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?

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: David Singer

PFC: Christopher Butler

President: Ethan Teare

VP of Communications: Todd Norton

VP of Finance: Brian Widman

VP of Service: Jacob Lichtinger

Webmaster: Sander Mack-Crane

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

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 10

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.

Advisor: Joon H. Kang

PFC: Robert Moore

Officers:

President : Theron Calkins

Vice President : Louis Garibay

Secretary and Treasurer : Cecilia Dias

Number of New Members Inducted:9

Number of Continuing Members:

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

Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honors society, has an active presence on Andrews University. This year’s officers are Theron Calkins serving as president, Luis Garibay as vice-president, and Cecelia Dias in the office of secretary/treasurer. The campus chapter is also overseen by Dr. Joon H. Kang. On September 23, Pi Mu Epsilon invited Eric ‘Siggy’ Scott, an Andrews alumnus currently studying computer science at George Mason University, to come and speak on artificial intelligence. Many people attended his lecture and posed some insightful questions to Scott at the end of the presentation. Our organization also sponsored another eigen*talk on October 7, featuring several student missionaries. Returning from Ebeye and Majuro in the Marshall Islands and Malawi, Africa missionaries Sinclair Johnston, Mateja Plantak, and Chris Greenley presented on their experiences. Johnston and Plantak both taught several classes abroad including some math ones while Greenley served as an IT specialist at a rural hospital. Each displayed many pictures and encouraged others to consider some of the unexpected ways one can help serve others overseas. During spring semester Pi Mu Epsilon sponsored two more eigen*talks, one by Dr. Shandell Henson on January 20 on the perturbation method for solving differential equations, and the second on February 17 with actuaries Daniel Moskala and Andrew Schupska from Auto-Owners Insurance discussing the actuarial profession, education, and career paths. In addition, Pi Mu Epsilon hosted a Pi Day celebration on March 14 and the annual induction ceremony on April 5 where Keith Calkins gave a presentation titled ¡°¡Ä Ado About ¥å¡± about continued fractions.

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 and Officers

Advisor: Mary Ann Barbato

President: Robert Patenaude

Vice-President: Jared Weed

Number of New Members Inducted: 2

Number of Continuing Members:

33

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

The following members presented talks or posters at the 2012 Fitchburg State Annual Undergraduate Conference on Research and Creative Practice: Nicholas Kallfa, Nicholas Starr, Nicole Gilford, Jeremy Bohrer, Haley Schilling, Robert Patenaude and Jared Weed. Our chapter also held problem solving sessions and submitted a solution to a Problem in the Math Horizons Magazine.

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?

Robert Patenaude received the Fitchburg State Mathematics Department Scholarship Award and Jared Weed received the Fitchburg State Outstanding Mathematics Student of the Year Award. Our recent graduate and new Mass Eta member, Jeremy Bohrer has been accepted into Iowa State University Graduate Mathematics Program and will begin in Fall 2012. In addition, Robert Patenaude and Jared Weed gave a poster presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the AMS and MAA in Boston in January.

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Violeta Vasilevska

Officers:

Calvin Krogman

Anne Doshier

Vanessa Tisher

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

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

– Invited speaker: Dr. Jonathan Rogness from the University of Minnesota gave a talk titled: “Behind the Scenes of Möbius Transformations Revealed” – Watching the movie “The great Pi/e Debate – Which is the better number?”

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, yet!

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?

N/A

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

N/A

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Paul Klingsberg

President: Sarah Hegarty

Vice President: Franci Dempsey

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

3

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

Dmytro Yersoshkin earned a score of 49 in last fall’s Putnam. This earned him a rank of 64.5 out of 3,753. Our induction featured a very stimulating talk on matroids and greedy algorithms by Prof. Stephen B. Maurer of Swarthmore College.

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

Yes: Dmytro Yeroshkin will be there.

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?

