Teams place first and seventh at state mathematics contest
Results are in from the Arkansas Undergraduate Mathematics
Competition held this year in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, on
February 27.
Hendrix won first place among the 10 teams at this contest; the team
members were Whitney Maguffee, Gilbert Ndayambaje, and Henry Wang.
The other Hendrix team, with Erik Istre, Etienne Nabarushimana, and Lambert Rugamba
(all first- and second-year students), placed seventh.
12 Mar 2010
Upcoming events
Friday, November 13, our college is sponsoring an event
specifically for women students in computer science, led by New York
City-area developer Gloria Jacobs. Women from all area colleges
and universities are welcome.
More information…
Tuesday, November 17, University of Arkansas professor
Giovanni Petris will speak at 11:10am in MCRey 315. His talk is
titled A random walk to the top
, and he will also discuss
graduate programs at Fayetteville. Pizza will be available.
Finally, Pi Mu Epsilon will be hosting Math Night
at 7pm
on Friday, November 20, in the Burrow. There will be food and lots
of math-related fun. They are looking for people to submit acts:
jokes, skits, poetry, basically anything related to math. If you
are interested in participating, please send a description of your
act to callawaydc@hendrix.edu by November 18.
11 Nov 2009
Programming teams place at ACM contest
Hendrix sent three teams to compete at the Mid-Central
Regional ACM Programming Contest on October 24, 2009.
The teams placed third, fifth, and seventh in Arkansas
(22nd, 29th, and 35th in the whole five-state region, among 140 teams).
More information.
30 Oct 2009
Mathematica speaker comes to Hendrix
A representative of Wolfram, who produce Mathematica,
is coming to Hendrix to speak about Mathematica 7 in Education
and Research.
All are invited; no previous experience with
Mathematica is required. The talk is at 11:10am, Tuesday,
September 15, in MCReynolds 110.
15 Sep 2009
Class of '09 graduates
Today's commencement ceremonies included an unusually large class of
14 students majoring in mathematics or computer science.
These included: Don Bennett, Josh Franklin, Wheeler
Gnat, Kyaw Soe Han, Richard Hinson, Adam Jacobs, Aditya Oza,
Adrian Parreiras Horta, Brad Payne, Eric Robbins, Christopher
Schulze, Joseph Utecht, Justin Vance, and Justin Whorton. We
congratulate our newest alumni and wish them well!
Class photo…
9 May 2009