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MCSS held their 12th Pi-athlon in celebration of Pi Day
On Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024, the department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics (MCSS) held their 12th Pi-athlon in celebration of Pi Day. Pi Day is March 14th due to Pi (rounded to two...
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Statistics Professor part of Sports Analytics and AI talk
ChapGPT, AI, and other large language models (LLMs) have recently received a lot of attention. A St. Lawrence University professor is using these tools to improve accessibility to sports analytics...
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Dr. Patti Frazer Lock speaks at W.E.B. Dubois Symposium in February
Patti Frazer Lock was an invited panelist at the W.E.B. Dubois Symposium on Data Science, held in February 2024 for faculty from across Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the US. Dr. Lock...
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Prof. Schuckers part of virtual panel on leading a Math Department in the 21st Century
Charles A Dana Professor of Statistics and Data Science Michael Schuckers who is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics (MCSS) at St. Lawrence...
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Schuckers speaks on panel on Outreach in Sports Analytics at NESSIS 2023
Charles A. Dana Professor of Statistics and Data Science Michael Schuckers was part of a panel on “Successful Outreach in Sports Analytics” at the 2023 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports...
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The Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Department Holds Annual Dinner
The Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics (MCSS) Department held their Annual Dinner. This year the event brought together over 70 students, faculty and staff who gathered to socialize. Faculty shared information about a wide range of topics including internships, summer fellowships, departmental resources, the MCSS LinkedIn group, graduate schools, senior projects, honor societies and local conferences for undergraduates.
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Eliza Brown '24 and Assistant Professor of Math, Computer Science, and the Statistics Department Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins Present Art at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.
Eliza Brown '24 and Assistant Professor of Math, Computer Science, and the Statistics Department Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins recently returned from San Francisco, where they presented two art pieces at the JMM Art Exhibition. The pieces, Bohemian Algebraic Starscapes No. 4 and No. 7, stem from Eliza’s summer research fellowship, which involved computing and visualizing the eigenvalues of families of integer matrices, and were made using linear algebra, number theory, and high-performance computing.
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SLU Alum is a finalist in Big Data Bowl Competition
Shane Hauck ’23 is finalist in the National Football League ’s (NFL’s) 2024 data analysis competition, the Big Data Bowl. This year’s competition focused on tackling. Hauck and his team wrote an analysis of NFL tackling entitled “No Edge, No Chance: The Impact of Setting the Edge on Zone Run Plays.” The annual Big Data Bowl is a data analysis competition meant to generate innovative statistical methods in football. “Contestants in each year’s Big Data Bowl compete for prizes ranging from game tickets to cash, including a $100,000 prize for the competition.” Hauck and team are finalists in the Coaching track. They are one of five teams of finalists that will present their work to judges and NFL teams at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, IN on February 28th.
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New Members are inducted into Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Honorary Society
On February 2, 2024 four new student members were inducted into the Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Honorary Society.
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SLU Faculty presented at Joint Statistical Meetings
Several St. Lawrence University (SLU) faculty presented at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meeting in Toronto. The Joint Statistical Meeting is the largest gathering of statisticians in North America. Three SLU faculty gave presentations.
