C of C Math News Briefs:

• Congratulations to the College of Charleston COMAP Teams!: The COMAP contest is a prestigious applied math competition in which teams of undergraduate students from different universities attempt to find the best solution to realistic mathematical challenges.

  C of C Team working on Problem A (Climate Change): Hau Chan, Taylor Hamrick, and Amanda Goedeker Score of **Meritorious**

  C of C Team working on Problem B (Sudoku Puzzles): Patrick Moran and Kathryn Pedings Score of **Honorable Mention**

  COMAP Statistics:
  -- 1162 participating teams
  -- with over 880 from international institutions
  -- only 1% (9 teams) received the highest possible score of Outstanding
  -- 13% of the participating teams received Meritorious score
  -- 40% of the participating teams received Honorable Mention score
  -- 45% of the participating teams received Successful Participant score
  -- 1% of the participating teams received Unsuccessful Participant score

• Learn about the Mathematics of Voting: April is Math Awareness Month and the theme this year (appropriately) is the mathematics of voting. Learn about this interesting and politically important application of mathematics at http://www.mathaware.org.
• C of C Math Major explains method to March Madness on National Public Radio: Colin Stephenson and Neil Goodson's project for their Operations Research class was discussed on national radio program. Click to listen.
• Southeastern Section of MAA 2008 Annual Meeting at The Citadel: The Mathematical Association of America's meeting at the Citadel featured Polya lecturer George Andrews and special sections on education and research. CofC graduate students Kelly Epperson and William Baynard III presented posters and professors Martin Jones and Paul Young gave research talks.
• Or check out our C of C Math News Archive for more information.

International Math News Briefs (from the AMS):

Hot Research from EurekAlert:

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