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  • Graduate School Information Seminar

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    11:30-12:20 on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Olin Hall, Room 320 Our next seminar will be focused on presenting information on graduate school opportunities in math, computer science, and statistics. If you are considering graduate school, come and listen to the combined wisdom of departmental professors Carolyn Dobler, San Skulrattanakulchai, and Andrey Glubokov. As always, pizza…

  • A Very Knotty Differential Equation

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    Prof. Tom LoFaro will present the first seminar talk of the year. 11:30-12:20 on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Olin Hall, Room 320 Lunch will be served In 1996 Rob Ghrist and Phil Holmes published a remarkable paper entitled “An ODE Whose Solutions Contain All Knots and Links” where they provided sufficient conditions for an ordinary…

  • Gusties Take Gold for Statistics Project

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    As previously noted on this blog, Gustavus math majors Dan Johnson and Tyler Kramer were invited to the awards banquet at the US Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) along with their faculty advisor, Carolyn Dobler, in order to learn whether their project had won first, second, or third place in the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition…

  • Sign up for MCS Picnic

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    Those blog readers who are in St. Peter should pay a visit by this Thursday, May 10th, to the bulletin board in the third-floor lobby of Olin Hall. We’ve got a sheet there for you to sign up for the MCS Department picnic, which will be Tuesday, May 15th, rain or shine, at the Arboretum…

  • Rosoff Wins Swenson/Bunn Teaching Award

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    The Gustavus Student Senate presented Professor of Mathematics Jeffrey Rosoff with the 2007 Swenson and Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. This award, the only teaching award at Gustavus that is selected and presented exclusively by the student body, memorializes two Gustavus students killed in an automobile accident. Professor Rosoff was cited by the Student…

  • Statistics Project in the News

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    As previously noted in this blog, senior math majors Tyler Kramer and Dan Johnson received national recognition for their statistics project. Now Mankato Free Press columnist Brian Ojanpa has picked up the story as well.

  • Hvidsten Recognized for Meritorious Service

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    Prof. Holte reports: At this past weekend’s NCS-MAA [North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America] meeting at the College of St. Catherine, our own Mike Hvidsten was honored with the North Central Section’s Meritorious Achievement Award. He certainly deserves it. To mention just a few his services, I know that he has served…

  • Zupan Receives NSF Honorable Mention

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    Senior math major Alex Zupan added one more recognition to his growing collection with an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. (Alex already had awards from the NCAA, USA Today, and the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship program.) He will be entering graduate school in mathematics at the University of…

  • Corey Ervin Prize for Outstanding Service

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    The recipient of the 2006-2007 award is Guy Davis, senior mathematics major. In presenting this award, the department recognizes Guy’s work as a tutor and grader in the MCS Department over the past two years, his leadership and service in the Collegiate Fellow program, the Swing Club, and one-time opportunities such as volunteer yard work.The…

  • Dobler Named to National Statistics Committee

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    Gustavus Professor Carolyn Dobler has been named to a national committee addressing undergrduate instruction in statistics. Peter Lachenbruch, the president-elect of the American Statistical Association (ASA), announced this week that Dobler would serve as one of the ASA’s members of the ASA/MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Satistics. Dobler will serve a three-year term lasting from…