Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Dominic Naughton

President: Jamie Weigandt

Vice-President: Jessica Armour

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

1) Dr. Robert Smith conducted the reinstallation ceremony for our chapter on November, 29th, 2006.

2)Prof Joe Gallian gave a lecture on Mathematical Art and a Workshop on Probability on March 29th, 2007.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

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. :

Jamie Weigandt was awarded the Best Analysis Student in Purdue Math Dept.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor James Rauff

Presidents: Meghan Sims and Matt Simpson

Secretary-Treasurer: Rachel Morrison

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

1) Pi Day Sidewalk Chalking (3/14/2007) Members wrote the first 700 digits of pi on campus sidewalks.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

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. :

DNA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor George K. Francis

President: Vimal Rao

Vice-President: Heather Wolf

Treasurer: Heather Johnson

Secretary: Rebecca Brenza

Number of New Members Inducted:

51

Number of Continuing Members:

58

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

1) In September of 2007 the Alpha Chapter (Illinois) hosted a talk by Prof. John Stillwell or Monash University (Australia) and the University of San Francisco. His talk, titled “A Brief History of Space”, related how the shape of the universe has been a controversial subject since ancient times, and has evolved alongside mathematical concepts of space.

2) In January, we had a double induction since a blizzard and ice storm cancelled out our December induction. The double size crowd was wellentertained by Prof. Rick Gorvett’s talk on mathematics and the financialsciences. Prof. Gorvett is conducting one of the REU programs summer 2007

3) In the fall, PME jointly with the MATRIX mathematical social club, had mathmovies and in the spring we made a field trip to the CAVE virtual environmentof the Beckman Institute. Pizza parties and invitations to departmental colloquium parties rounded out our social program.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Not at this moment. But this could change once our REUs are in fullswing.

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. :

Members of PME, but not of our chapter, who developed interesting projectsin our Geometrical Visualization in Virtual Environments REU presented theirwork at Mathfest in Knoxville, August 2006.

Do you have a report for a PME grant?

Well, since we didn’t report last year, I should mention that Prof. Robert Smith of Miami University, Ohio, launched our rebirth and renaissance inthe fall of 2005. In that year we inducted 29 new members in the fall,and 19 new members in the spring. PME at UIUC had been dormant foralmost a whole generation. Prof. Smith inspired us to reverse this deplorable trend, for which we thank him, and PME for making his visti possible.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Denise Reid

President: Katie Klimko

Vice-President: Adam Bright

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

We held a mathematics competition. Katie Klimko and Joshua Sutherland tied for first. 3rd place was Mandy Bennett.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

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. :

Katie Klimko was named outstanding studnet in the College of Arts and Sciences. She also won the Math award for the University. Daniel Housley and Katie Klimko each gave several regional presentations on their individual research projects.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Zohra Manseur

Number of New Members Inducted:

1

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

None.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

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. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Fernando Burgos

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

18

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

Our 2007 Induction Ceremony and Banquet Dinner included a mathematical presentation titled “Mathematical Morsels: A Peek into the World of the Greek” by Dr. Catherine Beneteau of the USF Mathematics and Statistics Department.

Our PME chapter organized, together with the USF Student MAA Chapter, fourteen mathematical presentations by students and invited faculty members during our biweekly Math Club meetings. We had free pizza and refreshments at such presentations.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Kevin Keating

President: Ryan Flynn

Vice-President: Sandro Sanchez

Secretary: Camila Ramos

Treasurer: Allen Boddie

Number of New Members Inducted:

No.

Number of Continuing Members:

No.

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

1) Ryan Flynn, who was just elected chapter president,gave a talk on his undergraduate research project.

2)Robert Strich, a graduate student at UF, gave a talkon “Proofs from the Book”.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

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. :

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Bettye Anne Case

President: John Bowers

Vice-President: Theresa Brady

Secretary: Christian Laing

Treasurer: Edwin Jimenez

Number of New Members Inducted:

21

Number of Continuing Members:

16

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

N/A.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

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. :

None.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Joan Weiss

President: Christine Mauro

Vice-President: Elizabeth Small

Secretary: Laura Young

Treasurer: Annemarie Perro

Number of New Members Inducted:

37

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

1) Sponsored “Mathematics Majors’ Life After Fairfield University: A Panel of Mathematics Major Gradutes”. Six mathematics major graduates representing classes from 1986 through 2005 shared their use of mathematics after graduation.

2)Sponsored “What can I do as an undergrad Math Major? PLENTY! Find out at the Panel on Interships & R.E.U.s”. Students presented information about an intership at St Paul Travelers and an REU at George Washington University.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

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. :

Margaret Curran’07 REU at George Washing University in summer 2006 Amanda Popham’07 internship at St Paul Travelers in summer 2006, passed the Exam P actuary exam and will be employed by Travelers as an actuary in training. Christine Mauro’08 REU in BioStatistics at Boston University in summer 2007

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Gerald Leibowitz

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

DNA

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

The Connecticut Alpha chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon inducted five new members during the annualAwards Day ceremonies of the Department of Mathematics of the UNiversity of Connecticut on April 18, 2007:Thomas Bella, Jr. (Ph D candidate), John James Jackson II (Senior, BA in Mathematics), Sawinder Pal Kaur (Ph D candidate),Jonathan D. Pallis (Senior, BS in Actuarial Science), and Joshua K. Reagan (Senior, BS in Mathematics).

