2007 Wisconsin Section of the MAA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Cindy McCabe

President: Alexander Richter

Vice President: Lisa Schmidt

Secretary/Treasurer: Cynthia McCabe

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

16

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

(1) Attending the St. Norbert Chapter’s Pi Mu Epsilon Regional Undergraduate Math Conference in November (DePere, WI)

(2) Attending the meeting of the Wisconsin Section of the MAA in April (Eau Claire, WI)

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Our president and founder, Alex Richter, will be attending graduate school in Indiana and received a Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship.

Together, Alex Richter and Lisa Schmidt gave a talk on their work with “UWSP’s Center for Athletic Scheduling” on April 28th, 2007.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Erlan Wheeler

President: Sara Jensen

Vice-President: Anna Lauren

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

11

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Our annual banquet is the highlight of our year. In the fall we take a trip to the St. Norbert PME conference in De Pere, Wisconsin.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

We intend to send at least one student.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Justin Schroeder has been accepted at Vanderbilt for their Ph.D. program. Sara Jensen will attend a summer 2007 REU program in Akron, Ohio.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Erlan Wheeler

President: Sara Jensen

Vice-President: Anna Lauren

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

16

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Our chapter hosted a regional undergraduate math conference with featured speaker Woody Dudley. We also organized a math competition for area high school students.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

We intend to send three students

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Andrew Winters was awarded an NCAA post-graduate fellowship.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Fred Butler

President: Justin Reinike

Vice-President: Jonathan Mathieu

Secretary-Treasurer: Melissa Key

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) As we just reactivated our chapter last semester, we haven’t had any activites yet.

2)We are planning a quiz bowl tournament, complete with pizza and cash prizes, for the fall 2007 semester. We hope this will attract interest in the society, in addition to being fun!

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Pi Mu Epsilon Vice President Jonathan Mathieu will be attending University of Pittsburgh in the fall.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Suzanne Sumner

Presidents: William Ella, Sarah Marshall and Juliette Zerick

Vice-President: Allen Brunson

Secretary: Elizabeth Liskom

Treasurer: Gustavo Ramallo

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

10

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Our main activities have been bake sales to raise funds for small scholarships that we award to our new members.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Ron Persky

President/Vice President: Walter Pierce

Secretary/Treasurer: Samuel Hurst

Number of New Members Inducted:

16

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Our chapter was installed by Professor David Sutherland on April 12,2007. There were five faculty members and eleven students who are charter members.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Nicholas Loehr

President: Liz Wilson

Vice-President: Kassie Archer

Secretary: Sean Clark

Treasurer: Alex Mucha

Number of New Members Inducted:

20

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) induction ceremony for charter members

2)installation of the chapter (with a talk by Prof. Eve Torrence)

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Eve Torrence

President: Amy Winslow

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

7

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Math Forum: students presented information on the math major and minor and information on careers, graduate school, conferences, websites, etc.. to prospective majors. They made an excellent power point presentation that we will use in the future.

2)Mark McClure of UNC Asheville was our initiation ceremony speaker, he presented a talk titled “Fractal Google Maps”

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes, Amy Winslow.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Liza Lawson presented her research at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women and at the James Madison U. undergraduate conference.She will join Teach for America after graduation. Christina Lee will attend graduate school at George Wahington U. Kenny Stauffer did an REU at Clemsonlast summer. He will attend graduate school at Johns Hopkins or Carnegie Mellon next year.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor David Shoenthal

President: Elizabeth Creath

Vice-President: Zack Johnson

Secretary/Treasurer/Historian:Lori Reeves

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

4

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) The Pi Mu Epsilon Problem of the Month has become so well-known across campus (and especially with faculty and staff) that we had a faculty member spoof our Problem of the Month by creating one of his own–in French.

2) We also began a service project this year: tutoring on the weekend before finals. Pi Mu Epsilon members contributed their time in the (typically dashed) hope of donations to the organization. The event lasted 6 – 7 hours each semester, with members ready and able to answer questions relating to (almost) all mathematics courses offered in a given semester.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Ashley Swandby plans to attend MathFest. She is unsure at this time whether she will be presenting her research or not.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Ashley Swandby and Zack Johnson competed in the Undergraduate Student Poster Competition at the Maryland-DC-Virginia MAA Sectional meeting this Spring. Zack won first place for his poster on introductory game theory and the game of Nim.Ashley Swandby will be attending an REU this summer and this fall will attend the MASS program at Penn State.

Do you have a report for a PME grant?:

We had continued success with the awards grant. The Pi Mu Epsilon Problem of the Month seems to be more of a fixture on campus now. Our first place prize went to Ashley Swandby (Mathematics major and Pi Mu Epsilon member); the second place prize went to Tim Buckler (Economics major).

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Zsuzsanna Kadas

Co-Presidents: Sarah Hamilton and Laura Beaudin

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

6

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year: 1)The celebration of Math Awareness Month with the theme of Mathematics and the Brain included of a talk by Professor David Boynton of our own Psychology Department on the topic: Neural Networks for Cognition: How to Think Like a Connectionist.

2)An enthusiastic group of about 30 students were surprised to learn of the applications of Linear Algebra to research in Psychology. The talk was followed by a pizza supper for all attendees.

3)The Induction Ceremony held on October 30, 2006 began with a public lecture: Modeling Forest Fires with Percolation Theory by Peter Otto, Ph.D.; Willamette University; This was followed by the ceremony and a dinner to which parents of inductees were invited.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Laura Beaudin and Sarah Hamilton received the Outstanding Math Major award at graduation; David Miller was Pi Mu Epsilon flag bearer at Baccalaureate.

Six PME members were among 13 Saint Michael䴜s students to present papers at the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at Siena College in Loudonville, NY on Saturday, April 21st: Andrea Austin, Laura Beaudin, Katie Crawford, Sarah Hamilton, David Miller, Lauren Remmes.Story is at website: http://www.smcvt.edu/admission/news/news_story.asp?iNewsID=922&strBack=%2Fne ws%2FDefault%2Easp Andrea Austin will attend an REU at Miami U. of Ohio (Summer 2007)

Graduate Schools: Sarah Hamilton Colorado State; Laura Beaudin Univ. Of Massachusetts at Amherst

Jessica Scheld received her M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Vermont

Several students work on collaborative research projects in applied graph theory with Professors Jo Ellis-Monaghan and Greta Pangborn, with funding from the Vermont Genetics Network, Cadence Design Systems, and NASA-VT Space

Grant Consortium: Laura Beaudin, Sarah Hamilton, David Miller, Andrea Austin and Jessica Scheld

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Cathy Talley

President: Courtney Manning

Vice-President: Michelle Ellenburg

Secretary/Treasurer: Sarah Williams

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

2

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) PME and our student chapter of MAA sponsored the Slowpitch Seminars which featured talks by students and faculty throughout the year. Among the highlights, we watched the famous pi vs. e debate and celebrated Pi Day with the pre-service math teachers club.

