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Rose Math News and Events
News Index
2009-10
Fall 2009-10
- December - Roger Lautzenheiser steps down as editor of Rose-Hulman Math Journal after publication of the 10th volume - Dave Rader becomes new editor in chief.
- Saturday, November13 - 44th Rose-Hulman High School math contest. Read
the news article, visit the journal.
- November 9 - Math alumnus Marshall Goldsmith named 14th Most Influential Management Thinker. Read
the news article.
- Saturday October 6, 2009. - Winners of Alfred R Schmidt Freshman competition announced at Homecoming.
Competition coach John Rickert. Read the story and see the picture.
- First place - Katie Greenwald
- Second place - Emily Graetz, Greg Tourville
- Third place - Guangun Wang, Congnan Zheng
- Meritorious Mention - Spencer Carver, James Folberth, Robert French, Robert Moore, Alex Morelli, Donnie Quamme, and Kurtis Zimmerman
- Honourable Mention - Yile Gu, Greg Larmore, Martin Novick, Shaine Strullmyer
and Sierra Ward.
- September 16 - Alumnus Kelly Black accepts new appointment. Read
the news article. Kelly was an invited speaker at our 2009 UGMC conference.
- September 1 - Math alumnus Marshall Goldsmith gives leadership Seminar in Indianapolis. Read
the news article.
2008-09
Summer 2008-09
Spring 2008-09
Winter 2008-09
Fall 2008-09
- Saturday, November 8 - 43rd Rose-Hulman High School math contest Read
the news article. visit the competition
site.
- November 2008 - Allen Broughton's and Kurt Bryan's text Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets: Applications to Signal and Image Processing. Faculty authors page
- Saturday October 4, 2008 - Winners of Alfred R Schmidt Freshman competition announced at Homecoming.
Competition coach John Rickert. Read
the news article. See the winners picture.
- First place - Jeremy Nickol
- Second place - Andrew Bomar, Ryan Davis, and Yuejun Zhu
- Third place - Tim Ekl
- Meritorious Mention - Matt Buckner, Ching-Che Ma, Alyssa Ryba, Nathan
Shevick and Nathan Young
- Honourable Mention - Luke Mehringer, Melissa Schwenk, Brian Sherman
and David Vinson
- Saturday October 4, 2008 - Math alumni Barron Gemmer, Joe Witulski and CS/Math alumnus Bill McKenna among Eight Alumni Receiving Honor & Young Alumni Awards. Read
the news article.
- Saturday October 25: Rose Math Department hosts Indiana MAA section meeting. 65 faculty and students attend form 18 institutions from Indiana. Conference web page. Professors Holden and Graves give talks.
- September 5 - Article on Diane Evans as a master teacher. Read
the news article.
- Fall 2008 - Volume 9 Issue 2 of the Rose-Hulman Mathematics Journal posted 12 papers and
17 authors. Visit the journal.
2007-08
Summer 2007-08
Spring 2007-08
- Saturday April 25 - student award winners. Read
the news article. Student awards list.
- Palmer- Kyle Wilson
- Sousley - Robert Lemke Oliver, Ian Rogers and Ely Spears
- Putnam team 24'th of 300 - Harry Henman, Robert Lemke Oliver, Kimi Parker
- Putnam - Top 500 - Robert Lemke Oliver, Kimi Parker
- ICMC Recognition - Robert Lemke Oliver and Hari Ravindran
- Top sophiomore - Robert Lemke Oliver - See picture.
- Friday and Saturday April 11,12 - 25th Annual Annual RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. Read
the news article. Conference web page.
- Spring 2007 - Volume 9 Issue 1 of the Rose-Hulman Mathematics Journal posted 8 papers and
12 authors. Visit the journal.
Winter 2007-08
Fall 2007-08
- Saturday, November 10 - 42nd Rose-Hulman High School math contest. Read
the news article, visit the competition
site.
- Saturday, October 27 - Professors Holden, Galinaitis, and Massman give talks at the fall meeting
of the Indiana MAA at Manchester College.