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

DNA

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. :

DNA

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Michelle Ghrist

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

8

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

No response

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

I was hoping so but it didn’t happen because of military training, etc.

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. :

Jonah Reeger won a Draper Fellowship to Rice.

Brandon Dues won a RAND Fellowship.

Elizabeth Cather is attending medical school.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Kendra Kilpatrick

President: Matt Hancock

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

In November, we held our fifth annual Math Formal dinner and dance. This event is a joint event of our PME chapter and our MAA Student Chapter. The evening begins with an induction ceremony, then we have a nice dinner, a math talk by a guest speaker, and then an evening of dancing. About 40 people attended, and we had a wonderful time.

In March we celebrated Pi Day Day rather vigorously. Our MAA Student chapter sells temporary Pi Day tatoos that most students wear during the day and PME sponsors a pie eating contest for anyone interested in signing up. In addition, we draw the digits of pi in chalk all over the main plaza on campus and meet in the evening to eat pie together.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Yes, Michelle Jackson and Micah Martin.

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. :

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Jean Bee Chan

President: Aaron Donahue

Vice President: Nick Dowdall

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

The Chapter conducted a Pi Day on 3/14/07 and hosted an invited talk by Jean Pedersen of Santa Clara University attended by some 50 students and faculty members on 4/19/07.

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

Leanna Lofte, David Lofte, James Shikashio, Brill Rawlins, and others plan to give papers and attend the 2008 MathFest.

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. :

Aaron Donahue is in the Master’s degree program at San Diego State University; Nick Dowdall is in the Ph. D. program at the University of Iowa.

Marie-Therese Padberg is going to graduate school in applied mathematics at the University of Iowa.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Alissa Crans

President: Alexandra Froehlich

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

25

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

None.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

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. :

Laura Zirbel is going to graduate school in mathematics at UC Santa Barbara.

Jeremy Dewar is going to graduate school in applied mathematics at Tulane University.

Marie-Therese Padberg is going to graduate school in applied mathematics at the University of Iowa.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Dennis C. Smolarski

President: Filipe Miranda

Vice-President: Christopher Gardner

Secretary/Treasurer: Thomas Wong

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

12

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

1) Pi Mu Epsilon Student members provide tutoring throughout the year in the departmental student lounge.

2)The initiation banquet afforded the opportunity for several alumni to attend and, in addition, remembrances were given for two former faculty who died in summer and fall 2006 (Col. Michael Buckley [age 104] and Prof. Paul Halmos [age 90]).

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

Some of the faculty may attend MathFest. As of mid-May, we are uncertain whether any student members may be able to attend (the event occurs right in the middle of the summer break!).

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. :

Several alumni are in graduate school: 3 at UCLA, one at U of Colorado, one at UC Irvine, one at Berkeley, one at Texas-Austin.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Thomas Mattman

President: Arielle Leitner

Vice President and Treasurer: Teresa Jacobson

Secretary: Marcia Macias

Publicist: Ryan Hake

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

This fall we had a scholarly mathematical evening. We had tea and refreshment, and spent the evening discussing mathematical subjects, telling math jokes and doing math problems. This spring (April 4) we will be having a speaker from Harvard. He will be speaking just before our inductions, and will help to commemorate our first anniversary. We also had a student speak at mathfest in August.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California or at the 2008 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin.?

Yes, Arielle Leitner plans on attending mathfest in Madison, hopefully we will have others as well.

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. :

Most of our new inductees are still in school. We do have one alumnus that is doing very well at UC Davis.

Advisor and Officers

AdvisorVioleta Vasilevska:

Brittany Lowery

Tracy Elsen

Jason Woockman

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

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

1. Sudoku Night (contest in solving sudoku with Origami prizes) 2. Had a Mediterranean potluck party and watched “Flatland”

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

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?

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Melkana Brakalova and Gregory Bard

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

A fascinating lecture given on Continued Fractions by Dusa McDuff, Barnard College, Columbia University Dan DiPasquale and Seena Vali presented at MathFest last summer (only one of them used a support from Pi Mu Epsilon) and Dan DiPasquale presented at the regional Sputen Duyvil conference, an undergraduate math research conference.

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

Yes

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Madeleine E. Rosar

President: Philip Nelson

Vice President: Edwin Torres

Number of New Members Inducted:

14

Number of Continuing Members:

30

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

We hosted the Spring 2008 AMS/MAA Joint Meeting for New Jersey and the Garden State Undergraduate Mathematics Competition. Kevin Obara presented a poster at the GSUMC on Business Applications (Black-Scholes-Merton Formula). Philip Nelson made an oral presentation at the GSUMC on Generalized Inverses of Singular-Square and Rectangular Matrices.

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

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?

