The Ashland University Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (PUE) welcomes five new members. They were inducted on 11/7/2011. Welcome to the honor society!
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
ACM Programming Contest 2011
This year, three teams participated the 2011 ACM contest in the East Central North America Region at the Youngstown site. Team au_purple solved 2 out of 9 problems and ranked 40 out of 122 in our region. Team au_gold solved 1 out of 9 problems. 4 freshman came to observe the competition.
Here are two pictures taken before and after the contest. All smiles. .....
Here are two pictures taken before and after the contest. All smiles. .....
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Good News
We were recently notified that the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) awarded the Ashland University undergraduate Integrated Mathematics and Bachelor’s Plus mathematics programs National Recognition. For more information on the program standards and review process, see http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=2978
Friday, September 9, 2011
Careers
CareerCast.com has posted the "Ten Best Jobs of 2011". Our department completed a clean sweep of the top five!
- Software Engineer
- Mathematician
- Actuary
- Statistician
- Computer Systems Analyst
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Computer Science Students Intern at Smucker's
Computer Science majors Tom Conti and Matthew Smithburger started their summer internships in mid-May at Smucker’s in Orrville, OH. The J.M. Smucker company is consistently recognized as one of the 100 best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, and in 2004 it was ranked #1. They are also included in the S&P 500 market index.
Although their internships are both within the IT department, Tom and Matt are assigned to different groups and projects. Matt works in the Sales and Marketing Administration group of IT, primarily focusing on Finance. He is also working on upgrading R12 content for the company, which is the newest version of Oracle’s business suite. Additionally, he is helping with month-end financing processes and testing programs for the Windows 7 roll out.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Society of Actuaries Exam
Congratulations to Actuarial Science major Andrew Iden on recently passing the Society of Actuaries Exam FM - Financial Mathematics. Andrew completed a Special Topics course in Financial Mathematics with Dr. Christopher Swanson in the Spring of 2011.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
ACM-ICPC East Central North America Regional Programming Contest
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| Dr. Boris Kerkez (far left) and Dr. Paul Cao (far right),with Ashland University's 2010 ACM Contest participants. |
Dr. Paul Cao directed nine students at the Association for Computing Machinery East Central North America Regional Programming Contest, held on October 23, 2010 in Youngstown, Ohio. 115 teams from 60 colleges and universities throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, eastern Ontario, and Indiana participated in the contest.
Participants from Ashland University included: John Bentley, Thomas Conti, Kees Edwards, Jim Huang, Allen Kowal, Anna Payne, Patrick Shehan, Matthew Smithburger and Marissa Uhrig.
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| ACM participants preparing to depart for the competition. |
William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition
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| Nicole Peterson, Cara Whitcomb, Caitlin Music, Anna Payne |
On December 4, 2010, Nicole Peterson, Cara Whitcomb, Caitlin Music, and Anna Payne participated in the 71st William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. For those of you unfamiliar with this competition, they worked on six problems from 10:00 am—1:00 pm and then six more problems from 3:00 pm—6:00 pm. Typically, approximately 50% of the people who enter this competition nationwide (and in Canada) receive 0 points on the entire test. Nicole Peterson received a score of 10 and Cara Whitcomb received a score of 12. Cara’s score broke the previous top score, 10, received by an Ashland University student.
Dr. Christopher Swanson directed these four students at the competition. This historical competition began in 1938 and is designed to stimulate a healthful rivalry in mathematical studies in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada.
Dr. Christopher Swanson directed these four students at the competition. This historical competition began in 1938 and is designed to stimulate a healthful rivalry in mathematical studies in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada.
OHIO SECTION OF THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Dr. Cathy Stoffer, Dr. Vickie Van Dresar, Dr. Christopher Swanson, Dr. Gordon Swain and Dr. Thomas Dence, as well as several AU students, attended the conference. Some gave talks and others participated in a Mathematics competition.
Dr. Gordon Swain was one of the featured invited speakers to the conference. He gave an hour talk titled "On Lines and Parabolas, Again and Again."
Dr .Thomas Dence delivered one of the contributed talks, titled "Residues Modulo a Prime."
Dr. Christopher Swanson served as a mentor and coordinator for the six Ashland University students who participated in the conference by delivering contributed talks. The students who gave presentations at this conference were:
Kara Biltz "Exploring the Platonic Relationship Between Probability and Yahtzee"
Niko Blankenship "A Different Look at March Madness"
Alayne Ruggles "Weird Dice"
Nicole Peterson "Sequences and Balanced Distributions"
Polly Widmer "To Be, or Not to Be, Dry!"
Donnie Dottei "Baseball's Record Breaking Math"
Under the direction of Dr. Dence, nine students braved serious competition, and fared quite well, in the Leo Schneider Ohio Student Mathematics Contest. The students who participated were: Kara Biltz, Niko Blankenship, Clay Harris, Nicole Peterson, Alayna Ruggles, Makenzie Sauder, Cara Whitcomb, Polly Widmer and David Woods
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