The following simply highlight some qualifications relevant to Computer Science of Davidson faculty members within the Departments of Mathematics or Physics.

Tim Chartier

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, specializing in Numerical Analysis, a branch of Computer Science. 
• M.S. in Computational Mathematics, Western Michigan U., 1996.
• Research positions in Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Los Alamos National Lab.
• Authorized Sun Microsystems’ Java Academic Faculty 2000.
• Publication and referee work for journals such as SIAM J on Scientific Computing.

Stephen Davis

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, specializing in Algebra, an area that is especially relevant to CSC courses in cryptography and theoretical computer science.
• Graduate of IFRICS (Institute for Retraining in Computer Science) 1982-84, designed to equip math Ph.D.s to teach Computer Science.
• Position as Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science at Swarthmore College, 1995-96, teaching 4 different courses in CSC.
• ACM SIGCSE (Assoc. for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education) member with frequent attendance at annual meetings.

Laurie Heyer

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, specializing in Bioinformatics.
• Primary creator of the nationally acclaimed software package MicroArray Genome Imaging and Clustering (MAGIC) Tool and associated algorithms for analyzing genomic data. 

Michael Mossinghoff

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, specializing in Number Theory, an area with particular interest in algorithms and discrete mathematics relevant to CSC courses.
• M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford U., 1988.
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Program in Computing, UCLA, 1998-2002, teaching Computer Science courses offered by this program within the Department of Mathematics.
• Publication and referee work for journals such as Mathematics of Computation and London Math. Soc. J of Computation and Mathematics.
• Maintains web site for a research community (Lehmer’s Problem) as online resource.

Richard Neidinger

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, specializing in Functional Analysis, with a minor in Computer Science.
• Research expertise in Automatic Differentiation, also called Computational Differentiation, an area of Numerical Analysis.
• Publications in journals such as Mathematics of Computation and ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.

Mario Belloni

• Ph.D. in Physics, specializing theoretical physics, including computational formulations of quantum mechanics.
• Award-winning work in instructional software design, including national leadership in Physlets, Java applets for simulation in Physics.

• Ph.D. in Physics, and specializing in optics.
• Creator of instructional software for Physics, with special experience in acoustics.

Wolfgang Christian

• Ph.D. in Physics, now specializing in Computational Physics.
• Award-winning work in instructional software design, including national leadership in Physlets, Java applets for simulation in Physics.