Category: department news
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Ron Graham to Lecture
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Ronald L. Graham, arguably both the most accomplished living mathematician and the most charsimatic, will deliver two lectures at Gustavus this week, courtesy of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program. Graham will speak at 7:30 pm on Monday, May 1st, in Olin 103 and at 11:30 am on Tueday, May 2nd, in Olin 317.…
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Putnam Competition
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Last December, Trevor Potter, Alex Zupan, Jonathan Dexter, Peter Overholsor, and Nhung Le spent six hours on a Saturday taking the Putnam. Alex and Nhung also participated in Christmas in Christ Chapel on the same day. Now the Putnam results are in. This year we had four out of five positive scores. There were 3454…
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Zupan Awarded Goldwater Scholarship
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Gustavus math major Alex Zupan has been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The Foundation was established and funded by the United States Congress to honor former Senator Barry M. Goldwater by providing financial encouragement to outstanding students in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering.…
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Visit a Math Major in the Business World
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So maybe you don’t want to teach and don’t want to be an actuary or a computer geek. Is there some other way you can get paid for the general analytical abilities you are acquiring as a math or cs major? Yes! And now you have an opportunity to pay a visit to a Gustie…
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Photo of MCS Scene Wins Contest
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Of over 150 entries in the Campus Community Photography Contest, “Let Epsilon Greater Than Zero Be Given” by Maggie Sagstuen was the overall winner as well as taking first place in the “Living and Learning” catgegory. The model is MCS major Mitch Engel. To see the photo in context of other winners and finalists, see…
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Operating Systems Textbook Published
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Max Hailperin is pleased to announce the publication of his new textbook on the principles of operating systems and middleware. This book, Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction, was published January 19, 2006, by Thomson Course Technology. Those of you lucky enough to be teaching computer science can get an examination copy through your…
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Gusties Compete in Team Math Contest
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On Saturday, November 12, 12 Gustavus students (Peter Overholser, Noah Mirovsky, Eric Overstad, Jonathan Dexter, Anna Lindquist, Jared Walz, Michael Bologna, Eric Barnitt, Dan Johnson, Mitch Engel, Guy Davis and Eva Cornell) competed in teams of three in the ninth annual MAA North Central Section Team Contest. Both MCS and Physics majors were well represented…
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Gusties Compete in Programming Contest
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On Saturday, November 5, Gustavus students Justin Delegard, Dan Treiman, and Alex Wauck competed in the ACM North Central North America Regional Programming Contest. The regional contest spans seven US states and one and a half Canadian provinces, and this year included 186 teams. Teams participate from local satellite sites; the Gustavus team was one…
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Math Teaching: What’s the Real World Like?
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A discussion with alumni about teaching positions Godfather’s Pizza, back room, 5:30pm, November 18, 2005 Pizza and soft drinks will be served This event is for students interested in teaching mathematics in secondary schools. Math majors ranging from the class of 1999 to the class of 2005 will come back to talk about their varied…
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Math Careers: What’s the “Real World” Like?
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A discussion with recent grads about employment Godfather’s Pizza, back room, 6:15pm, November 10, 2005 Pizza and soft drinks will be served This event is for math majors interested in careers outside of the computing and teaching areas; other events are adressing those two areas. Math majors who graduated over the last handful of years…