News
- Cal Poly Open House, April 12-14, 2012.
- The 26th Annual Statewide CSU Student Research Competition will be held at California State University, Long Beach, May 4-5, 2012.
- Check on the progress of the Center for Science and Mathematics here...
- Professor Colleen Kirk gives talk, Blow-up in a Subdiffusive Medium with Advection, at the Sixth International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2011.
- Professor Vincent Bonini invited speaker (with José Espinar and Jie Qing), On Proper
Horospherically Convex Hypersurfaces in Hn+1 and Complete Conformal Metrics on Domains of
Sn, at Special Session on Geometric PDEs II, at 2011 AMS Spring Western Section Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2011. - Professor Linda Patton gave a talk, Non-Circular Numerical Ranges, at the 27th South Eastern Analysis Meeting (SEAM), Gainesville, Florida, March 2011.
- Professor Todd Grundmeier and Lecturer Carole Simard presented Exploring the van Hiele Levels of Prospective Mathematics Teachers (pdf) at The SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Fourteenth Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education in Portland, Oregon, February 2011.
- Professor Jonathan Shapiro and seven undergraduate students attended the MAA Northern Section Meeting at Santa Rosa Junior College, February 2011. Two students presented a poster on their summer research. More details to come...
- Professors Amélie Schinck and Stan Yoshinobu presented at the 15th Annual AMTE Conference, Irvine, CA, January 2011.
Welcome to Math!
As a core department of an acclaimed polytechnic, the Department of Mathematics offers a broad spectrum of courses ranging from the applied to the theoretical, and the research interests of our faculty reflect this diversity as well. Department Chairman Don Rawlings invites you to read more....
Polymath 2011 Newsletter
The 2011 edition of PolyMath is now available only online!
In this edition, you'll find news about:
- The International Permutation Patterns conference hosted on campus -- including links to sample problems and presentations
- Our expanding Noyce Math Scholars program and how it's improving math classes in high-needs areas of California
- Our winning teams and top student scorers in the Putnam and mathematics modeling competitions
- The Honor Roll of people and companies who support the department
- Pastries, castles, hypergraph combinatorics and non-Euclidian geometry -- all part of student Jeremy Kun's experience studying in Budapest
- Alumni news and notes
- And much more by clicking here (pdf)...
Click on any of the links above and they will take you to the newsletter section of our website, where you will find a link to the Polymath pdf. Look for more changes in the 2012 edition of Polymath, which will be delivered in html format via e-mail and available on the Math Department website.
Please drop us a note to give us feedback on Polymath, or submit an Alumni Note for the 2012 edition. Let us know where you are now and how you are using your Cal Poly math degree. Photos are always welcome; please be sure to tell us who is in the photo if you send one along with your note.
Don Rawlings, Chair
Mathematics Department
The Academy of Inquiry Based Learning (AIBL)
Professors Stan Yoshinobu and Mark Stankus are director and co-director of a new national organization called The Academy of Inquiry Based Learning (AIBL). AIBL is an association of professors, 
instructors, teachers and non-teaching supporters (such as retired professors or teachers having IBL experience, administrators, and foundation personnel) who are committed to developing and disseminating inquiry-based learning (IBL) techniques. The Academy supports instructors through conferences, workshops, mentoring, small grant programs, and curriculum development. People interested in learning more about AIBL can go to AIBL or contact Stan Yoshinobu.
Noyce Scholarship Recipient Update
Cal Poly Math Graduate and Noyce Scholarship recipient Jackie Patterson is now a second year math 
teacher at Pioneer Valley High School in Santa Maria, CA. She teaches two-year and pre-algebra. She received a $20,000 Noyce Scholarship during her junior year at Cal Poly and writes that this “prestigious award has been an impressive addition to my resume, and I have no doubt that this program has helped me get a job as a full-time math teacher. The advisers, Todd Grundmeier and Elsa Medina, helped me with my application process to the district, ran valuable workshops in the summer, and have supported me as a Noyce Scholar in any way they can."
