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Spring 2018

Spring 2018

Dr. Luis Casian
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Alumni and Friends of Ohio State University’s Department of Mathematics, I am pleased to introduce you to our first online publication. We have so many success stories and so much great news to…
Pink Flower
Saving Students $1 Million Dollars a Year
Annually, Ohio State Mathematics serves approximately 10,000 students in our calculus sequence alone. Our faculty have a plan to save these students a million dollars a year. Here’s how:…
Ross Mathematics Program
Celebrating the Legendary Ross Program
In 2017, the Ross Mathematics Program celebrated 60 years of instructing bright, pre-college students in the art of mathematical thinking. More importantly, it has inspired generations to…
Classroom 3
Math 4.0: Growing Student Success and Retention Rates
We are establishing a sustainable, research-driven culture to improve student success and retention in STEM courses — science, technology, engineering, mathematics — to ensure that students…
SAMMS Program
SAMMS: Removing Barriers to Graduate School
The Sampling Advanced Mathematics for Minority Students (SAMMS) Program, a partnership between the Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University and the Department of Mathematical Sciences…
Ohio State Garden of Constants
Mathematics Advisory Board in Action
The Advisory Board participates in the seminar series “Math into Industry" In 2016, we launched our new Mathematics Advisory Board (AB) to tap into the diverse expertise of our alumni. We are…
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Alumna Success Spotlight: Sherry Chan
  New Member of Mathematics Advisory Board Named to “40 Under 40 in NYC” Alumna Sherry Chan, who received a BS in Actuarial Science in 2001; and an…
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Faculty Success Spotlight: Dustin Mixon
Dustin Mixon, assistant professor of mathematics, co-authored a new paper that is making big news because it could not be more timely, “An Impossibility…
From left to right, Associate Professor Matthew Kahle, Associate Professor Facundo Memoli, Assistant Professor David Sivakoff
Research: Math Key Player in NSF-funded Multidisciplinary Collaboration
We are proud to team-up with Ohio State statisticians and computer scientists in a leading-edge multidisciplinary data-science research collaboration. Our research team is among the first in the…