PME Annual Conference 2025

The 2025 Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) National Meeting will be held at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, WA, January 8-11, 2025.
AMS-PME Undergraduate Student Poster Sessions
Friday, January 10th, 2025
Session 1: 12:00pm-1:30pm and Session 2: 3:30pm-5:00pm
These sessions feature research done by undergraduate students. First-year graduate students are eligible to present if their research was completed while they were still undergraduates. Research by high school students can be accepted if the research was conducted under the supervision of a faculty member at a post-secondary institution.
Appropriate content for a poster includes, but is not limited to, a new result, a new proof of a known result, a new mathematical model, an innovative solution to a Putnam problem, or a method of solution to an applied problem. Purely expository material is not appropriate for this session.
The deadline to submit abstracts for the poster session on the JMM portal is Tuesday, September 24, 2024. More instructions below.
Questions regarding this poster session should be directed to the organizers: Chad Awtrey ( cawtrey@samford.edu), Molly Moran (mmoran@coloradocollege.edu), or Denise Taunton Reid (dtreid@valdosta.edu).
PME Contributed Sessions on Research by Undergraduates
Thursday, January 9th, 2025 : 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Friday, January 10th, 2024: 8:00am – 12:00pm
These sessions provide a venue for undergraduate students to deliver podium presentations that are either purely expository in nature or based on original research. First-year graduate students are eligible to present if their research was completed while they were still undergraduates. High school students are eligible to present if their research was conducted under the supervision of a faculty member at a post-secondary institution. Presenters need not be members of any particular mathematics or honorary society.
The deadline to submit abstracts for the contributed paper session on the JMM portal is Tuesday, September 24, 2024. More instructions below.
The contributed paper sessions are organized by Chad Awtrey (cawtrey@samford.edu) and Thomas Wakefield (tpwakefield@ysu.edu).
Funding for PME Speakers and Delegates
With approval from their Chapter Advisor, PME students are encouraged to apply for funding as a Speaker to present in either the AMS-PME Undergraduate Student Poster Sessions or the PME Contributed Sessions on Research by Undergraduates.
If a chapter is not sending Speakers, then one Delegate from their chapter may apply for funding.
Abstract Submission and Funding Application Process
Funding from PME is limited and students must apply in order to be considered. The application process consists of the following two steps. Note that Speakers should complete Step 1 before Step 2; while Delegates should skip Step 1 and only complete Step 2.
- Submit an abstract at the JMM Website by September 24, 2024. Go to https://meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2025/cfp.cgi.
- Scroll down to the “PME (Pi Mu Epsilon)” category and click the corresponding “BEGIN A SUBMISSION” button.
- Submit the PME Travel Grant Application Form by October 15, 2024: https://bit.ly/pme-conference-travel-funding.
Funding Policies
Students should keep in mind the following policies related to travel funding:
- Only PME Speakers and Delegates are eligible for travel funding, and only when they have been initiated, have paid membership dues by October 24, 2024.
- PME students who receive funding must check their email regularly in the weeks leading up to the JMM.
- Speakers must present in either the PME Poster Session or the PME Contributed Paper Session on Research by Undergraduates to be eligible for funding by PME.
- First-year graduate students who wish to present work done as an undergraduate are also eligible, as long as they have received approval from the advisor of the PME chapter at their undergraduate institution.
- No student may receive funding from both PME and the AMS.
- PME Speakers who are awarded funding will receive reimbursement for expenses up to $1200, which is a combination of $400 in subsistence and up to $800 for travel.
- PME Delegates who are awarded funding may receive reimbursement for expenses up to $600, which is a combination of $400 in subsistence and up to $200 for travel.
- Allowable travel expenses are registration, meals, lodging, and transportation, which includes economy airfare, train ticket, automobile mileage, Conference Convention Center parking expenses, and light rail transportation.
- Note: conference hotels fill up very quickly. Therefore we strongly encourage you to register for the conference and book your hotel room as early as possible.
