Advisor and Officers

Advisors: Terry Jo Leiterman and Rick Poss

President: Justin Cartier

Vice President: Kathleen Miller

Secretary/Treasurer: Stephanie Schauer

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

10

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

Hosting the annual Pi Mu Epsilon Regional Undergraduate Math conference in November. Traveling to the Madison Area Technical College to explain and demonstrate the square-wheeled bicycle with Dr. Terry Jo Leiterman.

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, at least two speakers.

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?

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

We received a $100 grant to help with the costs of hosting the annual St. Norbert College Pi Mu Epsilon Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. Dr. Eve Torrence, President-Elect for PME, was the featured speaker. We had a record attendance of over 200.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Hasan Hamdan

President: Nima Maher

Vice President: Amanda Lorussa

Secretary: Ryan Harter

Treasurer: Kyle Ames

Number of New Members Inducted:

21

Number of Continuing Members:

10

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

We hosted a pizza party/movie night in the fall that was rather well attended by both members of PME and other [non-member] math majors and professors. We also donated money to help sponsor the annual SUMS (Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics & Statistics) Conference held at JMU, as well as to the service fraternity Gamma Sigma Sigma’s alternative Thanksgiving break program that traveled to New Orleans in November 2008 to rebuild properties ruined by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina.

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?

Several of our members were recognized for various awards given at the JMU Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics Award ceremony in April 2009. Furthermore, outgoing president Kristin McNamara (’09) will be starting the mathematics graduate program ! at the University of Tennessee in the fall, and Molly McHarg (’09) will be starting the Secondary Education graduate program at JMU.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: David Shoenthal

President: Jessica Carlson

Secretary, Historian, and Vice President: Catherine Swandby

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

3

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

Continued traditions of the Problem of the Month and tutoring for math courses during finals week.

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

Bobby Markey plans to attend as chapter representative.

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?

The Problem of the Month continued to be successful with faculty, students, and alumni and other outsiders. We awarded $40 to our first place winner Jessica Carlson, and $20 was split between the second place team of Chris Hoffman and Briana Wells.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Zsuzsanna Kadas

Co-Presidents: Katelyn Berry and Claudette Foisy

Vice President: Paul Jarvis

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

This year’s new inductees into the Vermont Alpha Chapter.

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

The annual induction ceremony and PME lecture were held on October 24, 2008 with a reception for PME members and parents/friends of new inductees. The lecture by Prof. John Voight of the University of Vermont, entitled “Escher and the Droste Effect”, described how elliptic curve theory can be used to “fill in” the blank center of M.C. Escher’s lithograph “Print Gallery”.

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?

Five St. Michael’s students presented papers at the Hudson River Undergraduate Math Conference held in April at Union College in Schenectady, NY including PME members Jonathan Kaptcianos ’09, Claudette Foisy ’09, and Nicholas Rizzo ’10. Jon Kaptcianos ’09 had a research article “A Graph Theoretical Approach to DNA Fragment Assembly” appear in The American Journal of Undergraduate Research in 2008; at graduation, Jon received the “Saint Michael’s Award”. Daniel Lewis ’10 was awarded a NASA-VT Space Grant summer undergraduate research grant and spent the summer at SMC working on developing strategies for self-assembling DNA nanostructures with rigidity constraints, under the direction of Prof. Jo Ellis-Monaghan. Paul Jarvis ’09 received the Outstanding Senior Award in Mathematics; a double major in math and biology, he will be attending medical school at the University of Vermont. At graduation, Whitney Hine ’09 won the 2009 Donald Sutton Community Service Award. Katelyn Berry ’09 received the Outstanding Senior Award in Computer Science; she will be attending graduate school in CS at Northeastern. Claudette Foisy ’09 will pursue graduate work in Statistics at Clarkson. Katelyn Billings ’10, a double major in math and chemistry spent the summer doing chemistry research at the University of Utah. Further details about some of these accomplishments are available at http://www2.smcvt.edu/marcom/MAJORS/Mathematics/Summer2009/index.html

Advisor: Angie Gardiner

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

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

Some of our members tutored elementary school students and our chapter is planning a showing of “Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land.”

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

We currently have one member planning to attend.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Mark Tomforde

President: Letty Reza

Facebook Group: Pi Mu Epsilon Texas Theta Chapter

Number of New Members Inducted:

25

This year’s new inductees into the Texas Theta Chapter.

Number of Continuing Members:

1

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

Mathematics Jeopardy

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?

No

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Jeffrey Hood

PFC: Terry McDonald

President: Ashley Meek

Vice-President: Phillip Ray

Secretary: John JJ Ford

Treasurer: Tony Burson

Number of New Members Inducted:

22 (19 students and 3 faculty)

Number of Continuing Members:

15-20

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

PME students participated in the first ever American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life held at Midwestern State University. PME students attended the Fifth Annual TORUS (Texas Oklahoma Regional Undergraduate Symosium). PME students and math club students hosted the first Real World Math Symposium (held at Midwestern State University) talk given by MSU alumnus, Dan Stone.

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?

oseph Gilbert accepted to graduate school at Texas Tech University. Austin Howard accepted to graduate school at University of Texas at Dallas. Jacob Staples accepted to graduate school at University of Central Florida.

Advisor and Officers

Advisors: David Snyder

President: Paul O’Hara

Vice President: Joel Davis

Treasurer/Secretary: Stephanie Drown

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

Texas Rho’s 8th Spring Induction

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

We invited the director of the UTexas actuarial program to visit and describe the actuarial profession. We also watched the new Flatland movie.

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

At this point, 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 and Officers

Advisor: Philip Yasskin

President: Ryan Mattiza

Vice President: Shannon Cavanaugh

Treasurer: Amanda Dailey

Communications: Luiz Faria

AWM Chair: Emma Naden

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

27

Number of Continuing Members:

38

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

To accompany the excitement with the recent election, a presentation was given by Dr. Zoran Sunik involving the mathematics of different voting/election strategies. It was a great promotion of the election and a very interesting speech. Another presentation was given by Dr. Sarah Witherspoon about knots and the Jone’s Polynomial. It was a unique talk that described the mathematics behind the ability or inability of an individual to untie certain knots.

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?

Matthew Jungman – Classroom excellence award in Math 467, Angela Gilbert – Classroom excellence award in Math 411 (Mathematical Probability), Luiz Faria – Classroom excellence award in Math 409 (Advanced Calculus) honors, James Garza – Classroom excellence award in Math 409 (Advanced Calculus), Isaac Velando – Classroom excellence award in Math 409 (Advanced Calculus), etc…

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: George Gilbert

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

1

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

Nothing unusual. Annual Calculus Bee in April. Several undergraduate talks.

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?

Darrn Ong begins graduate study in mathematics in Rice University in Fall 2009.

