New York Mu Yeshiva University Chapter Report

Advisor: Professor Kira Adaricheva

Officers: Elisa Karp, Elana Rosengard

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Number of New Members Inducted: 19

Number of Continuing Members: 2

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

The talk of Prof. Hamel on financial mathematics and a sudoku competition.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2011 PME national meeting at MathFest in Lexington, Kentucky?

Robert Rand from Yeshiva college presented the talk based on his Honor’s project.

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?

Rira Carla Bron got accepted to financial mathematics program at Columbia University. The paper of Adina Erdfarb was accepted to the presentation at PME national meeting in Kentucky. Robert Rand’s honor’s project became a part of joint paper with K.Adaricheva and J.B.Nation. It was presented at two conferences in summer, one of them in Marseille, France (TACL-2011). The paper will be also presented at ISAIM-2012 in Florida. The paper is to appear in Discrete Applied Mathematics.