http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix Mathematics and Computer Science Blog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:46:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Three Goucher computer science majors, senior Jon Simon, and juniors Russ Smith and A. J. Wax, participated in the Mid-Atlantic Regional of the ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest on Saturday, Nov. 8.  They enjoyed the spirit of the competition and had a great time. http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2009/11/09/mid-atlantic-regional-acm-programming-contest/ The Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) awarded a mini-grant in the amount of $11,850 to Dr. Koch in April 2009.  This grant provides a stipend of $3300 each to Jennifer Jordan and Ariel Kramer to work as a team during the summer and fall.  In addition to working ... http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2009/09/03/prof-koch-awarded-grant/ Jennifer Jordan received an American Mathematical Society/American Statistical Association award for her presentation at MathFest.  This project is a continuation of the work completed Jordan Yoder ‘09 during the summer of 2007, for which he won the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Award for Applied Mathematics Award.  Jordan and ... http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2009/09/03/jennifer-jordan-wins-award-at-mathfest/ On August 6 and 7, 2009, Jennifer Jordan ‘11 and Ariel Kramer ‘11 presented their work entitled “Follow the Food Feeding Function: A Biomathematical Study of Gastric Emptying” at MathFest, the national summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in Portland, Oregon.  Ariel and Jennifer conducted the research under ... http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2009/09/03/students-present-work-at-mathfest/ Check out a new website "When will I use Math?" http://WhenWillIUseMath.com   http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2009/08/17/when-will-i-use-math-website/ A team of three Goucher students are competing on Saturday, October 25, in IBM’s 33rd Annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, known colloquially as the “Battle of the Brains,” at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Under the leadership of Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science ... http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2008/10/20/goucher-competes-in-ibm%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cbattle-of-the-brains%e2%80%9d/ Please welcome our new faculty member Micah Webster.  Micah has a B.S. in Mathematics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and both M.S. and Ph.D in Mathematics from University of California, Irvine   An introduction from Micah: "At 17, I became fascinated with mathematics. From studying the accident in our high ... http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2008/09/08/new-faculty-member-micah-webster/ 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 ... http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2008/02/21/winter-2008-newsletter/ 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 ... http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2007/10/01/jordan-yoder-wins-award-at-mathfest/ 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 ... http://blogs.goucher.edu/matrix/2007/08/06/professor-mckibbens-summer-research/