Congratulations to Sam Taylor ’09, who has been awarded a prestigious research fellowship for 2020 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Per the Sloan Foundation website, “These… scholars represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Winners… Continue Reading
The Math Secondary Education student teachers will be doing their capstone presentations next Monday, December 16 at 5:30 in room P218. If you need a break from studying, come and support them! This is especially encouraged for the students who will be doing their Clinical II experience next semester and will have to make a… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Connie Reznik, the winner of the Fall 2019 advising raffle. Connie correctly answered 5 tough questions from our Advising Newsletter to win a $25 Barnes and Noble gift card. Continue Reading
The department is proud to announce that Professor Robert Cunningham has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. This award will support his sabbatical work to help integrate research-based teaching strategies into the curriculum of schools in the Caribbean. This follows his 2016 Fulbright Specialist Grant for his work at the Anguilla Community College. For… Continue Reading
On Saturday, April 13th, seven TCNJ students participated in the 16th Annual Garden State Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at Raritan Valley Community College. Two of our students, Jason Miles and Kate O’Connor, gave talks, and Jason won one of two awards for best talk. Our three teams consisted of (1) Harrison Yi, Kate O’Connor, Jason Miles;… Continue Reading
This year six of our graduating seniors are applying for departmental honors. Each has written a thesis and will present his/her work in a talk. Below join us for the following talks in room P229: Tuesday, April 16 at 12:30: Sebastian Calvo – Projective monoid schemes and extended fans Tuesday, April 16 at 1:10: Danielle… Continue Reading
The department is pleased to welcome our next colloquium speakers, Cathy Liebars (TCNJ) and Heather Howell (ETS) Title: Simulations as Approximations of Practice in Mathematics Teacher Education (or What’s Been Going on in My Office?) Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 11:00-11:50am Location: SCP 230 Abstract: Simulations are approximations of practice which are used in many professional… Continue Reading
The department is pleased to welcome our next colloquium speaker, Brian Katz, from Augustana College. Title: How do Mathematicians Believe? Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Location: SCP 229 Abstract: Love it or hate it, many people believe that mathematics gives humans access to a kind of truth that is more absolute and universal than other disciplines. If this… Continue Reading
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, Dr. Nancy Hingston will be giving a talk, “Loop products, closed geodesics and self-intersections,” as part of the Intitute for Advanced Studies (IAS) Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications. Per the IAS website, the workshop covers “current developments in several different geometric variational problems and their applications. Topics include… Continue Reading