Philip Nelson was accepted into University of Maryland – Baltimore County for Graduate Studies in Mathematics.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Jeff Kallenbach

President: Ryan Hansinger

Vice President: Jennifer Lauer

Secretary/Treasurer: Kelly Ruder

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

10

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

Mathapalooza – a PME/Math Club pre-finals event, run each semester, at which SHU students can come in for help with their final exam preparation. Students at all levels are welcome, and attend. The PME members assist the lower-level students with their prep, and the members get help with their prep from faculty and other members. We serve pizza, drinks, and dessert, and the SHU Student Senate helps pick up the tab for the event. It was well-attended both semesters this year, as it has been each semester since we started it in 2007. Rose Hulman attendance. As we do every year, we attended the RHIT UMC in March. This year 2 faculty and 10 students caravanned to Terra Haute and saw a number of interesting talks – one by a student aged 14 (!). It’s a nice bonding experience for club members.

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

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Stephen Pennell

President: Andrew Bawn

Vice President: Andrew Balchunas

Secretary: Bryan Crompton

Treasurer: Thomas Harrington

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

1

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

Our only activity this year was the induction ceremony. Prof. Dan Klain gave a great talk on the sum of the solid angles in a tetrahedron.

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

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?

New inductees Bryan Crompton and Thomas Harrington received Arthur Zamanakos scholarships at the annual Department of Mathematical Sciences Awards Dinner on May 1.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Denise Reid

President: Maheera Farsi

Vice President: Andrel Sims

Secretary: Vernald Moore

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

Math Competition on March 26, 2009. Received a PME matching grant that was used for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the mathematics competition. Inducted 4 new members.

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

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?

Former chapter president Katie Klimko is now attending Harvard Law School.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Kari Fowler

President: Stephanie Branham

Vice President: Christopher Warren

Number of New Members Inducted:

1

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

PME and the Math Club joined for a trip to Kennedy Space Center in the Spring.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.

UT was visited by a National Councilor, Eve Torrence, who gave a lecture on “Modular Origami and the Dodecahedron,” and officially reinstated our chapter.

Advisor and Officers

Advisors: Fernando Burgos and Mile Krajcevski

President: Zachery Jett

Vice President: Joy D’Andrea

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

I) Under the direction of George Hart PME members participated in the construction of a mathematical sculpture called The Truncated 120-Cell during the conference Knotting Mathematics and Art that took place in November/07 at USF.

II) Prof. Donald McDonald of New College of Florida spoke on “Emerging Science and Problems for the Young at Heart” during the PME Induction Ceremony in April.

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

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?

Advisor: Christopher Frayer

PFC: Leonida Ljumanovic

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

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

Chris Schafhauser gave two talks this year. The talks were both titled ‘Maximality of the Bernstein Polynomials’. One talk was at MAA-Wisconsin section, 4/17 Oshkosh, WI, and the other talk was at the Mathfest, Pittsburgh, 9/6. Also, during the 2009/2010 school year our students participated in two modeling contests. One of our teams won the first place for their presentation (judged by other student participants) at the Wisconsin Mathematics Modeling Challenge. The same team participated in the ICM (Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling) contest in February, and they received the Honorable Mention. The Wisconsin Mathematics Modeling Challenge is a regional modeling contest. It was organized for the first time on October 10, 2009 at UW-La Crosse. Students had 24 hours to come up with a model, write the summary of their result, and at the end they presented their work in a 10 minute presentation. UW-Platteville had two teams of three students that participated at this contest. Here are the names of the students who participated in the Wisconsin Mathematics Modeling Challenge on October 10: Richard Jackson, Jeremiah Bell, Kutay Muslu, Charles Payant, Jordan Thole, and Christopher Schafhauser. Charles Payant, Jordan Thole, and Christopher Schafhauser won the first place for their presentation. Here is the link with more information about the contest itself: http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/wendt/WMMC/.

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

Chris Schafhauser gave a talk at the Mathfest, Pittsburgh, 9/6.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Ronald L. Persky

President: Carlie R. Hahne

Vice President: Katie M. Knoll

Secretary/Treasurer: Johnny Yohman

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

3

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

Attending MD-DC-VA MAA Sectional meetings.

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?

Alex Lundberg – London School of Economics Katie Klugh – Masters of Arts in Teaching, CNU Heather Sturgis – $2000 scholarship for Masters from Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: David Shoenthal

President: Crystal Peoples

Vice-President: Nikole Varhegyi

Secretary/Treasurer/Historian: Jessica Zlotkowski

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

3

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

Attendance at MD-DC-VA sectional meetings and SUMS meeting; end-of-semester tutoring activity.

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

Yes-Crystal Peoples.

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?

Crystal Peoples was awarded a Geico Achievement Award this year; she was also accepted into the Carleton College REU for undergraduate women. The Problem of the Month continues to be successful. This year, first prize went to a freshman, Jeff Anway. Second prize went to Crystal Peoples.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Joan Marie Rosebush

President: Simone Willett

Number of New Members Inducted:

21

Number of Continuing Members:

13

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

The most exciting activity for us was our chapter installation! Dr. Weiss was fantastic! Those who participated were delighted to take part in our charter ceremony. This year, we have our first group of graduates who are Pi Mu Epsilon members. This coming Sunday is our big day!

Vermont Beta Charter Members (Photo by Dan Harvey)

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

Unfortunately not.

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?

Hy Ginsberg will be awarded his Ph.D. on Sunday, May 23, 2010! Congratulations, Dr. Ginsberg!

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna M. Kadas

Officers: Daniel Lewis and Zachary Pratt.

