Math Department Holds 13-th Annual Pi-Day Contest
13-th Annual Pi Day Contest &Reading
Student entries are judged on cleverness, interest, and length. Bonus points are awarded for mathematical references (including mathematicians). Points are deducted for incorrect digits. Monetary prizes ($100, $31.41, $3.14) are awarded to the best student entries.
This year, the Mathematics Department held the 13-th Annual MMC π-Day contest. Five students entered the competition. All student submissions were awarded monetary prizes. A reading with the awarding of prizes was held on April 11, 2023, during Honors Day.
First prize was awarded to Michael Aromando for the longest submission (used 71 Pi digits without a mistake) titled
Attempted Method of Passing Math Class
Second and third prizes were not awarded.
Ariadne Viloria (52 digits), Jewel Bamby (20 digits), Chloe Britt (19 digits), and Sara Hansen (11 digits), received honorable mentions.
The Mathematics Department congratulates the winners of the 13-th Annual MMC π-day Competition, and thanks all participants for their valuable contributions.
Pi Day Program
Math Professor Presents at the International Conference on Meson Nucleon Physics in Mainz, Germany
Lia Leon Margolin, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, presented the talk Antisymmetrization of The Wave Functions Consisting of Spin-Isospin and Hyperspherical Parts at the 16th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2023). The conference was held on October 16-20, 2023, by the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.
