The department of Mathematics and Statistics ran a contest in 2011 for Calculus students. There were 37 contestants, 25 enrolled into Calculus I and 12 into Calculus II. Students of Calculus I and II were given different sets of problems and were not competing with each other. Place Name Class Prize First Nathan Dunn […]
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Stuart Lathrop has been awarded a CLAS Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowship for this year. Mr. Lathrop, who is a senior math major, won the $1400 fellowship for his proposal entitled Contributions to the Foundations of the Theory of Transcendental Numbers. He is writing an extensive survey on the theorem of Gelfand and Schneider asserting […]
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The annual Québec/Maine Number Theory Conference took place on the weekend of September 29-30. The conference was co-organized by number theorists at the Unversity of Maine and at Laval University in Québec City. This year, the conference was dedicated to the memory of UMaine mathematician Ali Ozluk, who passed away last year. Prof. Peter Sarnak, […]
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Pi Mu Epsilon / Pizza Pi talk Thursday, April 5, 2012, 11:30am-12:30pm. Neville 421 Pizza at 11:30 am, Talk 11:50-12:30. Dr. Eisso Atzema, University of Maine Math Department Lessons on Train Schedules: From String Charts to Teaching Tools. The early 20th-century was a time of major reforms in the teaching of mathematics all across the […]
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Ali Erhan Özlük, Professor of Mathematics, 1952-2012 Our dear colleague, Professor Ali Özlük, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Bangor on March 1, 2012. Prof. Özlük was born Sept. 13, 1952, in Denizli, Turkey. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree from Bogazici University in Bebek/Istanbul in 1974, he attended graduate school at the […]
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Undergraduates Emma Strubell and Avner Maiberg each received an Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowship from the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for work they are doing with Associate Professor of Mathematics David Hiebeler. They will be developing computer simulations of the spread of internet worms, with the goal of developing strategies […]
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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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