Thursday, October 27, 2011 Prof. Ali Abedi, UMaine Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “Smart Battery-Free Wireless Sensing” 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 100 Neville Hall. Battery-free wireless sensors developed at the University of Maine under a cooperative agreement with NASA enable a myriad of applications ranging from structural health monitoring to biomedical and space […]
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The annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is a contest for undergraduate mathematics students. Students compete as individuals and as a team representing their university. This year it will be held on Saturday, Dec. 3. Interested students should contact Prof. Ali Ozluk on First Class.
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Martin Gardner was a writer specializing in recreational mathematics. His monthly column in Scientific American from 1956-1981 had a profound impact, attracting many young people into mathematics. In celebration of what would have been Martin Gardner’s 97th birthday, there will be Celebration of Mind gatherings all over the world on Friday, October 21st. These events are […]
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 Dr. Jonathan Farley, UMaine Dept. of Computer Science. “The Most Embarrassing Inequality of My Life” Matchings in the Permutation Lattice 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 421 Neville Hall. “Can you do it?” In the spring of 1997, Anders Björner, a visitor at Berkeley’s Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, sent me a handwritten […]
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Tuesday, Sept. 27, 12:30pm – 1:20pm in Room 421 of Neville Hall. Speaker: Kevin Roberge, Mathematics Instructor and Graduate Student of Physics. Pizza will be served! Rubik’s cube and the many other twisty puzzles that have been created embody a beautiful part of mathematics known as group theory. These hand held puzzles invite problem solvers […]
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The annual Maine/Québec Number Theory Conference will once again be hosted by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Maine on October 1-2, 2011. Around sixty Number Theorists from New England, Québec, and beyond will gather to present and discuss their research. The conference is funded by a grant from the National […]
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Effective immediately, the Math Placement Exam will no longer be available on WebCT. It will now be available on Blackboard: http://www.courses.maine.edu Once a user signs in to Blackboard via the above link with their Mainestreet login, the link to the placement exam will be displayed in the lower corner of the home screen as shown […]
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The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Maine seeks an experienced K-12 math teacher or higher education mathematics teacher preparation faculty member to teach two sections of MAT 107: Elementary Descriptive Geometry in the Fall 2011 semester, and possibly beyond. The course is designed to prepare students to teach the geometry included in […]
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Software Engineer has edged out Mathematician as the best job of 2011. Mathematician, Actuary, and Statistician (all highly quantitative disciplines) take 2nd, 3rd and 4th place, respectively. Lumberjack has climbed to 3rd worst from the bottom.
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UMaine Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics Prof. Andre Khalil, accompanied by graduate students Kendra Mooers and Aaron Tanenbaum, made an invited presentation at the Tuesday June 21 annual meeting of the Maine Cancer Foundation. The presentation focused on the latest research in Khalil’s computational analysis and modeling lab, which has been funded twice by the […]
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