Congrats Larissa!

Larissa Berry, May 2013 grad, has accepted a teaching position at Rootstown High School, in Rootstown, Ohio. Larissa earned a Bachelor of Science in Education with a major in Integrated Mathematics (Grades 7-12).

Congratulations and good luck, Larrisa, as you begin your career in education!

Dr. Swain Presents at Association for Christians in the Mathematical Sciences

Dr. Gordon Swain, Professor of Mathematics, attended the Biennial Conference of the Association for Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, May 29-June 1, at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota. He gave a talk titled, "Calculus methods from the early 1600s." In this talk he showed some of the creative mathematics involved in solving calculus problems (like finding the area between curves) that was used before the discovery of Calculus (late 1600s). About the conference he said, "While mathematics is neither Christian nor non-Christian, when mathematicians who are Christians get together there is an extra element of wonder at God's creation. Plus it is very cool to be able to talk about mathematical problems and your Bible study in the same conversation; typically we have to separate these parts of our lives. One speaker at the conference spoke about grace in teaching, another talked about the ethics of autonomous robots (robotic weapons and robotic caregivers); this last topic was very scary."

Dr. Rupasinghe Pushlishes Paper

Dr. Rupasinghe, assistant professor of Mathematics, had a paper titled "Obtaining prediction intervals for FARIMA processes using the sieve bootstrap" published in the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation with two co-authors; Dr. P. Mukhopadhyay of Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI and Dr. V.A. Samaranayake of Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO.

 

Dr. Rupasinghe was the first and corresponding author of this article.

MAA Conference

Faculty members and students from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science recently attended the Spring Meeting of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of America at Denison University. 

The faculty members attending were 

• Dr. Cathy Stoffer, Dr. Chris Swanson, Dr. Vickie Van Dresar and Dr. Darren Wick.

Six students participated in the annual Leo Schneider Student Team Mathematics Competition

• Joey Ciaccia, Kate Fleming, Stacee King, Anna Payne, Megan Raber, and Rob Woodward

Three students presented contributed talks at the meeting

• Kate Fleming – “Variations on the Monty Hall Problem”
• Stacee King – “Subtriangles and Their Implications for Creating Subrectangles” 
• Megan Raber – “Decimal Expansions Involving Fibonacci Numbers”

Dr. Dence Travels to Alaska

Dr. Tom Dence wasn't looking for warm weather, sunny skies, or sandy beaches for his vacation, instead he headed north. Dr. Dence traveled over 4,000 miles to witness the Iditarod, an annual sled dog race in Alaska. The ceremonial race is in Anchorage and the official race starts in Willow and ends in Nome. The race is over 1,000 miles and takes 9-15 days to complete. This was Dr. Dence's first trip to the race.

Ceremonial start in Anchorage.

The race is on!

Dr. Dence slaps the hand of a musher as he goes by.

Dr. Dence takes a shot at being a musher.

Donnie Dottei Receives GLIAC Commissioner's Award

AU football player, Donald Dottei, has received a Fall 2012 Meijer GLIAC Commissioner's Award for his success on the field and his academic success in the classroom.

Dottei, a senior, is double-majoring in Actuarial Science and Integrated Mathematics.

To read the full article:
http://goashlandeagles.com/sports/wvball/2012-13/releases/20130109mnsb9b

Upsilon Pi Epsilon Inducts New Member

Daniel "Kees" Edwards was inducted into Ashland University's Epsilon Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines. Daniel is a junior and is double-majoring in Computer Science and Computer Art & Graphics Programming.

The initiation, led by Matthew Smithburger, chapter president, took place on February 12 in Patterson Hall.

Other UPE members are Tom Conti, Jim Huang, Marissa Uhrig, and Kenny Bogner. Marissa has been voted as president-elect for 2013-2014.


The mission of UPE is to recognize academic excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the computing and information disciplines. Ashland University’s Epsilon Chapter was formed in January 2002. Sophomore, junior and senior computer science majors who meet the eligibility requirements are invited to join this prestigious honorary.