2)Our first annual Mobius Strip Festival was held, as well.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Kristen Truett was the Presidential Award winner. This is ASU’s highest honor for graduating seniors. Jared Kinyon will be attending Florida State to pursue graduate work in Physics.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Gordon G. Johnson

President: R. Mendez

Vice-President: D. Johnson

Number of New Members Inducted:

2

Number of Continuing Members:

10

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

No.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Philip B. Yasskin

President: Dana Bergstresser

Vice-President: Justin Wilson

Treasurer: Ben Wells

Webmaster: Dakota Blair

Number of New Members Inducted:

22

Number of Continuing Members:

N/A

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Our chapter advisor, Dr. Philip Yasskin, gave a very interesting and interactive talk on platonic solids. Not only did we learn about Euler numbers, but we also got to build platonic solids using interlocking plastic blocks.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Cara Montgomery, Lisa Cangelose, Jason Pfister, Andrew Matteson, Hannah Saugier, and Bret Lockhart.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Dana Bergstresser Statistics at Texas A&M University.

Justin Wilson Physics at University of Maryland

Ben Wells Statistics at North Carolina State University

Andrew Matteson Goldwater Scholarship recipient, Spring 2007

Justin Wilson Astronaut Scholarship recipient, Fall 2006

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor David Cochener

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

Not Sure.

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

No.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Carrie Ann Liddell was accepted in the Masters in Industrial Statistics program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, including a graduate assistantship. Amy Dexter was accepted to an REU at the University of Arizona during the summer of 2007.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor S.B. Mulay

President: Denzler

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

No.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Violeta Vasilevska

President: Zachary R. Parsons

Vice-President: Elijah J. Stines

Secretary-Treasurer: Kelly R. Brennan

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

No.

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

No.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Jennifer Wightman

President: Amanda Bettinger

Vice-President: Kamala Diefenthaler

Secretary/Treasurer: Anthony Franklin

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

13

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Students of Pi Mu Epsilon made a presentation titled “Revolutions in Mathematical History: From Zero to Infinity” at an on-campus conference. Student presenters were Amanda Bettinger, Anthony Franklin, and Thomas Whitt. Topics covered in the presentation were the history of the number 0, irrational numbers including the square root of 2 and the Golden Ratio, and complex numbers including their use in generating fractals.

2)Pi Mu Epsilon hosted two Math Jeopardy events on campus. Students came, played Jeopardy, and had refreshments.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

1) Jayson Burak graduated in August 2006. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.2) Kamala Hunt Diefenthaler graduated in December 2006. She will be attending graduate school at the University of South Carolina.3) Thomas R. Whitt is graduating in May 2007. He will be attending graduate school at Auburn University.4) Anthony Franklin is graduating in May 2007. He will be attending graduate school at North Carolina State University.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Matthew Boylan

President: Tyler Ray

Vice-President: Joe Montoya

Secretary: Trinette Mullineaux

Treasurer: Jennifer Guest

Number of New Members Inducted:

18

Number of Continuing Members:

19

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Integration Bee: teams of 5/6 students each competed to answer a battery of about 20 integrals of varying difficulty.

2) National Lecture visit of Past-President Robert Smith of University of Miami.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Not at this time, but we still may. If we don’t this year, we will try next year.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

NA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Jeffrey Hoag

Number of New Members Inducted:

17

Number of Continuing Members:

18

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Weekly math problem contest had lots of participation.

2) Induction Ceremony..very well received talk by Catherine Roberts of Holy Cross about her work helping study rafting traffic at Grand Canyon.

3)Four students who did REUs last summer spoke about their experiences one evening.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Graduate School AcceptancesJackie Scholl – Yale University, Rice U.Katherine Ryan – Boston CollegeDeanna Dupuis -Tufts, SUNY-Stony Brook, U. Virginia, Notre DameBernadette Boyle -Tufts, SUNY-Stony Brook, Notre Dame

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor James Baglama

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

5

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) We had an induction ceremony in April along with a very successful Calc Bowl. Learn more this event here and visit here to learn about news coverage of this event.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Paul Klingsberg

President: Julia Fox

Vice-President: Brian O’Neill

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

7

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) The induction ceremony featured a very interesting lecture by Prof. Curtis Greene of Haverford College. He spoke on some of his favorite sequences.

2) Many of the students prepared interesting posters for Math Awareness Day.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

One may attend but is not yet sure.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Three graduating members (Brittany Fasy, Julia Fox, and Brian O’Neill) will be going on to graduate school, Fox in math and Fasy and O’Neill in computer science. One student (Jiaming Chen) won a prize in last summer’s problem solving contest at Mathfest.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Timothy G. Feeman

Number of New Members Inducted:

16

Number of Continuing Members:

6

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) On Friday, May 4, 2007, the Villanova Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon held its annual event to officially induct new members of the chapter. The induction began at 9:30 am with refreshments and a brief induction ceremony including presentation of membership certificates. This was followed by our annual Pi Mu Epsilon address. This year’s address, presented by Dr. Rachel Hall of St. Joseph’s University and entitled Asymmetric Rhythms and Tiling Canons, was thoroughly enjoyable and well-received by the audience of twenty students and fifteen members of the faculty.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Emily Dryden

President: Brittany Hoffman

Vice-President: Luke McGuire

Secretary-Treasurer: Caitlyn Yeager, Fall

Secretary-Treasurer: Elizabeth Skubak, Spring

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

11

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Ice cream social

2) Posting “Pi Facts” around the department for Pi day

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Members of PME, but not of our chapter, who developed interesting projectsin our Geometrical Visualization in Virtual Environments REU presented theirwork at Mathfest in Knoxville, August 2006. Beth Skubak, one of our new inductees, was recently named a Goldwater Scholar.

Emily Perl is going on to medical school at Tufts University, and Kelley Kidwell will study biostatistics at the Un

Greg Mokodean is planning to enter law school in the fall.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Julie Fredericks

President: Cecilia Speer

Vice-President: Meghan Flink

Vice-President: Tyler Bryson

Treasurer: Cassie Kanable

Secretary: Katie Swanson

Number of New Members Inducted:

47

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Our petition was approved in March and our chapter was installed in May, so that was our biggest and only activity of the 2006-2007 school year.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes, Tyler Bryson attended and gave a presentation.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Nineteen of our newly inducted members graduated in June. Of those members, three have begun MAT programs, four have entered Masters or PhD programs in either Mathematics, Statistics, or Physics, three have begun jobs in accounting or actuarial firms, one student is teaching in a private school in Mexico city, and the others are spending time traveling and then plan to go to graduate school, medical school, or find a job.