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Vermont Alpha Chapter members and Mathematics faculty pose with the PME flag after the Induction Ceremony.

Number of Continuing Members:

6

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

The Induction Ceremony was held on October 2, 2009, with a reception for parents and friends afterward. Our own Professor Jo Ellis-Monaghan gave a lecture on “Graph-Theoretical Design Strategies for DNA Nanostructures”, using Zometools to illustrate DNA self-assembly. The talk included results obtained by past and present PME members working with her on undergraduate summer research grants. MacArthur Fellow, Dr. Jeffrey Weeks, made a two day visit to Saint Michael’s. His activities included a very interactive public lecture on “The Shape of Space”attended by enthusiasts from around the region, a workshop on “Visualizing Four Dimensions”, class visits, and dinner with PME members and other students.

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

Not at this time.

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?

Conferences, Undergrad Research, and other news: Brittany Baker ’11 spent the summer of 2009 at the University of Georgia REU on “The Mathematics of Paper Folding” funded by the NSF; she spent Spring 2010 at the Budapest Semester in Math program. This summer (2010) she will attend The Summer Mathematics Program for Women at George Washington U. Daniel Lewis ‘10 and Andrew Gilbert ‘11 spent the summer of 2009 at SMC working on developing strategies for self-assembling DNA nanostructures with rigidity constraints, under the direction of Prof. Jo Ellis-Monaghan. Dan was supported by NASA-VT-Space Grant Consortium funding, Andrew by a NIH-VT Genetics Network grant. Kaiti Tuthill ’11 will participate in the REU at Northern Arizona University Sixteen Saint Michael’s College students presented papers at the seventeenth annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference held at Keene State College in Keene, NH, including PME chapter Co-President Dan Lewis, and several prospective PME members. Photo and story are posted at:http://www.smcvt.edu/admission/news/news_story.asp?iNewsID=1422&strBack=/news/Default.asp Daniel Lewis received the Outstanding Math Major award at graduation. Graduate School News: Class of 2010: Katelyn Billings will attend Yale and Dominic Perroni will attend the University of Wisconsin, both pursuing Ph.D.’s in Chemistry. Zach Pratt will attend law school at the University of Iowa. Allie Levesque ’08 completed the M.S. in Statistics from the University of Southern Maine in May, 2010; Kate Morrow’08 completed the M.S. in Statistics at the University of Vermont in May 2010.

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Jeffrey Hood

PFC : Terry McDonald

President: Chris Caruvana

Vice President: Zach Skelton

Secretary: Zach Evetts

Treasurer: Josh Loeffler

Number of New Members Inducted:

14

Number of Continuing Members:

15-20

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

This year, PME students helped host the Sixth Annual TORUS (Texas Oklahoma Regional Undergraduate Symposium). PME students also participated in MATH JEOPARDY at TORUS. PME students also attended the Texas Sectional meeting in Abilene in April. PME and math club students hosted a Christmas party for a local elementary class and the math club president and PME member took on the role of Santa Claus.

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?

Outgoing President Ashley Meek accepted to graduate school at Texas Tech University.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: David Snyder

PFC : Susan Morey

Chapter URL: https://tracs.txstate.edu/portal/site/9ca18d45-460c-4f4e-0055-8499529110c7

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

Raised money selling flavored popcorn and selling pies (the π sale). Good bonding time.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Alison Marr

Officers:

Sean Watson

Sarah Stern

Samantha Lingamfelter

Jon Rogers

Number of New Members Inducted:

14

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

1) PME Induction–held induction ceremony

2) Pi+1 day w/ the MAA Student Chapter–held Pi day activities in the quad for all of campus to enjoy (on April 14=4.14)

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

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Dr. Philip Yasskin

President: Ryan Mattiza

Vice President: Luis Faria

Treasurer: Amanda Dailey

Communications: Joshua Gutz

AWM Chair: Cayleigh Hammit

Chapter URL: http://mathclub.tamu.edu

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

One interesting meeting we had during the 2009 – 2010 year was a presentation by Grace Arailacey from the National Security Agency (NSA). She talked about the mathematics applied to her work such as cracking codes in governmental work. Another meeting we had was a presentation by Dr. Colleen Robles. She gave a talk entitled “Introduction to the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem: how the coffee cup and donut are the same.”

Advisor: George Gilbert

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

2

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

We watched the film “Hard Problems.” We had our annual Calculus Bee.

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

Yet Undecided

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?

News

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.

Our Calculus Bee had between 15 and 20 participants. It took about 12 rounds to determine a winner (a Business major, Math minor).

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

Advisor: Mark Cawood

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

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?

Kristen Kay will travel to Beijing, China, during the Summer of 2010 for Research in Industrial Projects for Students through UCLA. Virginia Ahalt has a position in the Mathematics Summer Employment Program (MSEP) with the National Security Agency for Summer of 2010

Advisor: James Baglama

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

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

April 7, 2009: 3rd Calc-Bowl

April 4, 2009: Numerical Analysis Day

March 26, 2009: Induction Ceremony in the University Club from 4:30pm to 6:00pm. The speaker was Tom Bella.

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.

