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Calculus Awards 2005
The Math Department decided to give awards to the top Calculus students for the past academic year; the awards were presented at our MAX Club meeting on April 12, 2005. Students must be full-time to qualify and must be nominated by a full-time professor of Calculus. Winners of this year's award include Brad McQuaig (Calculus II) and Christopher Jones (Calculus III). Congratulations!
Meet CSU’s MAX Club
This article appeared in the August 23, 2004 edition of The Saber.
Do you like mathematics, mathematics education, computer science, or information processing? If so, join the Mathematics and Computer Science (MAX) Club. The MAX Club meets once a month for academic and social activities.
During the last academic year, the MAX Club, among other things, had an actuary from AFLAC speak, had a joint meeting with the education department, and had a guest speaker from UGA discuss the problem of defining what mathematics is. The MAX Club also attended the annual conference of the Mathematical Association of America, which was held March 26-27 at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. There, they observed a jeopardy contest and attended several discussions by undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. Pictures from their trip are available on the club’s website.
This past May, the MAX Club launched a newly-designed webpage that can be found at http://math.colstate.edu/maxclub. Here, students can find information on the club, including past events, current events, and upcoming events. Also, resources ranging from the remedial level to the advanced level are posted for students in the areas of mathematics, computer science, and actuarial science. There is also information on general study tips, solving word problems, careers in mathematics, and graduate school.
Also, this past May, the MAX Club remodeled the former math secretary’s office (FOB 211). The room is now a student-faculty lounge where students and faculty can study or relax. There is a small reference library of journals and textbooks that students may use in the room. The lounge has an underwater theme that makes it playful and inviting. Pictures of their “Tropical Island Paradise Getaway” are available on the club’s website.
The MAX Club invites you to their first meeting, which will be held Tuesday, August 31, at 5:45 p.m. in FOB 211. At this meeting, they will be discussing club dues, meeting days and times, and activities for this academic year, as well as electing officers and enjoying some FREE pizza! You may contact the MAX Club via their faculty advisor, Dr. Lisa Peterson, at Peterson_Lisa@colstate.edu or 568-2177.
The Math Study Room
The former Math Department's secretary's office, FOB 211, has been converted into a Faculty-Student Lounge. There is a Faculty side and a Student side. Its intended purpose is to provide a quiet place for students to study or simply relax between classes. Please help keep the room clean by cleaning up after yourself.
The room has an underwater theme to it, and it has been referred to as The Fishbowl. The walls have been painted, and accents have been added. We have added an array of decorations that make this room more enjoyable and inviting.
We have incorporated one piece by Escher, Symmetry Work 72 (Fish and Boats), which is not available for purchase. We utilized his design to create a "wave-shaped" tessellation. This print is pictured below.
We have also made a reference library available to students to use in the study room. The library includes various textbooks that the department no longer uses as well as journals. Journals have been sorted and arranged chronologically so that students can quickly locate the journal they need.
We hope that students and faculty will enjoy our Tropical Island Paradise Getaway. For access to the room, please see Pam, the Department Secretary. To view pictures, click here.
Calculus II Awards 2004
This year the Math Department decided to give awards to the top Calculus II students for the past academic year; the awards were presented at our MAX Club meeting on April 20, 2004. Students must be full-time to qualify and must be nominated by a full-time professor of Calculus II. Winners of this year's award include Jennifer Close, Traci Gillum, and Shannon Cormier. Congratulations!
MAA Conference 2004
The Mathematical Association of America’s Southeastern Section Conference was held March 26-27 at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Three professors and six students from CSU attended the conference.
We observed a Math Jeopardy Contest, which consisted of friendly competition among 12 schools in the following categories: Calculus I, Calculus II, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, and Differential Equations. Our intention is to have a group of students compete at next year’s conference.
We also attended two general sessions—“Learning by Doing” by Sue Goodman and “Proofs that Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof” by Arthur Benjamin—and the concurrent sessions. Dr. Howard gave a talk on “Finding Bounds for the Prisoners and Guards Puzzle,” and Dr. Lanz spoke on the “Existence of Solutions for Second Order Right-Focal Boundary Value Problems on a Time Scale.” Undergraduate and graduate students also presented research.
Last Updated: February 7, 2006
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