C of C Math News Briefs:
- Cornell University math professor Steve Strogatz has an interesting piece in the NYTimes about the mathematical aspects of the size of cities.
- Debby Jeter received the Distinguished Teaching Award, Liz Jurisich the Distinguished Advising Award and Alex Kasman the SSM Distinguished Achievement Award.
- The results for the 2009 COMAP Contest in Mathematical Modeling are in. Our
teams set a CofC record---both teams earned Meritorious Distinction this
year! Of the 1675 submissions, only .5% received the top honor of
Outstanding Paper, 18% received the next best honor of Meritorious, 18%
received Honorable Mention, and the remaining were Successful Participants.
If you see our mathletes, please take time to congratulate them on
this honor.
C of C COMAP Mathletes:
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Meritorious Team of Hau Chan, Taylor Hamrick, and Ryan Parker
- Meritorious Team of Patrick Moran, Caroline Edwards, and Jonathan Tashakori
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Or check out our C of C Math News Archive for more information.
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