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The Problem of the Week tradition was started in 1968 by the late Professor Joe Konhauser and continued by Professor Stan Wagon since 1993. The PoW is available each week in an envelope outside the department office, OLRI 222. Pick one up!
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Feature Stories
Why Mac for math, statistics, and computer science?
The largest department at Macalester, we graduate a diverse group of 30–40 majors each year, over 50% from outside of the US. Many Mac students enter with substantial previous work in mathematics or experience with computers; others start with little background. We tailor our program to both kinds of students—there is a place here for you.
Our curriculum is broad and innovative, and students can focus in any one of four areas:
- theoretical math
- applied math
- statistics
- computer science
Faculty members are recognized as outstanding and dedicated teachers, with active professional lives on campus, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Academic activities outside of class include internships, competitions, weekly seminars and the Tuesday departmental tea in the MSCS Reading Room.
News
Congratulations to applied mathematics and statistics major Taylor Rasmussen '13, who has been named M Club's Male Athlete of the Year!
Congratulations to the Math Jeopardy team --Cecylia Bocovich, Corcoran Carl, Elise Delmas, Zachary Huffman, Trevor McCalmont, Nathaniel Miller, Andrew Rich, and AnnaLeigh Smith. They were victorious in the competition! Prof Alicia Johnson was the faculty leader.
Amelia McNamara ('10) has published an article based on her capstone project. She is currently in a PhD program in statistics at UCLA.
Elise Delmas' experience at JMM
MSCS faculty and students volunteered at the first annual STEM night
Check out photos from this year's annual scavenger hunt
Colin Jarvis ('13) cuts his bagel in to two linked Mobius strips. You too can try it, following steps at: http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html
- Math major Rayanatou Laouali ’12 receives grant under the Davis Projects for Peace initiative. Read the article.
- David Lopez '10 writes about historical details of events leading up to the founding of the Federal Reserve. Read the article.
- Professor Addresses Congressional Committee
- New website designed by U of M student with oversight by Professor Shilad Sen helps users find movies. Read the article.
- Professor Shilad Sen examines WikiLeaks in this class. Read about it in the Chronicle.
- Professor Chad Topaz Awarded $250K NSF Grant to Study Biological Swarming
- Professor Shilad Sen Awarded $1.2m NSF Grant to Study Tags
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Congrats to math/econ double majors Qianyi Yang and Wanyi Li! They attended the 11th Carroll Round conference this past weekend. Wanyi presented her honors thesis, "Does School Quality Affect Real Estate Prices? The effect of top-tier elementary schools on property prices in Shanghai."
Wanyi was the recipient of the Outstanding Young Economist award for presentation, paper and participation. As an award recipient, she received a signed copy from this year's keynote speaker, Dr. Gene Sperling (current chair for National Economic Council), and Dr. Jonathan Levin (current professor and chair at Stanford University economic department and GSB).
Students, faculty & alumni at Joint Mathematical Meeting
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