Student activities

Groups of students worked together to investigate problems & shared what they learned in talks at the end of the semester.
- Disease spread across a network, Taylor Lum, Jacqueline Tong, Ying Zhang
- The Prisoner's Dilemma on a network, Casey Bylund, Emma Schweid, Mickey Moses, Di Li, and Cinthia Zacharias
- NBA player ranking, James Fitzgerald, Yvette Cervantes, Tori Morris, and Sarah Hoban Halvorsen

Yi Xie (aka Owen) and Xuanchang Liu (aka Carl) worked together with Professor Cornelia Van Cott on a research project involving knots and surfaces during the 2010-2011 academic year. Owen and Carl presented their research (Bennequin surfaces for links) at the USF Students in the Sciences Poster Night. You can read their abstract here.

Several USF math majors have had the unique opportunity to get involved with mathematical circles, an Eastern European-inspired movement that gets high school and middle school kids engaged with math by working on open-ended — and sometimes unsolved! — problems. Professor Paul Zeitz has been the director of the San Francisco Math Circle since its inception in 2005, and he exposes students in the Mathematical Circles (math 314) class to programs at Mission High School, Thurgood Marshall High School, and other locations. Veterans of this class have gone on to teach and work in schools and other circles. Next year, the SF Math Circle hopes to develop new programs for two different audiences: elementary school children and incarcerated juvenile offenders.

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