Advisor: Dr. Mark E. Cawood

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

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 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?

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisors: Maria Girardi , Rhonda Sanders , Laszlo Szekely

President: Kevin Pompey

Vice President: Holly Watson

Treasurer: Jackie Lip

Secretary: Alyse Shayer

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

17

Number of Continuing Members:

42

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

Check out our webpage! Integration Bee. Hair Day (fund raiser).

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

Still working on this

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Paul Klingsberg

President: Sarah Hegarty

Vice President: Samantha Warrick

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

Our induction speaker, Dr. Steve C. Wang of Swarthmore College, discussed new statistical techniques that can help us to recognize mass extinctions—such as the one that killed the dinosaurs—from imperfect clues in the fossil record. Two students received positive scores in the Putnam: Dmytro Yeroshkin got 31 points and Sarah Hegarty got 1 point.

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?

Dmytro Yeroshkin will be a math grad at Penn this fall. Sarah Hegarty will be attending graduate school in London.

Advisor:

Dr. Timothy G. Feeman

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

11

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

On May 1, 2009, an enthusiastic audience of students, faculty, and a few parents welcomed our new members and listened to a fabulous talk on “The Diophantine geometry of Apollonian packings”, presented by Peter Sarnak of Princeton University.

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

Likely 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?

Patrick Cesarz will enter the Ph.D. prgram in Mathematics at the University of California – San Diego in the fall of 2009.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Martha VanCleave

2008-2009 Officers:

President: Anne Muehleck

Vice President: Lesley Bryant

Secretary: Marissa Davis

Treasurer: Tyler Bryson

2009-2010 Officers:

President: Quinn Murphy

Vice President: Cameron DuBois

Secretary: Ashlee Hockett

Treasurer: Diane Morgan

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

In the Spring we held a caramel apple pop fundraiser in honor of the day Sir Isaac Newton was knighted (April 16, 1705). Along with a $.50 lolly pop, students were given a math problem to complete and then be entered in a raffle for a gift certificate. We raised $27.50.

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

Unfortunately, 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?

Seniors Michael Holten and Bradley Schorer attended the American Physical Society Northwest Conferece (APS NW) and presented their Senior Thesis research. Not only were they able to receive feedback on their work, they were also able to see what is active in the field of physics. Senior Anne Muehleck was accepted to George Fox University’s Master of Arts in Teaching program. Senior Lesley Bryant is attending the Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham to study Neuroscience in the pursuit of a PhD.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Michael Ward

Officers: TBA

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

1

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

The highlight of our year was a visit by national councilor Kendra Killpatrick from Pepperdine University. She delivered a well-received talk in our Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium Series on the Catalan Numbers. She also an informational talk about PME at a Math Club meetings. The invited speaker for our induction ceremony was James Pommersheim, Reed College, who spoke on “Euler-Maclaurin Summation for Polytopes.”

Did any of your chapter members attend or present papers at the 2009 PME national meeting at MathFest in Portland, Oregon?

Five chapter members attended the PME national meeting at MathFest. Two presented papers.

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?

Dania Morales attended the 2009 Summer Mathematics Program for Women at Carleton College. Masaki Ikeda and Dania Morales gave talks at the PME national meeting. Masaki Ikeda won a prize for his talk, “Random Juggling.” Matt Schmidgall and Masaki Ikeda won second place and third place, respectively, for their presentations at the 2009 Pacific Northwest MAA conference in Ellensburg, WA. Laura Waight was awarded an Oregon Space Grant Consortium scholarship.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship Grant, please briefly describe what took place during the councilor’s visit.

Kendra Killpatrick visited under a PME Lectureship Grant. Her lecture was excellent. Perhaps more importantly, she was motivational for our students. I think she receives some of the credit for the large numbers of students who spoke at meetings this year. She generated excitement about PME membership. Kendra also gave wise advice about our procedures for admitting new members to our chapter, all of which we implemented.

Advisors and Officers:

Advisor: Nathan Gibson

PFC: Bob Burton

Outgoing:

President: Nicholas James Stevenson

Vice-President: Julie Marie Linman

Secretary/Treasurer: Grant Levi Bushnell

Incoming:

President: Michael Donatz

Vice-President: Jason Shimomura

Secretary/Treasurer: Debbie Hanussak

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

24

Number of Continuing Members:

11

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

Our chapter co-sponsored and organized the first annual Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium Saturday, May 9 at OSU. There were 33 attendees representing EOU, OSU, Pacific, Willamette and WOU, including 17 speakers filling two parallel sessions. Our chapter also sponsored and helped organize a weekly problem solving competition for all OSU students with problems posted on our Math Club website. The student that solved the most problems this year will be representing OSU in the National Problem Solving Championship at MathFest in Portland this summer.

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

We will have one student speaker participating in the PME Paper Session this year. We intend to rent a van in order to take members and other math students to the conference.

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.

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

We were awarded both a conference grant and a prize grant, the results of which were described in the activities portion of this form.

Advisor and Officers

Advisors: Mohammad Tabatabai and Karla Oty

President: William Fleshman

Vice President: Ryan Bao

Secretary: Whitney Harstad

Treasurer: Samata Prawah

Number of New Members Inducted:

14

Number of Continuing Members:

17

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 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:

Dr. Anita M. Walker

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

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

PME co-hosted Lisa Mantini from Oklahoma State University as the invited speaker for Math Awareness Month. The topic was “Latin Squares, Orthogonality, and Sudoku.”

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: Dr. Lisa Mantini

President: Jack Knorr

Vice President: Lauren Smith

Secretary: Matt Davis

Treasurer: Jonathan Crossley

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

1

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

1) We sponsored a performance of “Calculus: The Musical!” on campus. It was made even more unusual by the presence of a tornado near campus on the night of the performance. 2) We sponsored a Math Jeopardy contest for several teams of students. The winning team won by 1 point!

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

No (but we’ll plan to send some members to Pittsburgh in 2010).

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?

Jack Knorr is in the doctoral program in Statistics at OSU. Carlos Bernal is working on a Masters’ in the Mathematics Department at OSU. Jack Knorr, Carlos Bernal, Markus Vasquez, and Jonathan Crossley presented papers at the MAA Oklahoma-Arkansas Section annual meeting in March 2009.

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

President David Sutherland spoke here in March 2008 on a PME lectureship.

