2019 ICPC East Central North America Regional Programming Contest

Dr. Deborah Wilson accompanied nine students who participated in the 2019 ICPC East Central North America Regional Programming Contest held at Youngstown State University on Friday and Saturday, October 25 and 26, 2019.

The teams were:

            Ashland Automatons: Renee Lucas, Brennen Nalley, Huijie (Daisy) Zhang

            Ashland CPUs: Mohammed Bawazeer, Kelly Fullin, Brennan Kunkle

            Ashland C0d3r$: Camryn Bickerstaff, Jonathan Meredith, Josiah Moore

The contest had eleven problems to solve. The Ashland C0d3r$ solved one problem placing them in 78^th place.  Congratulations to the AU teams. For some of these students this is their last contest as they are either graduating December 2019 or May 2020. Thank you for your participation. We will miss those graduating and hope to see the others participate again

in the future.

Alec Baldosser Passed the Actuarial FM Exam

Alec Baldosser (Senior) passed the Society of Financial Mathematics (FM) Exam on August 2019. Congratulations, Alec Baldosser.

Drop - In Tutoring Fall 2019

Mathematics & Computer Science

Drop-In Tutoring Schedule Fall 2019

September 3 – December 5 _____________________________________________

Room 219 Kettering

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 I – Math 223

            Tuesdays                   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.

AU provides these tutoring services for free!

Please see your professor first for help!!!

Renee Lucas Accepts a Job Offer

The Computer Science major, Renee Lucas is a senior. She has received and accepted a job offer from FirstEnergy for the position of Transport Specialist I on the WAN Networking Team. This is the same team that she has been working with since last summer through an internship. The team supports multiple different Wide Area Networking Technologies that provide communications between different remote locations including DWDM, Microwave, MPLS and the Smart Meter Project (AMI), in addition to some substation communication technologies like IP SCADA.

Renee Lucas is excited to return to work with the same team she completed her internship with after her graduation from AU with a Computer Science degree in May, 2020.

The Math and Computer Science Department Suffered a Great Loss

On August 30, 2019, Dr. Iyad Ajwa, Professor of Computer Science, passed away after a battle with cancer. Services for Dr. Ajwa were held the same afternoon at the Al Noor Mosque in Columbus, Oho. He is greatly missed in the department and at Ashland University.

Dr. Ajwa joined Ashland University as an Assistant Professor in 1997 and was devoted to our institution. He was a beloved teacher having been nominated twice for the prestigious Taylor Teaching Award. Dr. Ajwa was the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Award for the 2013-2014 academic year during which he taught and conducted research at Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia. In 2005-06 he was granted a Senior Study Leave to teach at Abu Dhabi University. Dr. Ajwa's scholarly record includes numerous peer-reviewed articles, grants and contributed papers. He served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (2014-2019) and recently developed the curricula for two new majors:  cyber security and software design and development. The entire academic community joins the entire Ashland University community in mourning his loss.  Please keep Dr. Ajwa's wife, Nadia, and sons, Ismaeil and Omar, in your prayers.

We continue to remember him with great fondness.

Jonathan Meredith Participated in a Summer Cyber Security REU

Jonathan Meredith

Jonathan Meredith participated in a Cyber Security REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) at North Dakota State University over the summer 2019.

Congratulations, Jonathan Meredith.

Dr. Christopher N. Swanson, Mathematics Received the Meritourios Service Award

Dr. Christopher N. Swanson received the Meritorious Service Award in Recognition for his outstanding service to the Ohio Section of Mathematical Association of America.

Dr. Swanson received the award at the mathematical Association of America's MathFest Conference held July 31 to Aug. 3 in Cincinnati, Ohio. To see more about this, here is the link to the citation: https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/awards/MathFest2019/MSAward_Swanson.pdf

The Ohio Section's nomination of Dr. Swanson noted that he has been actively involved at the national and sectional level, serving as president of the Ohio Section for two years, serving as co-coordinator for Ohio NExt (a professional development program for new math faculty) for 12 years, serving on the Committee on Student Members for eight year's and presenting multiple invited national MAA panel discussions and Ohio NExT workshops.

Dr. Swanson joined Ashland University faculty in 1999. He will be serving as chair of AU's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in the upcoming academic year. He previously served, for 12 years, as the University's Honors Program Director.