Two of our graduating senior members were awarded the department’s annual award for Outstanding Math Major.

Another member was accepted to a REU program at Willamette university. Three others received grants from Linfield to collaborate on a research project with a mathematics faculty over the summer at Linfield. One of these presented his work at MathFest.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Anita M. Walker

Number of New Members Inducted:

0

Number of Continuing Members:

1

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Meetings were held in conjunction with the studentchapter of the Mathematical Association of America.Guest speakers and math games filled most of themeetings, which were held a couple times each month.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

NA

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

NA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Lisa Martini

President: Kelsey Miller

Vice-President: Cameron Fincher

Treasurer: Carols Bernal

Secretary: Robert Foster

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

10

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Interesting activities this year: : We played “The Buzz Game” (which we learned from theTexas A&M web site) and Math Jeopardy.

2) We also had a talk on Symmetry and Sudoku.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

I’m hoping to talk one or two into it, but I don’t knowright now.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No news at the moment.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Angela Spalsbury

President: Lea Cluff

Vice-President: Jeff Cornfield

Secretary: Ryan Livingston

Treasurer: Nick Gemuenden

Historian: David Martin

Web-Master: Matt Ward

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

DNR

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) We hosted the ninth annual YSU PME Regional Conference where undergraduate mathematics majors presented mathematical talks. Over 85 students from 12 different colleges and universities attended.

2) Five students of our students received Best Speaker Awards at Mathfest in Knoxville, Tennessee. Those students were: Tara Cruickshank, Tyler Drombosky, Nick Gemuenden, David Gohlke, and David Martin.

3) PME members participated in the opening ceremony of the Center of Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CUR Math), founded by Dr. J. Douglas Faires. PME members had the opportunity to meet with alumni and to present mathematical posters at the ceremony.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes, we plan to bring 14 students.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Tyler Drombosky is participating in a United States-Hong Kong REU in Hong Kong, China through the Colorado School of Mines this summer.

David Martin is participating in an Organic Chemistry REU at Iowa State University this summer.

Jared Ruiz is participating in an REU at Clemson this summer.

Doug Wajda has an internship at Orbital Research in Cleveland, Ohio this summer.

Matt Ward won an award for “Best Poster” at Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans.

Matt Ward has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for the academic year 2007-2008.

Matt Ward is participating in an REU at Auburn University this summer.

J.T. Hird (2007 graduate) will be attending graduate school in mathematics at North Carolina State University in the fall.

Brian Hamilton (2007 graduate) will be attending graduate school in physics at the University of Maryland in the fall.

David Gohlke (2006 graduate) is attending graduate school at Ohio State in physics.

Becky Grove (2006 graduate) is attending graduate school in engineering at Yale University.

Nicole (Cunningham) Muckridge (2006 graduate) will be attending graduate school in mathematics at Kent State University in the fall.

Timothy Hanek (2006 graduate) is working on a masters degree in economics at Youngstown State University.

Melissa Marshall (2005 graduate) just completed her masters degree in statistics at the University of Akron.

Maria Salcedo (2005 graduate) completed her masters degree in mathematics at Purdue University and will be starting a PhD in mathematics at Northwestern University in the fall.

Ted Stadnik (2005 graduate) completed her masters degree in mathematics at Purdue University and will be starting a PhD in mathematics at Northwestern University in the fall.

Steve Dinda (2005 graduate) is attending graduate school in statistics at Bowling Green State University.

Darcy Davis (2005 graduate) is attending graduate school in computer science at Notre Dame University.

Mike DeToro (2005 graduate) is teaching at Lakeview High School in Cortland, Ohio.

Jeremy Hamilton (2005 graduate) is teaching at Canfield High School in Canfield, Ohio.

Aimee (Kalas) Crabtree (2004 graduate) just completed her masters degree in mathematics at Youngstown State University. She plans to pursue a career in teaching.

Alison Pfaff (2004 graduate) completed her masters in mathematics at Youngstown State University in 2006. She is now teaching at a Community College in PA.

Steve Stanislav (2004 graduate) is working on his PhD in mathematics at North Carolina State University.

Joe Ponzio (2005 graduate) just completed his masters degree in mathematics at Youngstown State University. He will be starting in a PhD in statistics at the University of Western Michigan in the fall.

Carla (Ligoure) Gerberry (2003 graduate) is working on her PhD in mathematics education at Purdue University.

Sarah Grove (2003 graduate) is working on her PhD in mathematics at North Carolina State University.

Joel Lepak (2003 graduate) just finished his masters degree in mathematics at the University of Michigan.

Ryan Siskind (2003 graduate) is working on his PhD in mathematics at North Carolina State University.

David Gerberry (2002 graduate) is working on his PhD in mathematics at Purdue University.

Teresa Selee (2002 graduate) is working on her PhD in mathematics at North Carolina State University.

Bob Shuttleworth (2002 graduate) just finished his PhD in mathematics at the University of Maryland. He has accepted a position with Exxon Mobile in Texas.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Martha Holland

President: Anneliese Spaeth

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

7

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) President Annaliese Spaeth plans a Celebration of Pi day for 3/14. Pie is 50 cents per slice. Competitions are held, such as, who can recite the most digits of pi.

2) In March and April senior PME members will each present a senior research talk. There is also an Arts and Science research forum in which PME members may participate. Fun activities incuded Game Nights and pizza parties.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Charles Geschke was a 1962 charter member of PME. He recently spoke to the Xavier business college about the business he founded,Adobe Systems.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Christopher Swanson

President: Jennifer Picucci

Vice-President: Ryan Wilson

Treasurer: Ashley-Rae Doty

Secretary: Keona Padgett

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

10

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1. Math Jeopardy – Faculty filled out questionnaires with questions such as “What is your favorite number?” and “What is your favorite movie?” Their answers were clues for the Jeopardy-style game created by seniors, and students competed in teams of 3 for various baked goods.

2. Math Movie Nights at Dr. Swanson’s house – We watched “Proof” and “Little Man Tate.”

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Brian DiCesare plans to attend a portion of the conference to participate in the mathematics competition.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

even students gave presentations at the Spring Meeting of the Ohio Section of the MAA (One was a PME member)

Three students gave presentations at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (all were PME members)

Ryan Wilson’07 and Andrew Miller’07 will both be attending Miami University in Oxford, OH for graduate school. Jennifer Picucci will be attending Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ for graduate school.

