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Tim Chartier

Tim Chartier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Davidson College. In 2014, he was named the inaugural Mathematical Association of America's Math Ambassador. He is a recipient of a national teaching award from the Mathematical Association of America. Published by Princeton University Press, Tim authored Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing and coauthored Numerical Methods: Design, Analysis, and Computer Implementation of Algorithms with Anne Greenbaum. As a researcher, Tim has worked with both Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories and his research was recognized with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.

He serves on the Editorial Board for Math Horizons, a mathematics magazine of the Mathematical Association of America. He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Museum of Mathematics, which opened in 2012 and is the first museum of mathematics in the United States. Tim has been a resource for a variety of media inquiries which includes fielding mathematical questions for the Sports Science program on ESPN. He also writes for the Science blog of the Huffington Post.

Michael Mossinghoff

Michael Mossinghoff is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Davidson College. He has held visiting positions at the University of South Carolina and the University of California, Los Angeles, and he will co-host a research program for students at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics at Brown University this summer. He has written more than 30 research papers in pure and computational aspects of mathematics, and has co-authored a textbook, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, published by Springer.

He serves on the editorial board for Mathematics of Computation, a research journal published by the American Mathematical Society, and for the book series Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, published by the Mathematical Association of America. He attributes his interest in The Beautiful Game to his upbringing in the longtime soccer hotbed of St. Louis.

Mark Kozek

Mark Kozek is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Whittier College, a designated Hispanic Serving Institution located seventeen miles east of Downtown Los Angeles. He has held visiting positions at Dartmouth College and the University of Georgia and ran the undergraduate research component for the Summer Mathematics Institute at Cornell University during three summers. His mathematical research is in Paul Erdos-style number theory. His other scholarly interests include mathematics in literature and cinema, history of cryptography, and sports analytics (soccer and American football).

His analysis of former University of Oregon coach Chip Kelly's play-calling system/placard code has been featured on ESPN.com and USA Today. During the 2010 FIFA World Cup, he was a special correspondent and contributor to SBNation.com's "2010 World Cup Perspectives" and currently contributes to Footbrothers.com blog and podcasts about the US Men's National soccer team. He attended both the Germany and South Africa FIFA World Cups and will travel to Brazil this summer to watch USA-Germany, the 2G vs. 1H second-round match, and at least one other match.

Greg Macnamara

Greg Macnamara graduated Magna Cum Laude from Davidson in 2012 with a degree in Mathematics and a minor in Economics. At Davidson, he was a two time Captain of the varsity soccer team, Academic All-American, and 1st Team All-Southern Conference Selection. He was a Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award Nominee as well. His senior year, Davidson awarded him the Rostan Family Scholarship and nominated him for Fulbright and Marshall Scholarships. He finished his Davidson graduation requirements in the fall of his senior year in order to pursue a career in professional soccer that spring. After playing with the Charleston Battery for three weeks, however, he decided pro soccer was not for him, and returned to Davidson to finish his honors economics thesis, which he presented at the Duke Annual Economics Undergraduate Research Symposium, and work with Dr. Chartier on ranking research. He now works as an Economic Consultant at Analysis Group in Washington, DC while still collaborating with Dr. Chartier.

Andrew Liu

Andrew Liu graduated from Davidson College in 2014 with a degree in Biology. Currently, he works as a software engineer for R65 Labs, a startup investigating using wearable tech to solve issues in public health.