Xavier University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Departmental News and Activities

News...Let's see...
The department hired a new statistician, Huizhen Guo, in Fall 2004.
The department hired two new faculty, Joe Wagner S.J., and Hem Raj Joshi, in Fall 2003.
During summer 2003, Jim Snodgrass and Liz Johnson found out that they'd gotten an NSF grant to fund scholarships for Math and CS majors! Here's the XU News Release and the NSF description.
in 2002- 2003, Liz Johnson, Amy Vanderbilt, Dena Morton, and Marco Fatuzzo (okay, he's from Physics) got an NSF grant! Here's the NSF description: link Note that it's for nearly $100,000... Woo-hoo! It has its own webpage as well.
Mike Goldweber got tenure in Spring 2002.
The three CS faculty got a really cool grant from the NSF (here it is!) in order to aquire a wireless, parallel, distributed computing lab for CS student use.
In Fall 2002, the department hired someone new, to whom you can complain about things you don't like on this webpage.
Oh, yeah! We have a new webpage!

Activities:
Picnic! Picnic! Picnic! May 8, 2003 will be our Spring Picnic. Directions here.
Here's a link to Mathematics Awareness Month 2003, Math and Art! That's April. (MAM 2002 was on Math and the Genome.) We had three activities for MAM2003: Movie Night with Danny and sarah-marie, an art exhibit (follow link for pictures) and String Polyhedra with Dr. Schaffer of the Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble (a more mathy link of theirs).
About 50 of us went to the play Proof in February 2003. Pictures were taken, and perhaps will be posted here when they are conveyed to the webmistress.
We will eventually have a colloquium page.
We definitely have some pictures of a Fall 2001 picnic and of a Spring 2002 Ignatian Program here (warning, picture-heavy)!