Brittany Fasy ’07 (now at Duke) will be making a presentation at Mathfest. Jiaming Chen made a presentation at an economics conference; I do not have the particulars.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Emily Dryden

President: Brittany Hoffman

Vice President: Luke Mcguire

Secretary Treasurer:

Caitlyn Yeager (Fall 2007)

Elizabeth Skubak (Spring 2008)

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

7

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

In September, our chapter sponsored a lunchtime discussion of summer opportunities for mathematics students. A panel of students shared what they had done the previous summer, and there was a handout with contact information and useful websites. Chapter members met the night before the panel to make desserts for the attendees. We held our annual banquet in April, which included a talk about Bessel and his contributions to astronomy and mathematics.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 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. :

One of our current members is the recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship. Several of our graduating members are continuing directly to graduate school, both in mathematics and in other fields (e.g., law). Several of our current members are participating in REUs this summer.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Angela Spalsbury

President: Tyler Drombosky

Vice President: Doug Wajda

Treasurer: Krista Foster

Secretary: John Hoffman

Webmaster: Ryan Livingston

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

DNR

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

1) We hosted the tenth annual YSU PME Regional Conference where undergraduate mathematics majors presented mathematical talks. Over 100 students from 10 different colleges and universities attended. This year an effort was also made to invite local high school students who are interested in mathematics. 2) Four students of our students received Best Speaker Awards at Mathfest in San Jose, California. Those students were: Jeffery Cornfield, Tyler Drombosky, Ryan Livingston, and Matthew Ward.

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

Yes, we currently have nine members committed.

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?

Erica Cross is participating in Ohio Wesleyan University’s REU/RET Program. Tyler Drombosky is participating in the National Security Agency’s Director’s Summer Program. Krista Foster is participating in NC State University’s Modeling and Industrial Applied Mathematics. John Hoffman is participating in CURMath at YSU in Covering Systems of Congruences (Number Theory). Ryan Livingston is participating in CURMath at YSU in Covering Systems of Congruences (Number Theory). Jared Ruiz is participating in University of Akron’s (CURMath at YSU) Covering Systems of Congruences. Jessica Shipman is participating in Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Layered Polymeric Systems. Tyler Drombosky, Jared Ruiz, and Doug Wajda, along with advisor Dr. George Yates attended a “Conference on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics” at Penn State University, November 9-10, 2007. Tyler Drombosky, a junior mathematics major at YSU, won the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship this year. This marks the second consecutive year that a YSU mathematics major received a Goldwater Scholarship. The team of David Martin, Erica Cross, and Matthew Alexander won an Outstanding Award at the 2008 international Mathematical Contest in Modeling.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Bruce Piper

President: Lindsey Garrett

Vice President: Heather Palmeri

Treasurer: Joshua Sauppe

Secretary: Jen Moyher

Recruitment Chair: Bianca Zongrone

Number of New Members Inducted:

38

Number of Continuing Members:

34

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

Members attended the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics conference at Saint Lawrence University in Canton New York on April 19th, 2008. Members participated in the CoMap sponsored Mathematical Contest in Modeling, or the MCM. This year the contest was held February 14th, 2008 through February 17th, 2008. Students competed on campus to research either a soduko based problem or a global warming based problem.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 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?

Patrick Braash – Graduated with a BS in math and is working at NSA Ashley Thomas – Graduated with a BS and MS in math and plans to work on her PhD in applied math; gave a presentation on detecting tumors at the undergraduate math conference at Saint Lawrence Andrew Nixon – Graduated with a BS in math and physics MS in math; earned the distinction of meritorious in the MCM Lindsey Garrett – Earned the distinction of meritorious in the MCM Joshua Sauppe – Earned the distinction of meritorious in the MCM; received funding from the NSF to continue research on neural networks Dan Johnson – Earned the distinction of meritorious in the MCM; received funding from the NSF to continue research on neural networks Jen Moyher – Received funding from the NSF to continue research on neural networks Pamela Fuller – Received funding from the NSF to continue research on epidemiology Toni Wagner – Received funding from the NSF to continue research on epidemiology Tegan Webster – Gave a presentation on e.coli cell production at the undergraduate math conference at St. Lawrence Dan Ecreg – Graduated with a MS in math and is working at the NSA Tim Gilman – Studied abroad at UCL in London Dan Hathaway – Earned the distinction of meritorious in the MCM Tim Tusing – Gave a presentation at the undergraduate math conference at St. Lawrence Mary Jo Sorrentino – Graduated with a BS in math and management Bruce Piper – Earned a teaching award designed to recognize members of the Rensselaer faculty for their outstanding teaching techniques, contributions to the campus experience and commitment to students Lauren Schneider – Graduated with a BS in math

