Special Induction of Isabel Weil Gros
Isabel Weil, born in Brooklyn on May 19, 1923 and the first in her family to attend college, was nominated by Hunter College to Pi Mu Epsilon in 1942, just as her father suffered a stroke and died. She found an office job in a lipstick factory, switched from Hunter full time to night classes and graduated a year late. She became a beloved New York City junior high school math teacher. She loved math puzzles and stumping nears and dears with birthday checks calculated using days, hours and years lived.
She often said her greatest regret was not joining Pi Mu Epsilon. Through the efforts of Barry M. Cherkas, chair of the Hunter College Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and faculty advisor Tatyana Khodorovskiy, on February 19, 2021, Isabel Weil Gros became the oldest new member of Pi Mu Epsilon, and maybe the happiest new member ever, 79 years after receiving her original invitation. She said she never expected to join and was thrilled to take the pledge! She died on March 17, 2021.
Her children, Melinda and Jacques, generously funded ‘The Isabel Weil Gros Award for Excellence in Mathematics’, a new annual monetary prize to be awarded to a Hunter College Pi Mu Epsilon nominee.
2021 Andree Award Winners
The Richard V. Andree Awards are given annually to the authors of the papers, written by undergraduate students, that have been judged by the officers and councilors of Pi Mu Epsilon to be the best that have appeared in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal in the past year.
Until his death in 1987, Richard V. Andree was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma. He had served Pi Mu Epsilon for many years and in a variety of capacities: as President, as Secretary-Treasurer, and as Editor of the PME Journal.
AMS-PME Student Poster Session at JMM 2022
PME is pleased to be organizing the Student Poster Session at JMM 2022!
AMS-PME Student Poster Session:
Friday, April 8th, 2022
Session 1: 10:30am-12:00pm (PT
Session 2: 3:00pm-4:30pm (PT)
The AMS has graciously agreed to allow ALL INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS to attend the AMS-PME student poster sessions, regardless of whether they are registered for the conference. This decision was made so that poster presenters could interact with a larger audience, and it provides an excellent opportunity for students, who are not registered for the conference, to attend and learn more about research being conducted by their peers.
Please visit https://tinyurl.com/PMEPSReg in advance of the session in order to obtain details about joining.
Additional information about PME events at JMM 2022:
https://www.jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2022/2268_pmeevents
2021 PME Speaker Award Winners & Pictures
Screenshots from the 2021 PME award ceremony held via Zoom:
Thanks to councilors Darci Kracht and Frank Patane for the pictures.
Awards:
Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research
Ben Gobler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA Alpha, “Listing the Rationals using Continued Fractions”
Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA
Katie Yan, Skidmore College, NY Alpha Theta, “Modeling the Plague in Eyam”
Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards
Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented at the virtual MathFest, August 6, 2021. Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for Excellence in Student Exposition or Research.
| Name | Institution | Chapter | Talk Title |
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Nicholas Adduci |
Youngstown State University |
OH Xi |
An Investigation into Visual and Geometric Representations of Prime Numbers |
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Hanna Noelle Griesbach |
Elon University |
NC Nu |
When is a Polynomial Isomorphic to an Even Polynomial? |
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Luke Hetzel |
Youngstown State University |
OH Xi |
Using Agent Based Modeling in NetLogo to Visualize Game Theory |
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Jonathan Homan |
Andrews University |
MI Gamma |
Classifying Pretzel Links Obtained by Strong Fusion |
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Bandita Karki |
University of Idaho |
ID Alpha |
Modeling the therapeutic potential of defective interfering particles |
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Johnathan Koch |
Youngstown State University |
OH Xi |
Defining the cycle within the permutation group |
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Nathan LeRoy |
St. Norbert College |
WI Delta |
Probabilities of the Game of Labyrinth |
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Rebecca Odom |
University of Texas at Tyler |
TX Phi |
Identifying Self-Conjugate Partitions |
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Chase Reiter |
Youngstown State University |
OH Xi |
Using Trigonometry to Make Spirographs with Parametrizations |
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Tyler Russell |
University of Texas at Tyler |
TX Phi |
Polynomials Associated to Integer Partitions |
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Hannah Scanlon |
Wake Forest University |
NC Lambda |
Modeling the Spread of Infectious Diseases on an Adaptive Network |
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Ella Wilson |
Kenyon College |
OH Pi |
Using Circle Packings to Approximate Harmonic Measure Distribution Functions |
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Yifan Zhang |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
IL Alpha |
Subsums of Random Numbers |
Ken Roblee Receives J. Douglas Faires Award
5th Recipient of the J. Douglas Faires Advisor Award
Professor Ken Roblee, advisor of the Alabama Eta chapter at Troy University, is the 5th recipient of the J. Douglas Faires Advisor Award. Ken was presented the award on August 6, 2021 at the virtual MathFest conference in recognition of his outstanding work with the Alabama Eta chapter, including the organization of Troy University MathFest. Troy MathFest is an annual regional conference that promotes undergraduate research and routinely attracts well over 100 participants each year.
