The winter department newsletter is now available. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter for our former majors and minors, please send an email to span.macs AT goucher.edu and provide us with your name, Goucher name (if different), major, and year of graduation. We would love to hear from all our former students!

Jordan Yoder won the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Award for his talk at MathFest in San Jose this past August. His talk on his summer research was entitled “What do monosaccharides, lipids, and amino acids have to do with mathematics?”. The SIAM award is presented to students who give outstanding talks about applied mathematics.

Congratulations Jordan!

Professor McKibben and long-time colleague/mentor Dr. David Keck continued their 5-year study of stochastic evolution equations this summer by tackling a new direction, namely stochastic differential game theory. Simply put, problems in this area are extensions of the well-known “cat and mouse” pursuit-evasion schemes, childhood game of tag, and jet-to-jet dogfighting. The progress made this summer will be presented at various conferences this year. Recent work in this direction has been published in Stochastic Analysis and Applications, and Nonlinear Analysis.

See Professor McKibbens’s website for details.

The first department newsletter is now available.

Newsletter Summer 2007

Jim Segedy will be presenting his independant project on machine learning on May 15 at 2:30pm in the ALZ.

All are welcome.

Food!!

Department lunch, May 8, 12-2pm in the lounge.

Math, Graphics, and Art: The Good, the Bad, and the Pretty

Dr. Annalisa Crannell, Franklin and Marshall College, will be speaking at Towson University, May 10, 7pm, 7800 York Rd Building, room 205

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Jelena Karanovic ‘99 returns to Goucher to discuss her research on patents and free software advocacy in the EU. Join this informal discussion with her in the Geen Community Center at 2:30, April 26.

This event is sponsored by the MaCS club and the Department of Modern Languages.

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If you are interested in computer game development, check out the conference at UMBC on April 28.

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A local business is looking for a student to help with a small job of setting up a website.
Contact Laurie at 443- 801-4440 to discuss what is involved and payment.