Grant Report:

On April 25, 2007, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Ashland University held its annual Academic Awards and Activity Recognition Reception. The following awards were distributed for scholarship in mathematics during this reception:

1) Seven freshmen, 3 sophomores, 11 juniors, and 10 seniors were given Academic Honors awards for having above mathematics/computer science GPA’s above 3.5. (certificates, pens, and plaques) 2) Carpenter Award for Outstanding Calculus student – Sean McGraw (certificate and book) 3) Wendling Award for Outstanding Discrete Mathematics students – Greg Slutz (certificate and book) 4) Outstanding Sophomore Awards – Betsy Morrison and Greg Slutz (certificates and books) 5) Outstanding Junior Awards – Brian DiCesare, Beth Heaton, and Elizabeth Ling (certificates and books) 6) Outstanding Senior Awards – Jeremy Fensch, Jen Picucci, and Ryan Wilson (certificates and wooden eagle statues) 7) Recognition of 16 different recipients of 10 departmental scholarships (certificates) 8) Recognition of 4 officers of Pi Mu Epsilon and 3 officers of MAA Student Chapter (certificates) 9) Recognition of 11 students giving talks at various conferences (certificates) 10) Recognition of 7 participants in the Putnam Mathematical Competition (certificates) and scorers in the competition (Andrew Miller received a “gold” medal and Brian DiCesare received a “silver” medal) 11) Recognition of 9 participants in Ohio Section of the MAA math contest. 12) Recognition of 2 students who submitted correct solutions to Problems of the Month contest (drawing resulted in Brian DiCesare receiving gift card to campus bookstore).

This event continues to be very successful, with many parents coming to the event to see their students receive the awards.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Gerry Wuchter

President: Anthony Brewer

Vice-President: Keithe Miller

Secretary-Treasurer: Kevin Kreighbaum

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

3

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

No.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

We have two students who are receiving their Ph.D.’s this spring – Duane Farnsworth (SUNY – Buffalo) and Judy (Maendel) Day (U. Pittsburgh).

Advisor and Officers

Advisors: Professors Laura K. Gross and Linda M. Saliga

President: Lisa Lackney

Vice-President: Melissa Merrill

Treasurer: Sara Rollo

Secretary: Lynn Adams

Associated Student Government Representative: Carey Childers

Number of New Members Inducted:

16

Number of Continuing Members:

17

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

We hosted a gathering with pizza, pie, and pi on Pi Day (3/14).

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

President Lisa Lackney will attend graduate school at the University of Maryland.

Inductee Shawn Ryan received The University of Akron King Scholarship.

Inductees Diana Macavei received The University of Akron Selby Scholarship.

Inductees Megan McCormick and Patrick Starvaggi received The University of Maxwell Scholarship.

Inductee Brandon Rodgers received The University of Akron Professors Scholarship.

Member Katie Cerrone was hired to the faculty of The University of Akron’s Summit College.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Lew Ludwig

President: Matt Steinke

Vice-President: Amanda Moore

Secretary-Treasurer: Nicole Scholtz

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

5

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

On April 3, 2007, our chapter, in conjunction with the Gordon Lecture Series, brought mathematician and artis George Hart to campus. He made an evening presentation for the campus at large, and the following day, for a select group of Denison math students, he worked to help them construct their own geometric sculpture out of CDs and wire ties. Earlier in the fall semester, our chapter had a Halloween pumpkin-carving contest. We had numerous entries and lots of fun judging.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

David Nassar, past chapter President, will be attending the University of Akron to obtain his Master’s degree in applied math. Evan Starr will be attending the University of Michigan to obtain his Ph.D. in economics, and Megan Warner will be attending UC Irvine for a Ph.D. in physical chemistry with a concentration in chemical and materials physics. Pam Arbisi will be going to William and Mary to study operations research, and she(a graduating senior), along with Nicole Scholtz (current junior), and Amanda Moore (current junior) presented on their summer research in the MAA state conference at Miami University (Ohio); Joanna Kreiselman (sophomore), Amanda Moore, Heather Kincaid, Pam Arbisi, and Nicole Scholtz all attended Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM) this February, with Nicole, Amanda, and Pam additionally presenting their summer research there. Nicole will be doing research at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theortical Computer Science (DIMACS) this summer, and Joanna has received a Bowen Summer Research Assistantship to study cryptological number theory and develop computer programs to factor large integers efficiently. Sam Behrend (sophomore) will be involved with a summer REU at NC State with their Industrial/Applied Mathematics department, and finally, Rachel Grotheer (junior) will be conducting research this summer on knots in straight edge embeddings of K7.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Gabor Hetyei

President: Animikh Biswas

Vice-President: Harold Reiter

Secretary/Treasurer: Oleg Safronov

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

cca 45

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) George Alexander and Desire Joubert represented us at the Mathfest in Knoxville August 9 to August 12, 2006.George took third place at Richard Neal’s National Problem Solving Contest and Desire spoke about her senior project on dice that are not cubical.

2)We had the induction of our new members on April 27, 2007, where Professor Alexander Gordon gave a truly interesting talk and great food was served.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes, Ben Godin and Harold Reiter will represent us.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Sarah Raynor

Presidents: Grey Ballard and Katherine Anthony

Vice-President: Anna Snavely

Number of New Members Inducted:

18

Number of Continuing Members:

10

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Our “Summer and Travel Abroad Programs for Math Majors” program turned out to be surprisingly exciting as our three student speakers, Arran Hamm, Liyang Diao and Joan Pharr, gave very lively descriptions of their REU and Hungary experiences.

2)The visit of Eve Torrence as part of the National Lectureship program was very successful. Her origami talk was extremely well-received, and students enjoyed talking to her over lunch and during the induction as well.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Our new (and graduating) member Michelle Sikes has been selected as a Rhodes scholar. Virginia Johnson will be attending the University of South Carolina PhD Program in the fall.

Do you have a report for a PME grant?:

Eve Torrence visited us on March 27 and 28. She gave an excellent talk about modular origami which was well attended and well received. She then participated in our annual induction and dinner. She discussed Pi Mu Epsilon funding for Mathfest and the Pi Mu Epsilon journal. The next day she met with myself and with our chair and we discussed math club ideas. Finally, she had lunch with a few of our students before she left. The whole event went very well and we enjoyed her visit.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Dominic Clemence

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

5

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

The Chapter sponsored the High School Mathematics Contest on March 28, 2007 and the students participated in Mathematics Awareness day.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

We have two members that will be graduating this semester, Davina Davis and Angela Edwards.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: John Loustau

President: Mimi Tsuruga

Treasurer: Hans Gilda

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

6

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) The chapter members participated this year in helping to organize the departmental speaker series.

