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February 27, 2010
Denison
Spring Programming Contest held at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
This year, 11 teams from 7 schools (Denison, Albion, Baldwin-Wallace, Oberlin, Muskingum, Ohio Wesleyan, and U of Akron) competed in this 4-hour contest.
Albion's team placed 7th, and only two teams solved more problems then Albion. All teams placing above Albion's team had four members, resulting in Albion solving more problems per team member than any other team.
Professor David Reimann coordinated Albion's participation
in the contest and traveled with the students
to Denison University.
Albion has regularly competed in the contest since 1997.
Final standings for all teams are available at the contest site.
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David A. Reimann
February 22, 2010
Two teams of three Albion students competed in the COMAP
Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Albion College
mathematics, physics, and economics students completed their
work in 2010 Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) sponsored the
Consortium for Mathematics
and its Applications. On the evening of Thursday, February 18, 2010 at
8pm, the Albion College mathematical modeling team of Chen Chen ('11), Yang Chen ('11), and Chrisopher Creighton ('11) &
Robby Clark ('12), Sining Gu ('13), and Mingjia Yang ('13) were presented
with the choice of solving
two different, yet
thought-provoking real-life problems in mathematical modeling. Over the course of
the next ninety-six hours, the team independently selected, sweated,
solved, and wrote up a paper presenting each of their team's solution to the problem
they chose.
The solution was completed at 8pm on Monday, February 22, 2010 and then directly
emailed to COMAP for judging.
Professor Darren Mason organized the participation of the Albion students in this year's MCM.
Final results of
this highly competitive international contest will be available by April, 2010. For more information about the preparation needed to
compete in this competition, please see this Albion College News Article.
Left to right: Christopher Creighton, Yang Chen, and Chen Chen.
Left to right: Mingjia Yang, Robby Clark, and Sining Gu.
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Darren E. Mason
Darren E. Mason
February 17, 2010
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"Nucleation of Extension Deformation Twins in α-Ti" at the
139th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society held
at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, WA.
Darren's co-authors were T.R.
Bieler, M.A. Crimp, L. Wang, Y. Yang (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science - Michigan State University) and P. Eisenlohr
(Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung — Düsseldorf, Germany).
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
February 2, 2010
"Dispersive Estimates for the Schrödinger Equation for C(n-3)/2 Potentials in Odd Dimensions" in the
International Mathematics Research Notices.
Will's co-author was M. Burak Erodgan, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign.
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
January 28, 2010
"Twin Nucleation by Slip Transfer across Grain Boundaries in Commercial Purity Titanium" in the
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A.
Darren's co-authors were T.R.
Bieler, M.A. Crimp, Y. Yang, L. Wang (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); P. Eisenlohr
(Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung — Düsseldorf, Germany.
The official citation is Met. Mater. Trans. A, 41 (2), p. 421 - 430, 2010.
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
January 4, 2010
"The Interrelationship Between
Dislocation Slip and Deformation Twinning in CP Ti" at the
2010 Interational Symposium on Plasticity and its Current Applications held at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort & The Royal Beach Casino in St. Kitts.
Darren's co-authors were T.R.
Bieler, M.A. Crimp, Y. Yang, L. Wang (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); P. Eisenlohr and YunJo Ro
(Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung — Düsseldorf, Germany); W. Liu (Argonne National Laboratory);
G.E. Ice (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
December 1a, 2009
"Comparison of Slip,
Slip Transfer, and Damage Nucleation in Experimental Observations and Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Simulations of CP Ti" at the
Fall 2009 MRS Meeting held from 11/30/2009 - 12/04/2009 at the John B. Hynes Convention
Center in Boston, MA.
Darren's co-authors were T.R.
Bieler, M.A. Crimp, Y. Yang, L. Wang (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); P. Eisenlohr and YunJo Ro
(Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung — Düsseldorf, Germany); W. Liu (Argonne National Laboratory);
G.E. Ice (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).
The official citation is Int. J. of Metals, 61 (12), p. 45 - 52, 2009.
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
December 5, 2009
Participating for Albion were (left to right): Mingjia Yang, Eric Richardson, Chen Chen, Kathryn Wagner, and Rachel Kamischke. The Putnam competition is held annually on the first Saturday of December and attracts about 3500 top undergraduate mathematics students from American and Canadian colleges. Results of the competition are expected at the end of March 2010. Mark Bollman supervised this year's Albion Putnam team.
