The Math Sciences Club, led by Luke Vnenchak, Kathy Brolly, and Joe Warfield, greatly helped the running of the conference by guiding our visitors around campus and the York Road parking lot. All in all everything ran smoothly thanks to all the fine teamwork between faculty and students. Thank you all for your help. It describes the Christmas time Secret Santa gift-exchanging method.
People draw names and give a gift to the person s whose name they draw.
It turns out that in a large group of people, the probability that someone gives a gift to a person and in turn receives a gift from the same person is close to 0.4. Dr. Stephen Fienberg met with Math majors and faculties for refreshments and conversation in the Math Seminar Room early in October. Fienberg was visiting campus as Loyola's Phi Beta Kappa scholar. Last week, a friend of a student was visiting on campus. She told me that although she really liked math, she had never really considered being a math major.