Former TCNJ Mathematics & Statistics Department professor, Dr. Farshid Safi, returned to the department on Thursday, March 10th, to give a “surprise” seminar on “Modeling with Mathematics to Build Content Knowledge for Teaching.” Dr. Safi taught at TCNJ from 2009-2015, before moving on to the University of Central Florida as an instructor. After his talk, Dr. Safi went out to dinner with a number of students and faculty from the department.
He will spend 22 days at Anguilla Community College in the eastern Caribbean working on the project. Continue Reading
His chapter, titled “The Chard Reports and Scientific Analysis,” shows how the statistical technique of Stylometry can help to resolve the central dispute of the book. Continue Reading
Brendan received the 2015 Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard University. Continue Reading
Professor Nancy Hingston will be giving a series of lectures at this year’s Women and Mathematics Program. Continue Reading
TCNJ Mathematics and Statistic Club spend their last club meeting on a hunt for kittens around the Science Complex. Continue Reading
The Mathematics and Statistics Department is pleased to announce that Junior Alana Huszar, a Junior Mathematics major, has been named a 2015 Goldwater Scholar. Continue Reading
Senior Mathematics majors Vincent Long and Jessica Perez presented posters at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM). The annual event, which is the largest mathematics meeting in the world, was jointly sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and took place January 10-13, 2015, in San Antonio Texas.… Continue Reading
On Friday, December 5th, the department’s student organizations held a department party to celebrate the holidays. The combined forces of The Mathematics & Statistics Club, the TCNJ Council of Students Teachers of Mathematics, and Pi Mu Epsilon made sure that faculty, staff, and students alike enjoyed food, music, and a variety of games and activities.… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Mathematics major Vincent Longo for winning an Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation Award at the 2014 SACNAS National Conference. The conference was held Wednesday, October 15 through Saturday, October 18, 2014, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. Vince’s poster, “The Abelian Sandpile group of a family of series-parallel graphs,” was… Continue Reading