Saint Joseph's University Mathematics Department

Calling all STEM majors for this amazing opportunity!

We're happy to announce that Jenna Iorio's summer scholar's project resulted in an 8-page co-authored paper entitled "Accelerated Random Search for Black-Box Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization" that has been accepted for presentation and for publication in the peer-reviewed conference proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2021).

This is an international conference that will run virtually this December:
https://attend.ieee.org/ssci-2021/

Her project involved a significant amount of R programming, running computer experiments, and learning the basics of numerical optimization.

Jenna is a McNulty scholar who is a Math - Secondary Ed major with a minor in Computer Science!

WE NEED YOU...
..to submit a poster/talk proposal for MSAM 2021!

VIEW CALL FOR PROPOSALS

MSAM is a one-day conference promoting faculty, graduate, and undergraduate research in sports analytics. This year's event is on November 20. More info, including registration, at our website:

https://goodmanr.wixsite.com/mwsportsanalytics

Call for proposals: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AJgd8nB2wfPpZ0HHFSOBXSt1Maqdk4wk6mj3zzcRTQE/edit

Calling all ASC majors, minors and those interested:

The Aetna/CVS Health virtual information session and career workshop will be held on Thursday, September 9th from 5:30 - 6:30 pm.

All four presenters are SJU alumni:
Kristen Blackman, ASA (SJU'19)
Michelle Wanner (SJU'20)
Rachel Sell, ASA (SJU'18)
Nicole Famularo, FSA (SJU'12)

For information on how to attend, please email John Whitaker ([email protected]) for details!

Our recent graduate, Becky Gafencu, was hired to teach mathematics at Upper Darby High School!

We wish Becky the best in adopting into the school culture and continue our tradition of providing quality mathematics education.

Becky will also continue to receive the mentorship through the PRNP-S program, sponsored by the Noyce NSF grant.

Send your warmest wishes to Becky!

Kristen Blackman (SJU Actuarial Science '19) has successfully completed the requirements for associateship in the Society of Actuaries.

After graduation, Kristen began working for CVS/Aetna in their Actuarial Leadership Development Program. Since graduating, Kristen has given presentations to our students about actuarial careers and internships with CVS/Aetna.

Join us in congratulating Kristen on these very impressive accomplishments. We wish her the best in her continuing endeavors!

Explore the link between art and mathematics through this MAA Virtual Programming mini-course happening Tuesdays in June!

Attend any or all of these sessions at 4 PM ET each day to play with hands-on, practical art puzzles that motivate the mathematics of projective geometry.

No artistic experience required! Register now: bit.ly/2R7aXo5

Interested in pursuing actuarial science or offering a course on the topic at your institution?

Attend any or all of these MAA Virtual Programming panel discussions to learn more about the career path and the benefits of an actuarial program!

Join us Mondays in June at 7 PM ET: bit.ly/2R7aXo5

SJU Alum Christina Diaz ('20) will be working at the Center of Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine for the Research Institute at the Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia.

She joined their Advanced Data Applications and Platform Technologies Unit (ADAPT).

Congratulations, Christina!