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Faculty

Bruce Atwood (214 Science Center, 363–2348; bta@attewode.com) Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. B.S. (chemical engineering) Stanford University, M.A., Ph.D. (chemical engineering) Princeton University, M.M. Northwestern University, M.S. (pure mathematics) Northern Illinois University. Bruce previously taught mathematics at Rockford College. 

Paul Campbell (217 Science Center, 363–2007; campbell@beloit.edu) Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science and Chair of the Department. B.S. (mathematics) University of Dayton, M.S. (algebra) and Ph.D. (mathematical logic) Cornell University. Paul was a Danforth Fellow, an Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a National Science Foundation Fellow. He is editor-in-chief of The UMAP Journal and co-author of For All Practical Purposes (8th ed., 2009), an introductory college text in contemporary applied mathematics. Paul was Beloit's Director of Academic Computing for three years during the Old Silicon Age. Special interests include actuarial science, environmental modeling, probability and statistics, computer science, combinatorial games, and history of mathematics. For 2004-2005 he was in a statistics group at the University of Augsburg, Germany. 

Darrah Chavey (221 Science Center, 363–2220; chavey@beloit.edu) Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. B.A. University of Michigan–Flint, M.A. (mathematics), M.S. (computer science), and Ph.D. (geometry) University of Wisconsin–Madison. Darrah received a National Science Foundation grant to start the departmental Macintosh lab. He developed the lab exercises for CS 111 and has published a series of papers on the geometry of tilings. He is the author of Drawing Pictures with One Line: Exploring Graph Theory (1983). For many years he coached the College's teams in the annual ACM Computer Programming Competition, including two teams that went to the international finals. Special interests include ethnomathematics, geometry, the design and analysis of algorithms, software engineering, and parallel programming . Web site: http://www.beloit.edu/computerscience/faculty/chavey/.

Steven Huss-Lederman (219 Science Center, 363–2071; huss@beloit.edu) Associate Professor of Computer Science. B.S. (chemistry) University of Maryland, Ph.D. (chemical physics) California Institute of Technology. His thesis concerned algorithms for computer statistical models to understand vibration in molecules. From 1987 to 1995, he was co-principal investigator at the Supercomputing Research Center for projects on parallel algorithms for distributed memory computers. He is co-author of 3 books on a standard for computer message-passing and of 21 articles on parallel computer architecture, quantum molecular dynamics, and Strassen's algorithm for matrix multiplication. For 1995–2000 he was Associate Scientist and Faculty Associate in the Computer Sciences Dept. of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His interests include humanitarian and open source software, parallel algorithms, and inclusion of everyone in computer science education.Web site: http://www.beloit.edu/computerscience/faculty/huss/

Peter Theron. (219 Science Center, 363-2564; theronp@beloit.edu) Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. B.A. Princeton University (statistics), Ph.D. (group theory) University of Wisconsin-Madison. Peter has taught mathematics at UW-Madison and mathematics, statistics, and computer science at UW-Whitewater. Special interests include counting songs (like "This Old Man", "Jolly Old Hawk", and "Two Buffalos").

Rama Viswanathan (419 Science Center, 363-2273; ramav@beloit.edu) Professor of Chemistry and Computer Education. B.S. St. Xavier's College--Bombay University, M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. (physical chemistry) University of Oregon. After performing research in chemistry at Northwestern University as a post-doctoral fellow, Rama joined Beloit College in 1983.  He was a visiting scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center during 1986, and a visiting associate professor of chemistry at Northwestern University in 1989. Rama also served for three years as the College's Director of Academic Computing. Special interests in CS include scientific computation, parallel processing, high speed data acquisition, interfacing instruments to computers, and applications of wireless technology in Room Area Networks (RANs) using laptops, mobile devices, and PDAs. On his sabbatical leave in Fall 2003, Rama researched bioinformatics as a member of the  BEDROCK Consortium (http://www.bioquest.org/bedrock/). He is currently developing the Wallputer, an inexpensive solar-powered computer with dedicated client software that can also serve as an information kiosk, announcement display, or message board. He has developed and chairs the College's interdisciplinary program in Computational Visualization and Modeling (CVM). Web site: http://chemistry.beloit.edu/classes/rama/index.html