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Author: tlofaro

  • Chaos & Culture FTS Teach “Fractivities”

    Chaos & Culture FTS Teach “Fractivities”

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    tlofaro

      The students in Tom LoFaro’s First Term Seminar, Chaos & Culturewere assigned the task of developing and presenting a classroom activity to teach a sixth grade student something about fractals.  The students dubbed these lessons “fractivities.”  Here are a few snapshots of the “fractivities” and us having fun doing them.

  • LoFaro to Host Minicourse at Joint Math Meeting in Boston

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    tlofaro

    Tom LoFaro will be hosting the MAA mini course Teaching Differential Equations with Modeling at the Joint Math Meetings in Boston January 4-7, 2012. Tom will be collaborating with Mike Huber of Muhlenberg College and Daniel Flath of Macalester College in this endeavor.

  • Gusties at the Joint Math Meetings

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    tlofaro

    Tom LoFaro and John Holte both attended the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, LA January 6-9. While there they visited with two MCS alums who presented papers at the conference. Erik Tou (2002) presented a paper entitled “Relative Accuracy of Quadrilateral Area Measurement in the Ancient World.” Erik is currently an Assistant Professor at…

  • MCS Department to host differential equations conference

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    tlofaro

    From June 23 through June 26, 2011 the MCS department will be hosting the conference Differential Equations Across the Collegiate Curriculum.  This conference will explore the evolving role of the differential equations course in mathematics and across the STEM disciplines.  It is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and is a cooperative…

  • New Faces in MCS

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    tlofaro

    Two new Visiting Professors have joined the Mathematics and Computer Science Department this year.  Russ Park has joined us from Arizona State University and Choong-Soo Lee from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Russ joined the department last February.  He completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at San Diego State University in 1984 and then worked for…