- October 2007. Diane Evans and Allen Broughton learn that their texts will become available
in November. Both Evans and Broughton took part in multi-author efforts on two separate texts.
- Evans: Computational Probability
- Broughton: The Science of Nanotechnology: An
Introductory Text
see the faculty authors page for more detail
- Saturday Oct 6, 2007. Robert Lemke Oliver gives talk on "Generalized Niven Numbers" at
Illiana Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at Wabash College.
- Saturday Sep 29, 2007. Winners of Alfred R Schmidt Freshman competition announced. at Homecoming.
Competition coach John Rickert. Read
the news article. See the winners picture.
- First place - Kyle Wilson
- Second place - Jennifer Levy
- Third place - Eric Crocket and James Dalton
- Fall 2007 - Volume 8 Issue 2 of the Rose-Hulman Mathematics Journal posted 8 papers and
12 authors. Visit the journal.
2006-07
Summer 2006-07
- Friday, Aug 17, 2007 - 36 Fast Trackers "survive" Fast Track Calculus. Instructors:
Elton Graves and Kurt Bryan. Read
the news article
- Amanda Rohde gives talk "A Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm Applied to a Final Exam
Scheduling Problem” at the National Pi Mu conference held in conjunction with MAA MathFest
in San Jose, CA
Spring 2006-07
- Saturday May 26: Three of seven Heminway Medal winners are math majors or double majors Read the news article..
- Robert Lauer - double major in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
- Amanda Rohde - two degrees Mathematics and Chemical Engineering
- Thomas Werne - two degrees Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
- Saturday May 26: Diane Evans wins Dean's Outstanding Teacher Award Read the commencement news article. See the picture.
- Saturday May 5: Annual Honors and Awards banquet (awards
page).
- Sousley Award - Amanda Rhode and Thomas Werne
- Palmer Award - Casimir Ksiazek
- Indiana College Mathematics Competition Recognition - Robert Lemke-Oliver, Hari Ravindran,
and Amanda Rohde
- Putnam Recognition - Robert Lemke-Oliver and Amanda Rohde
- Mathematical Contest in Modeling Recognition - two teams
- Ted Lyman, Ely Spears, Tom Werne
- Nathan Lindle, Piotr Pelcer, Xiaofeng Tao
- Monday April 30: Volume 8 Issue 1 of the Rose-Hulman Mathematics Journal posted 13 papers and
22 authors. Visit the journal.
- Saturday March 23 - Robert Lemke-Oliver, Hari Ravindran, Amanda Rohde win first place in a field
of 40 in the Indiana College Mathematics Competition Read the news article..
- Saturday March 23 - Ely Spears presents REU research work: Refinable Rational Functions at
University of Indianapolis.
- Friday March 22 - Meritorious standing in Mathematical Contest in Modeling two teams: Ted
Lyman, Ely Spears, Tom Werne and Nathan Lindle, Piotr Pelcer, Xiaofeng Tao
- Friday March 22 - Robert Lemke-Oliver and Amanda Rohde place in top 500 of Putnam Competition.
- Friday and Saturday March 9, 10 - 24th Annual RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. Conference web page.
Winter 2006-07
- January AMS meeting in New Orleans, Robert Lemke -Oliver and Ian Rogers present posters on REU
research.
Fall 2006-07
- Thursday, November 30: Rose-Hulman Mathematics awarded a three-year grant renewal as an NSF-REU
site. Kurt Bryan and David Fin Co-PI's Josh Holden Senior Investigator. This makes 21 years of
continuous funding for the Rose-Hulman site. Over 130 students have have been though the program
to date, working with six faculty. REU site
- Saturday, November 11: Over 400 scholars from 26 high schools in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and
Memphis Tennessee, compete in RHIT High School Math Contest, Terre Haute South is the overall winner Read the news article..
- November: Diane Evans, along with colleagues wins ICS prize form INFORMS for best collection
of papers using computing in operations research Read the news article..