2)This is the first time in my memory that we have had a active chapter (ie a membership that did not graduate immediately after induction.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Mimi Tsuruga will present at MathFest. Her paper is titled “Visualizing Vortices”.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Victor Alvarez is receiving his BA. He will begin study in the doctoral program in Mathematics at the CUNY Grad Center. Bolanle Bob-Egbe is receiving her BA in Mathematics and MA in Applied Mathematics. She will be taking a position in finance with a local NYC firm.Natalya Titova is receiving her BA and will continue her study toward an MA in Statistics.Yevgeniy Millman is participating this summer in an REU at University of Akron in Nano Technology.Mimi Tsuruga has a summer internship at Wolfram Research.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Mark Huibregtse

New Officers will be chosen in September

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

115

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1)The New York Alpha Theta Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon held one meeting this year, sponsored a visiting speaker, and inducted new members.

2)The February meeting was for the officers of the local chapter to plan the details of the induction ceremony, which was held on March 26, 2007. The Chapter inducted 9 new students and the guest speaker as well, bringing the Chapter membership to a total of 125. The guest speaker was Brenda Johnson of Union College, who delivered a lecture entitled ‘Searching for Missing Links: the Evolution of Some Undergraduate Research Projects.

3)At the end of April, the Chapter discussed elections for the local officers. Unfortunately, not enough volunteers stepped forward to run elections. We intend to recruit candidates and hold an election early in September.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Aileen Michaels

President: Leah Addy

Vice-Presidents: Alexander Burt and Lisa Marino

Treasurer: Danielle Vanblerck

Secretary: Paul Palazzo

Associated Student Government Representative: Carey Childers

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

3

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

We sponsored a Sudoku Contest. Gift certificates to Barnes and Noble were awarded as prizes. Movie night included pizza and showing the film “Proof.” We also spent a day in the city at The Rose Center for Earth and Space (Hayden Planetarium) followed by dinner.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Christian Hilaire graduated and will be attending the doctoral program at MIT in the Fall.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Nancy King Harrison

Officers: None.

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1)This year’s annual dinner and induction ceremony was held on April 24th at the Dobbs Ferry Campus. It was nice to meet some of the spouses, brothers and sisters, and parents of our new inductees. Both Mercy College’s Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Studies attended this year and addressed the group.

2)At a meeting of mathematics and computer majors two students gave presentations. John Mills, a mathematics student and Pi Mu Epsilon member, spoke about Blaise Pascal. And a computer student Frantz Sainte gave a talk titled “The Visual Truth in the Digital Age.”

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Smits

President: Melissa Nowalk

Vice-President: Rebecca Foreman

Secretary: Trung Duc Le

Treasurer: Megan Lockwood

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

20

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) One of the professors gave a talk about the end of the world illustrating the statictics of it with a phone book.

2)Also we showed a Pi/E debate movie and had pies and eclairs.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Rosar

President: L. Krenza

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

30

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

No.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Margaret Canzonier

Officers: Because most of our majors are doing their ninety-hour observations and student teaching semesters senior year, we are not operating the chapter as a club and have not opted to have elected officers.

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

5

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Our induction ceremony on April 1, 2007, was attended by fifty five people and held in the Mansion at Georgian Court University. Dr. Bonnie Gold of Monmouth University spoke about creating a career in mathematics and contributing one’s talents for the benefit of society. Eleven new members were inducted.

2)Members of Pi Mu Epsilon and our GCU Math Club taught four sixth grade math classes at one of the Lakewood public schools to celebrate Pi Day.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Michele Picarelli

President: Michal Hausfater

Vice-President: Bigyan Bista

Secretary: Tara TeSlaa

Treasurer: Johnnattan Avendano

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

10

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Joan Weiss, Ph.D. visited our campus and spoke at our induction ceremony.

2) Celebrated Pi day.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes,Vanessa Abrisqueta will be visiting as a speaker, and Johnnattan Avendano will be visiting as a delegate.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Allan Donsig

Number of New Members Inducted:

0

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

In the spring, we began efforts to revive the chapter, by recruiting new members and starting planning for the next academic year. Over the summer, 4 people agreed to be new officers and a visit by David Bressoud was arranged as a “kick-off” event for the revived chapter.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Nikolaus Vonessen

President: Beth Hegland

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

20

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) In Fall, we proofread a chapter of a solutions manual for a forthcoming calculus textbook, earning $500. We will spend this (together with funds accumulated in past years, and a generous match by the Math Department) on lockers for math majors in the math building.

2)In April, we had our 8th Math Film Festival, with a great schedule ‰¥ã check it out at http://www.math.umt.edu/mathclub/filmsched07.pdf. Do watch “The Great Pi/e Debate” if you can ‰¥ã parts of it are really hilarious (if you cannot find it at a library, it is available from http://www.maa.org). And Hans Rosling‰¥ús talk “Myths About the Developing World” contains amazing graphical representations of statistical data ‰¥ã you can watch it online at http://video.google.com ‰¥ã search for “4237353244338529080”. Unfortunately, this year we could not show any blockbuster Hollywood movie. Although we do not charge admission, we would have had to pay nearly $400 to show such a movie, and that does not seem to be an appropriate use of our hard-earned funds.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Julianne Rainbolt

Number of New Members Inducted:

20

Number of Continuing Members:

NA

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

NA

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

NA

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

NA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Russell Euler

President: Cathy George

Vice-President: Colette Cenac

Secretary-Treasurer: Megan Meyer

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

5

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) We inducted 4 new members: Nathan Brown, Stacy Derks, Holly Logan, and Laura Smith.

2) We held a book sale during the Math Olympiad to raise funds for the Carson Apartment Fire Victims. We raised $121.75.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Four members were awarded scholarships for the 2007-2008 school year. Colette Cenac was awarded the Forrest G. and Joan B. Lowe Scholarship. Cathy George was awarded the Pi Mu Epislon Scholarship. Megan Meyer was awarded the Thomas Webb Harvey Scholarship. Laura Smith was awarded the Thomas Webb Harvey Scholarship.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Gayla Dance

President: Brenda Spell

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

6

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Several of our members participated in the Lousiana-Mississippi MAA student team math competition as well as in the annual integration bee.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Melinda Gann

President: Brandon Magers

Vice President: Chauncey Garrett

Secretary/Treasurer: Mark Miley

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

2

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Robert Hunt

President: Adam Gray

Vice-President: Adel Elsohly

Treasurer: Trey Usry

Number of New Members Inducted:

14

Number of Continuing Members:

22

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

None.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Barry A. Peratt

President: Suzanne Frye

Vice-President: Emily Hagel

Treasurer/Editor: Amanda Lamers

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

97

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Sponsored a speaker in the Fall with social event afterwards.

