PME Conference 2021:
The 2021 Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) National Meeting will be held at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) virtual MathFest conference on August 4-7, 2021. Please visit http://pme-math.org/mathfest2021
Introducing New Hampshire Beta—SNHU #403
Southern New Hampshire University Induction Ceremony, March 04, 20202020 MathFest in Philadelphia, PA
Unfortunately, the PME National Council has decided that all PME activities at MathFest 2020, including travel support, have been canceled. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Secretary-Treasurer <secretary-treasurer@pme-math.org>.
PME Student Speaker information is now available Here.
Introducing Ohio Chi — PME Chapter #402
Shawnee State University, Ohio Chi, Induction Ceremony–2019
2019 PME Speaker Award Winners
Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony, MathFest, August 2, 2019, Cincinnati, Ohio
Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research
Maia Wichman, Grand Valley State University, “Doubly Chorded Cycles in Graphs”
Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA
Eric Leu, Hope College, “Remote Identification of Cloud Forest Landslides: A Machine Learning Approach”
Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards
Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for Excellence in Student Exposition or Research
Haley Colgate, Colorado College, “Measuring Gerrymandering: Flaws in Traditional Measures”
Maria Cummings, Randolph-Macon College, “Investigations into the Discrete Arithmetic-Geometric Mean”
Amanda Cusimano, Xavier University, “3-cyclic bandwidth and 3-cyclic bandwidth critical graphs”
Niyousha Davachi, University of Texas at Arlington, “Equations of Mathematical Physics and Lagrangians”
Anthony Dickson, Youngstown State University, “On Inverse Semigroups Associated with Markov Subshifts”
Jonathan Feigert, Youngstown State University, “Presentations of Common Groups”
Martha Hartt, Randolph-Macon College, “A Proof of Bertrand’s Postulate”
Xiaomin Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Almost Beatty Partitions and Optimal Scheduling Problems”
Janelle Nelson, Howard University, “The Statistical Physics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs)”
Marco Pettinato, Lewis University, “Predictive Modeling and Analysis of Softball Using Linear Algebra-based Ranking Systems”
Ryan Wartenberg, Washington College, “Triangulations and Tamari Lattices”
Isaac Weiss, College of Wooster, “Measuring Compactness of Legislative Districts”
Everett Yang, Texas A&M University, “A general algorithm for constrained robot motion planning”
The Pi Mu Epsilon Centennial Collection—Now Available!
Now available at the AMS Bookstore
100 Years of Math Milestones: The Pi Mu Epsilon Centennial Collection
By Stephan Ramon Garcia, Pomona College and Steven J. Miller, Williams College
100 Years of Math Milestones: The Pi Mu Epsilon Centennial Collection brings together 100 problems chosen to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the undergraduate math honor society Pi Mu Epsilon. Each chapter describes a problem or event, the progress made, and connections to entries from other years or other parts of mathematics. These problems are appealing and accessible to math majors and aficionados alike.
Problem Solving Competition Pizza Party Winners
Spring 2018: Armstrong Problem Solvers, Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University
Fall 2017: Emmanuel College Math Club
Spring 2017: North Central College
2018 Student Presentation Prize Winners
Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony, MathFest, August, 2018, Denver, CO
Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research
Vladimir Sworski, Cleveland State University, “Problem 21: An Exploration of Dial Rings”
Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA
Allison Gerk, St. Norbert College, “Columnaris Disease and the Population Dynamics of Infected Fish”
Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards
Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for Excellence in Student Exposition or Research
Preston Biro, Texas A&M University, “A Statistical Approach to the Effect of Suspensions in the NFL”
Keller Blackwell, University of South Florida – Tampa, “Structural Properties of Twisted Hermitian Codes and Applications to Cryptography”
Kathleen Buch, Xavier University, “Optimizing Congressional Voting Districts using a Genetic Algorithm”
William Craig, Virginia Tech, “Quiver Hall-Littlewood Functions and Kostka-Shoji Polynomials”
Brian Darrow Jr., Southern Connecticut State University, “On Developing an Early Warning System”
Samuel Delatore, Youngstown State University, “A Not-So-Fair Guessing Game and the Math Behind It”
Anthony Dickson, Youngstown State University, “The Prime Number Theorem: A Historical Look at How Mathematicians Proved It”
Caroline Howell, Troy University, “Mapping Sound Waves in Octave”
Jacob Kirsch, Saint John’s University, “Image Recognition Using Polynomial Regression and Artificial Neural Networks”
Robert Lehr, Southwestern University, “Perspective Drawing: How to Find the Immersion Point”
Katherine Mantych, Elmhurst College, “The Rational-Float Data Type”
Bridget Mueller-Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “New Songs in the Deep: A Passive Acoustic Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Omura’s Whales (Balaenoptera omurai)”
Daniel Plummer, Howard University, “Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology and the Future of Commerce”
Henry Potts-Rubin, College of Wooster, “A Convention for Drawing Knots and Links on the Real Projective Plane”
Victoria Robinson, University of Mississippi, “On a Generalization of the Fibonacci Sequence”
Bao Van, St. Norbert College, “Building Low Rank Matroids”
2107 MathFest PME Student Award Winners
Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony, MathFest, August, 2017, Chicago, IL
Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research
- Trent DeGiovanni, Gonzaga University, “Most Economical Common Dissection of a Square and Equilateral Triangle”
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Applied Mathematics
- Ngan Tran, Ripon College, “An Analysis of Quantitative Measures for Detecting Gerrymandering”
MAA Special Interest Group Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Environmental Mathematics
- Stephanie Allen, SUNY Genesso, “A Two-Stage Vehicle Routing Algorithm Applied to Disaster Relief Logistics after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake”
Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA
- Russell Houpt, Hope College, “Name That Bird! Using Neural Networks to Identify Birds”
Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards
- Monica Busser, Youngstown State University, “Induced Representations ”
- Brian Darrow Jr., Southern Connecticut State University, “On Decomposing the Complete Symmetric Digraph into Orientations of K4 – e”
- Donald Fincher, Kent State University, “Approximating Nonlinear Differential Equations using the Adomian Decomposition Method”
- Travis Howk, Hendrix College, “Newton’s Method on Rational Functions in the Complex Plane”
- Robert Krueger, Miami University, “Hamiltonian Cycles in k-partite Graphs”
- Chrisitne Langer, Youngstown State University, “Surprising Nontransitive Games”
- Britney Mazzetta, Ithaca College, “Predicting U.S. Childhood Obesity Through Mathematical Modeling”
- Brandon Payne, Elmira College, “The Iowa Democratic Caucuses: A Mathematical Analysis of the “Vote””
- Kiersten Potter, Marshall University, “Explicit Origami Constructions of Regular Polygons”
- Steven Rollins, Marshall University, “Optimizing Refuse Collection Routes in Huntington, WV”
- Slade Sanderson, Pepperdine University, “Trajectories on Homothety Surfaces”
- Parth Sarin, Texas A&M University, “From Phylogenetics to Statistical Physics: Tensor Wiring Diagrams and the Impact of Tensors on the Sciences”
- Sarah Seckler, Hope College, “What Bird Was That? Feature Extraction of Recorded Bird Songs for Neural Networks”
- Callie Sleep, South Dakota State University, “Extending the Bocher-Grace Theorem to Quadrilaterals and other Polygons”
- Erika Sweet, Santa Clara University, “4C Coding in STEM – Identifying Obstacles to Clear Scientific Writing”
- Vincent Villalobos, University of Texas at Tyler, “Morita Equivalence for Groupoids of Directed Graphs”
