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November 30, 2009

Math team places 9th at NCS/MAATeam Contest

The MSUM Mathematics Department is pleased to announce that the team Syntax Error placed 9th out of 92 teams that participated in this year’s NCS/MAA
Team Contest. The team consisted of the MSUM students Tony Batesole, Kathryn Bergee, and Haewoong Jeon, and earned a score of 88 out of a possible 100 points. Five teams (14 students) from MSUM participated in the contest. The Team Contest is an annual competition sponsored by the North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America consisting of 10 challenging math problems. This year’s contest took place on Saturday morning, November 14 and included teams from 29 different institutions. We congratulate all of our students who gave up three hours on a Saturday morning to participate in the competition.

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November 11, 2009

MSUM math speaker talks about symmetry patterns

MSUM Mathematics Colloquium features Professor Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota Duluth, in a talk titled “Using Mathematics to Create Symmetry Patterns” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 17 in MacLean Hall 167. A reception will be held at 4 p.m. Gallian is a distinguish professor of mathematics, active researcher and award-winning teacher. Click headline to read more.

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October 20, 2009

World of Change on campus Oct. 26

The 10th annual World of Change conference for regional teachers of the social and natural sciences and mathematics will be held on campus Monday, Oct. 26. It is sponsored by the College of Social and Natural Sciences. Regional teachers from North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota will attend workshops hosted by faculty and staff members from Biosciences, Chemistry, Mathematics, Psychology, and Physics and Astronomy. Click headline to read more.

Biosciences
August 28, 2009

Sizer attends, presents at international conference

Walter Sizer, mathematics, attended the Progress on Difference Equations Conference in Honor of Prof. Jerry Ladas, held in Bedlewo, Poland, May 25-29. He presented the paper, “Further Instances of Periodicity in May’s Host Parasitoid Equation.” Also this summer his earlier paper, “Periodicity in May’s Host Parasitoid Equation”, was published in the book Advances in Discrete Dynamical Systems edited by S. Elaydi et al. and published by the Mathematical Society of Japan.

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