Brigitte Servatius Named 2026 Recipient of the C. C. MacDuffee Award for Distinguished Service
Pi Mu Epsilon is pleased to announce that Brigitte Servatius has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the C. C. MacDuffee Award for Distinguished Service, one of the Society’s highest honors. This award recognizes individuals who have made extraordinary and sustained contributions to Pi Mu Epsilon and its student members. First presented in 1965, the MacDuffee Award is bestowed only occasionally—“often enough to be recognized and seldom enough to be meaningful”—and Brigitte Servatius now joins a small and distinguished group of honorees.
For Servatius, the most meaningful moments of her PME service have always centered on students. Whether mentoring chapter officers, advising research presentations, or helping organize regional and national PME events, she has found her greatest fulfillment in supporting students as they discover their mathematical voice.
“Serving as PMEJ editor was also especially rewarding,” she reflected, “because it allowed me to help shape opportunities that reach far beyond a single campus. It was also a creative outlet for me.”
Among the contributions she is most proud of is her transformative work as editor of the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal. At a time when such efforts required both boldness and vision, Servatius led a redesign of the Journal and introduced innovative and creative features, including the art page From the Right Side and the now-beloved Mathacrostic puzzles created by Dan Hurwitz.
She also guided the Journal to major milestones in scholarly recognition. Under her leadership, PMEJ became indexed and reviewed in MathSciNet and achieved full archival inclusion in JSTOR—by invitation only. Today, JSTOR provides both long-term preservation and a yearly revenue share for the Society, further extending the Journal’s reach and impact.
Upon learning she had been selected for the MacDuffee Award, Servatius described feeling “a mix of gratitude, surprise, and humility.”
“PME is filled with dedicated individuals who give so much of themselves to the organization,” she said. “To be recognized among them was deeply moving. My first thought was of the many students and colleagues, authors and readers who made the work joyful. This honor feels like a reflection of our shared efforts.”
Servatius credits Pi Mu Epsilon with shaping her professional life in profound and unexpected ways. Through PME, she strengthened her commitment to undergraduate mathematics, broadened her view of mathematical communities, and connected with colleagues who continually inspired her.
“Working with PME students reminded me why I entered academia in the first place: to help others discover the beauty, creativity, and power of mathematics,” she shared. “Those experiences influenced my teaching, my mentoring, and even my approach to leadership.”
When asked what motivated her long-term service, Servatius responded simply:
“I have always considered PME to be my extended family. Family service and commitment is never limited to any term—the motivation is the family itself.”
Servatius expressed hope that PME will continue publishing its print journal, noting the enduring value of physical copies in accessibility, equity, and permanence. She also shared excitement about installing Brandeis University as a new PME chapter and looks forward to the Society’s continued growth.
A Message to PME Members
“To the students, faculty, and volunteers who make PME what it is: thank you,” she said. “This honor reflects the strength of our community and the shared belief that mathematics is something worth celebrating together. I’m grateful for every conversation, every presentation, every moment of mentorship, and every opportunity to serve. I look forward to seeing how each of you continues to shape the future of PME and the broader mathematical world.”
About the C. C. MacDuffee Award
The C. C. MacDuffee Award for Distinguished Service honors individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to Pi Mu Epsilon and its mission. First awarded in 1965, it is not given annually but only when service of exceptional impact merits recognition.
