MCS

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  • Canceled: Math Secondary Teaching: Another Conversation

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    max

    The conversation between students and alumnae scheduled for April 22, 2005 has been canceled. It may be rescheduled for a later date.

  • Seminar: Wavelets and Applications to Digital Imaging

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    max

    Patrick Van Fleet Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 3:30pm in Olin 320 Wavelets are a new mathematical tool and they are used to decompose signals or images into an approximation of the original and levels of details. Unlike Fourier decompositions, wavelet decompositions are locally attuned to changes in data and such decompositions lend themselves well…

  • Putnam Exam results

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    molnar

    The Putnam Exam is a mathematical problem-solving contest open to all undergraduates in the U.S. and Canada. We took the contest in December, and received the results today. 3,733 students took the contest; over half scored zero. Less than half of the Gusties who took it scored zero, though. Our top scores belonged to Trevor…

  • Iterated Games and the Evolution of Cooperation

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    Seminar by Tom LoFaro Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 3:30pm in Olin 320 We will consider a discrete model of two interacting species each of whose fitness is determined by the outcome of an iterated game. This problem was first explored by Doebeli et al where the game was the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma and the…

  • Konhauser Problemfest

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    molnar

    On February 26, 9 intrepid Gusties trekked up to Carleton College in Northfield for the 13th annual Konhauser Problemfest. This is a three-hour math contest featuring teams from Gustavus, St. Olaf, Carleton, Macalester, St. Thomas, and Augsburg. None of our 9 guys had been to Konhauser before, but only two were seniors so we should…

  • Gustavus CS Major Wins Composition Contest

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    max

    True geekiness shines through! Even though the judges at Caltech had no idea the original wind-orchestra composition they were judging was from a computer science major, they were mysteriously drawn to it, over all the other compositions they had received from around the world. Well, maybe it isn’t such a mystery, because Gustavus senior Paul…

  • Trip to West — Careers and Technology

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    max

    Students interested in computer-related careers (as well as possibly some math) are invited to go along on the second CSEMS trip of the year, to visit with alumni and alumnae at West in Eagan and learn about career possibilities. We will also see some very cool technology; West is a major internet provider of legal…

  • Geometry Textbook Published

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    hvidsten

    I am pleased to announce the publication by McGraw-Hill of the text “Geometry with Geometry Explorer.” This book is the result of many years of trying out new ideas and projects in the department’s geometry class. A sincere thank you goes out to all those students who have enjoyed (suffered through?) these pedagogical experiments while…

  • Math/CompSci Department Games Party

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    max

    December 10, 2004, starting at 7pm Max Hailperin’s House Come have fun with MCS professors, students, and family members. This is an informal gathering where we’ll have the whole range of games: fast-action party games, deep-thought strategy games, and everything in between. Tired of playing games? Grab some munchies and chat and munch while putting…

  • Sums of Squares

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    molnar

    Inspired by exam grading over Thanksgiving weekend, I have one more problem for the MCS Club contest for the fall semester. Given that our best response was for the first problem, which featured the number 16, I have determined that this must be because problems about 16 are one easier than all those problems about…