Nathaniel Redden Accepts a Summer 2020 Internship

Nathaniel Redden, May 2020 graduate, accepted an internship at Etactics, Inc. as an Associate Software Developer for the summer of 2020.

May or December 2020 Math and Computer Science Graduates

The following students will graduate in May or December 2020 from the Math and Computer Science department: Kyle Ackert, Alec Baldosser, Branden Barber, Camryn Bickerstaff, Aaron Bradfield, Kyle D'Ambrosio, Jacob Garry, Ryan Hale, Daria Kochis, Lingxi Li, Renee Lucas, Kelly Luck, Jaret Martin, Nathan McVicar, Jonathan Meredith, Brennen Nalley, John Oney, Logan Pottorf, Nathaniel Redden, Dalton Skerlec, Joseph Smith, Tyler Tokos and Eric Watts.

Thank you for spending your college career with us. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

2020 Math and Computer Science Annual Honors Reception

The 2020 Honors Reception for the Math and Computer Science Department was held on April 29, 2020 via Zoom. Students were awarded for a GPA of 3.5 in their Math and Computer Science Courses. In addition, there were outstanding student awards, graudates, scholarship recipients, Pi Mu Epsilon new inductees, ACM officers, MAA officers, UPE officers, PME officers, student presentations and student participation recognition.

The following students received outstanding student awards.

Carpenter Award for Outstanding Calculus Student: Kayla Neyra

Wendling Award for Outstanding Discrete Mathematics Student: Shawn Brady

Poorman Award for Outstanding Introductory Computer Programming Student: Kane Feldhake

Outstanding Sophomore: Hannah Smigel

Outstanding Juniors: Brittany Close, Logan Hurst, Josiah Moore, Benjamin Schlemmer and Emily Schordock.

Outstanding Seniors: Camryn Bickerstaff, Daria Kochis, Lingxi Li, Renee Lucas and Kelly Luck.

Congratulations to all students who were awarded.

PME 2020 Inductees and Graduates

On Wednesday, April 22, the AU Ohio Rho chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, the mathematics honorary, held its 17th induction. This was held virtually via Zoom, ad was conducted by the chapter advisor, Dr. Gordon Swain, and the chapter officers Logan Pottorf, Julia Hines, Emily Schordock and Daria Kochis. Eight new members were inducted: Hannah Balliett, Camryn Bickerstaff, Tawny Hetsler Caudill, Michael Homan, Logan Hurst, Faith Lewis, Lingxi Li and Joseph Smith.

The 2020 PME graduates were: Kyle Ackert, Camryn Bickerstaff, Julia Hines, Daria Kochis, Lingxi Li, Kelly Luck, Logan Pottorf, Clay Shreve, Dalton Skerlec and Joseph Smith.

UPE 2020 Inductees

The new inductees to Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) for 2020 were: Kyle Ackert and Camryn Bickerstaff.

The 2020 UPE graduates were: Kyle Ackert, Branden Barber, Camryn Bickerstaff, Renee Lucas, Jonathan Meredith and Brennen Nalley.

Johnathan Meredith Co-Authored a Published Paper

Jonathan Meredith, May 2020 Computer Science graduate, co-authored a paper with fellow participants in a Research Experience for Undergraduates program at North Dakota State University last summer that was accepted for publication. The formal citation for this paper is as follows:

           

J. Meredith, J. Straub and B. Bernard, "Identifying UAV Swarm Command Methods and Individual Craft Roles Using Only Passive Sensing," 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2019, pp. 1043-1046, doi: 10.1109/CSCI49370.2019.00199.

Jonathan Meredith, May 2020 Computer Science Graduate, Josiah Moore, Junior in Computer Science and other AU students, co-wrote the software that went with the paper, entitled, “Consumer Behavior and Image Analysis: A Student Customer Retention Model.”  This paper won the best paper of conference award at the 56^th Annual MBAA International Conference in March 2020.

Chengyuan Jiang Accepted to Masters Program

Chengyuan Jiang, a December 2019 Math graduate, was accepted into the Mathematics M.S. Program at Case Western.

Math 206 Added to Drop in Tutoring Schedule

Math 206 has been added to the Spring 2020 Drop-In Tutoring Schedule on Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 p.m. in Kettering 219.

Mathematics & Computer Science

Drop-In Tutoring Schedule Spring 2020

January 21 – April 30

(Revised 2/24/20) _____________________________________________

Room 219 Kettering

The Calculus II – Math 206

          Tuesdays                   7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Elementary Statistics – Math 208

            Mondays                  7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

            Tuesdays                   7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

            Wednesdays            7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

            Thursdays                 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Discrete Math II – Math 224 (Starting January 30.)

            Thursdays               7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

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Simply go in and meet with the tutor as long as you need.

There is no cost for these tutoring services as the support is provided by AU through your tuition.

Please see your professor first for help!!!

2019 Putnam Exam Results

The results of the 2019 Putnam Exam, held on Saturday, December 7, 2019 are in. There were 4229 participants from 570 institutions in this year's competition, with 1603 (37.9%) receiving scores of 0.  Unfortunately, all 4 of Ashland University's participants received scores of 0 this year as well.  The results from the competition are online. You can also download this PDF to see a detailed list of the winning teams, Putnam Fellows, participants earning honorable mentions, teams earning honorable mentions, and the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize winner.

Thank you to all who participated in the 2019 competition. We hope those of you who were not declared ineligible upon graduation in May will consider participating again next year.