Posting a near-perfect score, a team of
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology mathematics students
reaped top honors against peers from other Indiana
colleges and universities in this year's Indiana College
Mathematics competition, conducted during the recent
Indiana Mathematical Association of America meeting.
Rose-Hulman’s three-person team earned 58 of a possible
60 points to earn first-place honors in the competition,
which included 40 teams from throughout Indiana. Ball
State University placed second, Purdue University and
Taylor University tied for third, and Indiana University
was fifth. Rose-Hulman’s second team was eighth, while
two other teams placed 13th and 14th.
Members of Rose-Hulman’s winning team were Robert
Lemke-Oliver, a junior mathematics major from Madison,
Wisc.; Hari Ravindran, a senior mathematics major from
Doha; and Amanda Rohde, a senior mathematics major from
Fargo, N.D.
Other students that participated in the competition
were Harry Henman, Casimir Ksiazek, Ted Lyman, Tim
Olmsted, Kimi Parker, Ian Rogers, Ely Spears, Bill Torno
and Arnold Yim.
Rose-Hulman students also ranked high in other
mathematics competitions this school year, according to
Allen Broughton, head of the Department of Mathematics.
Lemke-Oliver and Rohde placed among the top 500
finishers (out of 3,640 competitions from 508
institutions) in this year’s international William
Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Kimi Parker,
Angela Smiley and Harry Henman also did well in the
competition, helping Rose-Hulman’s team place 67th.
In the Mathematics Contest in Modeling, two
Rose-Hulman teams earned meritorious awards, placing
among the top 14 percent of all papers (from over
2,200), while two other teams received successful
participant recognition. The top finishing teams
included Tom Werne, Lyman and Spears, and Nathan Lindle,
Piotr Pelcer and Xiaofeng Tao. Placing in the next group
were teams that featured Steve Torno, Lemke-Oliver and
Torno, and Casimir Ksiazek, Chris Leibs and Arnold Yim.
