2009 Math Day Competition
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 09:00 AM
Lory Student Center

The 33rd Annual Math Day Competition is being held Thursday, Nov. 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Lory Student Center.

The event, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and the Yates Endowment Fund, draws approximately 300-400 students from Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska high schools. Without volunteers from faculty, emeriti faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students and staff, this annual event would not be possible.

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Students compete for scholarships and prizes

Students will participate in a written exam known as the PROBE: Problems Requiring Original and Brilliant Efforts. Students compete for scholarships and prizes, including a HP workstation for the top scoring student taking the exam.

Several of the top winners receive mathematics scholarships to Colorado State University. For those who choose to attend Colorado State, they must major in mathematics and maintain a 3.25 grade point average to continue receiving the annual scholarship.

Highlight of the day: A double elimination team competition!

A double elimination team competition is the highlight of the day with the brightest young mathematical students in the region competing against one another. Schools compete in this double elimination tournament on three-member teams. Trophies are awarded to each of the small and large school winners.

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Michael Holst to be honored with alumni award

During the awards ceremony, the College of Natural Sciences, along with the Department of Mathematics, will recognize Michael Holst, Ph.D., with an alumni award. Holst, a 1987 undergraduate alumnus in mathematics, later went on to receive his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He is currently a Professor at the University of California at San Diego in mathematics and physics. Professor Holst's general research background and interests are in a broad area called computational and applied mathematics; his specific research areas are in adaptive numerical methods, finite element methods, geometric partial differential equations (PDE), biophysics, and general relativity.

His research projects center around developing mathematical techniques (theoretical techniques in PDE and approximation theory) and mathematical algorithms (numerical methods) for using computers to solve certain types of mathematical problems called nonlinear PDE.

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Event Contact: Christie Franklin, Assistant to Dept Chair can be reached at (970) 491-6452

Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics.