News
- Applications now being accepted for Katrina J. Killgore Memorial and George C. Laumann Scholarships. Deadline to apply is December 11.
- Professor Joe Borzellino invited speaker for the Special Session on "Global Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces" at the AMS 2009 Fall Central Section meeting at Baylor University, Waco, TX.
- Professors Anton Kaul and Matthew White publish paper in the International Journal of Algebra on"Centralizers of Coxeter elements and inner automorphisms of right-angled Coxeter groups."
- Professor Charles Camp receives NSF Grant for "Modeling the Influences of the QBO, the Solar Cycle and ENSO on the Strength of the Stratospheric Polar Night Vortex."
- Professor Dana Paquin publishes paper with Doron Levy and Lei Xing in Medical Physics on "Multiscale Registration of Planning CT and Daily CBCT Images for Adaptive Radiation Therapy."
- Professor Anton Kaul publishes paper with Mauricio Gutierrez in the International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences on "Automorphisms of right-angled Coxeter groups."
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Summer Research 2009
Students who participated in this year's Summer Research Program conducted research with faculty advisors. Each student will present th
eir research project at a national or regional mathematics conference, in addition to the annual College of Science and Mathematics Research Conference in the Spring. Graduate students Allan Boone and Ryan Ward collaborated with Professor Joe Borzellino on a research project titled Geometric Problems on 2-Dimensional Orbifolds. Additional research projects included Coriolis Discretization and Vorticity Errors in Numerical Models with Professor Paul Choboter, Shellability in Group Theory with Professor Anton Kaul, and The Poset Tree of Graded Betti Numbers for a Fixed Hilbert Function
and the Degree to Height Function with Professor Ben Richert.
Students Attend MAA Meeting
Sarah Lyons presented a poster
titled Determining if the Matrix Representation of Transversal Set
Partitions is Full Rank at the MAA Northern California Section Meeting at MSRI in Berkeley about her work with fellow student Mark Lydon
and Professor Anthony Mendes. Megan Evan and Kevin Lamb presented a poster on
"Designing a Traffic Circle" based on their work from the Mathematics Contest in Modeling, and Michael Mazzella and
Ryan Harris presented on their research work with Professor Linda Patton "On Numerical Ranges of Linear Operators Satisfying T3 = I." Each student received a certificate for their
participation.
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Top Stories of 2008-09
Congratulations Graduates
Twenty-seven Math undergraduate students and one graduate student received diplomas. Five majors held minors in other disciplines.
Annual Awards Banquet
Math held its 2009 Annual Awards Banquet in May. Scholarships were awarded to 29 students and 14 students received awards.
Cal Poly's Math Team Ranks 74 in Putnam Competition
Math's three-person team of Kyle Chapman, Paul Coombs, and Thomas Furukawa placed 74 out of the 545 colleges entered. Congratulations to the team!