MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS DEPARTMENT NEWS
The 5th Annual Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (UNCG - RUMC)
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro will host the 5th Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference on Saturday, November 7th, 2009.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Mathematical Biology and Computational Mathematics” and Professor James Selgrade from The North Carolina State University will give the plenary talk on this topic.
Funding for this conference is provided by the NSF grant DMS – 0846477 through the MAA RUMC program, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNCG, and the UNCG Office of Undergraduate Research.
For more information about the conference please visit the conference website or email Jan Rychtar at rychtar@uncg.edu. Interested students/faculty should fill out the on-line registration form by October 23, 2009.
SERMON Conference 2009
SERMON is a small, friendly, and informal gathering of number theorists and combinatorialists. In 2009 SERMON was held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Saturday April 18 and Sunday April 19, 2009. Talks were held on Saturday and Sunday.
Sermon 2009 http://www.uncg.edu/mat/sermon/
NSF supported Research Program in Mathematical Biology
Current undergraduate students are invited to apply for the NSF supported research program in mathematical biology. We are currently looking for a new cohort of students for the year 2009. The deadline for the application is October 31, 2008. Details can be found at http://www.uncg.edu/mat/bio-math/. For more information, contact Drs. Jan Rychtar rychtar@uncg.edu, Maya Chhetri m_chhetr@uncg.edu, or Sat Gupta sngupta@uncg.edu.