2026 PME Student Speaker Award Winners
Prizes were presented for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks at the Undergraduate Student Reception on Tuesday, January 6, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Congratulations to the following award winners:
| Name | Institution | Chapter | Talk Title |
| Aiden Hackett | University of Dayton | Ohio Zeta | Algebraic Complexity of Factorial Ratios |
| Allison Hilliard | Pepperdine University | California Xi | Counting Hamiltonian cycles in quartic circulant graphs |
| Archana Parameswaran | College of William & Mary | Virginia Lambda | Perfect Partitions of Some Derangement Graphs |
| Ava Lowe | Hope College | Michigan Delta | An Analysis of Stable Mode Contributions |
| Chase Gehringer | Creighton University | Nebraska Beta | A Spectrum Connecting the Bridge Index and the Braid Index |
| Duc Toan Nguyen | Rice University | Texas Alpha | Geodesic Nets – Construction and Existence |
| Eli Edwards-Parker | Hope College | Michigan Delta | Using the NCut ratio for Parameter Tuning in Spectral Clustering |
| Hung Dao | St. Norbert College | Wisconsin Delta | The Journey Between Taxicab and Euclidean Geometries |
| Kendall Snyder | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Massachusetts Alpha | Investigating the Game of Cycles |
| Luke Pekol | Lewis University | Illinois Iota | Quantifying the Court: A Statistical Analysis of Performance Metrics |
| Mary Moore | Hope College | Michigan Delta | Investigations of Bertrand’s Paradox in Triangles |
| Nathan Hogshead | Miami University | Ohio Delta | Optimization Algorithms as Graded Dynamical Systems |
| Suraj Acharya | The College of Wooster | Ohio Phi | Compact Finite Difference Implementation for Reaction-Diffusion-Advection Systems |
| Volodymyr Zabolotnyi | University of Tampa | Florida Iota | Analytic Properties of Distributions Associated with Unfair, Multi-State RNGs |
| Wyatt Snyder | Hope College | Michigan Delta | Modeling Long-Term Seed Viability with Survival Analysis: A 30 year Study of Pioneer Plants in Costa Rican Cloud Forests |
| Zach Pekol | Lewis University | Illinois Iota | Quantifying the Court: Predictive Modeling for NCAA National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball |
Photo Credit: EPNAC.com
Indiana East Becomes the 413th PME Chapter!
Indiana Iota became the 413th chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon on July 8, 2025. After two inductions in July and October, the chapter is up to 63 members! Congratulations to Indiana East and welcome to PME!
New PME Chapter! Saint Francis College
NY Alpha Chi became the 414th chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon on September 3, 2025. Congratulations to Saint Francis College and welcome to PME!
PME Annual Conference 2026
The 2026 Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) National Meeting will be held at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C. January 4-7, 2026.
AMS-PME Undergraduate Student Poster Sessions
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Session 1: 12:30pm-2:00pm 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 23, 2025. 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
Monday, January 5th, 2026 : 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026: 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 23, 2025. 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 23, 2025. Go to
https://meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2026/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, 2025: 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 23, 2025.
- 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 $1000, which is a combination of $400 in subsistence and up to $600 for travel.
- PME Delegates who are awarded funding may receive reimbursement for expenses up to $500, which is a combination of $400 in subsistence and up to $100 for travel.
- Allowable expenses are registration, meals, lodging, and transportation, which includes economy airfare, train ticket, automobile mileage, and DC Metro fare.
- 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 14, 2025. 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 Tuesday 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 Tuesday evening.
- The J. Sutherland Frame Lecture on Sunday afternoon.
- 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 events on the JMM agenda page with opportunities of interest for students, including:
PME Panel: What Every Student Should Know about the JMM, (Sunday, January 4th 1:00-2:00 and Monday, January 5th 10:30-11:30)
PME J. Sutherland Frame Lecture, with speaker Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College (Sunday, January 4th 2:10-3:15): 100 Years of Sperner’s Lemma: Proofs, Generalizations, and Applications.
Undergraduate Student Reception (Tuesday, January 6th 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).
🎉 Pi Mu Epsilon Welcomes Its Newest Chapter! 🎉
On April 28th, 2025, Pi Mu Epsilon installed its 412th chapter, Florida Nu, at Stetson University in DeLand, FL!
PME President, Dr. Chad Awtrey, said, “We are thrilled to welcome Florida Nu into the PME family. We look forward to supporting their students and hopefully seeing them at future JMMs.”