- Shortly after the PME Travel Funding Application deadline (normally within 2 weeks), each Speaker and Delegate will receive an email indicating whether or not they have been awarded funding. Students should not make any travel purchases until they have received confirmation from PME about their funding.
- Receipts are required for reimbursement. A single PDF file for all transportation expenses and a single PDF file of all lodging expenses must be emailed to Professor Jennifer Beineke (beinekej@me.com) by Dec 18, 2024. The student’s last name must appear in each PDF file’s name. These instructions must be followed and all email correspondence from PME must be answered promptly. In general, students must meet all deadlines set forth by PME, otherwise they risk forfeiting all PME funding.
- Speakers and Delegates will receive travel reimbursement checks immediately after the Undergraduate Student Reception (on Friday evening). No funds are available from PME before that time.
- Speakers and Delegates who receive PME travel funding are required to attend the following events:
- The Undergraduate Student Reception on Friday evening.
- The J. Sutherland Frame Lecture on Thursday morning.
- Speakers or Delegates who do not attend one of the above events must obtain, prior to the Conference, an exemption from the PME President (president@pme-math.org), or risk forfeiting all PME funding.
- In addition, Speakers and Delegates are encouraged to attend as many PME Posters and Contributed Sessions as possible along with any other events which do not conflict with the above events.
Speaker Prizes
PME awards prizes for outstanding presentations at its National Conference, supported by funding from several organizations, including the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, the Council on Undergraduate Research, and the Mathematical and Computational Biology Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America.
To be eligible for an outstanding presentation prize, PME speakers must give a presentation that is delivered:
- Individually (not with co-presenters);
- In the PME Contributed Session on Research by Undergraduates (not the PME Poster Session or other JMM session).
Other PME Programming at the JMM
Be sure to check out the PME at JMM page with opportunities of interest for students, including:
PME Panel: What Every Student Should Know about the JMM, (Wednesday, January 8th 1:30-2:30 and Thursday, January 9th 11:00-12:00)
PME J. Sutherland Frame Lecture, with speaker Daniela Witten, University of Washington (Thursday, January 9th 9:40-10:45): Selective Inference for Real World Problems.
Undergraduate Student Reception (Friday, January 10th 6:00-8:00)
Questions
Please send all questions about the National Conference, funding, and related policies to the PME Secretary-Treasurer (secretary-treasurer@pme-math.org).
New Chapter! Stevens Institute of Technology NJ Pi
NJ Pi was installed on April 3, 2024 as the 410th chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon. Congratulations and welcome to PME!

2024 PME Student Speaker Award Winners

Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research
- Nash Ward, University of Utah: “Fractal Seas; Measuring sea ice geometry from millimeters to kilometers”
Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA
- Shelby Horth, Wake Forest University: “Modeling Multiple Capillary Layers in the Human Retina”
Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet on Friday, January 5, 2024 in San Francisco
Name | Institution | Chapter | Title of the Talk |
Kendall Bearden | Samford University | Alabama Gamma | Comment on predator-prey dynamical behavior and stability with square root functional response |
Clara Chaplin | Bucknell University | Pennsylvania Beta | Optimizing Final Exam Schedules at Bucknell University |
Brent Christian | University of Alabama | Alabama Alpha | Nonlocal transport in layered media: Role of interface of heterogeneities |
Georgia Corbett | Bucknell University | Pennsylvania Beta | Large Values of Newform Dedekind Sums |
Cameron Davis | Fitchburg State University | Massachusetts Eta | Incorporating Sandfly Population Dynamics into a Compartmental Disease Model for Visceral Leishmaniasis |
Galileo Fries | Colorado College | Colorado Epsilon | The Geometry of Small Chemical Reaction Networks |
Jacob Gathje | College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University | Minnesota Delta | The Sandpile Group of Subset Intersection Graphs |