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Mark E. Bollman
December 1, 2009
"Comparison of Slip,
Slip Transfer, and Damage Nucleation in Experimental Observations and Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Simulations of CP Ti" at the
Fall 2009 MRS Meeting held from 11/30/2009 - 12/04/2009 at the John B. Hynes Convention
Center in Boston, MA.
Darren's co-authors were T.R.
Bieler, M.A. Crimp, Y. Yang, L. Wang (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); P. Eisenlohr and YunJo Ro
(Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung — Düsseldorf, Germany); W. Liu (Argonne National Laboratory);
G.E. Ice (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
November 19, 2009
"Strain Heterogeneity and Damage Nucleation at Grain Boundaries during
Monotonic Deformation in Commercial Purity Titanium" in the
Journal of Metals.
Darren's co-authors were T.R.
Bieler, M.A. Crimp, Y. Yang, L. Wang (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); P. Eisenlohr
(Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung — Düsseldorf, Germany); W. Liu (Argonne National Laboratory);
G.E. Ice (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).
The official citation is Int. J. of Metals, 61 (12), p. 45 - 52, 2009.
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
November 18, 2009
Michigan Autumn Take-Home Challenge have arrived, and both Albion teams landed in the top half of the field. The team of Chen Chen, Yang Chen, and Mingjia Yang finished 4th with a total of 66 points out of a possible 100. Becca Putans, Rachel Kamischke, and Kathryn Wagner finished 25th with 30 points. Fifty teams completed the competition.
The top ten teams were:
1. Calvin College & Taylor University: 78 pts.
3. Hope College: 73 pts.
4. Albion College: 66 pts.
5. Lawrence Technological University & Kalamazoo College: 63 pts.
7. Kalamazoo College: 60 pts.
8. Grand Valley State University: 53 pts.
9. Merrimack College & Calvin College: 52 pts.
Congratulations to both teams!
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Mark E. Bollman
November 16, 2009
Front row, left to right: BJ Konkle, Nate Ross, Dustin Peterson, Nick Tombrella, Andrew Hurrle, Eric Ondrus, Matt Sowa, Kameron Sibert, Alex Archer, Dr. Mark Bollman.
Back row, left to right: Sining Gu, Courtney Malpass, Amanda Klage, Taylor Peruchietti, Krysta Schroeder, Megan Heyn, Samantha Bowditch.
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Mark E. Bollman
October 31, 2009
th Michigan Autumn Take-Home Challenge, held at colleges across the greater Midwest on Saturday, October 31. Competing for Albion were Chen Chen, Yang Chen, Rachel Kamischke, Becca Putans, Kathryn Wagner, and Mingjia Yang. The MATH Challenge is a 10-question, 3-hour exam taken by undergraduate students in teams of two or three. The 2009 MATH Challenge included 53 teams from 20 colleges in 6 states. Mark Bollman coordinated the students' participation in the contest. Results of the MATH Challenge are expected by the end of the semester.
Left to right: Rachel Kamischke, Kathryn Wagner, Becca Putans.
Left to right: Mingjia Yang, Yang Chen, Chen Chen.
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Mark E. Bollman
August 27, 2009
David A. Reimann
August 19, 2009
David A. Reimann
July 27, 2009
12th Annual Bridges Conference held July 26-30 2009 in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
His paper appears on pages 325-6 in the printed proceedings.
The Bridges Organization fosters the mutual exchange of ideas among practicing mathematicians, scientists, artists, educators, musicians, writers, computer scientists, sculptures, dancers, weavers, and model builders.
A nice article about the conference appears on the AMS website.
An example of a random Truchet tiling containing the text
"Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science" is shown above.
A darker color has been used for the text to increase its contrast.
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David A. Reimann
June 25, 2009
Mark E. Bollman
June 15, 2009
Mark E. Bollman
June 1, 2009
Max-Planck Institut
für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf,
Germany and will remain its guest until June 30, 2009. During his visit Professor Mason will
be working with colleagues from the
Microstructure Physics and Metal Forming division of MPIE
and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
from Michigan State University
on fundamental problems that arise in modeling microcrack/damage nucleation in textured metals.
