Departmental Seminar

Creative and Curious Math for Undergraduate People

Dr. Aaron Wangberg
Winona State University

Abstract:  Mathematics is supposed to be fun. And Hard. And Useful. But Fun! In this interactive talk, we’ll find patterns in addition, play a series of pattern guessing games, and explore how Ms. Pacman plays tic-tac-toe. Along the way, we’ll develop a picture of doing mathematics that values creativity and curiosity that helps kids, grandparents, and everyone in between be mathematicians. This talk is accessible to all students.

Wednesday, October 26^th,

12:00- 12:50 PM

Gildemeister 155

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, September 19, Gild155

Automating Survey Management with Qualtrics Emma Rector
This talk will give an overview of the work I did this summer as part of the MASDER (Motivational Attitudes in Statistics and Data Science Education Research) project. The goal of the project is to develop new surveys for assessing attitudes towards statistics and data science education as well as a website for survey distribution and reporting. I will discuss my work with the Qualtrics API in R to improve our data extraction process for reports and how the project will benefit in the next stages.

Departmental Seminar

Motivational Attitudes in Statistics and Data Science Education

Dr. April Kerby
Winona State University

Abstract:  Statistics educators have been studying undergraduate student attitudes toward statistics for decades, but with lack of modern instruments for collecting attitudes and no mechanism for studying these attitudes at the national scale. Through our NSF-funded grant (DUE-2013392), our research team is creating a family of validated instruments to measure student attitudes toward statistics or data science, instructor attitudes toward teaching statistics or data science, and the learning environment. This talk will describe the goals of the grant, the six instruments under development and the development process, and a brief summary of the current psychometric findings.

Wednesday, October 5^th,

12:00- 12:50 PM

Gildemeister 155

Distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics

 

Student Summer Research Talk

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, September 7, Gild155

My Experience in the 2022 Colorado SIBS Program Joe Nagel
This talk will provide an overview of the Colorado Summer Institute in Biostatistics (CoSIBS) program that I participated in during the summer of 2022. The CoSIBS program included classes covering the theory and methods of biostatistics. In this program, I also worked on a research project which applied spectral clustering to metabolomic and proteomic data. This program offered many opportunities to explore Denver and the surrounding areas. The 2022 CoSIBS program culminated with a hackathon.

Math/Stat Club Picnic

 

Student Internship Seminar

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, April 20, SLC120

Data Visualization Applied to Financial Consulting Sadie Sedacca
This talk will provide an overview of an internship as a data science intern at Integrated Consulting Services. The tasks and visualizations created for clients will be included as well as a summary of the benefits of working as a consultant for a smaller firm. This presentation will give insight into the invaluable experience of working with business owners trying to navigate the lasting impacts of the COVID–19 pandemic.
Shared Investments: Gold to Platinum Aaron Turnblad
	This presentation will be on a project that I was assigned through my internship with Fastenal. Fastenal’s Share Investment program, a membership Fastenal vendors can join to get exclusive benefits. The main question that marketing wanted to be answered was, does switching from the Gold tier to the Platinum tier increase the amount we spend with the vendor? This was approached using a paired t-test for vendors who stayed in the Shared Investment program who were gold in 2021 and upgraded to platinum in 2022.