{"id":7798,"date":"2019-11-17T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2019-11-17T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T17:58:11","slug":"sau-math-students-model-their-skills-at-challenge-saturday-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2019\/sau-math-students-model-their-skills-at-challenge-saturday-event\/","title":{"rendered":"SAU math students model their skills at Challenge Saturday event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern Arkansas University proudly hosted six teams of STEM majors on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Challenge Saturday. Students from Cameroon, India, Czech Republic and Nigeria, as well as from across the United States participated. More than 600 students worked on teams of three at their home school for over a week on one of three math scenarios.<\/p>\n

SAU\u2019s undergraduates from a variety of STEM majors converged on the SAU Science Building for this all-day event, sharing their results and getting valuable feedback from faculty judges. To round off the day, there were also faculty development workshops and a fun Math Bowl.<\/p>\n

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SAU math students and faculty participated in Challenge Saturday at the SAU Science Center.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cFor Challenge Saturday, our SAU students successfully addressed a problem using the power and elegance of mathematics, sharing it with others in presentations,\u201d said Dr. Abdel Bachri, dean of the College of Science and Engineering. This year\u2019s challenges involved chemical signals from wasps and butterflies which relate to reproduction and egg deposits; the phenomenon of hipsters in how people tend to group themselves, and the movement of objects on small microgravity environments such as asteroids.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank Dr. Schrader and the faculty mentors who came together to make this event possible,\u201d said Bachri. \u201cMath is the language of the universe. Laws of nature are often expressed in terms of differential equations. They can be used in a wide variety of disciplines to make predictions, from health to economics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone can benefit from a modeling challenge such as this one. I was very impressed by the students\u2019 presentations, and every team presented a unique mathematical approach to model the problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The event, SCUDEM IV 2019 (SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equations), was sponsored by SIMIODE \u2013 Systemic Initiative for Modeling investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations, a 501(c)3 Nonprofit organization, funded in part by the National Science Foundation. Anyone interested in modeling with mathematics \u2013 specifically with the STEM pivotal material known as differential equations \u2013 can join SIMIODE free at www.simiode.org<\/a>. The day\u2019s events were coordinated by Dr. Paul Schrader of SAU\u2019s Mathematics and Computer Science Department along with many SAU faculty, staff, and student volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Southern Arkansas University proudly hosted six teams of STEM majors on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Challenge Saturday. Students from Cameroon, India, Czech Republic and Nigeria, as well as from across the United States participated. More than 600 students worked on teams of three at their home school for over a week on one of… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":7799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[308,7758],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-of-science-and-technology","8":"category-math-and-computer-science","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}