Ashland University announced this week that Christopher Swanson has been named president of the Ohio Section with the Mathematical Association of America.
Swanson is a mathematics professor and the Honors Program director with Ashland University.
The salutatorian of his graduating class at Denison University in 1994, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999 and joined the faculty at Ashland, where he has directed the university-wide Honors Program for the last nine years.
He also served as a faculty adviser for the student chapter of the Mathematical Association of America, the Ohio Rho chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, and the school's Problem Solving Group. Swanson also oversees Ashland’s actuarial science major.
His research interests are combinatorics and probability.
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