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Summer 2020
Summer 2020
In this issue
Welcome from the Chair - Jean-François Lafont
Dear Friends of the Department, Welcome to our latest newsletter! During these extraordinary times, I look forward to updating you on our department activities and increasing our engagement with the…
Modeling COVID-19 in Ohio
Joseph H. Tien I have been fortunate to be part of an interdisciplinary team providing modeling support regarding COVID-19 dynamics in Ohio. These efforts began in early March when Grzegorz Rempala…
Exploring Mathematical Careers and Communities through the Hidden Figures Story
A New Kind of Mathematics Course Recently, the #ShutDownSTEM initiative called for a day of personal and institutional reflection on June 10, 2020, to contemplate the historical and…
Proofs-as-Programs at Ohio State
There is a striking similarity between writing a computer program and proving a theorem. A computer program is a sequence of fine-grained instructions for realizing some desired computation. A proof…
Kudos to the Department of Mathematics Teaching Award Winners
This spring, two graduate students and a department lecturer won teaching awards: Dhir Patel received the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence for…
Spotlight: Undergraduate Research Mentoring
Sergei Chmutov, professor of mathematics at Ohio State-Mansfield, was awarded the 2020 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award from the university's Office of Academic Success. This…
Spotlight: Math for All
In 2018, a group of people concerned about the lack of minority representation among math honors students started a math summer camp for high school female students. The camp’s goal was to…
Spotlight: 2019 Putnam Competition
Our undergraduate team in the latest William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition exam competition featured phenomenal performances, with one of the team members ranking in the top 16 of all 4,229…