Advisors and Officers

Advisors: Dr. George Yates and Dr. Angela Spalsbury

PFC : Dr. Angela Spalsbury

President: Krista Foster

Vice-President: Moriah Wright

Secretary: Doug Wajda

Treasurer: Erica Cross

Historian: Allison Wiland

Webmaster: W. Ryan Livingston

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

24

Number of Continuing Members:

20

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

(1) We hosted our 11th annual Regional PME conference on our campus in February. Over 100 students and faculty from 15 colleges and universities in the area attended and presented their mathematical research. (2) In the MCM COMAP Mathematical Modeling Competition, the team of Doug Wajda, Matt Guidesh, and Josh Mike received a “Meritorious” designation for their work on the discrete problem. The team of Matt Alexander, Krista Foster, and Moriah Wright also received a “Meritorious” for their work on the continuous problem. (3) At the 2008 national PME conference held in Madison, WI, Jared Ruiz and W. Ryan Livingston received PME “Best Talk” awards for their presentations, Doug Wajda received a “Best Talk” award from SIAM, and Matt Alexander received a MAA “Best Speaker”.

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, we plan to send 10 PME and 2 MAA students to give presentations in the PME and MAA sessions.

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?

At the Joint Mathematics Meeting held in January 2009 in Washington, DC, John Hoffman, Jared Ruiz, and W. Ryan Livingston presented a poster on their research in number theory and were advised by Dr. Jasek Fabrykoswki. Several PME members graduated this year and have been accepted to graduate schools: Erica Cross (Florida State University), Scott Eddy (Youngstown State University), Tyler Drombowsky (University of Maryland), Krista Foster (Penn State University), John Hoffman (Kent State University), W. Ryan Livingston (University of Georgia) Jared Ruiz (University of Nebraska). Former YSU PME member, Thomas Wakefield, who recently received his Ph.D. in group theory from Kent State University was hired as faculty at YSU specializing in abstract algebra. PME members Josh Mike, Kristi Mraz, Lisa Curll, and Moriah Wright were selected to participate in the year-long MBUR Biomath REU held at YSU. They will jointly conduct research with another undergraduate biology major under the supervision of both mathematics and biology faculty. They plan to present this research at both the national PME conference held in Portland, OR, this summer and at the NIMBIOS conference held in Knoxville, TN, this fall.

Advisor and Officers

Advisors: David Singer and Christopher Butler

President: Tome Reid

Communications: Jocelyn-Eckert

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

20

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

Induction ceremony with Dr Shapiro -OSU Integration Bee

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

Maybe.

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: Sherri Brugh

President: Gina Rotuna

Vice President: Kaylin McCue

Secretary-Treasurer: Alyssia Weaver

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

1

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

Three members attended and presented in Portland.

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

Advisors: Dr. Stephen M. Gagola and Julie Christensen

President: Michelle Cordie

Vice President: Matthew Grimm

Treasurer: David Zach

Historian: Mike Donzella

Secretary: Kathryn Burgoon

Webmaster: Dean Zeller

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

40

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

1) Students prepared conference presentations for various conferences, including YSU regional PME, by holding “practice” sessions for their peers. 2)Combinatorical Games Tournament was held with round-robin and bracket style elimination.

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.

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?

Michelle Cordier has a paper titled Combinatorics on Border Correlations of Partial Words that is “under review.” Mike Donzella, David Zach, Matthew Grimm, and Kathy Varga are participating in REUs this summer.

Advisors

Advisor: Sarah Greenwald

PFC : Jill Thomley

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

—

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

ASU has a large and active math club which subsumes most of the PME members. PME doesn’t typically do separate activities other than the inductions.

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?

No.

Advisors

Advisors: Keith DeGregory and Michael Phillips

Number of New Members Inducted:

28

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

PME induction ceremony on Feb 11, 2009

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 and Officers

Advisor: Gove Effinger

PFC: Mark Huibregtse

President: Emese (Emi) Lipcsey Magyar

Vice President: Melissa Hamilton

Secretary: Kubra Komek

Treasurer: Amanda Holland

Number of New Members Inducted:

20 students and 1 faculty member

Number of Continuing Members:

7 students and 11 Skidmore faculty (and a few retirees)

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

1. The PME initiation ceremony (held on 19 March 2009) was certainly interesting. Our guest speaker, Kim Plofker, gave a very interesting historical presentation titled “Is Algebra Bad for Mathematics?” 2. “Numb3rs Night”: The student officers organized an entertaining event (held on Thursday, 2 April 2009) at which an episode of the TV show “Numb3rs” was shown, and two faculty members made brief presentations on the mathematics (in this case, differential equations and epidemiology) “featured” in the episode. There was interest in holding another such event in 2009-10.

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?

Skidmore had several excellent Mathematics and Computer Science Majors graduate this spring, and several are on their way to graduate school: Oliver Layton — UCLA Jessada Mahatthananchai — U. Penn Bill Stitson — U. Virginia Rozalina Zlatareva — Tufts (All of the above are members of PME.)

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Katarzyna Potocka

President: Emily Migliore

Vice President: Corinne Bronder

Treasurer: Michael Morici

Secretary: Michele Jastrzembski

Webmaster: Asif Hazrat

Number of New Members Inducted:

14

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

1. On March 1st, 2009, the Ramapo College of New Jersey Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, New Jersey Nu, was installed. 14 members were listed on the charter and got inducted to Pi Mu Epsilon. Of the inducted members, 10 were students and 4 were faculty. Dr. Joan Weiss, a former president of the national Pi Mu Epsilon conducted the chapter installation and inducted new members into the society.

2. Our New Jersey Nu Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon organized a trip for a team of 3 students to the New Jersey Undergraduate Mathematics Competition. Ramapo College team won the 6th place among 29 competing teams in the team part of the competition and the three Ramapo students tied for 9th place in the individual part of the competition.

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

Possibly one student

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. A recent inductee Michele Jastrzembski presented an undergraduate research paper at the Student Research Symposium held at Ramapo College. She worked on the project under the direction of her mentor, Sara Kuplinsky, and the title of her work was “Zigs-In-The-Plane Problem.”

2. A recent inductee James Caldera is planning to attend a law school after graduating from Ramapo College this May with a degree in mathematics.

3. A recent inductee Corinne Bronder, after graduation in May 2009, is planning to attend a master’s degree program in Educational Leadership at Ramapo College followed by a Master’s program in Statistics at one of the area’s universities while being a full-time high school mathematics teacher.

Advisors and Officers

Advisor: Stephen Hartke

PFC: Allan Donsig

President: April Christensen

Vice President: Jay Cummings

Treasurer: Rachael Farrar

Secretary: James Carraher

Webmaster: Asif Hazrat

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

11

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

For our Second Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture, Gwen Fisher of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo spoke about Visualizing Symmetry: How I Use Symmetry Groups in My Art. The talk was attended by about 80 people, and was well received. 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 run by two graduate students, Brian Kell and Derek Boeckner. The Problem of the Fortnight was very successful in generating conversation among students, and faculty too!

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?

J. Travis Johnston won the Math Department Chair’s Prize for outstanding graduating senior in mathematics; he will be attending graduate school at the University of South Carolina in the fall.

