Tag: "Adam Weyhaupt"

SIUE math professors hope teachers circle rekindles love for mathematics

SIUE math professors hope teachers circle rekindles love for mathematics

SIUE professors Adam Weyhaupt and Tammy Voepel and Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics director Sharon Locke want to remind area middle school teachers that math can still be fun.
Area math teachers from the Middle and High School levels attend the Great Rivers Math Teachers' Circle hosted by the SIUE Mathematics Department and STEM Center. (Photo […]

Math enrollment on the rise as overall SIUE student population increases

Math enrollment on the rise as overall SIUE student population increases

Empty seats are increasingly becoming a rare sight in SIUE’s math classes. According to Math Department chair Adam Weyhaupt, the enrollment numbers in math and statistics classes are the highest they have been in at least 15 years.
The SIUE Mathematics Department, currently housed in the Sam L. Vadalabene Center, has experienced its highest enrollment numbers […]

SIUE hosts 7th conference on function spaces

SIUE hosts 7th conference on function spaces

Krysztof Jarosz, professor of mathematics and statistics, accomodates a participant traveling to a conference at SIUE on function spaces. Photo courtesy of Jarosz.
The 7th Conference on Function Spaces drew in more than 100 professors and scholars in mathematics to SIUE in May.
Krzysztof Jarosz, professor of mathematics and statistics, has worked alone to organize the event […]

SIUE hosts hundreds of high school students in mathematics contest

SIUE hosts hundreds of high school students in mathematics contest

Roughly 400 high school students competed in the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics Contest at SIUE.
Four hundred high school students gathered at SIUE on February 22 to compete in algebra, geometry and pre-calculus events at the annual Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics Contest.
The university hosted the event, which was run by approximately 75 […]

Ledzewicz receives NSF research grant to apply optimal control to problems in biomedicine

Ledzewicz receives NSF research grant to apply optimal control to problems in biomedicine

Mathematics professor Urzula Ledzewicz received a National Science Foundation grant to apply optimal control theory research to cancer and epidemiology Photo courtesy of Ledzewicz
It is possible tomathematically analyze ways to control cancer treatments and the spread of epidemics through optimal control theory, according to mathematics professor Urszula Ledzewicz.
Ledzewicz was recently awarded a National Science Foundation […]

Beauty and the 'triply periodic minimal surface' beast

Beauty and the ‘triply periodic minimal surface’ beast

“Imagine taking a long piece of wire. Bend it into some shape in space and solder the ends together. You might have some crazy curves. Dip it in dish soap. Pull it out. You probably will have a spanning film on there, some kind of soap film. I study a mathematical model of those things,” […]

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