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Welcome toThe Department of Mathematics And Computer ScienceHobart and William Smith Colleges |
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Faculty: John Vaughn, Chair
(Email: vaughn@hws.edu,
Phone: 315-781-3906),
David Belding,
Carol Critchlow,
David Eck,
Kevin Mitchell,
Ann Oaks,
Larry Smolowitz,
Erika King,
Scotty Orr
WELCOME to the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Hobart College for men and William Smith College for women are coordinate four-year liberal arts colleges located in Geneva, New York. The department offers majors in both mathematics and computer science. For information our program, please see:
Information from the HWS Catalog about majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science
Mathematics Course Descriptions
Computer Science Course Descriptions
Sample Schedules for Majoring in Computer Science
More information about the department, including current news and events, can be found on our home page at http://math.hws.edu/
Department's Spring Picnic
May 1997
Our department is a small one in which the upper level classes are small and in which students get a lot of personal attention. Most math and computer science majors include one or more independent study courses in their program. Some students also do Honors, which involves working with a faculty member on an intensive, year-long project. Some recent Honors and independent study topics include: Network Security, Game Theory, Mobile Robots, Issues of Gender in Mathematics, UNIX System Administration, Genetic Algorithms, Differential Geometry, Fractal Image Compression, VRML Computer Graphics, and Cryptography.
If you want to get some idea about what goes on in the department, you might check out the personal home pages of Professors David Eck, Kevin Mitchell, and John Vaughn, where you'll find things like information about a term abroad in Australia, directed by Professor Mitchell, Professor Eck's online Java programming textbook, and this robot picture from Professor Vaughn's computer architecture course.
Some recent news items:
- KEVIN MITCHELL was the recipeint of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Faculty Teaching Prize for 1999. Read more about it here.
- JOHN VAUGHN, John Halfman, and Brooks McKinney have been awarded a $75,000 NSF grant entitled "Educational Matherials Development of an Inexpensive Data Logger." The grant is for testing and refinement of an inexpensive microprocessor stream data logger and improved instrumentation in the Computer Architecture course.
- DAVID ECK, KEVIN MITCHELL, and JAMES RYAN have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop educational software. The title of the $60,000 grant is "MathBeans: Mathematical Software Components for Web-based Instructional Materials." Read more about it here.
- GABRIEL WEINSTOCK '01 received a student summer research grant from the Provost's office for the summer of 1999. His project involved distributed computing on a network of Linux computers. Read more about it here.
- THE DEPARTMENT'S COMPUTER LAB has been upgraded with nine new computers. Read more about it here.
- MATH MAJOR and lifeguard Paul Rivera rescues heart attack victim at Geneva YMCA. Read the story here.
- IRV BENTSEN, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, was awarded a distinguished faculty award in Spring 1998. Read more about Irv and the award here.
You can read some of the feedback from a survey of computer science alumni that we conducted in the summer of 1996. Find out what computer science graduates are doing, and see what advice they have for current students.
Students from Math 320, Spring 1996,
on a visit to Professor Oak's home,
around Nathan Oak's Model-A Ford.
Last updated August 15, 2000
Send comments about this page to David Eck, eck@hws.edu.