Monique Chyba won the 2023 MAA Golden Section’s Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics Award. The award was presented at the 2023 Golden Section Meeting held at Santa Rosa Junior College, on February 25, 2023.
Since joining the faculty at Mānoa in 2002, Dr. Monique Chyba’s classroom instruction, place-based pedagogy, student mentoring,
and community outreach initiatives have impressed her students and colleagues.
“She not only shines individually through her clear and engaging style but also has worked to make substantive changes in the teaching infrastructure at the University of Hawai‘i. Her teaching often extends beyond the classroom through community engagement…(and) in using placebased knowledge to reform the quantitative reasoning curriculum.” — A colleague of Prof. Chyba
Chelsea Nguyen (math major and Honors student) has been pursuing undergraduate research under the guidance of Daisuke Takagi.
Last week she presented a poster at the Ocean Science Meeting, the flagship conference for ocean science that brings together a diverse group of scientists, engineers and mathematicians working on anything ocean related. Above we see her presenting the poster.
Automatic Complexity: A computable measure of irregularity
was published by De Gruyter.
The books challenge computability theory in different yet similar ways:
Programs as diagrams argues that Turing machines can be replaced by category-theoretical diagrams for a more natural understanding of computability.
Automatic complexity advocates replacing Turing machines by finite automata in the definition of Kolmogorov complexity, thus obtaining a computable notion that is “visual” in an analogous way to Pavlovic’s diagrams.
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate students in the United States and Canada; it takes place in December each year.
The problems asked in the competition are fun, but a real challenge: solving just one of these problems takes serious work and insight.
This year, seven UH Mānoa managed to solve at least one problem, an excellent achievement that puts them in the top half of over 4000 participants in the US and Canada.
One student, Adam Inamasu, made the top 500 students nationwide: see page 16 of the full results.
Congratulations to all who took part!
Professor Pavel Guerzhoy runs a 1-credit ‘Putnam preparation’ course in the Fall semester for students who are interested in working on fun and challenging math problems. Please contact Professor Guerzhoy or a math advisor if you are interested in taking part.