October 13, 2009
Grace Stadnyk '10 attended the Women in Math in New England conference at Smith College on Sept. 26 where she gave a talk titled "Towers of Hanoi Groups and Their Limit Spaces." The talk was based on research on fractal analysis that she conducted this summer at the University of Connecticut.
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July 20, 2009
Luke Maher '11, Grace Stadnyk '10, Chan Thompson '10 and Professor of Mathematics Richard Bedient just returned from the first Unknot (Undergraduate Knot Theory) Conference at Denison University where they gave a paper titled "Three-Trip Lorenz Knots," heard many more and generally had a great time meeting knot students from all over the country.
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July 15, 2009
It was love at first sight. At four years old, Will Eagan '11 became entranced by the computer game Math Blaster, which revolved around a mathematical adventure in outer space. For Eagan, math and astronomy are two subjects that continue to captivate him 16 years later.
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January 19, 2009
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Daniel Gries spoke at the annual Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America held in Washington, D.C., in January. In his talk, Gries presented web-delivered instructional materials that he programmed in Adobe Flash.
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January 18, 2009
Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 was a speaker in the session on Mathematics and Sports at the annual Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America held in Washington, DC, in January.
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May 9, 2008
Five members of the Hamilton faculty were recognized for their research and creative successes through a new series of awards presented at the 2008 Class & Charter Day on May 9. The Dean's Scholarly Achievement Awards were instituted in three categories this year by Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo. Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, received the Career Achievement Award; Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin was awarded Early Career Achievement; and Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson, Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman and Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi all received the Notable Year Achievement awards.
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May 4, 2008
An article by Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 appears in the May 2008 issue of the
American Mathematical Monthly. The paper, "Yet another proof of Minkowski's inequality," co-authored with Michael M. Neumann of Mississippi State University, offers an alternative proof, based on convexity, to a celebrated, century-old inequality attributed to the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909).
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