Millsaps College Mathematics Department

11/20/2024

I think I remember a setting where you could determine the length of the cool down period between shots, but now I can’t find it. Anyone know where I can find it?

08/20/2021

For integers $k,r\geq 2$, the diagonal Ramsey number $R_r(k)$ is the minimum $N\in\mathbb{N}$ such that every $r$-coloring of the edges of a complete graph on $N$ vertices yields on a monochromatic subgraph on $k$ vertices. Here we make a careful effort of extracting explicit upper bounds for $R_r(k...

05/23/2020

Accepted! The results from the Millsaps math summer research program have been accepted for publication. They will appear in Involve. Find the article on the arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08067.

Congratulations Vajresh Balaji, Olivia Edwards, Anne Marie Loftin, Solomon Mcharo, Lo Phillips, Bineyam Tsegaye, and Dr. Alex Rice! An amazing achievement!

03/28/2020

02/12/2020

Math still isn’t done y’all. And Alex Rice gives the most simultaneously engaging and accessible math talks I’ve ever heard in my life. Bar. None.

02/08/2020

Math students presenting the incredible fruits of their summer labor at the Beta Beta Beta research symposium this afternoon. I walked away impressed with Alex and the students but also reminded why math is the best discipline. It can make perfect sense to call a polygon a circle! A special congratulations to Anne Marie Loftin who took second place in the oral presentation!

11/27/2019

Another paper from this summer’s research with Millsaps math majors is on the arxiv!

We begin by revisiting a paper of Erdős and Fishburn, which posed the following question: given $k\in \mathbb{N}$, what is the maximum number of points in a plane that determine at most $k$ distinct distances, and can such optimal configurations be classified? We rigorously verify claims made in re...

11/20/2019

The first of two papers from this summer’s research program is on the arxiv. Great work by Millsaps math majors!

We address an analog of a problem introduced by Erdős and Fishburn, itself an inverse formulation of the famous Erdős distance problem, in which the usual Euclidean distance is replaced with the metric induced by the $\ell^1$-norm, commonly referred to as the $\textit{taxicab metric}$. Specificall...

11/02/2019

The math competition put on by Millsaps math department was a huge success! Thanks to all who came out and to Dr. Alex Rice for his innovation and hard work!

08/26/2019

We are so proud of our students and Dr. Rice! Read about Millsaps math students and their summer research experience.

This summer, with the support of the Kinnaird Endowment, the Millsaps College Department of Mathematics launched the inaugural Kinnaird Institute Research Experience with Dr. Alex Rice, assistant professor of mathematics.

06/17/2019

At work and at play. Our summer research program is in full swing!

05/11/2019

Graduation breakfast 2019. We are so proud of these graduates. They earned it. We can’t wait to see what they do next!