Jon Lovett ’04 Commencement Speaker at Pitzer College

Math alum Jonathan Lovett ’04 gave an amazing commencement address at Pitzer College. His Williams thesis with Prof. Frank Morgan (with co-author Jack Cook) was published in the American Mathematical Monthly. After stints as speech-writer for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he is now co-founder and head writer for the new… Continue reading »

Commencement 2013

Math/Stats had much to be proud of at today’s Commencement, with a record 70 math majors graduating. Professor Ed Burger got an honorary degree on his way to be President of Southwestern University. Student awards included an NSF graduate fellowship for James Wilcox and and a Herchel Smith Fellowship for… Continue reading »

Our Gallant Alums

On the way to pick up exams from the Registrar’s Office, which nobly maintains long hours this exam week, I stopped to pick up a Sunday paper for them. I had no money, and the store said they couldn’t give me the paper on credit. At that moment, the man… Continue reading »

Roshan Sharma ’13 Colloquium Published

Roshan Sharma’s  write-up of his colloquium talk, “The Weierstrass Representation Always Gives a Minimal Surface,” has been published in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal. Roshan gave his senior colloquium talk on October 31, 2012. He did an honors thesis in Physics with Professor Frederick Strauch. Next year he goes… Continue reading »

Prizes Announced at Majors’ Banquet

Professor and Chair Stewart Johnson announced this year’s Math/Stats prizes at the annual gala Majors’ Dinner at the Williams Inn Tuesday evening, May 7, 2013 (photos below): ROSENBURG PRIZE for excellent senior: Carlos Dominguez and James Wilcox. GOLDBERG AWARD for best colloquium: Erich Trieschman “Lost in a Forest” WYSKIEL AWARD in… Continue reading »