Susie Hamilton, mathematics education major, and Brandi Franck, recent graduate in mathematics education, also co-presented a session “Preparing for Student Teaching and the MN Teacher Licensure Exam” at the MCTM April 2013 conference.

Fulghesu presented joint work with student Seth Meyer on Generalized Peano Functions.

To learn about the problem they solved, click here.

A total of 5,636 teams from 13 countries, including the United States of America, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, and the United Kingdom participated in this competition. Teams from Bethel University (MN) and University of Colorado Boulder were designated as the outstanding winner this year.

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From 4 – 4:50 p.m. he will be giving a talk on his research in Mathematical Biology during the Tri-College Mathematics Colloquium on the campus of NDSU (location to be announced.) Both events are open to the public, and students are encouraged to attend.

Awards will be given to the top ten individuals and the top four teams in large and small school divisions and in three grade categories, 11-12th, 9-10th, and 6-8th.

Bhattacharya said, “Heating an ordinary oven requires to hold the principles of thermodynamics, commonly known as convection and conduction process of the heat transfer. Solving a 2D-heat equation involves challenging computations. For example, I modeled the critical meltdown of a nuclear reactor last year for the math modeling class I took. For simplicity, we assumed a one-dimension rod which could prevent the meltdown. Similarly, we simplified the boundary conditions inside the oven by assuming the heat flux works only in one direction.” The MSUM team received an honorable mention in the last year’s contest. Like last year, Dr. Damiano Fulghesu advised this year’s team. The competition was financed by the department of Mathematics at MSUM.

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Notable outcomes of this planning effort include:

1. The establishment of strong partnerships with two-year institutions, regional service cooperatives, and local school districts
2. The development and piloting of a recruitment plan for STEM majors to consider teaching
3. The design of mentoring, administration, and evaluation plans with the expectation of our submission of a five-year phase I teacher scholarship proposal in 2014

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Algebra is the gateway to every higher math class. SAI has shown for almost 20 years that kids as young as 3^rd grade can learn substantive algebra.

Students entering 5th or 6th grade will meet 9 a.m. to noon, and students entering 3^rd or 4^th grade will meet 1 to 4 p.m. The program runs July 23-27 and will take place in Hagen Hall. To register, download a form at http://web.mnstate.edu/harms/sai/SAI-MSUM.htm.

Bhattacharya is majoring in mathematics and physics and astronomy. He has served as historian of the MSUM SPS club, and continues to connect students with national SPS events and opportunities through a variety of social networking tools. His research interests include stellar spectroscopy, photometry of RR Lyrae variable stars, and mathematical modeling of stellar evolution.

Bhattacharya was appointed as a National SPS Intern for summer 2012. He is spending the summer in Washington, D.C., working specifically in the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Career Pathways Project.

Thus far, Bhattacharya reports that he’s visited a STEM Expo, has learned about chaos and fluid dynamics among other things from his mentor, and is preparing a report about why some physics departments are more successful in producing physics graduates than others.

The purpose of the SPS National Internship Program is to place students “in organizations and agencies that utilize the energy and diversity of students and contribute to their professional development through meaningful assignments, both relevant to the institution’s programs and in the advancement of physics or allied sciences.”

This work was done with Anant Godbole (East Tennessee State University), Jennifer Herdan (student at Winona State University), and Lara Pudwell (Valparaiso University). Information about the conference can be found here.

The contest engaged 3,697 teams from 16 countries: Canada, China, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, Malaysia, Palestine, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and US.

Our students worked out the solution for sending an optimal number of trips for river rafting, that ensures no contact with other groups of boats and team members will have the best opportunity to enjoy the wilderness. Their solution made use of graph theory and combinatorics. Dr. Damiano Fulghesu supervised the team’s registration and the submission of their solutions.