Pratibha Gautam Staff Writer The Department of Mathematics at Troy University successfully conducted its 13th MathFest last weekend. The event hosted about 100 students and faculty researchers from over 10 different institutions. According to Kenneth Roblee, the chair of mathematics, an event like this serves as a forum for undergraduate students to present their research and interact with representatives from different graduate schools. “MathFest also exposes students to new mathematical ideas not typically encountered in a class and from a group of their mathematical peers from across the Southeast,” Roblee…
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MathFest 2018 hosts faculty, students of 10 universities
Madina Seytmuradova Staff Writer The department of mathematics hosted “MathFest 2018,” a two-day event that allowed students to discuss topics of interest in mathematics with faculty and peers from 10 universities and present their research. The annual event, held on April 6 and 7 in Hawkins Hall this year, was the idea of Kenneth Roblee, a professor and chair of the department of mathematics who started it using a grant he received from the National Science Foundation. “It’s good to go to other places for conferences, but I thought that…
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