UGA Mathematics Department
Kossack Prize for Outstanding Calculus Students
Kossack Prize for Outstanding Calculus Students
March 9, 2011
The 2011 Kossack Prize calculus exam will be given on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:00-6:00, Room 302, Boyd Graduate Studies Building.
The awards for the top three finishers will consist of certificates and modest cash prizes (totaling about $300), to be presented at the Mathematics Department Awards Day.
Any undergraduate student who has not taken the test before and who will have completed MATH 2260, MATH 2310H, MATH 2410 or 2410H in any semester between spring 2010 and spring 2011 (inclusive) is eligible. Any first-year student who earned AP credit for MATH 2260 during fall 2010 is also eligible. The exam is based on the standard topics in MATH 2250-2260, but not including sequences, series, or vectors. See the webpage
http://www.math.uga.edu/undergraduate/syllabi.html
Students interested in taking the Kossack Prize exam should register with Julie McEver by sending an email to julie@math.uga.edu. The email registration should include: name, student I.D. number, phone number, e-mail address, major, list of calculus courses taken (including semester, year, instructor's name, and grade).
The award honors Carl F. Kossack, a retired member of the university's Mathematics and Statistics Departments. The grant supporting the prize was provided by one of Kossack's former calculus students in appreciation of Kossack's dedication to superior teaching.
The 2011 Kossack Award Committee consists of
The awards for the top three finishers will consist of certificates and modest cash prizes (totaling about $300), to be presented at the Mathematics Department Awards Day.
Any undergraduate student who has not taken the test before and who will have completed MATH 2260, MATH 2310H, MATH 2410 or 2410H in any semester between spring 2010 and spring 2011 (inclusive) is eligible. Any first-year student who earned AP credit for MATH 2260 during fall 2010 is also eligible. The exam is based on the standard topics in MATH 2250-2260, but not including sequences, series, or vectors. See the webpage
http://www.math.uga.edu/undergraduate/syllabi.html
Students interested in taking the Kossack Prize exam should register with Julie McEver by sending an email to julie@math.uga.edu. The email registration should include: name, student I.D. number, phone number, e-mail address, major, list of calculus courses taken (including semester, year, instructor's name, and grade).
The award honors Carl F. Kossack, a retired member of the university's Mathematics and Statistics Departments. The grant supporting the prize was provided by one of Kossack's former calculus students in appreciation of Kossack's dedication to superior teaching.
The 2011 Kossack Award Committee consists of
Caner Kazanci and Shuzhou Wang