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 run by two graduate students, Brian Kell and Derek Boeckner. The Problem of the Fortnight was very successful in generating conversation among students, and faculty too!

Advisor and Officer

Advisor: Nikolaus Vonessen

President: Lauren Ramundo

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

20

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

We organized our 10th Math Film Festival this April. The films included an animated version of Flatland (“Flatland: a Journey of Many Dimensions”, produced by Seth Caplan), and the documentary “Achieving the Unachievable” by Jean Bergeron, about a print by M.C. Escher. We were also able to screen four short films made by our graduating math major Laura Williams: “The Math Geek”, “When Harry Met Math”, “The Vampire Curse of the Math Zombies” and “Dakota Woods and the Theorem of Gloom”. As the titles indicate, these were quite funny! You can find the complete schedule at http://www.math.umt.edu/mathclub/filmsched09.pdf. And if you’d like to attend our next Math Film Festival, it will be on April 13, 2010.

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: Julianne Rainbolt

Number of New Members Inducted:

14

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,one member is currently planning to attend.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Russ Euler

President: Melynda West

Secretary: Kayli Pozniak

Treasurer: Tom Hutchinson

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

Our Pi Mu Epsilon chapter held a book sale during a high school math competition to raise money. Half of the money will be donated to the local Humane Society The remaining half will support one of our chapter’s members in the Relay for Life to support the American Cancer Society.

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

Advisors: Gayla Dance

President: Jaclyn Fletcher

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

16

This year’s new inductees into the Mississippi Delta Chapter.

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

Several of our members particiapted in the following competitions: The Virginia Tech regional mathematics competition. The Putnam Exam, a national mathematics competition. An integration bee, sponsored by the regional section of the Mathematical Association of America. A team math contest, also sponsored by the regional section of the Mathematical Association of America.

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?

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Melinda Gann

President: Alyson Armstrong

Vice President: Eric Walker

Secretary: Chance Theriot

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

We helped to work the MS/LA regional MAA meeting since Mississippi College was the host school this year.

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?

Many are accepted to graduate schools across the country.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Paul Weiner

PFC: Professor Kevin Dennis

Stephanie Marnocha

Mary Margaret Gill (graduated May ’09)

Angela Buck (graduated May ’09)

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

Games afternoon every two weeks, with SET and KRYPTO being favorite games. Dr. Ted Wendt spoke on modelling underground fluids at our Pi Mu Epsilon initiation.

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

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?

Two students accepted to graduate school (Angela Buck-Bowling Green State University, Ohio; Kriste Recke-University of Iowa). Presentations at regional Pi Mu Epsilon conference (Changyu Yang; Chris Fisette)

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Michael McDaniel

President: Laura Shuman

Vice President: Ember Clark

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

7

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

In October, PME arranged speaker GVSU prof Jon Hodge to discuss a summary of voting strategies. We drew history, poli sci, math and science students as well as profs and Jon delivered the mathematical goods. In April, PME honored emeritus professor Sister Mary Catherine Brechting OP. PME members and Aquinas alums spoke and created an actuarial fund named after her. Students, profs and two Deans attended.

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?

Jillian Russo presents her research October 17th at the Michigan Undergraduate Math Conference. Ember Clark and Jillian both received undergraduate research scholarships summer 2009. Maxine Guzman is a fulltime math professor at High Point University (North Carolina).

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Paul Fishback

Co-Presidents: Tarah Jensen and Geoff Patterson

Number of New Members Inducted:

36

This year’s new inductees into the Michigan Iota Chapter.

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

The GVSU Mathematics and Statistics Club / PME Chapter hosted Calculus the Musical, a touring production put on by the Know Theatre of Cincinnati. The event was standing room only and attended by approximately 150 students and faculty members.

The club held its annual Pi-Day event, a fund-raiser in which the faculty member raising the most money was graced with a pie in the face on March 14th.

The PME chapter celebrated its 10 year anniversary by inviting charter members to renew their pledges, along with this year’s new inductees at the department’s annual awards banquet.

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.

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?

David Szurley, GVSU ‘1997, was inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon at a special ceremony held as part of the university’s 2008 Alumni in Residence Program. David completed his Ph.D. at Clemson University in 2005 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Francis Marion University, South Carolina.

Chapter co-president Geoff Patterson was named the university’s Outstanding Graduate in Mathematics. Geoff received an MAA award at 2008 MathFest for his talk on voting theory and will begin graduate studies at the University of Hawaii this coming fall.

PME Charter Member, Amanda Peterson, an employee of the Department of Defense, has been accepted into the doctoral program in statistics at the University of Maryland. The DOD will pay for Amanda’s tuition as she completes her degree in the area of data mining.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Robert C. Moore

President: Eric Shull

Vice President: Daniel Moskala

Secretary-Treasurer: Kiana Binford

Secretary: Jenny Santiago

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Michigan Gamma, new members inducted April 5, 2009

Number of Continuing Members:

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

During the spring semester the Michigan Gamma chapter instituted a bi-weekly Math Problem Solving Competition. The problems were posted on the bulletin board in the Math Department and cash prizes ranged from $5 to $20 for the first contestant to submit a correct solution. We hosted four talks for the weekly math & physics colloquium series. For one of these meetings we invited representatives from Auto-Owners Insurance to speak on actuarial science. The other three meetings were given by students who spoke about math topics including really BIG numbers, Goldbach’s Conjecture, and the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci numbers.

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?

Brain Ibanez coauthored a paper with Dr. Joon Kang that has been accepted for publication. Brian has started a graduate program in economics at Georgetown University. Ben Chase coauthored a paper with Dr. Joon Kang that has been accepted for publication. Eric Shull and Daniel Moskala had internships at Auto-Owners Insurance Company for summer 2009. Chantel Blackburn completed a master’s degree in mathematics and has started a doctoral program in mathematics education at University of Arizona. She was awarded a GK12 NSF Fellowship.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Andrew Christlieb

PFC: Sandra Christlieb

President: Victoria McCoy

Vice President: Ziying Pan

Secretary: Stefan Johnson

Treasurer: Jonathan Matthews

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

8

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

The MSU chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon holds weekly meetings. The group was excited by implementation of a new meeting format starting Spring 2009. The weekly meeting topic/agenda now rotates by week. The first week involves a mini-mathematics competition with small prizes. The second week is devoted to problem solving or famous problem deconstruction with problems emailed to students in advance. The third week is a faculty lecture and the final week is a math related movie night. The most interesting meeting or event of the 2008-2009 academic year was the Integration Bee. Nine students particpated. The students formed 3 teams to complete 7 rounds. Each round involved one problem. For each problem, the first person on a team had 1-5 minutes to solve it (depending on the difficulty), then the second person had half that time to finish the problem, and so on. The first team to finish the integral scored a point. The first place team received Rubik’s cubes as prizes. It was especially fun because all the members knew how to integrate, so everyone could take part, and integrals are typically more straightforward than most math competition problems.

