Winners at the LA MS MAA Meeting

Several people from our department attended the Louisiana Mississippi MAA Section Meeting at the University of Southern Mississippi - Gulf Coast in Long Beach, Mississippi on 26-28 February 2015. Two teams from UL Lafayette competed in the Student Team Competition: Team A comprised of John Patterson, Tommy Credeur, Ningke Song, and James Mallory; and, Team B comprised of Tyler Montgomery, Christopher Sam, and Austin Hansen. Team A won first place in the Student Team Competition.

Photo caption: Our student group at the LA-MS MAA 2015 meeting (L to R: Ross Chiquet, Tommy Credeur, Ningke Song, Austin Hansen, James Mallory, Tyler Montgomery, John Patterson, Christopher Sam).

Tyler Montgomery, one of our math majors and a member of team B, won first place in the Student Paper Competition. Tyler presented a talk based on his paper "A matrix population model for Cuvier's beaked whales." Ross Chiquet supervised Tyler's research and served as faculty advisor for both teams.