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MCS, Physics Profs Get Robotics Grant
Mike Hvidsten and Tom Huber from the MCS and Phsyics Departments just got a very nice grant from Sun Microsystems that will allow the two…
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Operations Research: Some Practical Examples
Nathan Annis Thursday, October 11th, 3:30-4:20pm Olin Hall, Room 321 What is Operations Research? What does someone educated in this field actually do? Nathan Annis,…
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Graduate School Information Seminar
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,…
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A Very Knotty Differential Equation
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…
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The Internet on Stage
This summer, I had the pleasure of seeing a remarkable dramatization of the Internet, including both its technical and social dimensions, focusing on the difficult…
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Sexual Promiscuity and Math (NY Times)
I had originally been planning to blog about the ownership of copyrights for the Unix operating system. But maybe no one else cares about that.…
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XKCD – a Math Comic/Blog for those not already in the know
While it’s anything but consistent (randomness abounds from comic to comic) you may want to check out XKCD – a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math…
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GAC Alum on Web2.0’s role in shaping Politics
Jon-David Schlough (GAC ’00) is one of the many GAC alums who I know that, while not a CS major, has gone on to work…
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MCS Folks Take Part in Community Coven
Our photographer couldn’t help notice that all species of folk associated with the Mathematics and Computer Science Department contributed to the St. Peter community’s Harry…
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Advice for Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
Back at the start of the semester, I linked to Betsy in Budapest, a blog maintained by one of our students while studying in the…
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