Study of the mathematical sciences develops logical thinking and quantitative ability. Mathematical skills in rigorous deductive analysis and in the use of data are germane to many disciplines. Depending on their background, students may enter the study of mathematics at different points, and majors pursue many different interests.
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Alice Nadeau, a 3rd year mathematics major from Waterloo, Iowa, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship. Alice is an active member of the Mathematics and Statistics SEPC and is currently studying abroad in Jordan. In the summer of 2011, Alice conducted research under the Mentored Advanced Project program directed by Prof. Marc Chamblerand. See the related news item.
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The Grinnell College Putnam team placed in the top 10% of all participating institutions for the second consecutive year. As reported by the Putnam committee:
"A total of 4440 students from 572 colleges and universities in Canada and the United States participated in the Competition. There were teams from more than 460 institutions"
Grinnell College had 24 students take part in the competition. Our team of three students...
Student Work presented at SIAM PP12
Jeff Blanchard attended SIAM PP12 (otherwise known as the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2012 Conference on Parallel Processing for High Perfromance Computing) in Savannagh, Georgia, February 15-17, 2012. During the conference he presented joint work with majors Tolu Alabi '13, Brad Gordon '12, and Russel Steinbach '12. The talk Fast k-Selection Algorithms for Graphics...
Department with Strong Showing at JMM
Seven faculty members and two students represented the Grinnell Mathematics and Statistics Department at this year's Joint Mathematics Meeting in Boston, January 4-7, 2012. The Joint Mathematics Meeting is an annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). It is the "Largest annual mathematics meeting in the world" and had over...
Tom Moore gave a contributed paper, "Keys to Success in a Run-and-Gun Basketball System", at the national meeting of the American Statistical Association, on August 4, 2011 in Miami Beach. This is joint work with former students Ben Johannsen ('06) and Eric Ohrn ('07). You can locate the paper at: Full Paper
