About: Bonnie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and serves as the faculty sponsor and leader of SWIMS.
Name: Lucia Tiererova '06
Major: Mathematics, Economics
Hometown: Partizanske, Slovakia
About: Lucia came to Bates with a clear interest in math and computer science but due to the lack of computer science courses, later switched to economics. She spent her junior year abroad at the London School of Economics in Great Britain, where she found inspiration for her senior thesis. It was a joint math-econ thesis on Strange Attractor in Financial Market Time Series, completed under the guidance of Chip Ross and Michael Murray. For two summers, she served as a teaching assistant/cousellor at a math camp for talented high school students at the University of Washington (SIMUW). After graduation, she plans to go on to work as an economic consulting analyst in Boston.
Name: Chrissy Anderson '06
Major: Mathematics
Hometown: Boulder, CO
About: Chrissy spent a junior semester abroad in Dublin, Ireland and wrote her thesis on statistics. After graduation, she plans to go on to work as a consultant in Washington, DC.
Name: Cassandra Kirkland '08
Major: Mathematics
Hometown: Greene, ME
About: Cassandra is going for a semester in Budapest during her junior year to study mathematics. She also had an exciting internship in bla bla bla...
Name: Nate Stambaugh '06
Major: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
Hometown: Rhinebeck, NY
About: Extremely talented and smart, Nate has managed impossible - to triple major! Writing and defending two honors thesis, Bates will be crying in May '06 when Nate graduates. Apart from doing an internship in NSA during his sophomore year and REU in his junior year, Nate managed to spend a semester in Hungary learning Hungarian. He originally planned to minor in Hungarian language, however, Bates registrar did not grant him special permission to do so. :( Are you wondering what is Nate (=male) doing in SWIMS? Easy! Nates loves dating smart women, and he knows where to look for them! Anyways, good luck with the math graduate program at Brandeis, Nate!
Name: Josie Cutts '09
Major: ?!?
Hometown: Kittery, ME
About: An aspiring young mathematician, Josie fell in love with math after taking Math Camp (do they brainwash the poor kids there?!). Since then, she's been working on math problems day and night.