Students Present at National Conference

Math and Science 07-08

Release Date:  April 17, 2008
 
 
Two Malone College mathematics majors recently presented research from the past semester at the Sigma Zeta National Conference, held at the University of Indianapolis.   Jeffrey Barnes, a junior from Massillon, Ohio, presented “Elliptic Curves and Factoring Large Integers.” Saint Wesonga, a senior from Kenya, presented “Elliptic Curve Cryptography.”  Both students are members of the Alpha Gamma Chapter of Sigma Zeta at Malone College.   
Sigma Zeta is a national science and mathematics honor society. It was founded in 1925 at Shurtleff College in Alton, Illinois. It has more than forty local chapters in colleges and universities across the United States.  Its purpose is to foster and encourage the attainment of greater knowledge in the fields of science and mathematics by recognizing outstanding scholastic achievement in these fields through active, graduate, and honorary memberships.
 
A podcast of the Malone student presentations can be viewed at: http://www.sigmazeta.org/convention/2008/presentations/index2.html     
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