June 14, 2016
The Department of Mathematical Sciences sponsored the 13th annual Clemson Calculus Challenge on Friday, April 15, 2016. The Clemson Calculus Challenge invites high school calculus students from South Carolina, Northeast Georgia, Western North Carolina, and Eastern Alabama to compete in a one-day event. There were 233 students from 34 regional high schools that took the […]
June 14, 2016
Assistant Professor Svetlana Poznanovikj has been awarded the Department of Mathematical Sciences Teaching Award for 2015-2016. As one of her former students writes, “Dr. Poznanovikj is the kind of instructor and mentor that pushes you to be a better student.” Professor Poznanovikj is well-know with her students for providing “high expectations for her students, but […]
June 14, 2016
In mathematics, a system is said to be chaotic if it is extremely sensitive to change in initial conditions. In a joint project, http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06951, Mathematical Sciences faculty members Elena Dimitrova and Lea Jenkins, Computer Science faculty member Brian Dean, and graduate students Sherli Koshy (Math Sciences) and Akshay Galande (Computer Science) developed a computational framework […]
May 11, 2016
In February 2016, over 12,000 teams from 13 countries competed in the grueling 96-hour Mathematical or Interdisciplinary Competition in Modeling (MCM/ICM). The three-person ICM team of Clemson math majors Ben Bodek, Rivers Jenkins, and James McNally won an honorable mention for their model and analysis of the refugee immigration crisis and policies.
May 11, 2016
The annual Mini-conference on Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms was held on October 23rd at the Holmes Ballroom at Clemson House. The conference was organized by Michael Burr, Neil Calkin, Wayne Goddard, and Svetlana Poznanovik. This year’s program included 7 speakers who presented a variety of topics including graph theory, sports rankings, matroids, and random tilings. […]
