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Academic Year 2009-2010

 Jacob Serafino, Math major, goes to Russia!

[Posted: Monday, August 2, 2010]
Jacob Serafino recently spent 9 1/2 days in Moscow as part of a student delegation to People's Friendship University of Russia where he participated in a cultural conference to discuss a survey he conducted last semester. The survey studied musical technology and tendencies to demonstrate how Americans' individualistic tendencies are related to new technologies in music.The monument in the photo is Russian Mathematician Chebyshev and was taken in front of Moscow State University, Chebyshev's alma mater. The inscription, which is Chebyshev's full name, reads, "Pafnutiy L'vovich Chebyshev, 1821-1894."

  Math Department hosts "Open House" for Alumni on April 30

[Posted: Friday, June 18, 2010]
About 50 faculty, alumni, and friends attended an "Open House" on Friday, April 30 in DSC 208. The purpose was to announce the opening of the Escher and Fractal Print Gallery in the Mathematics area of the Durham Science Center.

 

  UNO Students place within the top 20% on Mathematics Competition

[Posted: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 ]
Last December, on a cold Saturday morning before Prep Week, 9 brave UNO students sat down to face the biggest of mathematical challenges, the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Over Spring Break, their scores arrived. Daniel Miller (freshman) and Alex James (junior) scored within the top 20% of the 4036 students in Canada and the US that participated. Altogether, 5 students, including Melissa Emory, Brent Horky and Andrew Tew, placed within the top 50% of participants. As a result, UNO's Putnam Team placed within the top 21%. This is the best that we have done since 2003. A picture taken after the morning session can be seen below. Standing from left to right are: Adam Anderson, Logan Cullison, Daniel Miller, Julia Warnke, Alex James, Andrew Tew, Melissa Emory, Matthew Dickinson.

 

  April is the National Mathematics Awareness Month!

[Posted: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 ]
Since 1991, April has been the month for celebrating mathematics and its applications. This year the theme of the Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM) is Mathematics and Sports. The Mathematics department at UNO is celebrating this event through several activities including the Mathematics Symposium: Math Awareness Month at UNO on April 9, a preservice math teacher party on April 12, and a guest speaker on the topic of math and sports on April 16. The schedule of the events can be found at the MAM at UNO web site. We hope you will join us in the celebration of Mathematics!.

  UNO Math Department hosts math contest for area high schools

[Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 ]
On Friday, October 30, 2009, 1:00-3:00PM, the mathematics department at UNO hosts its eight onsite mathematics contest for area high schools. The contest will take place in Durham Science Center, rooms 110, 111. The contest consists of 5 mathematics problems proposed by UNO students and faculty. Individual prizes (gift certificates) are awarded to the participants with best totals. The school with the best sum of its top three participants wins a traveling trophy. The name of the winning school is engraved on the trophy, and the school will keep it for display until the next year. For more information check the 2009 contest website. For previous contest results check the Mathematics Awareness Month website.

  Phillip Meggers receives Wu/King Scholarship

[Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2009 ]
Phillip Meggers, through the generosity of Horace Wu and Kate King, has been awarded a $1500 scholarship designed to support graduate education in science and mathematics. The individual must be a K-12 teacher, pursuing a graduate degree and should have at least a 3.25 GPA. Phillip is a math teacher at Concordia Lutheran High School and has made a strong impression on our faculty for his great interest in mathematics..

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