Advisor: Heather A. Lewis

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

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

2

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

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

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

No, not this year.

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Dr. Katarzyna Potocka

Officers: Michele Jastrzembski, Jason Jasinski, Jaclyn Kedzierski

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

21

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

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

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

Possibly

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

Advisor: Prof. Richard Todd

Number of New Members Inducted:

24

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

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

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

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

Advisors:

Advisor: Stephen Hartke

PFC: Allan Donsig

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

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

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

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

No.

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

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Nikolaus Vonessen

President: Faith Morrison

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

20

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

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Russ Euler

President: Sean Householder

Vice President: Stefani Pulley

Secretary: Taylor Cantrell

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

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

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

No.

Advisor and President:

Advisor: Gayla Dance

President: Jaclyn Fletcher

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

13

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

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

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

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

Advisor: Dr. Melinda Gann

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

2

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Joon Kang

PFC : Robert Moore

President : Theron Calkins

Vice President : Andrew Hoff

Secretary/Treasurer : Sandra Prieto

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

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

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

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

Advisor: Stephanie Edwards

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

11

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

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

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

Yes!

Advisors

Chapter Advisor: Donna Beers

PFC: David Browder

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

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

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

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

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Steve Pennell

President: Bryan Crompton

VP: Andrew Balchunas

Secretary: Thomas Harrington

Treasurer: Evana Gizzi

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

Our only activity this year was the induction ceremony.

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

No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Betty Mayfield

PFC : Judy Seymour

President: Chad Doremus

Vice President: Jim Ledwell

Number of New Members Inducted:

18

Number of Continuing Members:

2

Seniors with cords

Pi Cake `

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

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

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

I do not believe so.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

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

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

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Steven J. Kimball

President: Ian Biggers

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

38

Advisor: Maria Calzada

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

About 10

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

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

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

Not this year.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Alex M. McAllister

President: Lauren Gates

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

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

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

No

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

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

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dale Hathaway

President: Mark Lockwood

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Joshua Brown Kramer

Late Fall 2009-Spring 2010:

President: Ryan Goetz

Vice President: Danielle Wall

Treasurer: Matt Culhane

Secretary: Rachel Kagan

Early Fall 2009:

President: John Meuser

President: Taole Zhu

Treasurer: Ryan Goetz

Secretary: Danielle Wall

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

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

4 or 5

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

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

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

No

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

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

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Jason Swanson

President: Kristina N. Kraakmo

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

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

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

No.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Kari Fowler

President: Moises Chavez

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

8

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

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Ryan Mullen

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

13

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

Attending CCSU math competition, and Hudson valley undergraduate research conference

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

Perhaps.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

Advisor: Joan Weiss

Number of New Members Inducted:

28

Number of Continuing Members:

18

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

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

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

No

Advisor: Kurt Herzinger

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

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

. Mathematics Majors Game Night, March 2010

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

David Zitelli and Dylan Asmar

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Thomas Mattman

Fall Semester:

President – Claire Payn

Vice President – Kate Thomas

Treasurer – Lindsey Cole

Secretary – Samantha Wilson

Publicist – Brandon Heck

Spring Semester:

President – Kate Thomas

Vice President – Brandon Heck

Treasurer – Amanda Havens

Secretary – Chelsea Lindsay

Publicist – Brandon Heck

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

30

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

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

Yes

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

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

 
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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.