Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony, MathFest, August, 2017, Chicago, IL

Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research

•  Trent DeGiovanni, Gonzaga University, “Most Economical Common Dissection of a Square and Equilateral Triangle”

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Applied Mathematics

• Ngan Tran, Ripon College, “An Analysis of Quantitative Measures for Detecting Gerrymandering”

MAA Special Interest Group Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Environmental Mathematics

• Stephanie Allen, SUNY Genesso, “A Two-Stage Vehicle Routing Algorithm Applied to Disaster Relief Logistics after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake”

Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA

• Russell Houpt, Hope College, “Name That Bird! Using Neural Networks to Identify Birds”

Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards

• Monica Busser, Youngstown State University, “Induced Representations ”
• Brian Darrow Jr., Southern Connecticut State University, “On Decomposing the Complete Symmetric Digraph into Orientations of K4 – e”
• Donald Fincher, Kent State University, “Approximating Nonlinear Differential Equations using the Adomian Decomposition Method”
• Travis Howk, Hendrix College, “Newton’s Method on Rational Functions in the Complex Plane”
• Robert Krueger, Miami University, “Hamiltonian Cycles in k-partite Graphs”
• Chrisitne Langer, Youngstown State University, “Surprising Nontransitive Games”
• Britney Mazzetta, Ithaca College, “Predicting U.S. Childhood Obesity Through Mathematical Modeling”
• Brandon Payne, Elmira College, “The Iowa Democratic Caucuses: A Mathematical Analysis of the “Vote””
• Kiersten Potter, Marshall University, “Explicit Origami Constructions of Regular Polygons”
• Steven Rollins, Marshall University, “Optimizing Refuse Collection Routes in Huntington, WV”
• Slade Sanderson, Pepperdine University, “Trajectories on Homothety Surfaces”
• Parth Sarin, Texas A&M University, “From Phylogenetics to Statistical Physics: Tensor Wiring Diagrams and the Impact of Tensors on the Sciences”
• Sarah Seckler, Hope College, “What Bird Was That? Feature Extraction of Recorded Bird Songs for Neural Networks”
• Callie Sleep, South Dakota State University, “Extending the Bocher-Grace Theorem to Quadrilaterals and other Polygons”
• Erika Sweet, Santa Clara University, “4C Coding in STEM – Identifying Obstacles to Clear Scientific Writing”
• Vincent Villalobos, University of Texas at Tyler, “Morita Equivalence for Groupoids of Directed Graphs”

Every three years, the J. Douglass Faires Award is presented to a chapter advisor in recognition for his or her outstanding service. Advisors who recognize the importance of mentoring students, who encourage students to engage in scholarly activities, who ensure that their chapters are active, etc. play an extremely vital role in promoting PME’s mission. If you wish to nominate your own advisor, please email Professor Paul Fishback at fishbacp@mail.gvsu.edu and briefly describe why you feel he or she is deserving of this honor. The deadline for nominations is June 1, 2017. The recipient of the award will be recognized during the PME Banquet at MathFest and will receive a $500 cash prize.

J. Douglass Faires Award winners

Math Potluck: A Student Swap Session

Saturday afternoon, July 29, 2017

Calling all undergrads and faculty advisors! Does your department have (or want!) a Math Club or student chapter of the AWM, MAA, PME, or SIAM? This session will provide a forum for sharing your favorite or most successful student activity. The presenter(s) will provide a “how-to” for a single math event that a math club or student chapter has held. Together, we will build a toolbox of successful activities to take back to each of our campuses! Following the morning presentations, a free lunch will be held for all presenters and attendees of this session to promote continued discussion and collaboration amongst participants. Please indicate in your abstract submission whether your group is a Math Club or student chapter of AWM, MAA, PME, or SIAM.

This session is jointly sponsored by the AWM, MAA, PME, and SIAM

Go to this page to submit an abstract for this session.