- October : Volume 7 Issue 2 of the Rose-Hulman Mathematics Journal posted 14 papers and 29 authors. Visit
the journal.
- Friday, October 13: Dave Finn's REU work featured in episode of numbers. Read the news article.
- Saturday, October 7, - ARS Contest winners announced at Homecoming Open House Read the news article..
- First place - Casimir Ksiazek
- Second Place - Anirudh Narayaran, Michael Nguyen
- Third Place - Tyler Gonnsen
- 19 students participated, thanks to Pi Mu Epsilon for providing prize money.
- Friday September 9: Ted Lyman and Ely Spears present their research work at Pi Mu Epsilon conference
at Miami University.
- Ted Lyman: Pre-Images of Points in the Numerical Range
- Ely Spears : Refinable Rational Functions
- Fall 2006 - Volume 7 Issue 2 of the Rose-Hulman Mathematics Journal posted 17 papers and
28 authors. Visit the journal.
Summer 2006-07
- Sunday July 20, 2006 - 47 Fast Track Calculus begins with 47 students. Instructors: Elton Graves
and Roger Lautzenheiser. Read
the news article
2005-06
Spring 2005-06
- Saturday May 6, Annual Honors and Awards banquet (awards
page).
- Sousley Award - Eric Reyes
- Palmer Award - Robert Lemke-Oliver
- Indiana College Mathematics Competition Recognition - Stephen Dupal, Robert Lemke-Oliver,
Hari Ravindran
- Friday and Saturday March 31 and April 1 - 23rd Annual RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. Conference web page.
- Saturday, March 18: Indiana Collegiate Mathematics Competition at Taylor University in Upland
- Rose-Hulman team of Stephen Dupal, Robert Lemke-Oliver, and Hari Ravindran comes in first of
35 teams.
- RHIT news story including
a picture of first place winners receiving book award "A Friendly Competition"
- Also participating: John Beety, Ted Lyman, Adam Outcalt, Angela Smiley, Ian Rogers, Ely
Spears
- past competition
winners
- March - Volume 7 Issue1 of the Rose-Hulman mathematics Journal posted 17 papers and 29 authors. Visit
the journal.
Winter 2005-06
- Thursday January 19: Math alumnus and Allstate Insurance Executive, Floyd Yager presented the
Jess R. Lucas Alumni Leadership Award. Floyd visited with faculty and students the next day at
the Math Department Read the news article..
- Saturday January 14 AMS meeting in San Antonio
- Hari Ravindran, Rose Math Major, presents poster on his Summer 2005 research.
- Kurt Bryan's REU team Hilary Spring and Shannon Talbot, wins $100 prize at the same poster
session for their poster "Locating Circular Inclusions with Thermal Imaging".
Fall 2005-06
- Saturday, November 12: Approximately 400 scholars from 26 high schools in Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa compete in RHIT High School Math Contest, Terre Haute South is the overall winner. Mary Rhein
sophomore book prize announced Read the news article..
- Saturday, November 5, Two Rose undergraduates present their research at Fall INMAA meeting at
Depauw (INMAA site)
- Eric Reyes: Do Dogs Really Know Calculus?
- Hari Ravindran: Mathematical Cookies
- Saturday, October 1 - ARS Contest winners announced at Homecoming Open House Read the news article..
- First place - Robert Lemke-Oliver
- Second Place - Harry Henman
- Third Place - Jon Gray
- 12 students participated, thanks to Pi Mu Epsilon for providing prize money
- Fall 2005 - Volume 6 Issue 2 of the Rose-Hulman mathematics Journal posted 11 papers and 16 authors. Visit
the journal.
2004-05
Spring 2004-05
- Monday, May 16 - Hari Ravindran receives Weaver student research award for summer 2005. Hari
will be working on "Modeling the Shape of a Cookie" with research mentor David Finn. Read the news article..
- Saturday, May 7 - Annual Honors and Awards banquet ( awards
page).
