Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Reporting Year: 2018-2019

Advisor: Alexandra Seceleanu

Advisor's Email Address: aseceleanu@unl.edu

Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: no

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: 

Officers: President: Shannyn Bird Vice President: Alex Schroeck Treasurer: Diego Galvan Secretary: Miles Davis

Chapter Website: http://www.math.unl.edu/math-club/pme

Number of New Members: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 4

Activities: 1. The 12th Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture was given on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 by Professor Robert Ghrist, the Andrea Mitchell Penn University Professor in Mathematics and Electrical/Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His presentation was titled “A new look at an old calculus”. More details on this lecture, including a detailed abstract can be found on our web page http://www.math.unl.edu/math-club/pme/lecture A picture of the new inductees with Prof. Ghrist accompanies this report. 2. The 6th Career Perspectives in Mathematics lecture featured a UNL mathematics alumnus from the class of 2002, Lukas Sabalka.  Lukas shared his education and career experience with our students and introduced them to career opportunities for mathematicians in computer vision with applications in the healthcare industry. http://www.math.unl.edu/math-club/career

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? No members plan to present or attended the PME National Meeting this year.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduations? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences, etc.
The following students will start graduate programs in the fall of 2019: - Elizabeth Spaulding - Computer Science PhD at the University of Colorado - Nora Green - mathematics graduate studies at Virginia Tech - Ge (Grace) Chai - masters of science in Analytics at University of Chicago Elizabeth Spaulding presented at the 2019 Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
Our chapter, in collaboration with other department faculty, has been organizing a regular Math Challenge event open to all undergraduates. This program has received $100 in PME support  for prize money in 2019 (each prize is a $5 gift card to a coffee shop).  Every problem is advertised for two weeks on the math club website, via emails to our math majors, and with hard copy stacks posted in the mathematics department. Afterwards the best correct solution selected among the ones submitted by students is posted. The Math Challenge features about 15 problems every academic year and there are usually several prizes for the best solutions to each problem.