Institution: Willamette University

Reporting Year: 2018-2019

Advisor: Colin Starr

Advisor's Email Address: cstarr@willamette.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: Rhea Martin Treasurer: Ivy MacDuff

Chapter Website: http://

Number of New Members: 7

Number of Continuing Members: ~20

Activities: We hosted an alumni panel at our colloquium in late spring. We also held our annual Ginormous Blokus Tournament.

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

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.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
Report on PME Conference Grant Awarded to Willamette University in support of the 2018 Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium (NUMS) The Oregon Zeta Chapter of PME would like to thank PME for awarding us a $300 conference grant to help defray the expenses of hosting the 2018 NUMS. Your support helped make NUMS an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all who participated and helped us maintain the tradition of free registration. We held NUMS on the Willamette University campus on Saturday, November 3, 2018. Sixty students and faculty pre-registered for the conference. There were a few who failed to show, but a greater or equal number who registered on site, so there were around 60 participants in the conference. The conference began with coffee, of course, followed by a brief welcome and then our first talk of the day: Dr. Jennifer Quinn from University of Washington Tacoma. Her keynote address was entitled “Solving Mathematical Mysteries” and dealt with a number of intriguing puzzles centered around the Fibonacci sequence. After the keynote address, the conference split into student talk sessions. We had six sessions of three 15-minute talks each and ran two sessions at a time, for a total of 18 student talks. As is customary, we provided lunch, coffee, and snacks. After the last talks, we hosted a gaming session for any who felt like staying to play for a while. We did not conduct formal evaluations, but several participants remarked on how much they enjoyed the conference. Once again, we thank you for your support of this conference. We believe it is an excellent addition to our annual MAA section meeting as it gives undergraduates an opportunity to talk about their work in a smaller, less intimidating setting among peers. We can also send a copy of the program if you would like to see what the day looked like. Respectfully submitted 11/5/18 Josh Laison and Colin Starr Willamette University