2) Sponsored trip to Iowa State University for students interested in finding out more about graduate school.

3) Two students attended the local PME meeting at St. John’s/St. Ben’s in the Twin Cities.

4)Spawned a local Mu Sigma Rho chapter (Statistics Honors Society).

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Danielle Sullivan was accepted into graduate school at Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, University of Wisconsin, and Iowa State.

Donut Coloring!

Advisor

Advisor: Tom Sibley

Number of New Members Inducted:

2

Number of Continuing Members:

Unknown.

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) The Minnesota Delta Chapter had another successful year. The major event was our 29th annual Pi Mu Epsilon Conference. The featured speaker was Carlos Castillo-Chavez from Arizona State University, who spoke engagingly about epidemics and national security.

2) In addition we had student speakers from 5 institutions besides our own two student speakers. Our two student speakers, Natalie Bly and Matt Voigt, completed honors theses this year. We inducted them into Pi Mu Epsilon at the annual pizza and volleyball party at which we also welcome our new sophomore majors (a formidable group on the volleyball court AND in the classroom!) Last November these students plus one other also gave talks at the St. Norbert䴜s PME conference. Other events this year included the seventh donut coloring contest, which provided much amusement, as well as donuts, for the many students who entered the contest, and a special session on constructing interesting polyhedral models with our own Fr. Magnus Wenninger

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Michael E. McDaniel

President: Bruce Salter

Vice-President: Julie Blazo

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

6

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Our chapter worked with the Aquinas College Math Club to create a “carnival game booth” for this years homecoming. The booth used different probability and polar coordinate ideas. We ended up winning the best booth prize.

2)We celebrated pi day this year. We had a small get together where we had pi-rizes, which included pi cologne, pi (the movie), The History of Pi (book), Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi (childrens book) and various other pi related prizes. We even had a pi-nata.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Bruce Salter will be giving a presentation at the PME national meeting. He will be giving a talk on cycloid like curves that are generated on various function curves.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Bruce Salter was awarded the Outstanding Mathematics Senior Award from the Aquinas Mathematics Department. Pual Osbourne was awarded the Honorable Mention Award from the Aquinas Mathematics Department. Bruce Salter, Carolyn Lovelace and Gina Zambo applied for the Miriam Schaefer Scholarship. Many of our members also participated in the Autumn Take Home Mathematics Competition and the Lower Michigan Mathematics Competition. Some of our members volunteered at Family Math Night (an evening where elementary school students bring their families to learn about math).

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Jeffrey Kallenbach

President: Gary Comfort

Vice-President: Melanie Nowak

Secretary: Kristin Reid

Treasurer: Bryan Beebe

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

14

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) We had a fundraiser at the local Fricker’s Restaurant where we received 10% of the proceeds coming from the business we brought in.

2) As part of a beautification project we cleaned up the area outside of the window of the Math Lab. It now looks like an aquarium instead of a concrete wall, we received a trophy for “Best Project” from the Siena Heights’ Student Senate.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Candace Ohm who graduated in 2006 from Siena Heights University has completed her Master’s Degree from Bowling Green University and is planning on continuing Graduate School at Florida State.

New Members Initiated in 2007

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Donald Rhoads

President: Nicholas Valles

Vice-President: Christopher Armstrong

Secretary-Treasurer: Thomas C. Adams

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

No.

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) A NOVA video about String Theory (Brian Greene).

2) A problem session in which teams of students were asked to solve three problems, such as “Pirates sharing the gold” and “Monty’s problem.”

3) Prof. Tim Pennings and his dog Elvis.

4) Pi day celebration.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Chantel Blackburn, the 2005-6 PME president, is enrolled in the Doctoral program at the University of ArizonaKami Lizarraga, the 2004-5 PME president, is enrolled at Columbia University Law SchoolLaura Mack, an officer in 2005-6, is enrolled in a doctoral program in Meteorology at Colorado State UniversityLarissa Mann, a 2006 initiate, is enrolled in the Doctoral program in Audiology at Central Michigan University, with scholarship

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Avner Ash

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

21

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

NA

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

NA

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

NA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Ward Heilman

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

9

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) EULER DAY was held at Bridgewater State College on March 31st 2007. We celebrated the 300th anniversity of the birth of Euler with 4 talks on Euler’s work and a birhday cake.

2) On April 22nd 2007 Dr James Tanton of the St. Mark’s Institute of Mathematics gave a fascinating talk on “Weird Multiplication” which engaged the entire audience at our Abramson Colluquium/Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Several of our current students gave talks at the Nation Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held at the Dominican University of California in April 2007. One of our students won a scholarship, the James Fitzgerald Memorial Award, in May 2007. Three students are entering Master’s programs in Fall 2007 and one student begins work in a Ph.D. program in Spring 2008.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Steve Pennell

President: Michael Williams

Vice-President: Joshua Wladkowski

Secretary: Ryan Hill

Treasurer: Jacob Kushkuley

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) After several years of inactivity, our chapter was reactivated on January 26 by PME Council member Brigitte Servatius, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Prof. Servatius gave an engaging talk titled “A beautiful mind and hyperperfect numbers.”

2)Faculty member Jim Propp gave a talk on April 11 titled “Better than Random: A Hands-On Introduction to Quasirandomness.”

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Jason Percival and Michael Williams each plan to present a paper.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

See photos at bottom of file!

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Betty Mayfield

We do not elect student chapter officers, as we have a math club with officers.

Number of New Members Inducted:

17

Number of Continuing Members:

7

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Annual PME Mathematics Lecture: Prof. Robert Jernigan of American University spoke on Sunday, April 15th, on “Statistics Before your Eyes: Photographs of Statistical Concepts.” Approximately 50 people attended, including our PME members, family and friends, faculty, and the College dean and president. We had a nice reception afterwards.

2) Induction of new members — the same day. The Department buys honor cords for our seniors and presents them at this time. We pretend that it is a surprise, but we think they’ve caught on by seeing this happen every year.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes. We have four students doing summer research with us this summer; we will probably choose two of them to submit a joint proposal to give a talk in the PME sessions. (The other two will submit to MAA.)

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Nathan Edington, who won one of the PME prizes at MathFest in Providence for his talk about approximations to pi, is in his second year of graduate school in mathematics at the University of Georgia. He gave that same talk for students and faculty there, and they really enjoyed it. (I am still trying to get him to write it up for the PME Journal!)

