The Futurama of Math

January 31, 2014

One of the reasons to keep exploring new ideas in mathematics is the frequency with which stars align and one of these ideas turns out to be central to the operation of the universe. That overstates the case, of course, but we all know that deep feeling when something that you just discovered starts appearing […]

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Math Club: Game Theory

January 30, 2014

The Math Club (more officially, the Roanoke College Student Chapter of the Mathematical Association of America) meets every other week to fellowship and enjoy mathematics. There are various events to plan: this spring, we have student research talks, Pi Day events – the popular pieing of professors and the Piathlon competition – piling up, club […]

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Taylortown

January 30, 2014

There’s a new sheriff in town! Dave Taylor is now the chair of the MCSP Department. Trexler Hall second floor has taken on a new look, as students have commemorated Dr. Taylor’s rise to power with a poster. The good citizens of the newly renamed Taylor Town seem to be taking the change in stride […]

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RC at the JMM

January 22, 2014

Roanoke College had a strong presence at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America in Baltimore January 15-18. Dave Taylor, Karin Saoub, Adam Childers, Jan Minton, Anil Shende and Roland Minton all attended. Karin Saoub presented “A Tour Through Graph Theory: Projects for a Liberal Arts Math […]

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Experimental Physics Presentations

December 17, 2013

The students in Experimental Analysis (PHYS 315) presented the results of several experiments in a semester-ending poster session. Topics included the charge to mass ratio of an electron, the speed of light, the Ideal Gas Law, the Stefan-Boltzmann law, electron diffraction and the Michelson Interferometer. Through these experiments, which reproduce breakthroughs in physics, the students […]

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Prime Time Programming: Computing Team Wins Regional Competition

December 11, 2013

Roanoke College sophomore computer science majors Randall Pittman and Thomas Lux won the student research competition at the Southeastern Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges at Furman University (Greenville, SC) on November 15-16, 2013. Junior physics major Maya Shende placed second in the competition. In addition, the programming team of Pittman, Lux, […]

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