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!
Special Induction of Isabel Weil Gros
Isabel Weil, born in Brooklyn on May 19, 1923 and the first in her family to attend college, was nominated by Hunter College to Pi Mu Epsilon in 1942, just as her father suffered a stroke and died. She found an office job in a lipstick factory, switched from Hunter full time to night classes and graduated a year late. She became a beloved New York City junior high school math teacher. She loved math puzzles and stumping nears and dears with birthday checks calculated using days, hours and years lived.
She often said her greatest regret was not joining Pi Mu Epsilon. Through the efforts of Barry M. Cherkas, chair of the Hunter College Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and faculty advisor Tatyana Khodorovskiy, on February 19, 2021, Isabel Weil Gros became the oldest new member of Pi Mu Epsilon, and maybe the happiest new member ever, 79 years after receiving her original invitation. She said she never expected to join and was thrilled to take the pledge! She died on March 17, 2021.
Her children, Melinda and Jacques, generously funded ‘The Isabel Weil Gros Award for Excellence in Mathematics’, a new annual monetary prize to be awarded to a Hunter College Pi Mu Epsilon nominee.
2021 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 the PME Journal.
AMS-PME Student Poster Session at JMM 2022
PME is pleased to be organizing the Student Poster Session at JMM 2022!
AMS-PME Student Poster Session:
Friday, April 8th, 2022
Session 1: 10:30am-12:00pm (PT
Session 2: 3:00pm-4:30pm (PT)
The AMS has graciously agreed to allow ALL INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS to attend the AMS-PME student poster sessions, regardless of whether they are registered for the conference. This decision was made so that poster presenters could interact with a larger audience, and it provides an excellent opportunity for students, who are not registered for the conference, to attend and learn more about research being conducted by their peers.
Please visit https://tinyurl.com/PMEPSReg in advance of the session in order to obtain details about joining.
Additional information about PME events at JMM 2022:
https://www.jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2022/2268_pmeevents