- Palmer Award - Adam Outcalt
- Regional Mathematics Competitions Recognition - Stephen Dupal, Dean Fehlau, Peter Fine, Curtis
Katinas, Adam Outcalt, Hari Ravindran, Angela Smiley, Guy Srinivasan, Kellan Wampler, and Sara
Zenner.
- Putnam Recognition - Guy Srinivasan and Kellan Wampler
- Saturday, April 2 - ICMC Competition at IUFW in Fort Wayne - three Rose-Hulman teams take second,
third, and sixth place.
- Stephen Dupal, Guy Srinivasan, Kellan Wampler - second place team
- Peter Fine, Curtis Katinas, Angela Smiley - third place team
- Dean Fehlau, Adam Outcalt, Hari Ravindran - sixth place team
- past competition
winners
- Friday, March 25 - MCM Competition - two Rose-Hulman teams receive Honorable Mention , putting
them in the top 35% of teams.
- Thursday, March 24 - Angela K. Smiley, Computer Science/Mathematics major, wins Goldwater Scholarship.
Angela, along with Amelia M. Huehls, are two of only five Indiana students to win the scholarship
this year. There have only been two RHIT previous winners in the last 10 years Read the news article..
- Friday, Saturday March 18, 19 - 22nd Annual Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Math Conference
- Speakers John Casti and Chris Pincock
- Webpage
- Friday March 18 - Putman Competition Results
- Guy Srinivasan and Kellan Wampler score in the top 10% of 3733 contestants
- RHIT team places 90th in 411 team
- Spring 2005 - Volume 6 Issue 1 of the Rose-Hulman mathematics Journal posted 7 papers and 18 authors. Visit
the journal.
Winter 2004-05
- Saturday, March 5 - State Finals for Math Counts held at Rose-Hulman
Fall 2004-05
- Monday, November 22 - Virginia Tech Mathematics Competition results received. Two Rose students
are among the leading scorers.
- Saturday, November 13 - Rose-Hulman Math Contest a big success
- Friday November 5 - Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio Tri-Section Individual Mathematics Competition
- Overall winner: Hari Ravindran
- Freshman winners: Adam Outcalt 1st, Sara Zenner 2nd, Nathan Lindle 3rd
- Sophomore winner: Stephen Dupal 1st
- Junior winners: Angela Smiley 1st, Curtis Katinas 3rd
- all seven students participating placed in the contest.
- Saturday October 1 - ARS Contest winners announced at Homecoming Open House Read the news article.
- First place - Adam Outcalt and Piotr Pelcer
- Second Place - Chris Valenta and Jennifer Weber
- Third Place - Chris Ebsch and Sara Zenner
- 14 students participated, thanks to Pi Mu Epsilon for providing prize money
- Fall 2004 - Volume 5 Issue 2 of the Rose-Hulman mathematics Journal posted 11 papers and 23 authors. Visit
the journal.
2003-04
Spring 2003-04
- Saturday May 8: Annual Honors and Awards banquet (awards
page).
- Sousley Award - Nic Trainor
- Palmer Award - Angel Smiley
- Indiana College Mathematics Competition Recognition - Guy Srinivasan, Alex Van Brunt, Kellan Wampler
- Putnam Recognition - Guy Srinivasan
- Two Rose-Hulman teams take first and sixth place in ICMC competition.
- 1st place team: Guy Srinivasan, Alex VanBrunt, Kellan Wampler
- 6th place team: Dean Fehlau, Hari Ravindran, and Nic Trainor
- David Finn named Newsletter editor of the the Indiana MAA
section
- Kurt Bryan has received funding for NSF-REU site, to work
with Tom Langley and David Finn over three years
- Friday and Saturday March 19,20 - 21st Annual Annual RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. Conference web page.
- Spring 2004 - Volume 5 Issue 1 of the Rose-Hulman mathematics Journal posted 5 papers and 7 authors. Visit
the journal.
Winter 2003-04
- Jeff Leader's book Numerical Analysis and Scientific
Computation (2004) has been published.
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