Advisor: Timothy Feeman

Number of New Members Inducted:

17

Number of Continuing Members:

12

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

Our annual induction was held on April 23, 2010. Our guest speaker was Dr. Robert Ghrist, whose talk was entitled “Sensor Sensibility: The Mathematics of Sensor Networks”. The event was very well-attended and the talk was a big hit, including with the parents who came to share the day with the honored students. Dr. Ghrist holds the Andrea Mitchell University Professorship at The University of Pennsylvania, with a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Electrical & Systems Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Cornell University and has garnered numerous teaching and research awards, including being named one of Scientific American magazine’s “Top 50” technology research leaders for 2007.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Lynn Breyfogle

PFC: Karl Voss

Ariel Kniss (President)

Laird Egan and Matt Mizuhara (Co-VP)

Ryan Ward (Secretary/Treasurer)

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

Members coordinate with the MAA Chapter on campus to host a Pi-Day luncheon with activities. The food included pizza pies and an assortment of faculty contributed dessert and appetizer pies. Officers planned and orchestrated the annual induction banquet in April which included a talk by one of the mathematics faculty entitled, “Imperial Domination”.

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?

One of our current members was a member of the Bucknell Mathematical Contest in Modeling team that received the “Outstanding Award”. Several of our graduating members are continuing directly to graduate school, both in mathematics and statistics. Several of our current members are participating in REUs this summer.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Colin Starr

PFC: Josh Laison

President: Christina Edholm

Vice President: Hannah Jackson

Secretary/Treasurer: Dominique Lomax

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

32

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

Ginormous Blokus tournament: we built a 20-foot by 20-foot Blokus game and held a tournament using it. Casino Night: actually a two-night event. One week, we showed “21,” and the following week hosted a Casino Night with blackjack tables, roulette, a craps table, and poker. The refreshment room had a cycling PowerPoint presentation about odds and the mathematical history of gambling.

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

Yes, Thomas Eliot

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?

Christina Edholm, Hannah Jackson, Dominique Lomax, Leo Maloney, Chelsea McLennan, Jared Nishikawa, and Mathew Titus will all be attending graduate school, almost all in mathematics. Many of our students gave poster presentations and the Joint Meetings in San Francisco.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Martha VanCleave

President: Cynthia Lester 

Vice President: Megan Taylor 

Secretary: Lauren Williams 

Treasurer: Megan Schmeckpeper

Number of New Members Inducted: 11

Number of Continuing Members: 15

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

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?

Krista Foltz, Linfield College class of 2010 has received a Fulbright grant to conduct math research at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile, analyzing the effect that stereotypes have on female math students in secondary classrooms. The math and education major will administer a survey and conduct interviews to identify behavioral trends that reinforce or discourage negative educational stereotypes, with a goal of helping to address underachievement and gender disparity in mathematics.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Nathan Gibson

PFC :Bob Burton

Acting President: Grant Bushnell

President: Michael Donatz

Vice-president: Jason Shimomura

Secretary: Debra Hanussak

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

30

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

Our chapter again co-sponsored the Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium at OSU. We also had Prof. Hal Parks speak at this year’s PME induction ceremony.

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

At least one member will be attending (via an REU program).

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?

Not of significance.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.

$100 was used to partially fund the NUMS conference mentioned above. Details on the conference can be found at the website: http://people.oregonstate.edu/studentgroups/pme/nums $50 prize grant was offered to students who solved the most Monthy Problem Solving Competition problems. Unfortunately there were unsufficient entries this year, so part of the prize grant was used to offer a presentation award during NUMS specifically for OSU students.

Advisors and Officers

Advisors: Mohammad Tabatabai and Karly Oty

President: William Fleshman

Vice President: Marlon Joseph

Secretary: Samata Prawah

Treasurer: Ryan Bao

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

337

Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker

Number of New Members Inducted:

2

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

Our chapter participated in Pi Day held just after our university Spring Break. This has become an annual event for our department and involves our PME chapter, the ECU Math Club, as well as students from many of our spring math classes.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: David Singer

PFC: Christopher Butler

President: David Kent

VP Communications: Rob Fraser

VP Service: Kristen Saad:

VP Finance: Amalie McKee

Chapter URL: https://www.case.edu/orgs/pime/index.html

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

20

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

Held a 24 Tournament and hosted two math talks.

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

Yes

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Tom Short

PFC : Leo Schneider

President: Kaylee Sutton

Vice President: Roy Bower

Treasurer: Louis Paumier

Secretary: Michael Joseph

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

Our Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony was held in conjunction with the mathematics department’s program honoring all of the accomplishments of our graduating mathematics majors. Instead of a Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet just for the PME members at a different time like we usually did, this year PME sponsored a picnic for all the the graduates, the faculty, and those of the graduates’ families who could attend. Our tee shirt, designed last year and sold this year was very popular, even among the non-math majors. Do you think the quote on the shirt “I want to be your derivative so I can lie tangent to your curves” had anything to do with its popularity?

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

Yes, we will have at least two speakers from our Chapter in Pittsburgh.

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?