Shelby Horth | Wake Forest University | North Carolina Lambda | Modeling Multiple Capillary Layers in the Human Retina |
Kyle Kelley | Kenyon College | Ohio Pi | Structural Properties of Move Graphs Generated by Group Actions |
Celia Kerr | College of William and Mary | Virginia Lambda | Shellability of Kohnet posets |
Jackson Krebsbach | Hope College | Michigan Delta | Mapping Plant Populations Using Drones and Machine Learning |
Sarah Kulas | St. Norbert College | Wisconsin Delta | Present Bias in Group Work |
Isaac Leiterman | St. Norbert College | Wisconsin Delta | Predicting Low-Probability River Floods using Extreme Value Theory |
Juntao Liu | St. Olaf College | Minnesota Kappa | Super Strongly Hypercyclicity for Weighted Backward Shifts |
Oscar Murillo-Espinoza | California State University, Monterey Bay | California Psi | Arithmetical Structures on Canoe Paddle Graphs |
Olivia Roberts | University of South Dakota | South Dakota Alpha | Musical Systems with $\mathbb{Z}_n$ – Cayley Graphs |
Leif Schaumann | Kenyon College | Ohio Pi | Generalized Thue-Morse Turtle Curves |
Dylan Schuster | St. Norbert College | Wisconsin Delta | Classifying Character Degree Graphs with Seven Vertices |
Nash Ward | University of Utah | Utah Alpha | Fractal Seas; Measuring sea ice geometry from millimeters to kilometers |
Student Poster Session & Contributed Paper Session at JMM 2024

PME is pleased to be organizing both a Student Poster Session & Contributed Paper Session at JMM 2024! The 2024 Joint Mathematics Meeting will be in San Francisco from January 3rd-January 6th.
AMS-PME Student Poster Session:
Friday, January 5th, 2024
Session 1: Friday, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Session 2: Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm
These sessions feature research done by undergraduate students. First-year graduate students are eligible to present if their research was completed while they were still undergraduates. Research by high school students can be accepted if the research was conducted under the supervision of a faculty member at a post-secondary institution.
Appropriate content for a poster includes, but is not limited to, a new result, a new proof of a known result, a new mathematical model, an innovative solution to a Putnam problem, or a method of solution to an applied problem. Purely expository material is not appropriate for this session.
The deadline to submit abstracts for the poster session on the JMM portal is Tuesday, September 26, 2023. Click here to submit your abstract on the JMM portal. Scroll down to PME and click Begin A Submission. After entering your information, you will have the opportunity to choose between the poster session of the paper session.
Questions regarding this poster session should be directed to the organizers: Chad Awtrey, cawtrey@samford.edu, or Frank Patane, fpatane@samford.edu.
Pi Mu Epsilon Contributed Paper Sessions on Research by Undergraduates:
Thursday, January 4th, 2024 : 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Friday, January 5th, 2024: 8:00am – 12:00pm
These sessions provide a venue for undergraduate students to deliver podium presentations that are either purely expository in nature or based on original research. First-year graduate students are eligible to present if their research was completed while they were still undergraduates. High school students are eligible to present if their research was conducted under the supervision of a faculty member at a post-secondary institution. Presenters need not be members of any particular mathematics or honorary society.
The deadline to submit abstracts for the contributed paper session on the JMM portal is Tuesday, September 12 2023 (UPDATED): Tuesday, September 26, 2023. Click here to submit your abstract on the JMM portal. Scroll down to PME and click Begin A Submission. After entering your information, you will have the opportunity to choose between the poster session of the paper session.
The contributed paper sessions are organized by Jennifer Beineke, jbeineke@wne.edu and Thomas Wakefield, tpwakefield@ysu.edu.
Travel Funding for the Joint Math Meetings:
Pi Mu Epsilon has funding to support student Pi Mu Epsilon presenters in the paper session or the poster session up to a maximum of $1200 per presenter. Multiple presenters for a project are encouraged to apply and there is no limit as to the number of speakers from a given chapter that can apply for PME funding. There is no funding for delegates from chapters that are not presenting.