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

Unfortunately, we were not able to attend the 2009 PME national meeting.

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?

Victoria McCoy was selected as a 2009 Goldwater Scholar and participated in Mathematics of Origami REU at University of Georgia in Athens during the summer 2009. Ziying Pan started work on a PhD-Mathematics at the University of Illinois Fall 2009.

Advisor: Ward Heilman

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

13

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

At our Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony and Abramson Colloquium Dr. William Goldbloom Bloch, a mathematician at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, gave a fascinating talk: “A Mathematician Transgresses Into Literary Theory: Navigating the Labyrinths in Jorge Luis Borges’ story The Library of Babel.”

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?

Advisors and Officers

Advisors: Betty Mayfield and Judy Seymour

President: Mary Combs

Vice President: Kendall Dolly

Secretary: Danielle Hunt

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

This year’s new inductees into the Maryland Delta Chapter.

Number of Continuing Members:

10 (but some of them will graduate this month)

Seniors with cords.

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

The annual Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Lecture was given by Ivars Peterson, director of publications for the MAA, on “Geometreks.” We had a nice induction ceremony followed by a reception featuring a cake decorated with the PME key. Several students ordered T-shirts as well as pins. All but one of our seniors ordered honor cords to wear at graduation, and we presented them at the ceremony. We inducted three faculty members this year — two adjuncts and a new member of our department.

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

I don’t 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?

Abisola Abolude will begin graduate study in economics in the fall. Benjamin Caplins will begin graduate study in chemistry. Dale and Peggy Moyers were awarded $10,000 in the Davis Projects for Peace program, to expand the school they founded in Haiti.

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

Since we were so late submitting our annual report last year, we were not eligible for a prize grant — but we gave a Pi Mu Epsilon Book Prize anyway, at our college’s honors and awards ceremony. (One of our new faculty inductees bought two copies of Euler: Master of Us All, and we gave them to two outstanding juniors.) We are happy that we have remembered to submit our report on time this year!

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Harry Tamvakis

President: Kaitlyn Tuley

Secretary: Edward Spriggs

Treasurer: Ammar Hussain

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

Our chapter has not inducted new members in nearly three years. This semester we revived the chapter by inducting nine new members, and holding elections.

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 and Officer

Advisor: Steven Kimball

President: Christine Young

Number of New Members Inducted:

17

Number of Continuing Members:

44

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

Attended Fall Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America. Went bowling and gave prizes for every string score that was a prime number over 100.

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?

Christine Young was awarded the John and Beverly Toole scholarship of ($150) for the current president of the Maine Alpha chapter of PME.

Advisor and Officer

Advisor: Alex McAllister

President: Brittany Devine

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

The one exclusive PME event was the initiation and luncheon. This year we were hiring, and so had six on-campus mathematics talks as part of that process. PME members were also active in math club events, including the annual croquet match against the chemistry and physics groups, pizza and problems nite, mathematical ultimate frisbee, a math club T-shirt, an inaugural mathematical “Battle of the Sexes” (which the women won), and the annual math majors picnic.

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?

Seven of our PME members graduated this year. Four are going to graduate school, 2 in math, 1 in econ, and 1 in vulcanology. Another received a Fulbright to teach math and English in Madrid, Spain.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: John Spraker

Officers: Stephanie Micallef, Cody Lorton, Jacob Vervynckt, Nathan Salazar

Number of New Members Inducted:

16 students, 2 faculty

Number of Continuing Members:

18 students, 33 faculty

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

We have had a cookout which was a pleasant social event. Our banquet was also well attended.

Advisor: Eric Westlund

Number of New Members Inducted:

19

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

PME induction ceremony Awards banquet

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?

Aaron Peterson, Class of 2009, is one of seven national recipients of the Trjitzinsky Award from the AMS.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Adam Weyhaupt

President: Darren Garbuz

Vice President: Rick Lynch

Treasurer: Kyle Lawson

Secretary: Glenn Harris

Number of New Members Inducted:

20

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

We held an origami lecture where a faculty member talked about the mathematics of origami. It was very well attending and included students from other departments (like English and History!) We also held a very sucessful bowling night, a board game afternoon, and a movie night. We have had a number of students participate actively in the problem solving competition.

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?

One student will attend Washington University in St. Louis to get a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering; another student will get a master’s in Electrical Engineering from SIUE. One student is graduating with a master’s degree is mathematics and has a teaching position at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey,IL. Another student presented or! iginal research at the MIGHTY conference in Chicago, IL.

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

We were awarded a $50 prize grant to run a problem solving competition. We held five competitions throughout the year; each competition had 2 problems and the best solution to each problem received $10. Overall, this was a smashing success! We had a number of students participate, including students from engineering and physics (one faculty member submitted an anonymous solution — but a student solution was better!) We have every intention of continuing this next year, but we need to work on fundraising to ensure that we have the funds to continue this important project.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dale K Hathaway

President: Joshua Woods

Vice President: Staci Martens

Number of New Members Inducted:

11 students, 4 faculty members

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

On October 3, 2008 the Illinois Mu chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon was installed at Olivet Nazarene University. The inaugural members included 8 students and 4 faculty. Dr. Leo Schneider the Secretary-Treasurer of Pi Mu Epsilon conducted the installation ceremony. On November 21, the Illinois Pi Mu Epsilon chapter hosted an alumni speaker. Jackie Smith Hayden, a 2005 mathematics graduate, returned to speak on her experiences in graduate school and in the workplace.

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?

Sondra Lynn was the receipent of the Department of Mathematics Outstanding Graduate Award for 2009. One of our current students, Mark Lockwood, will be particiapting in a summer research experience this coming summer at Olivet.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Josh Brown Kramer

President: John Meuser

Vice President: Taole Zhu,

Treasurer: Ryan Goetz,

Secretary: Danielle Wall

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

10

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

1) We organized Putnam study sessions: We met 3 or 4 times in the evening for an hour or so each time. We ate pizza, drank soda, and went over old Putnam problems. 2) We had out annual high school math contest, which was a success. We invited area high schools to compete. Throughout the day, four individual tests took place (each student takes one of the four based on class) as well as two team tests (one for freshmen and sophomores, and the second for juniors and seniors). Medals were given to the top scorers in each test. We thank the national Pi Mu Epsilon office for their support with these prizes. The contestants were also given lunch, and they got to see a talk by one of the faculty.