Pam Castricone will spend the summer between her junior and senior year as an intern and actuarial trainee at Towers Perrin. She was hired as a result of a talk given to our Pi Mu Epsilon Chapter by former Ohio Lambda President Christine Schlauch. Christine is now an Associate in the Society of Actuaries. Bob Short gave a talk on geometric and calculus implications of material in the book “Flatland” at the undergraduate mathematics conferences at the University of Dayton in early November and at Penn State University in late November. Past President Michael Joseph gave a talk on Primitive Pythagorean Triples at the Ohio Section of the MAA in April. Part of his research led to a new entry about PPTs in the Wikipedia. He will be presenting his results at PME’s conference in Pittsburgh this August. President Kaylee Sutton gave talks on her research into Pell’s Equation at the undergraduate mathematics conferences at Penn State University in November and at the conference for undergraduate women in mathematics at the University of Nebraska in February. She will be presenting her results at PME’s conference in Pittsburgh this August. John Carroll’s two-person team of PME members Anthony Lanese and Michael Joseph placed 4th among all the teams (most of which had three members) in the mathematics competition for undergraduates held at Kent State University in April. Debra Zwilling, who spend a couple years teaching high school after graduating from John Carroll University, is in her first year of Ph.D. studies in mathematics at Case Western Reserve University. Marie Dailey and Scott Zimmerman, who will be receiving their M.S. degrees in mathematics from John Carroll University, are hoping to attend MathFest and support our two student speakers. Marie spoke at our conferences in Knoxville and San Jose, and knows what great mathematics events they are. Scott spoke at several regional conferences and had a talk prepared for the Wisconsin meeting, but was prevented from going because of a wedding in the family. He wants to see what all the fuss is about concerning our national conference. Finally, Tom Short, who was inducted into our Ohio Lambda Chapter in 1985, and then went on to receive his Ph.D. in Statistics and teach at two universities in Pennsylvania, has returned to our faculty as a full Professor. Tom has been appointed to be our new Chapter Advisor.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Gregory Quenell

Alison Lutz

Jessica Brown

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

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

Our chapter installation took place on March 1, 2010.

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?

None

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: James Olsen

President: Dan Ingebretson

Vice President: Aaron Feickert

Secretary: Songjiao Chen

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

18

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

Yet Undecided

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?

One student accepted to Carnegie Mellon graduate school One student employed by Department of Defense One student employed by Lost Alamos National Lab

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.

James Sutherland visited and presented a lecture on group theory and some mathematics history.

Advisor: Heather A. Lewis

Chapter URL: http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~mathweb/pimuepsilon/

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

2

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

We had a department award ceremony as part of our induction ceremony, and the keynote speaker was Kevin Laley, a Pi Mu Epsilon member (inducted in 2005). He spoke to students, faculty, administration, and families on “Buying Your First Home: The Mathematics Behind the Mortgage Process”.

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

No, not this year.

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Dr. Katarzyna Potocka

Officers: Michele Jastrzembski, Jason Jasinski, Jaclyn Kedzierski

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

21

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

1. Members of the New Jersey Nu chapter of PME along with other students participated in the 2009 Putnam Mathematics competition. This year’s students’ performance was the best one so far in the four year history of Putnam competition being offered at the Ramapo College location. Moreover, two faculty members offered problem solving training sessions for the competition during the fall semester. 2. The New Jersey Nu chapter of PME sponsored a trip offered to PME members and other Ramapo College students to the Garden State Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (GSUMC), where some of the main attractions were student participation in the New Jersey Undergraduate Mathematics Competition, attending invited addresses, attending student talks and poster sessions. One of the Ramapo College teams won the 8th place out of 34 teams in the team competition and one of the Ramapo College students won 12th place out of 92 students in the individual competition.

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

Possibly

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?

1. Mihail Velikov, a double major in mathematics and finance, will attend the Ph.D. program in Finance at the University of Rochester. Mihail has been the president of the Ramapo College Math Club for the last 2.5 years. He presented his undergraduate stduent research in finance at multiple conferences, held at local, national, and international levels.

Advisor: Prof. Richard Todd

Number of New Members Inducted:

24

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

This was our inaugural year. We have a new chapter of 24 members. In honor of our new chapter several M.C. Escher prints were purchased and hung in the math department

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

We had two members give talks at the 2010 MathFest: Juilia Warnke and Melissa Emory.

Advisors:

Advisor: Stephen Hartke

PFC: Allan Donsig

Chapter URL: http://www.math.unl.edu/~math-club/pme/

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

For our Third Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture, Prof. Andrew Rich of Manchester College, Indiana, spoke about “The Amazing Hilda Function.” The talk was attended by about 65 people, and was well received. This year we also had 5 undergraduate students speak about research and enrichment activities that they have been involved in.

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.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.

The Nebraska Alpha chapter received a PME grant for prizes for our “Problem of the Fortnight.” Every two weeks, a problem requiring a deeper level of insight (but not mathematics beyond the calculus level) would be posted. The best solution was awarded a $10 gift certificate to the UNL Dairy Store. In most weeks we had about 5-7 submitted solutions. The contest was mainly run by graduate student Derek Boeckner. The Problem of the Fortnight was very successful in generating conversation among students, and faculty too!