The deadline to apply for funding is Tuesday, October 17, 2023. Students who will be PME members by that date are eligible to apply. They should apply after submitting their abstract on the JMM portal. They will need the PME state and chapter (see chapters page on this website), and the abstract ID, which should be received after submitting the abstract. Click here for the travel funding application.
Programming at the Joint Math Meetings
Be sure to check out the PME page with opportunities of interest for students: https://www.jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2024/2300_pmeevents#studpost
which includes:
PME Panel: What Every Student Should Know about the JMM, (Wednesday 1:00-2:30 and Thursday 10:30-12:00)
PME J. Sutherland Frame Lecture, with speaker Trachette Jackson, University of Michigan (Friday 2:15-3:15): Mobilizing Mathematics for the Fight Against Cancer.
Undergraduate Student Reception (Friday 6:00-8:00)
along with many other great opportunities!
2022 Andree Award Winners

The Richard V. Andree Awards are given annually to the authors of the papers, written by undergraduate students, that have been judged by the officers and councilors of Pi Mu Epsilon to be the best that have appeared in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal in the past year.
Until his death in 1987, Richard V. Andree was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma. He had served Pi Mu Epsilon for many years and in a variety of capacities: as President, as Secretary-Treasurer, and as Editor of this Journal.
Student Poster Session & Contributed Paper Session at JMM 2023

PME is pleased to be organizing both a Student Poster Session & Contributed Paper Session at JMM 2023! The 2023 Joint Mathematics Meeting will be in Boston from January 4th-January 7th.
AMS-PME Student Poster Session:
Friday, January 6th, 2023
Session 1: Friday, 10:30am-12:00pm
Session 2: Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm
These sessions feature research done by undergraduate students. First-year graduate students are eligible to present if their research was completed while they were still undergraduates. Research by high school students can be accepted if the research was conducted under the supervision of a faculty member at a post-secondary institution.
Appropriate content for a poster includes, but is not limited to, a new result, a new proof of a known result, a new mathematical model, an innovative solution to a Putnam problem, or a method of solution to an applied problem. Purely expository material is not appropriate for this session.
Questions regarding this poster session should be directed to the organizers: Chad Awtrey, cawtrey@samford.edu, Paul Fishback, fishbacp@mail.gvsu.edu, or Frank Patane, fpatane@samford.edu.
Pi Mu Epsilon Contributed Paper Sessions on Research by Undergraduates:
Calling all undergraduate students! Have you discovered something interesting about mathematics and want to share it with others? The Pi Mu Epsilon Contributed Session on Research by Undergraduates provides students the opportunity to present talks on topics in any area of mathematics, mathematics education, or statistics. Talks may originate from original research or be expository in nature. First-year graduate students are eligible to present if their research was completed while they were still undergraduates. Research by high school students can be accepted if the research was conducted under the supervision of a faculty member at a post-secondary institution. Presenters need not be members of Pi Mu Epsilon.
The contributed paper sessions will be held Thursday morning and afternoon and are organized by Jennifer Beineke, jbeineke@wne.edu, Darci Kracht, darci@math.kent.edu, and Thomas Wakefield, tpwakefield@ysu.edu.
For BOTH the Poster Session & the Paper Session, participants should submit an abstract through the JMM abstract submission portal by September 13:
https://meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2023/cfp.cgi
Click the above link and scroll down to the PME Sessions button to submit your abstract. After clicking on the PME Session button you will have the choice to submit your abstract to the poster session or to the paper session,
After abstracts are accepted, students will receive an e-mail asking them to submit a travel grant application.
Lastly, be sure to check out the JMM page devoted to Programs of Interest to Students (https://www.jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2023/2270_studsess) which includes
PME Panel: What Every Student Should Know about the JMM,
PME J. Sutherland Frame Lecture, with speaker Edray Herber Goins: Distance makes the Math Grow Deeper: Rational Distance Sets, Nate Dean, and Me.
along with many other great opportunities!