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 [...]

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 [...]

The first department newsletter is now available.
Newsletter Summer 2007

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

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.
– event flyer

Jim Segedy will be showing his 3D Zombie strategy game that he wrote with Colin Davis at the Digital Arts Showcase today, April 20th, 2-4pm in the Julia Rogers Library.
Go check it out!

Fun was had by all at the Torrey Dinner.
Ian Elder, Joe Porembski, Sarah Smith, and Brad Szelistowski were inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon.
Jordan Yoder won the Leavitt award.
Jim Segedy won the Ekin award.
We also celebrated Euler’s 300th birthday!

Dr. Gretchen Koch is an invited speaker at Villa Julie on April 20, 3:30-5pm. Her talk is “E. coli and Taylor Series: My Journery Through Biomathematics”.
Dr. Koch is willing to drive some students so let her know if you would like a ride.

Department Lunch

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Food!! The next department lunch is April 17 in the lounge 12-2 pm.

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