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Madeleine E. Rosar

President: Philip C. Nelson

Vice President: Edwin Torres

Number of New Members Inducted:

14

Number of Continuing Members:

30

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

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

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 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. :

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Mary Ann Barbato

President:Charles Fisher

Number of New Members Inducted:

4 students, 3 faculty

New Inductees into the Massachussetts Eta Chapter

Number of Continuing Members:

2 students, 7 alumni, 4 faculty

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

Induction ceremony of charter members in Oct. 2007 Metal 4 Math Concert in Fall 2007

Did any of your chapter members present papers at the 2008 PME national meeting at MathFest in Madison, WI?

Two Presentations:

• Shawn Case, Dynamical Systems: Sink or Source!
• Jennifer Crounse, Pascal’s Triangle in Secondary Education,

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 Presentations:

• Shawn Case, Analyzing an Electrical Circuit with Differential Equations: An Eigenvalue Approach, HRUMC 2008, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY.
• Erin Farrel, poster presentation, Conference on Innovation in Undergraduate Research and Teaching, Montclair State University, NJ, June 2008. Colleen Rose, You’ve Used Graph Theory and You Didn’t Even Know It, HRUMC 2008, St. Lawrence University.
• Charlie Fisher, Using Graph Theory in Homeland Defense, HRUMC 2008, St. Lawrence University.
• Charlie Fisher, poster presentation, Conference on Innovation in Undergraduate Research and Teaching, Montclair State University, NJ, June 2008.
• Colleen Rose, You’ve Used Graph Theory and You Didn’t Even Know It, HRUMC 2008, St. Lawrence University.

7 of our 9 charter members graduated. Michael Krul and Shawn Case have gone on to graduate school at the Unversity of Rhode Island. Jennifer Crounse, Colleen Rose, and Jennifer Amero have each secured a teaching position at a local High School. Robert Allaire is working as a mathematics editing assistant at Gex. Inc. and Gregory Croxford has applied to the NSA and is well into the interview process.

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

Not yet, but we have just been approved for a PME National Lectureship and Chapter Enhancement Program and will have our visitor, Brigitte Servatius (PME Journal Editor), in October 2008.

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Stephen Pennell

President: Michael Williams

Vice President: Erin_Morrissey

Secretary/Treasurer: Dennis Holbrook

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

Our only activity this year was the induction ceremony. Our guest speaker was alumnus Stan Kopec, whose topic was “Career Doors that Mathematics Opened for Me.”

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 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 and Officers

Advisor: Joanne Snow

President: Anna Fricano

Vice President: Jackie Sias

Secretary: Sarah Robinson

Treasurer: Courtney Parry

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

10

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

The students organized two lectures given by two students who had participated in research projects in the fall. The students prepared fliers that were posted around the campus. There were two different fliers. The theme was “why study mathematics”.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 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. :

Anna Fricano is attending graduate school in the fall. She will attend a bridge program over the summer. Sarah Robinson was awarded a John Culver Wooddy Scholarship (a scholarship for those pursuing an actuarial career). Courtney Parry presented a talk at the spring Indiana sectional meeting.

