Spring 2021

Dear Friends of the Department, Welcome to our spring newsletter! I look forward to update you on our latest research, teaching, and outreach activities post-Covid. During…
 Elizabeth Miller  Introduction  The sudden switch to online instruction in spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique challenge to educators everywhere, and the Department of…
Barbara Keyfitz and Sanjeevi Krishnan  The pandemic has affected graduate student life in myriad ways. On behalf of the Graduate Studies Committee, we conducted an online,…
 By Liz Vivas and Jim Fowler  The Young Mathematicians Conference (YMC) held at Ohio State has become one of the premier ways to showcase undergraduate research. It has…
Dustin G. Mixon  The year 2020 will be remembered for its historic confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the George Floyd protests and the presidential election. As if that weren't enough, here's…
   The Actuarial Club at Ohio State (ACOS) is open to all Ohio State students. We primarily focus on helping students gain the skills necessary to be successful in a career…
 The Department of Mathematics welcomes its new tenure track faculty member: Caroline Terry.  Terry is originally from Omaha, Nebraska. She received her PhD from the …
   Former student Joel Moreira has been awarded the 2020 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians, given to outstanding researchers in dynamical…
   Although social distancing requirements led to fewer opportunities to see people in person, the graduate student community stayed vibrant and connected. Before classes…