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

Advisors: George Francis and Allison Champion

President: Adam Hughes

Vice President: Richard Moy

Treasurer: Sophia Ying Li

Secretary: Jenny Santiago

Webmaster: Asif Hazrat

Chapter Website

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

50

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

Our last regular meeting of the year/new officer election featured Scott Ahlgren, who gave a very interesting and well-done talk on congruent numbers at a level approachable by our undergraduate membership, and–interestingly enough–it involved analytic number theory, so it was surprising it went over so well. Our joint talk with MATRIX–the school’s social math club–was a first for us, and we hope to continue hosting and collaborating further with them.

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

We do not at this time.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Heath Martin

President: Kristina Kraakmo

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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 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:

Advisors: Kevin Keating

President: Brian Williams

Vice President: Larry Mackey

Treasurer: Kyle Huey

Secretary: Paula Bezark

Number of New Members Inducted:

2

Number of Continuing Members:

2

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

The highlight of the year was a talk given by AMS president George Andrews on the life and work of Ramanujan.

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?

Outgoing PME president Jeff Yelton will be attending grad school in math at Penn State starting in the fall.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Joan Weiss

President: Kimberly Barba

Vice President: Eric Oslund

Secretary: Meredith Moses

Treasurer: Timothy Crawford

Number of New Members Inducted:

22

Number of Continuing Members:

6

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

Information Session on Summer Internships and Research Experiences. Held a Math Party to celebrate mathematics and encourage students to major in mathematics

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?

Alexandra Parma will be attending the Summer Institute for Training in BioStatistics at Boston University Jessica Mauro has been accepted into the PhD program at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Summer Bridge Program for Entering Graduate Students at Texas A&M University.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Gerald M. Leibowitz

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

The Connecticut Alpha chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon inducted four new members during the annual Awards Day ceremonies of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Connecticut on April 16, 2009: Timothy Trangieu Bui (Junior, BS in Mathematics), Alexander V. Melesko (Senior, BS in Actuarial Science), Andrew Nelson Ph! illips (Junior, BS in Mathematics), and Carla Renee Wilson (Junior, BS in Mathematics). The chapter had no other activities in 2008-2009.

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?

Christine McMeekin, who was inducted in 2008, is a recipient of an Oaklawn Scholarship for 2009-2010. This award is based on academic excellence and leadership. She is also president of the UConn Mathematics Club. David Ferrone, Ji Ha, and Carly Williams, who were inducted a few years ago, are continuing in graduate studies in Mathematics at the University of Connecticut.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Michelle Ghrist

President: Joshua Sinkler

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

Started a USAFA Math Problem Solving Competition this spring (bi-monthly).

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

One – Michael O’Connor

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?

Kenneth Grosselin, III, was named Cadet of the Year (Air Force wide). He is pursuing a PhD at RAND.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Thomas Mattman

President: Arielle Leitner

Vice President: Samantha Wilson

Treasurer: Lindsay Cole

Secretary: Madeline Weiss

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

33

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

This year, our chapter sponsored two talks for undergraduates. In the fall, Dr. Simon Goberstein (CSUC) gave a talk about “The number e – it is beyond ordinary: a proof that e is irrational.” In the spring, Tara Davis (Vanderbilt) gave a talk about “To Infinity and Beyond.” Both talks were well attended, with about 30 people at each. Tara also led a worksohp for women interested in graduate studies in mathematics or another male dominated field. In addtion, our chapter has participated in a variety of activites sponsored by the math club.

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

Not sure 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?

Student Arielle Leitner present her paper “Universal Cycles of Restricted Classes of Words” at the Joint Math Meetings (2009), Mathfest (2008), and a variety of other conferences. Arielle has been accepted to graduate school at UC Santa Barbara. A group of students went to the regional MAA meeting, but did not present posters.

Advisor and Officers

Advisors: Bill Wood and Duff Campbell

President: Laura Johnson

Vice President: Whitney Maguffee

Secretary/Treasurer: Dana Callaway

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

10

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

PME got lost in the shuffle of a faculty staffing change, so we got a very late start this year (last year’s inductees didn’t get invited until January of this year). As such, our activities were limited to a campus game night and a picnic.

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 and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Roblee

President: Robby Doughan

Vice Presidents: Aaron Murray and Kelly Harrington

Secretary: Jenna Henderson

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

1. “Mathsketball:” Because it is around the time of the “March Madness” college basketball, we had the format of a basketball game for our annual calculus competition. We had 8 participants divided into teams of 2, with a cash prize going to the winning team. 2. We held our annual Homecoming tailgating tent in the fall. These events bring the members of our chapter together with members of the faculty to enjoy the festivities before a TROY football game. At the tailgating tent we had a Troy professor organize a shrimp boil after catching the shrimp fresh the day before.

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, Robby Doughan plans to attend and give a talk.

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?

Charter PME members(’04) Nick Newman and Julian Allagan will be receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics from Auburn University this year. Current PME member William McCurdy gave a paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science. Current PME president Robby Doughan was awarded the 2009-10 Chancellor’s Fellowship to conduct mathematical research.

Advisor: David Shoenthal

Officers:

President: Sarah Mayfield
Vice President: Chris Thatcher
Secretary/Treasurer: Jeff Anway

Number of New Members Inducted: 3

Number of Continuing Members: 3

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

Problem of the month competition, tutoring for finals week.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?

Crystal Peoples was accepted into the University of Iowa.

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

Advisor: Marth VanCleave

Officers:

President: Sarah Wilder
Vice President: Kyel Lambert
Secretary: Fredrick Wilhelm
Treasurer: Rebecca Coffelt

Number of New Members Inducted: 10

Number of Continuing Members: 8

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

Our chapter helped the Math Club at our school hold a Sudoku tournament. We also held our annual Pi Day raffle fundraiser. Tickets were 50 cents a piece and were placed toward specific professors, who were willing participants. On Pi day, professors with three or more tickets were pied; each by a student who won the raffle for that specific professor. We rasied around $25 this year.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison,Wisconsin?

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 and Officers

Advisor: Lynne Yengulalp

PFC: Aparna Higgins

President: Danielle Bott

Number of New Members Inducted: 7

Number of Continuing Members:

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

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. :

 
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Advisor: Leah Gold

PFC: John Holcomb

Officers:

President: Joey Glaser

Number of New Members Inducted:9

Number of Continuing Members: 54

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

Our induction ceremony took place on May 2, 2012. The ceremony included a talk on Non-Newtonian Calculus for Dynamics of Random Fractal Structures: Linear and Nonlinear by Dr. Wojbor Woyczynski of Case Western University.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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: Aaron Heap

PFC: Patrick Rault

Chapter URL: New York Alpha Delta

Number of New Members Inducted: 15

Number of Continuing Members:

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

We had a splendid induction ceremony this year, in which former and long-term chapter adviser Olympia Nicodemi was Master of Ceremonies. In December we had a high number of students participate in the Putnam Exam, to which we awarded the top two participants our chapter’s Pi Mu Epsilon Putnam Prize ($75 to first place, $25 to second). This is the third year we have offered the prize.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

Chapter adviser Patrick Rault will attend, with students Wilson Cheung and Ray Cook. Both students will be giving talks in the PME student session.