Alen Agheksanterian is completing his second year of graduate school in applied mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Kathryn Linehan is completing her first year of graduate school at the University of Maryland College Park, and Kelly Schultz is completing her first year at Towson University. Both are in applied mathematics.

Do you have a report for a PME grant?:

We received a $50 Chapter Matching Grant, for our Pi Mu Epsilon Book Prizes. They went this year to two juniors, Stephanie Tomasello and Benjamin Caplins. In this Year of Euler, we gave each of them a copy of Bill Dunham’s book, “Euler: Master of us All,” suitably inscribed by the author. The prizes were given at our annual college awards ceremony.Thank you again for this grant, which enables us to recognize outstanding students in mathematics.

2007 Inductees

Signing the Roll

Taking the Pledge

Seniors and Honor Cords

Cutting the Cake!

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Steven Kimball

President: Jenelle Pothier

Number of New Members Inducted:

17

Number of Continuing Members:

82

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Five members attended Fall meeting of the Northeast section of the MAA.

2) Four members went apple picking and found their way througha 6 acre corn maze.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Maria Calzada

President: Erin Cox

Vice-President: Sarah Cabali

Treasurer: Josue Jimenez

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

20

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) This year we re-started our annual Calculus Competition, after a one-year break due to Hurricane Katrina related problems. The competition was co-sponsored by all the science departments, by the dean’s office, and by Pi Mu Epsilon. The competition had two categories: Calculus I and Calculus I/II. Winners in the categories came from all the sciences and mathematics. We even had a Philosophy major among the winners.

2)Related to this was our Award Banquet and Induction Ceremony. All the participants in the Calculus Competition were invited to this evening event sponsored largely by the Mathematics Department. It turned out to be an evening of conversation and camaraderie between faculty and students with Mathematics as the backdrop.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Brian Barron

President: David Ravezani

Vice-President: Stacey Brumfield

Treasurer: Stacey Brown

Secretary: Kara Patrick

Number of New Members Inducted:

17

Number of Continuing Members:

50

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) We participated in the Putnam competition for mathematics and held tutoring services for our calculus students (free of charge)

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Christ Christensen

President: Jennifer Rose Lamb

Vice-President: Bernadina Rowe

Treasurer: Marla Cordray

Secretary: Jacquelyn Hon

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1. The induction of our Kentucky Zeta Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon at Northern Kentucky University.

2. Hosting the KYMAA at our University

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Rob Hastings graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics in Spring of 2007.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Andre Kezdy

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

3

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Cherokee park picnic.

2)Roger Nelson lecture on proofs without words.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Kelly Houston has been given support to attend the summer workshop on Algebraic Geometry at Princton.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor John Spraker

Officers: Stephanie Micallef

Jacob Vervynckt

Samantha Carter

Cody Lorton

Number of New Members Inducted:

20

Number of Continuing Members:

19 with 28 faculty

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) We had a “Numbers” party in which we showed several videos of the TV series Numbers.

2) The other major event was our awards banquet.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

DNA

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

DNA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Joanne Snow

President: Anna Fricano

Vice-President: Jackie Sias

Secretary: Elizabeth Diedrich

Treasurer: Sarah Robinson

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

4

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Department Open House — We had a guest speaker Prof James Dudziak who spoke on Archimedean Solids and then enjoyed dinner with faculty and students.

2) A visiting faculty member Fozia Qazi gave a lecture “Back to the Future–Time Travels of the Decimal Number System.” This was preceded by a pizza dinner.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Rising juniors Courtney Parry and Theresa Klinkhammer were awarded Clare Booth Luce Scholarships.

Erin Condon will be starting graduate school in the fall. She hopes to earn her Ph.D. in statistics.

Meghan Honerlaw will be attending graduate school in the fall. She is working towards a masters in statistics.

Double majors Katie White and Megan Boyle will be attending doctoral programs in chemistry in the fall. They presented a paper at the Joint Math Meeetings in January.

Meghan McFadden will begin a master’s in teaching program.

Zanna Afansjeva will begin pharmacy school in the fall.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Dominic Naughton

President: Jamie Weigandt

Vice-President: Jessica Armour

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Dr. Robert Smith conducted the reinstallation ceremony for our chapter on November, 29th, 2006.

2)Prof Joe Gallian gave a lecture on Mathematical Art and a Workshop on Probability on March 29th, 2007.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Jamie Weigandt was awarded the Best Analysis Student in Purdue Math Dept.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor James Rauff

Presidents: Meghan Sims and Matt Simpson

Secretary-Treasurer: Rachel Morrison

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

4

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Pi Day Sidewalk Chalking (3/14/2007) Members wrote the first 700 digits of pi on campus sidewalks.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

DNA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor George K. Francis

President: Vimal Rao

Vice-President: Heather Wolf

Treasurer: Heather Johnson

Secretary: Rebecca Brenza

Number of New Members Inducted:

51

Number of Continuing Members:

58

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) In September of 2007 the Alpha Chapter (Illinois) hosted a talk by Prof. John Stillwell or Monash University (Australia) and the University of San Francisco. His talk, titled “A Brief History of Space”, related how the shape of the universe has been a controversial subject since ancient times, and has evolved alongside mathematical concepts of space.

2) In January, we had a double induction since a blizzard and ice storm cancelled out our December induction. The double size crowd was wellentertained by Prof. Rick Gorvett’s talk on mathematics and the financialsciences. Prof. Gorvett is conducting one of the REU programs summer 2007

3) In the fall, PME jointly with the MATRIX mathematical social club, had mathmovies and in the spring we made a field trip to the CAVE virtual environmentof the Beckman Institute. Pizza parties and invitations to departmental colloquium parties rounded out our social program.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Not at this moment. But this could change once our REUs are in fullswing.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Members of PME, but not of our chapter, who developed interesting projectsin our Geometrical Visualization in Virtual Environments REU presented theirwork at Mathfest in Knoxville, August 2006.

Do you have a report for a PME grant?

