Denison students win awards at national math conference
Posted: September 3, 2010
Front row, from left: Professor Matthew Neal, Nathan Zakahi '12, Mary Kimberly '11, Erica Evans '11, Yige Li '12, Beidi Qiang '12 Back row: Jacob Shapiro '10, Professor Lew Ludwig, Joe Paat '11, Bryce Pisoke '11, and Neal Barcelo '11
This August, ten Denison students left their homes, jobs, internships, and vacations, and participated in MathFest 2010, a national conference for the mathematically motivated, held in Pittsburgh this year.
More than 200 students from across the country were invited to speak, and Denison scholars received five of the 30 awards that were presented. Statistically speaking, that’s 16.7 percent of the recognition given in a conference of more than 1,500 attendees:
Mary Kimberly of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, “A Combinatorial Exploration of a Kostka Matrix Identity”
Jacob Shapiro of Xenia, Ohio, “Knot Mosaics and Mosaic Number”
Nathaniel Zakahi of Mankato, Minn., “Norm Characterizations of Operator Algebras”
And two DU students won a Pi Mu Epsilon national mathematics honorary Speaker Award:
Erica Evans of Worthington, Ohio, “Knot mosaics: Results and open questions”
Joe Paat of Rochester, Minn., “Putting numbers on the board: Enumeration of knot mosaics”
About Denison:
Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.
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