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Nikolaus Vonessen

President: Faith Morrison

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

20

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

In February, we were able to visit the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab, which belongs to the US Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. Several scientists explained how they use mathematical and statistical methods in their work to predict and prevent forest fires. And we saw some cool experiments! Our 11th annual Math Film Festival took place in April. The program was great, but the attendance was a bit disappointing. If you are looking for neat math films to show at a chapter meeting, have a look at our schedule at http://www.math.umt.edu/mathclub/filmsched2010.pdf.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Russ Euler

President: Sean Householder

Vice President: Stefani Pulley

Secretary: Taylor Cantrell

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

Our Pi Mu Epsilon chapter held a book sale during the high school Math Olympiad competition to raise money. The money raised will be combined with the money that is raised next year to donate to a cause that will be chosen next year.

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.

Advisor and President:

Advisor: Gayla Dance

President: Jaclyn Fletcher

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

13

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

Three chapter members participated in an integration bee and a team math contest, sponsored by the regional section of the Mathematical Association of America at the MS/LA meeting in Hammond, Louisiana. Two chapter members attended the Hendrix-Rhodes-Sewanee Mathematics Symposium in Memphis, Tennessee.

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?

President Jaclyn Fletcher was accepted to Mississippi State University to pursue a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship. Member Kate Griener was accepted to Louisiana State University to pursue a Doctorate in Geology. Member Taryn Green will be attending University of Mississippi Graduate School in Pathology. Recent graduate Kevan Beth Tucker was accepted to Medical School.

Advisor: Dr. Melinda Gann

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

2

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Joon Kang

PFC : Robert Moore

President : Theron Calkins

Vice President : Andrew Hoff

Secretary/Treasurer : Sandra Prieto

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

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

There was the Pi Day(March 14) celebration of 2010. Many students who have interest in Mathematics came and joined the mathematics department, and shared various kinds of pie. In the eigen talk of October 30, 2009, many people came and joined to watch a video about Fermat’s Last Theorem produced by John Lynch and Simon Singh.

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?

Philippe LaGue, one of the graduates last May, was accepted to one of Law schools for Fall 2010, and Libby Megna, a graduate student, won the Gold Water scholarship.

Advisor: Stephanie Edwards

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

11

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

We had “Integration Confrontation” in the fall where teams competed head to head against other teams to correctly solve integrals. This is a variation of the Integration Bee – but allowed the students to participate the entire time and not be eliminated. We also ran a “games” night where we played cool games (some even involved mathematics) and ate pizza and had our first (annual??) pie-ing of a math/cs prof!

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

Yes!

Advisors

Chapter Advisor: Donna Beers

PFC: David Browder

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

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

1. The highlight for AY 2009-10 was the installation of our new chapter on December 3, 2009. We were honored to have Professor Joan Weiss, the immediate Past President of Pi Mu Epsilon, officiate. (See installation photo at http://www.pme-math.org/chapters/newchapters20092010.html )

2. An alumnae panel, “My work and graduate studies since I graduated from Simmons, and the role mathematics has played in each,” which took place on March 23, 2010. The six panelists represented a wide range of fields, including: chemical engineering, epidemiology, dentistry, financial services, computer science, and environmental science.

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?

Nicole Gallant was accepted into the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Union Graduate College. Sarah Faulkner was accepted into the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Simmons College. Gabrielle Rossetti was selected as a summer 2010 Statistics and Methods Group Intern at the Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Steve Pennell

President: Bryan Crompton

VP: Andrew Balchunas

Secretary: Thomas Harrington

Treasurer: Evana Gizzi

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

Our only activity this year was the induction ceremony.

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?

Bryan Crompton received an Arthur Zamanakos scholarship at the annual Department of Mathematical Sciences Awards Dinner on May 7. He will be participating in Northern Arizona University’s REU program this summer.

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Betty Mayfield

PFC : Judy Seymour

President: Chad Doremus

Vice President: Jim Ledwell

Number of New Members Inducted:

18

Number of Continuing Members:

2

Seniors with cords

Pi Cake `

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

Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Lecture: David Richeson of Dickinson College. Prof. Richeson, author of the Euler Award-winning book Euler’s Gem, spoke on “Euler’s Beautiful Polyhedron Formula.” Induction ceremony and reception: We inducted 17 students and one faculty member. The College president, provost, v.p. for student affairs, and director of marketing all attended the ceremony, and it was advertised on the College web site.

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

I do not believe so.

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?

Dubravka Bodiroga has been accepted into the MIMBioS REU at the University of Tennessee this summer — our first REU student! Mary Combs, graduating this month, has a job as a statistician for the Census Bureau.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.

We awarded the Pi Mu Epsilon Book Prize to graduating senior Ali Blickenstaff. Since she plans to teach secondary mathematics, we presented her with the book “Twenty Years Before the Blackboard: The Lessons and Humor of a Mathematics Teacher,” by Michael Stueben, published by the MAA.

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Steven J. Kimball

President: Ian Biggers

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

38

Advisor: Maria Calzada

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

About 10

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

This year our club participated in several activities in conjunction with the Physics club. The students organized a pie sale and pie eating contest for Pi Day. We also had our traditional Calculus Competition and winning group was composed of a Math Major and a Physics major. Our induction ceremony was very successful. We offered a light lunch for our students and faculty. Eight members were inducted to PME this year. The Physics department held their PSP induction ceremony at the same time and they inducted 4 members to their honor society.

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

Not this year.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Alex M. McAllister

President: Lauren Gates

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

Induction/Convocation with Professor Angela Spalsbury. Upcoming math club events include a “Battle of the Sexes” and a picnic for all math majors.

