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Otterbein College Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Actuarial Science

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Department Events

  • Coffee Hour
    • Every Friday during the academic quarters in the Math Commons
    • Times vary from quarter to quarter
    • Faculty, students, and friends are welcome to enjoy coffee and cookies and to try to solve the Problem of the Week and talk about department issues.
  • Fall Pizza Party
    • Soon after classes begin, department students and faculty gather on the Towers Hall plaza to share pizza and get to know each other.
  • Math faculty and student volleyball gameSpring Picnic
    • Every spring, department students and faculty gather in a nearby park to honor graduating seniors and student award winners.
    • The picnic and awards are often followed by a spirited faculty-student volleyball game.
  • Mathematical Sciences Faculty Colloquium Series, Autumn 2008
    • On October 29, Dr. Leigh Slauson gave a talk entitled, "Teaching Statistics". her talk highlighted her research findings, how statistics instruction is evolving in response to the research and guidelines for instruction put forth by the American Statistical Association and the MAA.
    • On October 22, Dr. Greg Oman gave a talk entitled, "Divisible Abelian Groups Realizable as the Multiplicative Group of Nonzero Elements of a Field".
    • On October 15, Matt McMullen gave a talk entitled, "The Stolz-Cesaro Theorem: An underused problem-solving technique".
  • Association of Computing Machinery Speaker Series
    This series features occasional guest speakers for particular interest to Computer Science majors. Recent speakers include:
    • Shawn Winigman of Reynolds and Reynolds spoke in November 2008 about his experiences as a newly-hired software developer. Shwan is a 2008 Otterbein graduate in both math and computer science.
    • Mark Tinderholt, a consultant with Avanade, introduced us in May 2008 to the new Microsoft programmable web browswer plug-in called SilverLight. Mark graduated from Otterbein in 2005 with all three majors that we offer.
    • Leonid Glimcher, a computer science Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University, gave a 2007 talk entitled "A Grid-Based Middleware for Scalable Processing of Remove Data".
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