Professor Urness has recently received a grant from the Iowa Academy of Science for a collaboration with Maria Bohorquez from Chemistry. The project, entitled "Collaborative Undergraduate Research - Visualizing Molecular Dynamics in a 3D Virtual Reality Environment" will fund equipment for the VR lab.
Professor DeAlba Presents Mathematics Research in Mexico
Professor DeAlba presented an invited paper titled "The Q-matrix completion problem" at the Fifteenth conference of the International Linear Algebra Society held in Cancun, Mexico.
Congratulations Graduates
Congratulations to the following students earning their degrees this year.
Computer Science:
Sean Doebler,
Jonathan Flory,
Zac Oler
Mathematics:
Hitomi Abe,
Jon Botts,
Jon Brienza,
Sean Doebler,
Luong Hoang,
Zack Kertzman,
Rose Mahoney,
Julie Marra,
Zac Oler,
Dustin Schafbuch,
Lisa Spinoso
Mathematics Education:
Jenny Butler,
Adam Hansen,
Danielle Whitmire
Student Awards
The winners of the outstanding student awards were announced at the honors convocation ceremony on April 15th. The award winners are:
Outstanding Student in Mathematics, Jonathan Botts
Outstanding Student in Computer Science, Zachary Oler
Outstanding Student in Mathematics Education, Adam Hansen
The Kappa Mu Epsilon Freshman Mathematics Award is presented to students for performance on the Gillam Mathematics Examination. The exam is named in honor of Professor Emeritus Gillam, who chaired the department for 28 years and who made the original donations to the prize fund. This year's results are
Taylor Patterson, First Place
Craig Cookman, Second Place
Taha Hameer, Third Place
Zac Oler Wins Best Paper Award
Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics major, Zac Oler won the "best paper" award at the 2008 Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS) held on April 11-12. The paper, entitled "Visualization of Energy Minimization in Ferromagnetic Systems" describes software that utilizes OpenGL to produce real-time three-dimensional renderings of the interactions between magnetic dipoles.
Professor Urness Publishes Visualization Research
Professor Urness presented a paper entitled "Streamline Visualization of Multiple 2D Vector Fields" at the 2008 Visualization and Data Analysis Conference held in San Jose, California.