MSUM Math Club is holding the “Pie The Professor” fundraising event Wednesday, April 24 from 12-4 p.m.. It will be on the campus mall on the north side of MacLean Hall. Come throw cream pies at volunteered math professors. Slices of pie will also be for sale.
The MSUM team (upperclassmen LeAnn Washenberger (Mathematics Education, Physics) and Shouvik Bhattacharya (Physics, Mathematics) was designated as the successful participant in the 29th Mathematical Contest in Modeling. To learn about the problem they solved, click here.
Eric Eager, who graduated in 2008 with a B.S. in mathematics, and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Mathematical Biology at University of Nebraska Lincoln, will be on campus Tuesday, March 19. He will hold a Q&A session from 2 – 2:50 p.m. in MA 274 geared toward undergraduates interested in pursing graduate studies. From 4 – 4:50 p.m. […]
The MSUM Mathematics Department will be hosting the Tri-College Math Contest for area middle and high school students on campus over spring break. More than 2,000 students are registered for the contest from locations extending to Bismarck, Larimore, Grand Forks, Thief River Falls, Mahnomen, Wadena, Alexandria, and Breckenridge. This year’s contest problems were drawn up by the Concordia math department […]
MSUM upperclassmen LeAnn Washenberger (Secondary Math Education, Physics minor) and Shouvik Bhattacharya (Physics major, Mathematics minor) participated in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2013. They formulated an optimized model, which will allow users to bake brownies without burning them, as the baking pans distribute the heat evenly on their surfaces.