We just learned about an interesting event this weekend (Sept 23). Ken Ono of Emory University will be at Davidson College speaking about Ramanujan and showing the major motion picture “The Man Who Knew Infinity”. https://www.davidson.edu/academics/mathematics-and-computer-science/student-activities/bernard-lecture
Join us on November 16th at 3:00 in 252 RSS for a Celebration of Summer 2018 Student Math Research. There will be talks by students who did research this past summer, information for students interested in doing research in the future, pizza and more! Click Here for PDF Poster
Do you want to hear about all the amazing things our faculty and students are doing? Check out the Summer 2018 issue of our newsletter! Click Here to View Newsletter
CofC professors are not just teachers but also practitioners of their fields. Our students learn history from historians, psychology from psychologists, math from mathematicians, and so on. Not only does this guarantee that the instructors are experts with practical knowledge of their discipline, it also means that undergraduates here have a rare opportunity to work […]
The following undergraduate students received special honors from the CofC Math Department at the SSM Awards Ceremony in 2018: Outstanding Student Award: Tristan J. Aft, Katherine H. Balcewicz, Gloria R. Burke, Blaine T. Billings, Joseph G. Casagranda, Emma L. Collins, Elyana R. Crowder, Na T. Duong, Katelynn H. Huneycutt, Isabel K. Johnston, Choral P. Linhart, Tea […]
“Hidden Figures” is a wonderful movie about the African-American women who worked as mathematicians for the US space program in the 1950’s and 1960’s. You can see it for free on campus on Friday February 23rd at 6PM in the auditorium of the School of Sciences and Mathematics Building. Show up early at 4:30 for […]
Deadline for applications for the 2018-2019 Horatio Hughes Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics has been extended to April 6, 2018. See details at http://math.cofc.edu/student-ops/scholarships.php
The College of Charleston Math Club and the Department of Mathematics are hosting several events in the next few months: Mathematics Department Colloquium Most Fridays Tea at 2:45 in RSS 346 (math department lounge) Presentation from 3:00 to 4:00, usually RSS 251 but watch for signs An hour with a guest speaker about all kinds […]
Some mathematics research can take a long time — decades if not centuries — to be used in an application. One of the amazing thing about Svitlana Maybroroda’s recent work on the mathematics of waves is that it is already being applied to improving the efficiency of LED lighting. Read about her work and its […]
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