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WOU Mathematics Department News and Activities

 

Π Μ Ε (The National Mathematics Honor Society)

Kady Hossner '11 and Heather Johnston '12 were delegates to the 2011 Pi Mu Epsilon National Meeting held in conjunction with MathFest , August 3-6 in Lexington, Kentucky. Heather presented "Oregon Blackberry Invasion Analyzed by Spatial Stochastic Modeling." Kady spoke on "Cayley-Sudoku Tables and Loop Theory," which won an Outstanding Student Speaker award.

To learn about how students qualify for membership for Π Μ Ε at Western Oregon University, click here.

To learn more about Π Μ Ε, visit the national Π Μ Ε home page.

 

Math Club Meetings

See the WOU Math Club Web Page

 

Student News

 

Undergraduates in Mathematics Scholarship Winners 2011 - 2012

Ernie and LaVerne Cummins Scholarship: Lyubov Belobrovchuk

Charlie Dolezal Scholarship: Anna Kralovec and Rosanna Mercereau

 

REUs 2011
Ariel Setniker was accepted to the REU at Michigan State and was selected to present her results, "Inverse Modeling of Dynamical Systems" with Stephanie Ger, at the 2011 MathFest in Kentucky. Molly Stubblefield was accepted into and attended the Texas A&M Pre-REU on Signal and Image Processing, and Kady Hossner, Matt Schmidgall, Keenan Kriegel, Andrea Olson and Tim Sasaki gave talks at the Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar at Reed College. Tim's Senior Project was submitted to the WOU undergraduate research magazine PURE Insights.

 

Graduate Programs 2011
David Daniels was accepted into the Ph.D. program at Purdue University, Dania Morales was accepted into the Ph.D. program at Oregon State University, and Masaki Ikeda continued graduate work at the University of Idaho. Matt Schmidgall was accepted into the graduate program in Rhetoric at Oregon State University. Tim Sasaki was accepted into the WOU MAT program, and Kady Hossner was accepted in to the MAT program at Multnomah University.

 

Conferences 2011
Andrea Olson and Heather Johnston attended the Nebraska Undergraduate Conference for Women in Mathematics in January 2011, and Heather presented a poster "Chord Recognition Through Wavelet Decomposition."

 

Career Notes
 Andrea Olson '12 is a Specialist in the Industrial Engineer department at United Parcel Service. She plans and/or projects the volume of packages for different hubs in the northwest district; how many drivers each hub will use daily, as well as other elements that a center encounters; such as pickup volume, the number of send- agains, and the number of stops per car.  A package representative verifies the accuracy in their center's plan along with the center manager, which later is put into action.

 

New Faculty


The WOU Mathematics Department is happy to welcome three new faculty members:

 

     Dr. Matthew Ciancetta, Assistant Professor

 

     Dr. Breeann Flesch, Assistant Professor

 

     Dr. Matthew Nabity, Visiting Assistant Professor

 

Faculty News

 

Laurie Burton is the co-author for the ninth editions of the Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Conceptual Approach and Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: Activity Approach workbook published by McGraw Hill January 2012. See www.mhhe.com/bbn

 
Contact

Mathematics Department (503) 838-8465 | or e-mail: pricesl@wou.edu

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