The research program is a fusion of experimental, numerical modeling, and mathematical modeling of
material behavior across multiple length scales. This international and interdisciplinary project
is funded by a three-year joint grant from the National Science Foundation and the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
May 29, 2009
"The Role of Heterogeneous Deformation on Damage Nucleation at
Grain Boundaries in Single Phase Metals" in the
International Journal of Plasticity.
Darren's co-authors were T.R.
Bieler, D. Kumar, and M.A. Crimp (all of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at
Michigan State University), and P. Eisenlohr, F. Roters and D. Raabe
(all of Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung — Düsseldorf, Germany).
The official citation is Int. J. of Plasticity, 25 (9), p. 1655 - 1683, 2009.
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
April 28, 2009
Squeller.com to serve as a home page for the Albion College community. You can read about his venture in an April 17 Pleiad article.
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Harold Connamacher
April 23, 2009
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Yang Chen, '11, dual economics and financial engineering (combined course) major with an applied mathematics minor,
gave a talk entitled
"Factors of China's Rapid National Saving Growth."
Her faculty sponsor was Dr. Kotaro Yoshida (Economics and Management).
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Ryan Graham, '09, gave a talk entitled "Quantifying the Influence of a 4.8-Tesla Magnetic Field on the α↔γ Phase Transitions in Fe-0.75C Steel."
Ryan is a Physics major with an applied mathematics minor.
His faculty sponsor was Dr. Aaron Miller (Physics).
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Whitney Patton, '09, a mathematics major, gave a talk entitled "The Biangular Coordinate System as Seen Through Complex Numbers".
Her faculty sponsor was Dr. Mark Bollman.
- Tim Rambo,'09, gave two talks. The first was entitled "An Introduction to Quantum Algorithms";
his faculty sponsor was Dr. Harold Connamacher.
His second talk was entitled "Implementation of an Algorithm-Driven Solar Tracker";
his faculty sponsor was Dr. Aaron Miller (Physics).
Tim is a dual Physics and Computer Science major.
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Culver Redd, '11, gave two presentation.
The first was a talk entitled "Calibration and Use of the 11-Inch Celestron Telescope for Observing and CCD Imaging";
his faculty sponsor was Dr. Nicolle Zellner (Physics).
His second was a poster entitled "Photophysics of Benzoic Acid Derivatives";
his faculty sponsor was Dr. Craig Bieler (Chemistry).
Culver is a physics major and computer science minor.
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Lesley Simanton, '09, a physics major with an applied mathematics minor,
gave a talk entitled
"Multi-Wavelength Photometry on Stellar Clusters: Applications in Telescope-Camera System Analysis and Galactic Formation."
Her faculty sponsor was Nicolle Zellner (Physics).
The purpose of the Elkin Isaac Research Symposium is to honor excellent
student research, scholarship, and creative activity. The participants
are nominated by their faculty sponsors after having participated
in independent research that results in the significant synthesis of
new knowledge. The research must have been performed under the direct
supervision of an Albion College faculty member, or in a College-approved
off-campus program.
This year over 100 students presented their research.
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David A. Reimann
April 22, 2009
Congressus Numerantium. This issue includes the Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications, held at the Technische Universitat Carolino-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig, Germany in July 2004. The main result of this paper is that the only Fibonacci number less than 10100 which is the sum of more than two consecutive factorials is F9 = 34 = 0! + 1! + 2! + 3! + 4!. Mark's co-author on this paper is George Grossman of the Central Michigan University Department of Mathematics.
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Mark E. Bollman
April 21, 2009
The College Mathematics Journal
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities was published in the May 2009 issue of The College Mathematics Journal. The May issue is devoted to puzzles, and includes an interview with Martin Gardner along with a collection of articles on mathematically-oriented puzzles. The CMJ is published by the Mathematical Association of America and is focused on the first two years of college mathematics.
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Mark E. Bollman
April 15, 2009
Mark E. Bollman
April 9, 2009
Meritorious Winner and Honorable Mention in the 2009
International Mathematical Contest in Modeling sponsored by the
Consortium for Mathematics
and its Applications. This year 1675 teams from 14
countries participated in the competition. The team of Yang Chen, Chris Creighton,
and Sophia Potoczak received the prestigious award of Meritorious Winner for their
work on a problem a complex
problem related to cell phone usage and energy consumption. Only 9 teams in
the world scored better than this Albion team in the competition. Other schools
that received the same level of recognition as Albion for this problem included
Harvard University, Harvey Mudd College, Tsinghua University (Beijing), Cornell
University and The United States Military Academy at West Point.
