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The Almagest, Volume 3 No. 10

Senior Presentations

The senior presentations begin next week with talks every Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00 in SAC 216. Please make an effort to attend the talks and support your classmates. Come for refresh-ments at 3:50.

Tuesday, March 15th
Ryan Spitler: Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena of Random Walks
Matt Mansell: Runge-Kutta and Higher-Order Runge-Kutta Methods
Thursday, March 17th
Jonathan Morley: Slowloris: A New Denial of Service Attack
Tuesday, March 22rd
Brooke Bergeron: The Four Squares Theorem
Brian Hassevoort: The Königsberg Bridges Problem
Thursday, March 24th
Danny Hearit: Computational Performance with Varying Hardware with Emphasis on Multi-Core Multi-Threaded Programming
Jacob Dayringer: Auto Tuning (Phase Vocoder)

Almagest Archive
Almagest Volume 3 No. 10 (PDF)

 

Alma College’s sports teams have been known as the “Scots” since 1931 when Alma students voted on the name. Soon thereafter, “Scotty” emerged as Alma’s official mascot and is regularly seen on campus, in the community and at athletics events.

 

Faculty Profile

Dr. Robert Molina

Dr. Robert Molina
Departments: Mathematics

Math professor Robert Molina has a puzzle obsession. From Sudoku to Rubik’s cubes, he has a vast collection of puzzles in his home—and always brings a table-full to the annual math taco dinner.

Mind puzzles are a branch of his expert field, combinatorics, which is the study of discrete (and usually finite) objects. In other words, it deals with arrangement of items like books on a self, or numbers in a defined set.