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Program Highlights
Dave Kung spent three days in residence at Winona State University in October. As part of the Lyceum Series, he gave three talks and played a recital.
Student Spotlight
The two rows of mathematics graduates during the 2009 graduation ceremony.
Several times each semester we have guest Mathematics and Computer Science speakers from around the world at our Math Club, CS Club, Math&CS Research Seminar, and the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium Series. These are posted (and archived) in the "Left-Column-Bottom" Google Calander. We try to keep this up to date. On this page we post additional News from the department ...(For older news: Newsletter2007, Newsletter2004-2005, Newsletter2002. Also: Alumni News.)
2012 Dr. Dave Kung got promoted to Full Professor!
2012 Chairman Sandy Ganzell receives a Klein Bottle Bottle Opener!
2012 Dr. Aliza Steurer (Math 2000) got tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Mathematics at Dominican University!
2012 Ivan Sterling gave a Colloquium talk at Drexel University!
2012 Ella Hankins well orders the set of wells!
2012 SMCM Math Majors with Dave Kung, Alex Meadows and Peter Lo (Math 2006) at Spring 2012 Sectional Meeting of the MAA!
2012 Dave Kung is Plenary Lecturer at Spring 2012 Sectional Meeting of the MAA!
2012 Ella Hankins (Math 2013) got accepted into the Budapest Mathematics Program!
2012 Virgina Nearing (CS 2010) chooses PhD program (in CS) at Clemson University!
2012 Mike Firrisa (Math 2009) chooses PhD program (in Mathematics) at Dartmouth University!
2012 Emma Decker (Math 2012) chooses PhD program (in Mathematics) at Rice University!
2012 Boston: 22 SMCM folk were at the Joint Math Meetings. 6 faculty, 4 Students, 7 Alum, and 5 Former Faculty! Presentations included Talks, Posters and Panels!
2012 Jessica O'Shaughnessy (formerly Wolf) (Math 2004) will be an Adjunct Professor at Hood College starting Fall 2012.
2011 (Belated!) Doctor!'Jessica O'Shaughnessy (formerly Wolf) (Math 2004) PhD (in Math) completed 2010 at the University of Ireland, Galway.
2011 A record 36 SMCM Math students took the Putman!
2011 Math&CS Department hires visiting mathematics instructor! Yanting Liang.
2011 Lauren Blount (Math 2009) and John Ross (Math 2009) are engaged!
2011 Kevin Beanland (Math 2002) receives prestigious Fulbright Award!
2011 Doctor! Gwyneth Whieldon (Math & Physics 2004) completed her PhD at Cornell and is now Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Hood College.
2011 Brandt Kronheim (Visiting Math Professor 2010-2011) accepts a visiting professor position at Whittier College!
2011 Rika Hagihara (Visiting Math Professor 2010-2011) accepts a post-doc at the University of Melbourne!
2011 SMCM's first Mathematics Concert: Dave Kung and his wonderful students taking Math & Music performed their final projects. The program included mathematically-inspired compositions, demonstrations of mathematical principles, and performances on traditional and one-of-a-kind instruments (including the magical WonderPipe 4000).
2011 Demetre Kazaras (Math 2011) chooses PhD program (in Mathematics) at University of Oregon!
2011 Alex Meadows and eight students attended the MAA sectional meeting!
2011 Colby Long (Math 2009) chooses PhD program (in Mathematics) at North Carolina State University!
2011 David Kung Keynote Speaker and student talks by Brian Tennyson, Lydia Garcia, Demetre Kazaras at Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) Spring Conference at BYU in Utah.
2011 Amelia Tebbe (Math 2010) receives a Graduate Research Fellowship (in Mathematics) from the National Science Foundation.
2011 Brian Tennyson (Math & Physics 2011) chooses PhD program (in Physics) at Yale University!
2011 Gwyneth Whieldon (Math & Physics 2004) has accepted a tenure track Mathematics Professorship a Hood College!
2011 Math&CS Department hires a new tenure track Professor! Dr. Emek Kose Can.
2011 David Yost (Math 2009) accepts job at Baltimore City High School teaching Algebra II and Geometry!
2011 Mike Fogus (CS 1999) Publishes "The Joy of Clojure".
2011 Susan Goldstine has had another mathematical artwork accepted to an exhibit at a prestigious conference. Her ceramic work, "Tea for Eight", will appear in the Joint Mathematics Meetings Exhibition of Mathematical Art in New Orleans in January. The piece demonstrates that eight colors are necessary to color a map on a two holed torus.
2010 Lauren Gil (Math 2009) loves her new job at Baltimore City High School teaching five! sections of Algebra II!
2010 Department Wins Huge NSF Grant
2010 Article about Department submitted to FOCUS
2010 Katherine Socha Highlighted Speaker at 2011 Joint AMS/MAA Meeting
2010 Alex Meadows becomes Senior Member of the Center for Geometric Analysis and Data
2010 Nine students go along with professor Brandt Kronholm to SUMS conference at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. The conference was on Saturday, October 23. Several of our students gave presentations about their various REU's and Student Projects.
2010 Susan Goldstine exhibits at Joint AMS/MAA Meeting
2010 Lauren Blount (2009) accepted into John Hopkins Master's in Applied Mathematics program starting Spring 2011.
2010 Casey Douglas has 62 page dissertation Genus One Scherk Surfaces and Their Limits accepted by Journal of Differential Geomety, one of the most prestigious international research journals in mathematics.
2010 Doctor! Kristine Roinestad (Math & Valedictorian, 2004) completed her PhD at Virgina Tech and is now Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Georgetown College.
2010 SMCM wins honorable mention at international Math Modeling Competition.
2010 Amelia Tebbe (2010) chooses PhD program at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
2010 Rachel Johns (2008) excitedly accepts job teaching mathematics at Howard High School!
Dave Kung giving the 2010 MAA Undergraduate Lecture in Mathematics at the San Francisco Joint Meetings. The talk, which features musical exerpts that illustrate mathematical ideas, drew a standing-room-only crowd of 400 people.
2009 Alan and Lindsey Jamieson establish Robotics Lab. (Update 2010: Lindsey will teach (a crowded) Robotic Class to CS Majors Spring 2011.)
2009 Ivan Sterling keynote speaker at famous mathematician Henry Wente's retirement.
2009 James Marshall (Math&CS 2009) chooses PhD program at George Washington University.
2009 John Ross (Math 2009) chooses PhD program at Johns Hopkins University.
2009 Susan Goldstine exhibits at Joint AMS/MAA Meeting
Sandy Ganzell giving an invited lecture at 2009 MathFest in Portland Oregon. The wildly popular talk was titled "Hot Jones" for the mysterious holiday drink in Homestar Runner. The lecture was one of eight given in a session on Open and Accessible Problems in Knot Theory.
2009 Katherine Socha Invited Speaker at MAA Sectional Meeting
2008 St. Mary's College of Maryland Professor Katherine Socha in the classroom. Socha was honored with the Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Lester R. Ford Award by the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) at MathFest 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Marc Apter/SMCM)
2008 Susan Goldstine Invited Speaker at MAA Sectional Meeting
2008 Ivan Sterling co-discovers new class of pseudospherical surfaces.
2008 Dan Tanner (Math 2008) chooses PhD program at Rice University.
2008 Doctor! Patty Lafferty (Math 1996) completed her PhD (in Computer Science) at Catholic University.
2007 Josh Ballew (Math 2007) chooses PhD program at University of Maryland College Park.