Well, since we didn’t report last year, I should mention that Prof. Robert Smith of Miami University, Ohio, launched our rebirth and renaissance inthe fall of 2005. In that year we inducted 29 new members in the fall,and 19 new members in the spring. PME at UIUC had been dormant foralmost a whole generation. Prof. Smith inspired us to reverse this deplorable trend, for which we thank him, and PME for making his visti possible.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Denise Reid

President: Katie Klimko

Vice-President: Adam Bright

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

We held a mathematics competition. Katie Klimko and Joshua Sutherland tied for first. 3rd place was Mandy Bennett.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Katie Klimko was named outstanding studnet in the College of Arts and Sciences. She also won the Math award for the University. Daniel Housley and Katie Klimko each gave several regional presentations on their individual research projects.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Zohra Manseur

Number of New Members Inducted:

1

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

None.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Fernando Burgos

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

18

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

Our 2007 Induction Ceremony and Banquet Dinner included a mathematical presentation titled “Mathematical Morsels: A Peek into the World of the Greek” by Dr. Catherine Beneteau of the USF Mathematics and Statistics Department.

Our PME chapter organized, together with the USF Student MAA Chapter, fourteen mathematical presentations by students and invited faculty members during our biweekly Math Club meetings. We had free pizza and refreshments at such presentations.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Kevin Keating

President: Ryan Flynn

Vice-President: Sandro Sanchez

Secretary: Camila Ramos

Treasurer: Allen Boddie

Number of New Members Inducted:

No.

Number of Continuing Members:

No.

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Ryan Flynn, who was just elected chapter president,gave a talk on his undergraduate research project.

2)Robert Strich, a graduate student at UF, gave a talkon “Proofs from the Book”.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Bettye Anne Case

President: John Bowers

Vice-President: Theresa Brady

Secretary: Christian Laing

Treasurer: Edwin Jimenez

Number of New Members Inducted:

21

Number of Continuing Members:

16

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

N/A.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

None.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Joan Weiss

President: Christine Mauro

Vice-President: Elizabeth Small

Secretary: Laura Young

Treasurer: Annemarie Perro

Number of New Members Inducted:

37

Number of Continuing Members:

4

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Sponsored “Mathematics Majors’ Life After Fairfield University: A Panel of Mathematics Major Gradutes”. Six mathematics major graduates representing classes from 1986 through 2005 shared their use of mathematics after graduation.

2)Sponsored “What can I do as an undergrad Math Major? PLENTY! Find out at the Panel on Interships & R.E.U.s”. Students presented information about an intership at St Paul Travelers and an REU at George Washington University.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Margaret Curran’07 REU at George Washing University in summer 2006 Amanda Popham’07 internship at St Paul Travelers in summer 2006, passed the Exam P actuary exam and will be employed by Travelers as an actuary in training. Christine Mauro’08 REU in BioStatistics at Boston University in summer 2007

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Gerald Leibowitz

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

DNA

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

The Connecticut Alpha chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon inducted five new members during the annualAwards Day ceremonies of the Department of Mathematics of the UNiversity of Connecticut on April 18, 2007:Thomas Bella, Jr. (Ph D candidate), John James Jackson II (Senior, BA in Mathematics), Sawinder Pal Kaur (Ph D candidate),Jonathan D. Pallis (Senior, BS in Actuarial Science), and Joshua K. Reagan (Senior, BS in Mathematics).

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

DNA

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

DNA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Michelle Ghrist

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

8

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

No response

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

I was hoping so but it didn’t happen because of military training, etc.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Jonah Reeger won a Draper Fellowship to Rice.

Brandon Dues won a RAND Fellowship.

Elizabeth Cather is attending medical school.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Kendra Kilpatrick

President: Matt Hancock

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

5

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

In November, we held our fifth annual Math Formal dinner and dance. This event is a joint event of our PME chapter and our MAA Student Chapter. The evening begins with an induction ceremony, then we have a nice dinner, a math talk by a guest speaker, and then an evening of dancing. About 40 people attended, and we had a wonderful time.

In March we celebrated Pi Day Day rather vigorously. Our MAA Student chapter sells temporary Pi Day tatoos that most students wear during the day and PME sponsors a pie eating contest for anyone interested in signing up. In addition, we draw the digits of pi in chalk all over the main plaza on campus and meet in the evening to eat pie together.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes, Michelle Jackson and Micah Martin.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Jean Bee Chan

President: Aaron Donahue

Vice President: Nick Dowdall

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

0

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

The Chapter conducted a Pi Day on 3/14/07 and hosted an invited talk by Jean Pedersen of Santa Clara University attended by some 50 students and faculty members on 4/19/07.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

Leanna Lofte, David Lofte, James Shikashio, Brill Rawlins, and others plan to give papers and attend the 2008 MathFest.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Aaron Donahue is in the Master’s degree program at San Diego State University; Nick Dowdall is in the Ph. D. program at the University of Iowa.

Marie-Therese Padberg is going to graduate school in applied mathematics at the University of Iowa.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Alissa Crans

President: Alexandra Froehlich

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

25

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

None.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Laura Zirbel is going to graduate school in mathematics at UC Santa Barbara.

Jeremy Dewar is going to graduate school in applied mathematics at Tulane University.

Marie-Therese Padberg is going to graduate school in applied mathematics at the University of Iowa.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Dennis C. Smolarski

President: Filipe Miranda

Vice-President: Christopher Gardner

Secretary/Treasurer: Thomas Wong

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

12

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Pi Mu Epsilon Student members provide tutoring throughout the year in the departmental student lounge.

2)The initiation banquet afforded the opportunity for several alumni to attend and, in addition, remembrances were given for two former faculty who died in summer and fall 2006 (Col. Michael Buckley [age 104] and Prof. Paul Halmos [age 90]).

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Some of the faculty may attend MathFest. As of mid-May, we are uncertain whether any student members may be able to attend (the event occurs right in the middle of the summer break!).

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Several alumni are in graduate school: 3 at UCLA, one at U of Colorado, one at UC Irvine, one at Berkeley, one at Texas-Austin.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Thomas Mattman

President: Arielle Leitner

Vice President and Treasurer: Teresa Jacobson

Secretary: Marcia Macias

Publicist: Ryan Hake

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

15

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

This fall we had a scholarly mathematical evening. We had tea and refreshment, and spent the evening discussing mathematical subjects, telling math jokes and doing math problems. This spring (April 4) we will be having a speaker from Harvard. He will be speaking just before our inductions, and will help to commemorate our first anniversary. We also had a student speak at mathfest in August.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California or at the 2008 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin.?

Yes, Arielle Leitner plans on attending mathfest in Madison, hopefully we will have others as well.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

Most of our new inductees are still in school. We do have one alumnus that is doing very well at UC Davis.

Advisor and Officers

AdvisorVioleta Vasilevska:

Brittany Lowery

Tracy Elsen

Jason Woockman

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1. Sudoku Night (contest in solving sudoku with Origami prizes) 2. Had a Mediterranean potluck party and watched “Flatland”

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2009 PME national meeting at MathFest in Portland, Oregon?

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?