Mathematics & Statistics

Ningyue (Christina) Wang '16 has been chosen as the recipient of the 2016 Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association Mu Sigma Rho Award.  This annual award recognizes one outstanding statistics undergraduate per year in the BCASA region (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont).  Mu Sigma Rho is the national statistics honor society.  Christina was selected as the inaugural winner of the award based on her outstanding achievements in statistics (she had been inducted into Mu Sigma Rho in 2015). 

In addition to Christina's award, eleven Amherst College students were inducted into Mu Sigma Rho.  Congratulations to Jonathan Che, Stephany Flores-Ramos, Paul Gramieri, Connor Haley, Azka Javaid, Rishi Kowalski, Levi Lee, Amanda Rosenbaum, Muling Si, Sarah Teichman, and Alex Titelbaum for their academic achievements and distinction.

Congratulations to Jonathan Che, Pei Gong, Timothy Lee, Shelly Tang, and Sarah Teichman for being named "Best in Group" and "Best in Show" at the Five College ASA DataFest.  Other winners from Amherst included the team consisting of Jordan Browning, Jerry Chen, Brendan Seto, Leonard Yoon, and Jingwen Zhang.  DataFest is a data analysis competition where teams of up to five students have a weekend to attack a large, complex, and surprise dataset.  More than 130 undergraduate students from the Five Colleges participated in this year's event.  More details can be found at http://www.science.smith.edu/datafest/2016/04/04/recap-of-winners-from-datafest-2016/

The AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Exposition was awarded to three mathematicians: David Cox (Amherst College), John Little (College of the Holy Cross), and Donal O'Shea (New College of Florida) "for their book Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms, which has made algebraic geometry and computational commutative algebra accessible not just to mathematicians but to students and researchers in many fields."