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Open Statistics Position
Gustavus Adolphus College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Statistics (or Associate Professor with appropriate qualifications) in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics to begin September 1, 2021. Find the full job posting at https://gustavus.edu/employment/job/1762
MCS Summer Scholarship: Fun and Games
How far can a model army advance into a one-dimensional desert, using only finite resources and prescribed types of movement?
MCS Summer Research: Offensive Performance in Baseball
Offensive performance in baseball depends on a number of correlated factors: the pitches the batter faces, the batter’s choice to swing, and the batter’s hitting ability. The choices of whether or not to swing, which can be describe as plate discipline, has traditionally been summarized as the proportion of pitches inside and outside of the […]
MCS Summer Research: Altruistic Suicide in E. Coli Bacteria
Over the summer Dr. Jeff Ford and Sanjeeda Shutrishna are working on a project to study the evolution of altruistic suicide in E. coli bacteria. The bacteria employ a strategy where, when the colony encounters a pathogen, some bacteria will self-destruct before the pathogen can spread. Dr. Ford and Shutrishna are attempting to use network […]
MCS Summer Research: Social Media and Exercise
This summer Filip Belik and Dr. Louis Yu have been investigating the relationship between social media and exercise. The content of the summer work can be separated into two distinct tasks. They are first utilizing the text classification capabilities of several machine learning algorithms to find the most effective way of classifying social media posts from Twitter […]
MCS and Physics Administrative Assistant Retires
Long-time MCS and Physics Administrative Assistant Linda Hewitt is retiring! For years Linda has managed the day-to-day operations of the MCS department and kept a long string of department chairs from disaster by gently guiding them through the intricacies of budget oversight, student employment, and every other aspect of departmental management. Linda’s relaxed and […]