PME Conference 2021:
The 2021 Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) National Meeting will be held at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) virtual MathFest conference on August 4-7, 2021. Please visit http://pme-math.org/mathfest2021
Introducing New Hampshire Beta—SNHU #403
Southern New Hampshire University Induction Ceremony, March 04, 20202020 MathFest in Philadelphia, PA
Unfortunately, the PME National Council has decided that all PME activities at MathFest 2020, including travel support, have been canceled. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Secretary-Treasurer <secretary-treasurer@pme-math.org>.
PME Student Speaker information is now available Here.
Introducing Ohio Chi — PME Chapter #402
Shawnee State University, Ohio Chi, Induction Ceremony–2019
2019 PME Speaker Award Winners
Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony, MathFest, August 2, 2019, Cincinnati, Ohio
Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research
Maia Wichman, Grand Valley State University, “Doubly Chorded Cycles in Graphs”
Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA
Eric Leu, Hope College, “Remote Identification of Cloud Forest Landslides: A Machine Learning Approach”
Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards
Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for Excellence in Student Exposition or Research
Haley Colgate, Colorado College, “Measuring Gerrymandering: Flaws in Traditional Measures”
Maria Cummings, Randolph-Macon College, “Investigations into the Discrete Arithmetic-Geometric Mean”
Amanda Cusimano, Xavier University, “3-cyclic bandwidth and 3-cyclic bandwidth critical graphs”
Niyousha Davachi, University of Texas at Arlington, “Equations of Mathematical Physics and Lagrangians”
Anthony Dickson, Youngstown State University, “On Inverse Semigroups Associated with Markov Subshifts”
Jonathan Feigert, Youngstown State University, “Presentations of Common Groups”
Martha Hartt, Randolph-Macon College, “A Proof of Bertrand’s Postulate”
Xiaomin Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Almost Beatty Partitions and Optimal Scheduling Problems”
Janelle Nelson, Howard University, “The Statistical Physics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs)”
Marco Pettinato, Lewis University, “Predictive Modeling and Analysis of Softball Using Linear Algebra-based Ranking Systems”
Ryan Wartenberg, Washington College, “Triangulations and Tamari Lattices”
Isaac Weiss, College of Wooster, “Measuring Compactness of Legislative Districts”
Everett Yang, Texas A&M University, “A general algorithm for constrained robot motion planning”
The Pi Mu Epsilon Centennial Collection—Now Available!
Now available at the AMS Bookstore
100 Years of Math Milestones: The Pi Mu Epsilon Centennial Collection
By Stephan Ramon Garcia, Pomona College and Steven J. Miller, Williams College
100 Years of Math Milestones: The Pi Mu Epsilon Centennial Collection brings together 100 problems chosen to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the undergraduate math honor society Pi Mu Epsilon. Each chapter describes a problem or event, the progress made, and connections to entries from other years or other parts of mathematics. These problems are appealing and accessible to math majors and aficionados alike.
Problem Solving Competition Pizza Party Winners
Spring 2018: Armstrong Problem Solvers, Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University
Fall 2017: Emmanuel College Math Club
Spring 2017: North Central College
2018 Student Presentation Prize Winners
Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony, MathFest, August, 2018, Denver, CO
Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research
Vladimir Sworski, Cleveland State University, “Problem 21: An Exploration of Dial Rings”
Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA
Allison Gerk, St. Norbert College, “Columnaris Disease and the Population Dynamics of Infected Fish”
Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards
Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for Excellence in Student Exposition or Research
Preston Biro, Texas A&M University, “A Statistical Approach to the Effect of Suspensions in the NFL”
Keller Blackwell, University of South Florida – Tampa, “Structural Properties of Twisted Hermitian Codes and Applications to Cryptography”
Kathleen Buch, Xavier University, “Optimizing Congressional Voting Districts using a Genetic Algorithm”
William Craig, Virginia Tech, “Quiver Hall-Littlewood Functions and Kostka-Shoji Polynomials”
Brian Darrow Jr., Southern Connecticut State University, “On Developing an Early Warning System”
Samuel Delatore, Youngstown State University, “A Not-So-Fair Guessing Game and the Math Behind It”
Anthony Dickson, Youngstown State University, “The Prime Number Theorem: A Historical Look at How Mathematicians Proved It”
Caroline Howell, Troy University, “Mapping Sound Waves in Octave”
Jacob Kirsch, Saint John’s University, “Image Recognition Using Polynomial Regression and Artificial Neural Networks”
Robert Lehr, Southwestern University, “Perspective Drawing: How to Find the Immersion Point”
Katherine Mantych, Elmhurst College, “The Rational-Float Data Type”
Bridget Mueller-Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “New Songs in the Deep: A Passive Acoustic Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Omura’s Whales (Balaenoptera omurai)”
Daniel Plummer, Howard University, “Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology and the Future of Commerce”
Henry Potts-Rubin, College of Wooster, “A Convention for Drawing Knots and Links on the Real Projective Plane”
Victoria Robinson, University of Mississippi, “On a Generalization of the Fibonacci Sequence”
Bao Van, St. Norbert College, “Building Low Rank Matroids”