St. Olaf College MSCS Department

10/05/2020

We've made St. Olaf news. Yay! Check out one of the equity and inclusion efforts MSCS Faculty and Academic Support have undertaken together. We love all our MSCS students and alumni.

As part of our series highlighting To Include is To Excel projects, one team of faculty and staff members share the work they did to support students in a calculus course that is a gateway for many…

08/21/2020

Hey Ole MSCS Community! It's been a long time since we communicated, but we just want to check in and see how everyone is doing. Our MSCS courses are up and running and have had two successful (fully online) days of class so far. Our students are eager to be back and are happy to see them. We are also welcoming some of our own alumni as new faculty to the department: Laura Boehm Vock '08 joins our statistics and data science program as a new tenure-track faculty member and Adam Wood '16 returns as a visiting professor in the mathematics program. Have a great year, everyone, and let us know how you're all doing!

08/24/2017

It's been a great summer, and in about a week we look forward to welcoming just over 800 new students to campus. Our math, stats, and CS courses are just about ready to go and we're excited to start another year! What have you all been up to?

05/26/2017

Congratulations to the Class of 2017 - commencement is Sunday! Quiz time! What is the total sum of the number of mathematics majors, computer science majors, and statistics concentrators in the Class of 2017 (double majors count twice!)? First person to guess exactly wins a special MSCS prize, which we will mail to you! If you have insider knowledge of the answer, you're not eligible :)

05/17/2017

Classes are now over and finals begin on Thursday. Alumni - do you have any words of wisdom for your fellow Oles?

04/30/2017

The following statement was sent to all students taking a mathematics, statistics, or computer science course. It was also read and discussed in many of our courses on Friday.

12/27/2016

In one week, 19 Oles leave for Interim in Budapest. Follow the link below to see them blog about all their Hungarian and number theoretic adventures with Professor Berliner. The first post should appear no later than Jan. 4.

11/29/2016

Does there exist an integer of 2016 decimal digits, each digit of which is 6 or 7, which is divisible by 2^2016?

This question and nine others were part of the MAA North Central Section Team contest, held on Nov. 12. Teams of three from colleges and universities throughout MN, SD, ND, and Manitoba competed.

Congratulations to the St. Olaf team of Jakob Hofstad and Eric Anderlik (two first-years!) for WINNING this year. St. Olaf last won this contest in 2008.

Teams of up to three undergraduate students work collaboratively at their home campuses on the ten problems, under the supervision of local faculty members. You are allowed to enter as many teams as you wish. Keep in mind that many students who might score zero on the Putnam can profitably participa...

11/05/2016

It's time for a movie night! The MSCS Dept is sponsoring and the Math Club is hosting a viewing of The Man Who Knew Infinity. The movie is co-produced by Ken Ono, who will be our invited speaker at Math Across the Cannon in March. Come watch, 7:30 PM on Thursday 11/10, 6th floor of RMS!

10/20/2016

MSCS “To Be or NOT To Be”
Get information on the MSCS programs, courses, activities, and the on-campus and off-campus opportunities that await you! Visit the information tables where MSCS faculty can answer all your questions about MSCS courses, research and internship opportunities, advice for what you should take while here, or careers you should consider upon leaving St. Olaf. Of course, strategies for identifying and applying to graduate schools will also be available.

MOST IMPORTANT: Top it all off with ice cream sundaes at the ice cream station. And don’t miss the ten drawings for Pause Pizza gift certificates!
6:30pm, RNS 150 & RNS 1st floor atrium

10/12/2016

Come see your peers in action and enjoy some lasagna too!

10/04/2016

Please join us on October 6th, from 7pm-9pm in the Regents Math Lounge on the 6th floor for a fun night of games, food, and fun! We'll see you there.