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The Almagest, Volume 3 No. 11

Senior Presentations

Don’t miss the remaining group of senior presentations! The presentations are given every Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00 in SAC 216. Please make an effort to attend the talks and support your classmates. Come for refreshments at 3:50.

Tuesday, March 29th
Zach Cresswell: The Bernoulli-Euler Problem of the Misaddressed Letters
Jamie Young: Rijndael: A brief look at the Mathematics of The Advanced Encryption System
Thursday, March 31st
Chris Przybylski: Ant Colony Optimization and its Applications to the Traveling Salesman Problem
Tuesday, April 5th
Ian Kurth: Heron’s Formula
Heath Laugal: The Monte Hall Problem
Tuesday, April 7th Honors Day
Tuesday, April 12th
Dan Krauss: Advanced Computer Graphics (senior thesis)
Tuesday, April 14th
Bobby Fryling: GIF Image Compression

Almagest Archive
Almagest Volume 3 No. 11 (PDF)

Posted: Mon, March 28th, 2011 at 4:10PM

 

The Alma College Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team has won 11 consecutive regional championships. The competition awards the SIFE teams that are most effective in teaching the principles of market economics through outreach projects in their communities. Last year’s team presented 12 projects, including teaching ethics and entrepreneurship skills to students at a juvenile detention center and launching an entrepreneurship competition for students with business ideas.

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Student Profile

Annie Bruce

Annie Bruce
Graduation: 2014
Major: Mathematics and Physics

What do you get when you cross a love for science with a passion for the saxophone?

Meet Annie Bruce, a Lansing junior and liberal arts extraordinaire who is happy to not be limited to one interest at Alma College. As a result, she says, she is a well-rounded person.

“I love that I’m able to pursue multiple interests at Alma,” she says. “It’s one of the reasons why I came to Alma, and now, I’m a mathematics and physics major who is heavily involved in music. I play in a saxophone quartet with three music majors!”

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