Student Recognition
Pictured (L to R): Stephanie Bobo, Nicole Finuf, Dr. Mary Goodloe
Award Recipients for 2008
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The Raymond H. Medley, Jr. Outstanding Senior Mathematics Award
2008 Recipient: Nicole Finuf - The John von Neumann Mathematics and Computer Science Award
2008 Recipient: Stephanie Bobo
Award Recipients for 2007
- The John von Neumann Mathematics and Computer Science Award
2007 Recipient: Hank Carter
- The Mathematics Problem Solving Award
2007 Recipient: Nikki Finuf and Scott O'Brien
- The Raymond H. Medley, Jr. Outstanding Senior Mathematics Award
2007 Recipient: Parisa Fatheddin
- The Raymond H. Medley, Jr. Outstanding Senior Computer Science Award
2007 Recipient: Sergei Temkin
Students Earn Honorable Mention in International Math Contest
A team of Belmont mathematics students earned an Honorable Mention in this year's Mathematical Contest in Modeling. This year's contest ran from February 14-18, 2008. During that time, teams of up to three undergraduate or high school students researched, modeled and submitted a solution to one of two modeling problems. In this international competition mathematics majors Nikki Finuf, Matt Perry and Amy Valentine had three days to model the effects of the melting polar ice cap on the Florida Coastline and to evaluate various prevention and remediation measures. Their Honorable Mention designation places them in the top 55 percent of the 1,162 competing teams representing institutions from 14 countries.
Sergei Temkin has been selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2007 . CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Awards program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. Sergei's research is titled “Collection, Analysis and Application of Locomotion Data in C. Elegans through Image Recognition”. Segei is a senior with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science.
2006 ACM Mid-Central USA Programming Contest
The Belmont Bruins programming team had their best year ever, placing 8th out of 123 teams competing in the 2006 ACM Mid-Central USA Programming Contest on Nov. 4th. The team, composed of Sergei Temkin, Ben Tate, and Jake Eichenberger, earned the 2nd Place Site Honors at Tennessee Technical University . Belmont 's second team, the Brute Force, placed 65th in the region. Nathan Davis, Stuart Childs, and Yves Toleno placed 13th out of the 17 teams competing at Tennessee Tech. Belmont’s faculty advisor is Dr. Bill Hooper.
The Mid-Central contest is one of 35 contests taking place worldwide in the first round of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). 123 teams competed simultaneously at 10 sites in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee. Each team had five hours to complete 7 difficult programs. A program is not counted correct unless it runs in a minute or less, and produces perfect output. Teams with the same number of correct submissions are ranked by the time to complete and the number of incorrect attempts. The Bruins completed 6 of 7 programs with 593 penalty points, while the Brute Force completed 4 problems with 441 penalty points.
Only one team out of all 123 competitors--the Northwestern Wildcats-- completed all 7 programs. They and the Vanderbilt Gold team, which also competed at Tenn. Tech. and finished 6 problems with 445 penalty points, will go on to compete in the World Finals, March 12-16 in Tokyo, Japan.
This is the 31st iteration of the ACM ICPC, and is sponsored by IBM Corporation. Awards, prizes, scholarships, and bragging rights are at stake for some of the world's finest university students of the computing sciences and engineering.