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?

Rachel May will be going to grad school at the University of Kentucky to study mathematics. Justin Roush will be going to grad school at the University of Tennessee to study economics. Morgan Smith will be going to grad school at Columbia University to study Middle Eastern Studies.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.

We had Angela Spalsbury visit as part of a PME Good Lectureship. It’s been a few years since a campus-wide convocation was given with a mathematics theme, so this helped raise some of the profile of math around campus. Angie had lots of great ideas for how we could be more active as a group and as a math dept, especially in terms of more outreach focused activities. I cannot point to any concrete results from the ideas she shared when she visited at the end of March, but I would say we are thinking and talking about her suggestions and I am optimistic for something more in the coming year.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dale Hathaway

President: Mark Lockwood

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

We had an invited speaker, Dr. Robert Brabenec, past chair of the Wheaton College Department of Mathematics on November 19, 2009. Pi Mu Epsilon Member Mark Lockwood presented his summer research on Probabilisitic Polyforms on October 19, 2009.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Joshua Brown Kramer

Late Fall 2009-Spring 2010:

President: Ryan Goetz

Vice President: Danielle Wall

Treasurer: Matt Culhane

Secretary: Rachel Kagan

Early Fall 2009:

President: John Meuser

President: Taole Zhu

Treasurer: Ryan Goetz

Secretary: Danielle Wall

Chapter URL: http://pme-iwu.wikispaces.com/

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

4 or 5

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

We had a movie night where we watched “The Professor’s Beloved Equation”. A few professors from the math department commented about how the movie accurately captured some of the beauty of mathematics. In February we held our annual high school mathematics contest. It was a success, and we were happy to receive funds for prizes from Pi Mu Epsilon.

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?

John Meuser, who graduated this Spring, will be attending graduate school in mathematics at Texas A&M University. Taole Zhu, who will be a Senior when he returns in the Spring, attended the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. John Meuser, Taole Zhu, and Steven Hayman (all members of Pi Mu Epsilon) were the members of Illinois Wesleyan’s William Lowell Putnam Competition team. The team placed 67th out of 546 institutions

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.

We made use of a Prize Grant to pay for prizes for our annual high school math contest. The students had a lot of fun, and it was a success. More details can be found here: http://pme-iwu.wikispaces.com/Math+Contest

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Jason Swanson

President: Kristina N. Kraakmo

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

Our induction ceremony, as usual, was held jointly with the physics honor society. PME also meets jointly with the Mathematical Knights (UCF’s math club). They participated in UCF’s Ethics Bowl this year, and plan to make it an annual event.

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.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Kari Fowler

President: Moises Chavez

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

8

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

PME/Math Club members were involved in tutoring local high school students and other community volunteer events

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Ryan Mullen

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

13

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

Attending CCSU math competition, and Hudson valley undergraduate research conference

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2010 PME national meeting at MathFest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?

Perhaps.

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?

Tom Cernera will be presenting a paper at Hudson River undergraduate research conference

Advisor: Joan Weiss

Number of New Members Inducted:

28

Number of Continuing Members:

18

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

In 2010 we held our 25th induction ceremony and invited alums to participate in a Panel as part of our induction Ceremony. The panels were: Tracy Dale Immerso ’86 SNET, AT&T IT; Assist to Sr. VP Fairfield Valerie Albano Froelich ’90 Hewitt Associates, Ed.M Harvard, HS Math James Klosowski ’92 Ph.D Applied Math, Stony Brook, IBM TJ Watson, AT&T Labs Research Ryan Jessell ’05 Towers Watson actuarial development program Amanda Popham ’07 Travelers, Actuarial Leadership Development Program Christine Mauro ’08 Biostatistics Ph.D. Program, Columbia University

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

Advisor: Kurt Herzinger

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

Math Majors game night in both the fall and spring semesters. These nights involve our majors meeting for a social time of game playing and eating pizza. A good time is had by all. We also have an on-going quarterly problem-solving competition

. Mathematics Majors Game Night, March 2010

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

David Zitelli and Dylan Asmar

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?

Simon Ferrel – going to graduate school at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Jessica Schafer – going to graduate school at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Rob Steigerwald – going to graduate school at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Dan Fulcoly – going to graduate school at MIT. Michael O’Connor – going to graduate school at MIT. Millie Mays – going to graduate school at Rice Univ. Dan O’Keefe – going to graduate school at Purdue Univ.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Thomas Mattman

Fall Semester:

President – Claire Payn

Vice President – Kate Thomas

Treasurer – Lindsey Cole

Secretary – Samantha Wilson

Publicist – Brandon Heck

Spring Semester:

President – Kate Thomas

Vice President – Brandon Heck

Treasurer – Amanda Havens

Secretary – Chelsea Lindsay

Publicist – Brandon Heck

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

30

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

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

Yes

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?

One of our officers, Amanda Havens, scored a 2 on the Putnam exam, which we’re very proud of her for. Another officer, Chelsea Lindsay, has been awarded the Floyd L English Scholarship, a very prestigious award given out to a few students studying in the Natural Sciences, for next year. Kate Thomas was also ! awarded this scholarship for the current year and is graduating this May.

 
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