#PiMuEpsilon #PMEInduction #StetsonUniversity #MathHonorSociety #NewChapter #FloridaNu
2025 PME Student Speaker Awards
Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet on Friday, January 10, 2025 in Seattle, WA
| Name | Institution | Chapter | Title of Talk |
| Kendall Bearden | Samford University | Alabama Gamma | Enhancement of Biocontrol via Predator Interference and Additional Food |
| Tyler Blom | St. Norbert College | Wisconsin Delta | The Game of Cycles on Wheel Graphs |
| Lucas Brandt | Gonzaga University | Washington Epsilon | Not Losing the Trees for the Forest: Mathematical Modeling of Trees Blowing in the Wind |
| Zachary Duah | University of Michigan | Michigan Zeta | Lower Semicontinuity of Integral Operators with respect to $L^p$ Functions |
| Valen Feldmann | Hope College | Michigan Delta | On the Parameter Tuning Challenge of Scalable Spectral Clustering Methods |
| Darsh Gandhi | University of Texas at Arlington | Texas Iota | A SIMPL Model of Phage-Bacteria Interactions |
| Kira Glasmacher | Emmanuel College | Massachusetts Mu | Deciphering Mutation Dynamics |
| Gabriel Gray | University of Dayton | Ohio Zeta | Fixed Perimeter Analogues of Classical Partition Identities |
| Megan Hayduk | Hope College | Michigan Delta | Developing Intuitive Multiplication Fact Strategies with Young.. |
| Jasmine Hiebert | Western Oregon University | Oregon Delta | Odd Perfects, Multiply Perfects, and Non-Divisors, oh my! An Exploration of the Odd Perfect Number Problem |
| Chaucer Ihrig | Murray State University | Kentucky Gamma | Statistical Connections between Graph Structure and Maximum Independent Sets |
| Celia Kerr | William and Mary | Virginia Lambda | Index of Lie proset algebras |
| Nicholas Mankowski | Ohio Wesleyan University | Ohio Beta | A Microscopic Computational Model for Traffic Jams |
| Kyle McKee | Grand Valley State University | Michigan Iota | Guessing games to determine 1 of several secret numbers |
| Brianna Partyka | St. Norbert College | Wisconsin Delta | Modeling a Seasonal Growth Rate for Aulocoseira in Trout Lake, WI |
| Stephen Price | Hope College | Michigan Delta | Elliptic Epicycloids & Hypocycloids (part 2) |
| Nafisa Raisa | Fordham University | New York Alpha | From Parsimony to Divergence in a Stochastic DCJ-Indel Model |
| Yiting Shen | Hope College | Michigan Delta | On the Graph Laplacian and its Applications in Machine Learning |
| Sydney Vitalbo | St. Norbert College | Wisconsin Delta | Modeling Algal Population Dynamics in Lacustrine… |
New Jersey Epsilon Chapter at St. Peter’s University Receives 2025 PME Poiani Infinity Award
The New Jersey Epsilon chapter at St. Peter’s University has been honored as the recipient of the 2025 Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) Poiani Infinity Award. The award was presented by PME President Chad Awtrey on January 8th at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, WA. Accepting the award on behalf of NJ Epsilon were chapter members Isabelle Bautista ’25 and Aakash Pandey ’25. Also in attendance at the award presentation was the founder of the award, and former PME President, Eileen Poiani.
This prestigious award celebrates PME chapters that demonstrate excellence in engaging students, organizing impactful events, and cultivating a strong mathematical community.
Poiani said her goal in establishing the award was to help the PME Council “recognize those chapters that have a proven record of enthusiastically moving the boundary of mathematical achievement forward through innovative programs and activities.” Established in memory of her parents, Hugo and Eileen, the Poiani Infinity Award reflects their belief in the power of education and the importance of a solid foundation in mathematics for everyone in all walks of life.
“It’s strengthened our resolve to keep doing what we’ve been doing,” said Dawn Nelson, Associate Professor and Chair of the Mathematics & Statistics department at St. Peter’s University. “Traditionally, most of our students are first-generation college students and/or students from historically underrepresented groups in STEM. Despite these challenges, New Jersey Epsilon has helped our students transform these challenges into rewards.”
The chapter has organized several recent events that highlight the real-world applications of mathematics. In April 2024, they hosted one of the Principal Investigators from NASA’s Climate Change Research Initiative, complementing their May 2023 trip to Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Nelson stated that “These activities allowed students to see another use for their mathematical skills that they may not have previously dreamed of. They also showed the students the power and reach of mathematics.”
Looking ahead, the New Jersey Epsilon chapter is committed to continuing its tradition of excellence. Per Nelson, “We’ll continue to host unusual and dynamic speakers, and we’ll encourage more students to attend the Garden State Undergraduate Math Conference held every spring in New Jersey.”
PME President Awtrey praised the chapter’s efforts, stating “For nearly 50 years, the New Jersey Epsilon chapter at St. Peter’s University has been engaging its PME members in the scholarship and practice of mathematics, including regularly sending students to present at PME’s national conference. This sustained record of mathematical activity is exemplary, and I applaud the community at St. Peter’s University for their commitment to excellence in mathematics and to student success.”
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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!