annual MCS Department picnic held on May…

  • Graduating Math Major to Deliver Commencement Address

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    tlofaro

    Senior Mathematics major Chloe Radcliffe has been chosen to deliver the 2012 commencement address.  Read the official announcement for more information about Chloe and the 2012 Gustavus Adolphus Graduation ceremony.

  • Holte Awarded Distinguished Teaching Award

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    tlofaro

    Professor John Holte was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award by the North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America. Professor Holte was given this prestigious award at the Spring MAA Sectional Meeting held April 20-23, 2012 at Concordia College in St. Paul, MN. The citation reads The North Central Section is pleased to announce…