A letter of recommendation for Patrick Kreitzberg, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Montana.

A letter of recommendation for Kyle Lucke, a masters student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Montana.

A letter of recommendation for Jake Rooster Pennington, a masters student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Montana.

Why does someone become a scientist? What would motivate a person to spend years to shave some time off of an algorithm? And what does this have to do with being a ``soul surfer''? A sincere thank you to our fellow soul surfers, Megan Louise and Johnny Jewel from the band Desire and the record label Italians Do It Better. You guys are great, and music is medicine. Listen to their catalog .

What is a ``one way'' function? What does it have to do with ``guess and check'' from grade school math? And what's that got to do with cryptography and how it's attacked?

A chat with Mark Kayll, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Montana, about his career in science.

How do computer viruses spread themselves without access to their own source code? And what does this have to do with how human couples have kids? And what's that got to do with special programs called quines and Ouroboroses?

When is an infinite number of things still finite in size? And what does this have to do with flipping a coin until it comes up heads?

A chat with Johnathan Bardsley, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Montana, about his career in science.

Partitioning your Halloween candy into "clusters" of similar candy (e.g., chocolates together, hard candies together, ) is a difficult task. What does this have to do with finding duplicate songs and finding molecules with similar molecular structures? And how in the world could this be done without comparing every pair of candies to see how similar they are to one another?