MCS

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  • Search: Visiting Assistant Professor (or Instructor) of Computer Science

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    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…

  • Newest MCS Member is a Winner

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    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…

  • Dobler’s Essay Featured in Art Exhibit

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    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…

  • A Simple Generalization of the Arithmetic Mean – Geometric Mean Inequality

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    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…

  • Dobler Receives Faculty Service Award

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    Gustavus President Jack Ohle presented Professor Carolyn Dobler, Chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, with the Faculty Service Award at today’s Founders Day ceremony in chapel.

  • A Survey of Discrete Calculus Plus Gronwall’s Lemma

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    MCS Seminar by Prof. John Holte Wednesday, 21 October 2009 11:30AM Olin 321 I have long been interested in the parallels between “continuous” calculus and discrete calculus.  Finite difference formulas look a lot like familiar derivative formulas–with the right tweaking and summation formulas likewise resemble familiar integration formulas. Furthermore, Newton’s interpolating formula based on higher…

  • Three-Dimensional Surface Reconstruction and Measurement of Placentas

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    MCS Seminar presented by ChenYu Yang, Gustavus mathematics major Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 3:30PM Olin 321 Cookies will be served. The goal of the project is to reconstruct three-dimensional shape of placentas, and provide shape characterization for exploring the relation between placental shapes and fetal growth. We investigate two types of surface reconstruction methods: implicit…

  • Three Honors Theses Presented

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      Three students in Gustavus’s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science presented their honors thesis research recently. The photo shows Josh Knutson at the college-wide Celebration of Creative Inquiry presenting his work on the use of subdivision surfaces for three-dimensional graphics. Knutson also presented the work to the department, earning honors in both mathematics and…

  • Trip to Federated Insurance to Learn About Math/CS Careers

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    Attention students: We have an excellent opportunity to tour a company that employs many mathematics and computer science majors and talk with Gustavus alumni working there about their careers.

  • Rosoff Donates Time, Talent to Dancing With the Profs

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    This weekend was Gustavus’s third annual “Dancing With the Profs” show, benefiting the St. Peter United Way.  Five teams coupling a student with a member of the faculty or staff showed their stuff; the MCS Department was represented by Professor Jeff Rosoff, shown here with partner Alicia Cameron.