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.
