Putnam 2009 Scores

I am very tardy in making the following announcement, as scores reached me in early March.

We had ten (wow! ten, really?) students take the exam, with two of our official team members, Joseph Simmons and Timothy Dean, scoring.

Timothy got a score of 10 points, earning a national ranking of 1461 out of 4036 contestants.
Joseph with a score of 20 points, earned a national ranking of 707.

Congratulations to all the students who gave part of their precious end-of-semester Saturday to compete. Here's looking forward to next semester!

Dekany Profile

Well, well, well: Christina (BS in Computer Science, 2004) didn't tell us she was featured on the SMU website! And I love the fact that a copy of Kreyszig's Advanced Engineering Mathematics is prominently featured in the photo. This is one of my favorite applied math text books (and a ready reference on many different topics).

By the way, the page is a little dated: Christina graduated this past December, got engaged on the same day --- she and her fiancé stopped at UD on the way home from the Graduation ceremony, and he proposed on Turkey Knob near the seminary! --- and is now planning a wedding while looking for jobs in San Antonio.

If you have any news to share with the Math community at UD, let us know!

Pi Day Songs

Happy Pi Day.

Pi Song

Pi, Pi, Mathematical Pi

Yes, another blog...

I've been kicking around ways to disseminate the information I (constantly) get about graduate programs, REUs, and the like to our current (and former!) undergraduate students. Then it dawned on me: what would be helpful would be to have a blog, and then interested students could either look at the blog, or (even better) subscribe to its RSS feed so they could see when it was updated. Doesn't everyone use a feed-reader of one kind or another to keep up on their favorite websites?

In any case, if you're interested the blog is right here (and, yes, I know: the name is not that original).