Category: department news

I have put together a mailing list for students and/or faculty and/or alums who are interested in information about the contests we’re involved in, or general information about mathematical problem solving. Email me, dmolnar at gac dot edu, if you would like to be added to the list.

Saturday November 13th was a busy day for geeky Gusties. While the programmers travelled to St. Paul, 12 students were competing on campus in the MAA North Central Section Team Contest. I was pleased with the turnout, up from 4 last year. Overall, 66 teams from 26 colleges and universities throughout the region took part.…

On Saturday, November 15, CS majors Michael Schmit, Dan Treiman, and Jared Wangen 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 187 teams. Teams participate from local satellite sites; the Gustavus team was one…

______________________________________________________________________ Towards a Combinatorial Proof of the Quadratic Case of the Jacobian Conjecture Dan Singer CANCELLED (was: Tuesday, November 16, 2003 at 3:30pm in Olin 320) ______________________________________________________________________

A discussion with recent grads about employment Godfather’s Pizza, back room, 5:30pm, November 19, 2004 Pizza and soft drinks will be served This event is for juniors and seniors interested in teaching in secondary schools. Math teaching majors who graduated over the last handful of years will come back to talk about their job search…

A discussion with recent grads about employment Godfather’s Pizza, back room, 6:15pm, November 15, 2004 Pizza and soft drinks will be served This event is for juniors and seniors interested in careers that make use of mathematics, with the exception of teaching and computing careers. Math majors who graduated over the last handful of years…

______________________________________________________________________ Digitally coding a function and its applications Danrun Huang Tuesday, November 9, 2003 at 3:30pm in Olin 320 ______________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________ Graduate Schools in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics Wednesday, November 3, 2004 at 11:30am in Olin 320 _____________________________________________________________

This spring we will start offering a new general education course in computer science, MCS 170: The Nature of Computer Science. This course presents a general introduction to the concepts and issues of computer science and is designed for those students who do not plan to take MCS 177 (Computer Science I), but still have…

A discussion with recent grads about employment Godfather’s Pizza, back room, 6:15pm, November 18, 2004 Pizza and soft drinks will be served This event is for juniors and seniors interested in computing careers, whether they are majoring in computer science or in math. MCS majors who graduated over the last handful of years will come…