In addition, the
team of Chen Chen, Whitney Patton, and Kathryn Wagner, who chose to solve a problem
involving the mathematics of traffic circles, received the rank of
Honorable Mention for their solution. This is significant since, out of the 1675
teams in the competition, 1074 (61%) received a ranking lower than honorable mention.
Other schools that received this ranking include Princeton University, Renssalaer
Polytechnic Institute, Michigan State University, Colorado College and numerous
universities from China.
Congratulations to all six students for this fine achievement! Official results are available at the official
COMAP MCM Results Website
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Mark E. Bollman
April 7, 2009
Ryan Graham, a Physics major with an Applied Mathematics Minor, completed a thesis entitled "Quantifying the Influence of a 4.8-Tesla Magnetic Field on The α-γ Phase Transitions in Fe-0.75c Steel" for College honors. His thesis advisor was Dr. Aaron Miller (Physics). Ryan plans on attending graduate school to study civil engineering.
Whitney Patton, a Mathematics major, completed a thesis entitled "Comparison of the Rectangular, Polar, and Biangular Coordinate Systems as Seen Through Real and Complex Analysis" for Mathematics and Computer Science Departmental honors. Her thesis advisor was Dr. Mark Bollman. Whitney plans on pursuing a PhD in mathematics after graduation.
Timothy Rambo, a dual computer science and physics major with a minor in applied mathematics, completed two departmental theses. His thesis "Quantum Algorithms" was for departmental honors in Mathematics and Computer Science. His thesis advisor was Dr. Harold Connamacher. His thesis "An Algorithmic Solar Tracking System for a Solar Collector" was for departmental honors in Physics; his physics thesis advisor was Dr. Aaron Miller. Tim plans on pursuing a PhD in electrical engineering after graduation.
Lesley Simanton, a physics major with a minor in applied mathematics, completed a thesis entitled "Establishing Observing and Imaging Protocols for Albion College Telescopes: Investigating Instrumentation and Photometry" for College honors. Her thesis advisor was Dr. Nicolle Zellner (Physics). Lesley plans on pursuing a PhD in the area of astronomy and astrophysics after graduation.
A thesis is one of the most rigorous elements of the undergraduate experience at Albion College, a culmination of intensive independent research during a student's junior and senior years. All research and writing take place under the close supervision of a thesis committee consisting of a thesis advisor and two other faculty readers of the student's choosing. A thesis provides a unique opportunity for students to develop their capacity for independent research and provides excellent preparation for many graduate study programs. This year 55 students completed either a college or department thesis.
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David A. Reimann
April 4, 2009
Mark E. Bollman
March 19, 2009
Mark E. Bollman
March 6, 2009
Mark E. Bollman
February 15, 2009
Darren E. Mason collaborated on the poster presentation
Deformation Mode Characterization and FEM Simulation of alpha-Titanium Deformed in Bending.
which was presented at the
138th Meeting and Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society at the
Moscone's West Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. Darren's collaborators included
T. R. Bieler, M. A. Crimp, Y. Yang, and L. Wang of Michigan State University (USA) and
P. Eisenlohr of the Max-Planck Institut
für Eisenforschung (Germany).
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David A. Reimann
David A. Reimann
February 9, 2009
Two teams of threeCOMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling Albion College
mathematics students completed their
work in 2009 Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) sponsored the
Consortium for Mathematics
and its Applications. On the evening of Thursday, February 5, 2009 at
8pm, the Albion College mathematical modeling team of Chen Chen ('11), Whitney
Patton ('09) and Kathryn Wagner ('09) & Yang Chen ('11), Chris Creighton
('10), and Sophia Potoczak ('10) twere presented
with the choice of solving
two different, yet
thought-provoking real-life problems in mathematical modeling. Over the course of
the next ninety-six hours, the team independently selected, sweated,
solved, and wrote up a paper presenting each of their team's solution to the problem
they chose.
The solution was completed at 8pm on Monday, February 09, 2009 and then directly
emailed to COMAP for judging.
Professor Darren Mason organized the participation of the Albion students in this year's MCM.
Final results of
this highly competitive international contest will be available by May, 2009.]]>
Darren E. Mason
Darren E. Mason
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