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Tell us about yourself. I graduated from Gustavus in 2008 with degrees in Mathematics and Communication Studies. I am currently working at Apple Inc. I’m an engineering manager. I manage a team called Binary Compatibility. It’s comprised of developers and QA engineers whose job it is to test third-party apps on unreleased software and hardware…

Those of you on campus this fall may notice some new faces in the MCS department.  We would like to officially welcome

Congratulations to the class of 2017.  Here is what some of our Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics majors will be doing after graduation. Cara Christiansen majored in Computer Science and will be working at Kips. Neal Kroells majored in Statistics and Financial Accounting and will be working in industry.   Tim Watts majored in Mathematics Education and…

Dr. Michael Hvidsten, MCS faculty member,  was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio during  the March for Science event held in St. Paul this past weekend.  Read more about the event and what Hvidsten had to say here

Congratulations to mathematics major Timothy Paczynski for scoring in the 48th percentile in the 2016 Putnam Exam.  According to the Mathematical Association of America’s website “The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in the United States and Canada.”  Some of this year’s top scores came from Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Princeton…

Congratulations to Dr. Haoran Chen.  Dr. Chen published a problem in the April edition of The American Mathematical Monthly .  For more information about the Monthly, and to read the problem go to http://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/american-mathematical-monthly

On Tuesday March 14 the MCS department hosted its annual pi day celebration.  The event was, as usual, well attended.  Pie and good conversation were had by all.  

Dr. Amy DeCelles from the University of St. Thomas will be speaking about Number Theory and Mathematical Physics:  Applying “applied math” to the “purest” of pure math”. Number theory consists of the mathematics that has been developed over the ages to answer seemingly simple questions about ordinary counting numbers, questions like, “Is it possible to find…

Congratulations to MCS Assistant Professor Laura Boehm Vock.  Evan Michael Vock was born at 7:04 pm, Monday February 27.  He was 20 inches long and weighed 6 lbs 12 oz. Baby and Mom are home and doing well.

Mr. Kennedy graduated from Gustavus and is a very popular high school math teacher at St. Peter High School.  He will be speaking about Flipped Instruction on Monday, March 6th from 3:30-4:30 in Olin 321.  Refreshments will be provided.   “Flipped Instruction is a general term used for a learning strategy where instructional content is…