At the end of the Day

Ok. I have been very lazy about the blog. Let's start with

News from Old Main

The Department welcomes two new faculty members: Bogdan Petrenko formerly of University of Illinois and Alejandra Alvarado recently of Purdue University.

Jonelle and Leo Comerford visited the Department this fall after having moved to Colorado.

Six students and two faculty members from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science attended the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges' Midwest Conference this September in Findlay, Ohio. Professors Andrew Mertz and Nancy Van Cleave gave a presentation on an assignment for Computer Science 1 called “Bubble Fountain with Wandering Black Hole: Designing a Particle Class.”

Students competed in a programing competition where one of the teams consisting of Murat Aksoy, Joel Blome and Brian Bourne came in second place among all 26 teams at the competition. Another team of Jason Banahan, Bradley Chatman and Ross Mattingly came in 13th place.

Bill Slough and Andrew Mertz attended a TeX conference at the University of Tokyo in October.

Keith Wolcott has retired from teaching and will spend some of his spare time preparing for a long distance bike race.

Spring Term Begins

Spring term began January 7th. And we are off like a pack of tortoises.

This is the earliest start in recent memory.

The Department is seeking to fill some assistant professor positions and so we have a considerable presence at the San Diego meeting this week.

Bill Slough is back from his sabbatical which included sitting in on one of those on-line computer courses with an elephantine student list and some fabulous extracurricular bread making.

Last month saw the only 12/12/12 of the century. Indeed our last post had the distinction of coming to be on that great day even though we passed silently over the fact in that post.

And this year will see the only 11/12/13 of the century. No cause for alarm tho, since the following year will see a 10/12/14. Well ... I guess the list goes on and on.