Sayel Ali, Justin James, and Wally Sizer, Mathematics, attended the North Central Section meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in Brookings, S.D., Oct. 18 and 19. The section includes Minnesota, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and part of South Dakota. Sizer presented the paper, Formation of the North Central Section, describing the early years of the section, in preparation for […]
1 of 3 Minnesota universities, only Tri-College University The Society of Actuaries has categorized the Actuarial Program in the Department of Mathematics as an Advanced Undergraduate Program. MSUM is the one of the three universities in Minnesota that has such advanced program, and only one in the Tri-College area. Visit the Society of Actuaries website more information. An actuary is […]
STEM Teaching Toolbox: Reflective Writing Workshop Thursday, Sept.19, 3-4:30 p.m. Faculty Development Center Hear from our faculty using the following types of reflective writing in their math or science courses: Values-based personal writing; Recording metacognitive processes; Writing-to-learn activities
Dr. Adam M. Goyt, Mathematics, gave the talk “A Marcus-Tardos / Stanley-Wilf type result for Ordered Set Partitions” at the 11th Annual Permutation Patterns Conference in Paris, France July 1, 2013. http://web.mnstate.edu/goytadam/talks/SWOP.pdf
Adam Goyt’s solution to Problem 11567 from “The American Mathematical Monthly” was selected for publication and appeared in the April 2013 issue. The problem was to enumerate the number of permutations of the multiset {1,1,2,2,…,n,n} with certain restrictions.