South Dakota Alpha University of South Dakota Chapter Report

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Violeta Vasilevska

Tracy Elsen

Madeline Schrier

Abby Hurlburt

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

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

– Bowling Night – We hosted “Calculus the Musical” which was a huge success (http://matheatre.com/calculus/). – Pie a Professor – it was a fund raising event for Math Club and PME

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

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?

Goldwater Scholarship – Douglas Daily Presentations at conferences: Kailee Gray: “Positive Hankel Matrices are Sums of Squares”, presented at the Nebraska Undergraduate Conference for Women in Mathematics (NUCWM), Lincoln, NE, January 29-30 2010 Stephanie Reed: “Controling Plaque Among Prairie Dogs”, presented at the Nebraska Undergraduate Conference for Women in Mathematics (NUCWM), Lincoln, NE, January 29-30 2010 and at The 11th Annual Mathematics on the Northern Plains Undergraduate Conference, Sioux City, IA, April 17, 2010 Douglas Dailey: “Dynamics of a Cubic Map”, presented at The 11th Annual Mathematics on the Northern Plains Undergraduate Conference, Sioux City, IA, April 17, 2010