Fall 2021 Math Capstone talks with take place on Tuesday, December 7th and Wednesday, December 8th. Tuesday, Dec 7th. VH1224 6:00pm Angela Stamilio Pell’s Equation 6:25pm Clare Wacker The RSA System of Cryptography 6:50pm Kathryn Pietka Multidimensional Scaling 7:15pm Hayato Miyazaki Health Technology Assessment Based on Markov Chains and Simulation 7:40pm Son Vu Composite Appending […]
Brent Koogler: An Approximation Scheme for a 2D Wave Equation Jack Huggins: Contingent Annuities and Their Present Value Anish Karki: Chicken McNugget and Frobenius Numbers Dante Ruffin: Survival Models Blake Becka: Generating Composite Numbers by Appending Digits
The Actuarial profession is consistently ranked as a top-rated job (http://www.beanactuary.com/about/best_job.cfm). Most practicing actuaries today have a degree in Math, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Finance or Economics. The Actuarial Science Minor consists of the coursework needed to pursue this profession. Presented by: Graham Royer & Chandra Miller Buck Consultants Thursday, October 2nd, 1:00 VH […]
The 75th annual William Lowell Putnam competition will be held from 9 am till 5 pm on Saturday, December 6. The competition is open to all undergraduates enrolled full-time at any North American university. Every year Truman enters several students in the competition and we have done well in past years in both the individual and team […]
Kevin Gerstle from the University of Iowa Brownian Motion and HMD-Functions 3:30pm, Wednesday (4/9/2014) VH1224 Models of random motion can be used in all scientific disciplines to study phenomena ranging from the rise and fall of stock prices to the motion of pollen particles through water. In particular, models of Brownian motion can be used to […]
Congratulations to the winners in last night’s MAA Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament! From left to right Trent Spires (3rd place) Nathan Aden (2nd place) Peter Rankin (1st place) .
Next Monday, April 7, we have two former Truman students returning to talk about their graduate work. Both are currently at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The colloquium will take place on at 3:30 in VH1224. Each talk will be about 25 minutes. Charles Tomlinson, Third-year graduate student, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Title: The Knights and Knaves logic puzzle. Abstract: A classic logic […]
The Spring Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament sponsored by the MAA will take place tonight at 6pm in the Violette Hall Commons. Free pizza and chip buy-ins. If you’re a poker fan (or even if your not) stop by for a few hands and a piece of pizza!
Congratulations to winners in the 2014 KME Integration Bee held this past Saturday! Pictured above from left to right, Valerie Free (1st place), Evan Datz (2nd place), Melinda Mathews (3rd place), Tyler Gardner (4th place).
Congratulations to Shahodat Shamieva for recently passing Actuarial Exam 1/P.