As the five-year partnership between Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) and winds up, YCF has recently opened a new secondary school near Serekunda in The Gambia. Students from grades 9-12 in this West African community will now have more options to continue their studies.
The Big E and Special K contests 2013 (PDF) were held on Saturday November 9. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ students.
The Special K contest is for first year students and the Big E contestÂ
is for upper year students. Both contests consist of six problems, and complete written solutions are required.
The winners of the Big E contest were:
Mike Miniou joined our Faculty recently as the Mathematics liaison and outreach officer. In this new role, he has been visiting high schools and talking to students about "Mathematics in the real world". His visits to two of the schools are shared here.
By Sasha (grade 8), St. Michaels University School
Congratulations to today's graduates!
Notes from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ media release and Daily Bulletin:
Applied Math Professor Chris Bauch and co-author Alison Galvani of the Yale School of Public Health recently published "Social factors in epidemiology" in Science.
They found that disease control efforts can be improved using mathematical modelling to understand the interplay between social and biological contagions.
On Saturday, September 28, approximately 230 students spent part of a beautiful autumn day indoors writing the 13th annual 2013 .
The following students were the top-ranked students:
Professor Jim Geelen of the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ and his colleagues, Professor Bert Gerards of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, and Professor Geoff Whittle of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand have proved the famous Rota’s Conjecture.
Welcome math and computing teachers!
Troy Vasiga and J.P. Pretti have wrapped up their time with "Team Canada" at the in Brisbane, Australia.
Approximately 80 countries and 300 students participated. Contestants competed by writing computer programs to solve challenging algorithmic tasks on two five-hour days of competition.