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?

As usual, we have several students beginning Ph.D. programs in mathematics or masters programs in education, receiving competitive job offers in industry, and beginning teaching careers. We view our students highly! At our college’s annual GREAT Day (Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent) undergraduate symposium, many students gave talks and presented posters. In addition, student presentations have been given at the MAA Seaway section conference and other regional mathematics conferences.

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

In December we had a high number of students participate in the Putnam Exam, to which we awarded the top two participants our chapter’s Pi Mu Epsilon Putnam Prize ($75 to first place, $25 to second).! This is the third year we have offered the prize, and beforehand participation was usually quite low. We have also seen increases in the number of students interested in other competitions, such as the University of Rochester Math Olympiad and “The Problem Solving Competition” related to Mathfest.

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Dr. Katarzyna Potocka

Officers:

President/Treasurer: Matthew O’Neill

Vice-President/Secretary: Samantha Pezzimenti

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

41

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

1) In December 2011 the chapter participated in Problem Sessions that trained the students for the Putnam Competition. 2) In March 2012 the chapter participated in the New Jersey Undergraduate Mathematics Competition. Two teams of three Ramapo students attended. One of the teams placed 8th out of 33 teams competing. Congratulations!

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?

Our math major graduate James Caldera will be attending a graduate program in mathematical finance at Vanderbilt University. Our math major recent graduate Samantha Pezzimenti will be attending a graduate program in mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.
 
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Advisor: Prof M. Rosar

Officers: Jessica Bertoli and Matt Nordyke

Number of New Members Inducted: 14

Number of Continuing Members:

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year: The 2011-2012 year has been an active one for the N.J. Lambda chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon. On May 1, twelve students and two members of the faculty were inducted into the society during the annual Mathematics Awareness Week activities. In addition several graduating seniors and members of Pi Mu Epsilon presented their Capstone research projects. They highlight the mathematical talents which are being fostered in our department. Following the induction an invited speaker from Black Rock, Inc. gave the annual address.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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: Prof Daniel Toundykov

PFC:

Officers:

President – Adam Azzam Treasurer:

Vice President – Evan Nash

Secretary – Alexander Estes

Treasurer – Ryan Gunderson

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

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 6

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

1. The annual Pi Mu Epsilon lecture “Extreme Calculus” was presented on Sep. 23 by Paul Zorn – a professor of mathematics at Saint Olaf College and the President of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The address was public and drew over 60 attendees with over 35 being undergraduate students. The event was held in conjunction with the Pi Mu Epsilon induction for the Nebraska Alpha Chapter of PME. 2. The 1st Missouri River Valley Undergraduate Mathematics Conference was organized in collaboration with the Pi Mu Epsilon Chapters and Math Clubs at the Univ. of Nebraska-Omaha (UNO) and Creighton University. The meeting took place on April 21st at the UNO campus. The conference attracted almost 40 student participants, featured 8 undergraduate research talks and a guest faculty presentation by an MAA Polya Lecturer Professor Judy Walker. Information about the meeting can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/unomaha.edu/mathconference ===================== Besides the above events our annual program featured public talks by senior undergraduate students about the research they had conducted at REU sites in summer: Alexander Azzam: “Embroidering in Hilbert space” Charles Larrieu: “A friendly discussion of light, space, the universe, and everything… and groups!”

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?

Alexander Azzam received the University of Nebraska “Chair’s Prize” (presented to an outstanding undergraduate math major who has excelled in course work, research, and service), and has been accepted to graduate mathematics program at UCLA.

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

The attendees of the 1st Missouri River Valley Undergraduate Conference have been awarded a $200 travel grant from the Pi Mu Epsilon. (a description of the conference can be found in the chapter activities section above) The bulk of the travel fell on the participants going from Lincoln NE and its neighborhoods to Omaha NE. Our chapter organized a carpool and the total reimbursements amounted to tear and wear for slightly over 110 miles for three personal vehicles according to the IRS 2012 mileage rate (55 cents/ mile)

Advisor: Dr. Russell Euler

Officers:

President: Salena Condray

Vice President: Kindsey Dale

Secretary: Kirk Skoglund

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

Number of Continuing Members:

6

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

Unfortunately, most of our members end up being gone for the fall semester, but in March we had a Pi day bake sale and mananaged to raise money for both scholarship funds and our local backpack buddies. We really did not have any other mathematical activities, but we did have an end-of-year get together with our department and food in order to induct our new members.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?

There is not much news. Caleb Gilmore, one of our members and recent graduate, presented his senior research paper on predicting fantasy running back performance at the Missouri Mathematical Association of America meeting in April.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Feryal Alayont

PFC: Paul Fishback

President: Alexis Johnson

Secretary: Michelle Donald

Treasurer: Elise Henderson

Number of New Members Inducted:

25

Number of Continuing Members:

Not sure.

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

1. A performance of “Calculus the Musical”

2. Fundraisers: Used book sale; Krispy Creme donut sale; “Pie a Professor on Pi Day” contest;

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

Hopefully.

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?

Nathan Marculis, class of ’12, worked with Professor Edward Aboufadel and two other 2011 GVSU REU students to solve the InnoCentive, “Boston Pothole Challenge.” His group’s project, for which it received a $9000 cash prize, utilizes wavelet theory, Kruskal’s algorithm, and smart phone sensors to detect potholes. Kate Coveney ’13 was the only student in Michigan and one of only 103 students in the entire country, to receive an $20,000 Ernest Hollings National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Scholarship. Nate Burch ’06 and Matt Stamps ’07 completed Ph.D.s and have accepted post-doctoral positions at North Carolina State University and the University of Helsinki, respectively. Samuel Otten ’06 has accepted a position as assistant professor of mathematics education at the University of Missouri.

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

The Michigan Iota Chapter received a matching prize grant, which was used to help pay for book prizes, which were given to the top graduating seniors at the department’s April student awards ceremony.

Advisor: Laura K. Gross

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

1

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

Abramson Colloquium & Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony Sunday, April 22, 2012, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Conant Science Building Room 120 Look at Mathematics: Examples from Contemporary Art By Professor Marty Kemen Department of Applied Mathematics Wentworth Institute of Technology

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?

Hughes Melissa R. is the student commencement speaker for BSU. Keogh Matthew M. will attend graduate school at Clemson. Matt Pacha-Sucharzewski received the James Fitzgerald Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics at BSU.

Advisor: Alex M. McAllister

PFC: Alex M. McAllister

Officers:

President: Roger Uy

Number of New Members Inducted:14

Number of Continuing Members: 6

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

Centre’s student math association sponsors two competitions with other departments – a croquet tournament against the Chemistry Department and a cornhole tournament against the Government Department.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2011 PME national meeting at MathFest in Lexington, Kentucky?

