Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Congratulations to Our Students

External Recognitions: Robert Kelvey, Second Place Student Poster Award (2010), Mathematical Association of America, MD-DC-VA regional section; Stephen Hardy and Robert Kelvey, winning Jeopardy team (2010) members, Mathematical Association of America, MD-DC-VA regional section; Robert Kelvey and Benjamin Sapp, peer-reviewed publication (with faculty): Independence and Functional Dependence Relations on Secrets in proceedings of 12th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, (KR '10), Toronto, Canada, pp. 528-533, AAAI Press 2010
Internal Awards: Stephen Hardy, 2010 David Brian Cross Memorial Award for attaining the highest significant score on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition among McDaniel students; Michael Donders (first place), Elizabeth McCaslin, and Brittany Nicholls, 2010 Lowell Duren Award for achieving the highest results on the annual department mathematics competition; Stephen Hardy, 2010 Clyde A. Spicer Award to the outstanding graduating student in Mathematics; Michael Donders (April, May), Nyssen Joachim (April), Gordon Lyons (October), Rebecca Putnam (March), Jeffrey Shoolbraid (November), Andrew Yang (October), winners of the 2010 Elementary Problem of the Month contest
College News: Student-faculty research moves ahead over summer. ... senior Ben Sapp and sophomores Brittany Nicholls and Andrew Yang are just wrapping up their computer science research ... on the chalkboard in Lewis 109, are some of the rules of information flow that the students and professors have identified so far. The series of letters and symbols could very well be in a foreign language ... (2010) more; Computer Science major designs robot that solves Rubik's cube. When Professor Pavel Naumov offered his senior Computer Science majors the opportunity to design and program a robot for their capstone projects, Shannon Jackson couldn't resist the challenge ... (2009) more; Computer Science major tackles a brain bender. Computer Science major Christopher Griffin ... is hard at work on his project - exploring how to send untraceable messages ... (2008) more
Student Presentations: Elizabeth McCaslin and Fenghao Wang, "Improving Abundancy Bounds"; MAA MathFest (MAA Student Session), Pittsburgh, PA, August 2010; Stephen Hardy, "Extensions of Van der Waerden numbers to finite gap sets"; MD-DC-VA Section MAA Spring 2010 Meeting, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, April 2010; Robert Kelvey, "To be, or not to be... Lucky" (poster); MD-DC-VA Section MAA Spring 2010 Meeting, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, April 2010