Mathematical Sciences

The 80th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, administered by the Mathematical Association of America was held on December 7, 2019. 4,229 students participants from 570 institutions participated in the competition. Eight of our students participated in this highly competitive mathematics contest and they all scored points.
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is a 6-hour exam which is voluntarily attempted by only the top math students in the United States and Canada, is considered the world’s toughest math test. The median score is often zero.

Miron Banjac
Abby Brauer
Linus D’Angeli Brogan
Minho Choi
Eric Daniel
Chris Karagiannis
Sean Richardson
Manu Skora

Congratulations to all of the above! We are very proud of all these students! Great Job!!

It’s a persistent question: How do you prepare large populations for an emergency? Funded by a grant of more than half a million dollars from the National Science Foundation, an interdisciplinary team of Lewis & Clark faculty and students is creating a video game to educate and enlist young people in that critical process.

At Lewis & Clark, where students learn science by doing science, collaborative research with professors is an academic hallmark. The John S. Rogers Science Program supports several such projects each summer, and this year included multidisciplinary research with an especially timely goal: create a computer game that will teach users how to act in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

October 15, 2019
5:00 pm 
Come by the Mathematical Department to meet your professors!
There will be Ice Cream!

Students had good food and played lots of games at Professor Peter Drake’s House!!!

Saturday, September 14th was a beautiful day at Gleneden Beach!
Students and Professors had a great day, enjoying the sun, playing games and eating lots of good food.

Saturday, September 14^th 2019

All students in a math or computer science class are invited. 

This is all-day event is free: The Department provides the post-hike dinner and games at a covered picnic site.

Please bring your own sack lunch for hikes.

We will be at Gleneden Beach Gazebo Area. Several lengths of hikes will be available for all levels.

Meet at 8:30 am in the Fir Acres Parking Lot.  (near Olin Science Bldg.) to carpool to the coast.

What to Bring:

Sack Lunch, Water Bottle, Layered Clothing, Jacket and Hat, Sturdy shoes, Sunblock, Day Pack, Optional beach toys

April 11, 2019
Speaker: Adina Shanholtz

Job Title: Software Developer

Company: Microsoft

Team: Edge, Media and Transient Experiences

 

April 4, 2019

Speaker: Grace Lawley

Topic: Math Meets Data

Transitioning from math proofs to natural language research.

Figuring out how to put theory into practice is not always straightforward. Real world data, especially natural language data, can put up quite a fight. In this talk, I will share my experience learning how to apply the lessons I learned in undergraduate math courses to medical research on the language of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Topics I will touch on include: natural language processing, data science, modeling, and dimensionality reduction.

March 21, 2019

Brian Dombeck- Assistant Professor, Economics, Lewis & Clark College

Topic: Learning vs News Shocks: What Drives Business Cycles?

Thursday, March 14th 
Olin Lounge Lounge 3:30-4:30
More Details Coming Soon!

Erin Rast ’21, from Boulder, Colorado was recently awarded the Christine Fredricks Smith Memorial Scholarship, the College’s most prestigious award exclusively for mathematics majors. 

Singing songs about math!

Summer science research

Math Colloquium- JR Howard 259 

Students and Faculty hiked at Ecola State Park

Student research presentations

Illia Hayes ’19, from Phoenix, Arizona, was recently awarded the Christine Fredricks Smith Memorial Scholarship

Jordan Gonzalez ’21, has been selected by the faculty of the department for the Mathematics Alumni Scholarship for 2018 - 19.

Megan Glavin BA ’19 and Sema Hasan BA ’18 were selected to present their original research at the 2018 Notre Dame Peace Conference, an event for students from around the world to share their work and discuss issues related to peace studies, social justice, and global activism.

Andrea Dean BA ’17 fell in love with mathematics and computer science at Lewis & Clark and is now using her knowledge at Amazon. She’s solving problems in machine learning at a new prototype store. Our Chronicle magazine caught up with her in Seattle for this profile.

Cameron, who is also associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, received a scholarship from the Clare Boothe Luce Program to attend the HERS Institute at Bryn Mawr College. We sat down with her to discuss how this opportunity will help her Lewis & Clark STEM students.

Summer science research

New members were inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon

Student carved pumpkins for Halloween.

Students and faculty took a dayhike in Mt. Hood Wilderness and enjoyed a BBQ dinner with strategy games.