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?

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

No.

Advisor: Dr. Denise Reid

President: Joseph Michael Caulley

Vice-President: Lin Yen

Secretary: Angelique McCoy

Treasurer: Elizabeth Broome

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

3

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

Math Competition on March 26,2012. We received a PME matching grant for $50 that was used for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the mathematics competition.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?

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

We received a PME matching grant for $50 that was used for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the mathematics competition held on March 26, 2012.

Advisor and PFC: Dr. Kurt Herzinger

Number of New Members Inducted:17

Number of Continuing Members: 9

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

Each semester we have hold a “game night” for mathematics and operations research majors. The students get together with faculty to play board games and eat pizza. It is a nice way to socialize outside of the normal classroom setting.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

No, not 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?

Seven of our graduating Pi Mu Epsilon members will be attending graduate school. Sara Bangert – Air Force Institute of Technology in Operations Research Austin Buscher – Rice Univ. in Mechanical Engineering Casey Horgan – MIT in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Michael MacAnrew – Air Force Institute of Technology in Operations Research Trave Myers – MIT in Material Science and Engineering Stephen Wakefield – Air Force Institute of Technology in Physics Keith Wyman – Air Force Institute of Technology in Physics In addition we have Pi Mu Epsilon members doing summer research projects as Google, MIT Lincoln Labs, and the National Security Agency.

Advisor: Professor Christopher Goff

PFC: Professor Dennis Parker

Officers: President: Christine Sun

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 19

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 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

Probably not. 🙁 We’ll keep encouraging them, though.

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 recent graduate is completing his first year of a PhD program in math. One current graduate will be starting a masters program in math.

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

Advisor: Prof Phil Yasskin

Officers:

President: Laura Caflisch
Vice President: Todd Schrader
Treasurer: Elizabeth Coffey

Chapter URL: Texas Eta

Number of New Members Inducted:51

Number of Continuing Members: 98

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

In our October meeting, Dr. Frank Sottile gave an interactive presentation on four-dimensional solids. He demonstrated methods for representing solids in higher dimensions and members participated in building their own 3D projections of four-dimensional shapes. In our January meeting, Dr. Anna Spice gave an interesting talk on vector graphics and how they are used to animate the old arcade game Asteroids. She discussed the mathematical basis behind vector graphic design.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

Calvin Smith, Aaron Moore, Jennifer Bachand, Nicholas Mai, Justin Cantu, Kenneth Reed.

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: George Gilbert

Number of New Members Inducted:5

Number of Continuing Members: 4

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

We had our 30th annual Calculus Bee. Everyone works each problem, with a 1-3 minute time limit – three misses and you are out. Everyone has an ID number, so everyone can see how many are still alive. Several stay once out, so many try to guess who is officiallly still in. The math club went bowling. One goal was the highest prime score.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madisonb, Wisconsin?

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: Erica Johnson

PFC: Mark McKinzie

Officers:

Number of New Members Inducted: 0

Number of Continuing Members: 2

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 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

No, not 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?

Advisor: Gayla Dance

President: Matthew Elliott

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

8

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

Major Declaration Day and Pizza Party (two different events)

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?

3 graduates going to graduate school, 2 going into industry.

Advisor: Prof Anne Sinko
PFC: Prof Jennifer Galovich

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members: unknown

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

In the fall semester, we invited Fr. Magnus Wenninger, the famed polyhedron builder to show students his construction methods. (He conveniently lives in the monastery here.) For the Christmas party, a new colleague showed students how to make origami polyhedral as Christmas decorations. This spring we had our 33rd Pi Mu Epsilon conference. While our conference was not as packed as last year’s event, we had a very healthy 105 attendees. Ken Millett did a terrific job as our featured speaker. We had 105 people in attendance. Thanks to our Pi Mu Epsilon grant, we were able to give each of the sixteen student speakers a copy of an MAA book. We were also able to provide transportation funding to student speaker coming from other schools, thanks to a grant from the MAA Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences program. We inducted six students and our two new departmental colleagues into Pi Mu Epsilon this year.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?

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

Thanks to our Pi Mu Epsilon grant, we were able to give each of the sixteen student speakers a copy of an MAA book.

Advisor: Betty Mayfield

Officers:

President: Dorothy Kirlew

Vice President: Kerrie Kenefick

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

10

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

This year for the first time we included graduate students in our chapter. We have an M.S. in Mathematics Education program here, and we looked for students with excellent undergraduate preparation in mathematics and exemplary performance in their mathematics courses in the master’s program. We invited four graduate students to join PME, two of whom accepted. We also identified 5 other students who had been inducted as undergraduates at their home institutions, and we honored them at our induction ceremony. We also inducted two faculty members this year — a new mathematician in our department, and the Dean of the Graduate School — both of whom had completed majors in mathematics and physics as undergraduates. The dean has been a real friend of the department for years and has continued his love for mathematics as he teaches physics and runs the graduate school.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

No, maybe next 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?

Dubravka Bodiroga was honored for having one of the outstanding posters at the undergraduate student poster session at JMM. She will enter the Ph.D. program in mathematics at The George Washington University in the fall. Kizza Nandyose will enter the Ph.D. program in industrial engineering at Virginia Tech in the fall. Matt Shives, our current chapter president, has been accepted into the NSA’s Cryptanalysis and Exploitation Services Summer Program. Andrea Haines has been accepted into the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for the second year in a row. Kori Junghans has been accepted into graduate school in computer science at Johns Hopkins University. Jamie Bingaman and Josh Haines are entering the Ph.D. program in chemistry at Penn State. And Chris DiGangi will be appearing on television this summer as part of the American Ninja Warrior competition!

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

We gave our Pi Mu Epsilon Book Prize to four graduating seniors: Josh Haines, Kori Junghans, Kizza Nandyose, and Matt Shives. Dan Kalman was our PME Lecturer this year, so it seemed appropriate to give these students a copy of his “Uncommon Mathematical Excursions: Polynomia and Related Realms” — signed by the author. 
 
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Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dale Hathaway

President: Carl Trank

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

We had several talks by faculty candidates this year that the students were invited to attend. The talks were well attended.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?

Three of our actuarial science students, who are members of Pi Mu Epsilon, have internships this summer (Sarah Langeland, Kelsey Nelson, and Rachel Von Arb).

Advisor: Timothy Feeman

Number of New Members Inducted: 18

Number of Continuing Members: 9

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

We held our annual induction event on May 4, 2012. Our featured speaker was Dr. Katherine Socha, of Math for America, whose presentation on “Sea Battles, Benjamin Franklin’s Oil Lamps, and Jellybellies” was enthusiastically received.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin?

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?