Advisor: Adam Weyhaupt

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

6

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

Halloween Tricks & Treats – PME members brought candy (tricks) and a mathematical “trick or treat” to share. We heard about Vedic mathematics, tricks for divisibility, ways to visualize summing an infinite series, and other fun tricks. Movie Night – We got our library to purchase “Flatland – The Movie”, and we purchased popcorn and soda. We invited all math majors as well as the local high school’s math club. About 50 people attended our showing of the movie — it was a blast!

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 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: Dr. James V. Rauff

President: Daniel Sumpter

Vice President: Erica Lindamood

Treasurer: Jacqueline Rempala

Secretary: Sarah Dial

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

6

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 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 and Officers

Advisor:Kari Fowler

President: Stephanie Branham

Vice President: Sarah Strickland

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

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

We had our first induction ceremony in over a decade.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 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 and Officers

Advisor: Michelle Ghrist

President: Joshua Sinkler (2008-2009)

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

10

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

We held a few game night meetings with cadets throughout the year.  Cadets and faculty members meet over food to play games like Apples to Apples and Boggle.

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

Jeremy Thompson will present a PME paper.

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 math department had five of our sixteen graduating math majors as distinguished graduates (~top 10% of graduates).  All were Pi Mu Epsilon members (Kenneth Grosselin III, Adam Stooke, James Bresnahan, Kimberly Kallabis, and Brianne Davidson). Kenneth Grosselin will be attending RAND graduate school for a PhD in Policy Analysis (math modeling specialty) on a RAND PhD Scholarship; he also won a NCAA Post-graduate scholar/athlete scholarship.  He was very active in track and cross country; he was also USAFA’s Class of 2008 #2 overall graduate and #2 graduate academically. Adam Stooke won a Hertz Foundation Fellowship and will be attending CU-Berkeley. Kimberly Kallabis will be attending MIT on a departmental scholarship.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Kenneth Roblee

President: Robby Doughan

Vice Presidents: Kelly Harrington and Aaron Murray

Secretary: Jenna Henderson

Number of New Members Inducted:

21

Number of Continuing Members:

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

1. We had our annual calculus competition in the spring. It was in the form of the game show “Jeopardy.” We gave cash prizes to the winner and runner-up. 2. We continue to have our “math movie night.” We watched the movie “Proof.”

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 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?

1. For 2007-08, we have at least 3 students accepted to graduate school or already enrolled in graduate school. 2. One of our charter members (2004), already having completed his Master’s degree, is now working on his dissertation at Auburn University. 3. We had some of our students give presentations at our weekly mathematics seminar.

Advisor: Professor Kevin Murphy

PFC: Terry Jo Leiterman

Officers:

President: Brian Pietsch

Vice-President: Nicole Harp

Treasurer: Kayla Pope

Chapter URL:

Number of New Members Inducted:

Number of Continuing Members: 2

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

The 2010 PME Regional Undergraduate Math Conference set records for numbers of student speakers and attendance. The PME students helped recruit donors for the Red Cross Blood Drive on campus.

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

5 students will speak: Caesar Cai, Ryan Hallberg, Nicole Harp, Brian Pietsch, and Abby Wendrick.

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 received a matching grant to help support the regional conference.

Advisor: David Shoenthal

Officers:

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

Number of New Members Inducted: 7

Number of Continuing Members: 8

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

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

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

Yes-Jeff Anway

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 attended the Budapest Semester of Mathematics this past spring, is at an REU in Iowa this summer, and will attend the MASS program at Penn State this fall. Jeff Anway is attending an REU at James Madison University this summer.

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

The Problem of the Month continues to be successful. This year, first prize went to a graduating senior, Briana Wells. Second prize went to Jeff Anway.

Advisor: Zsuzsanna Kadas

Officers:

Co-presidents:Brittany Baker and Kaiti Tuthill

Number of New Members Inducted: 18

Number of Continuing Members: 9

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

At the annual Pi Mu Epsilon lecture held in conjunction with the Induction Ceremony, origami expert Prof. Thomas Hull (Western New England College) spoke on the topic “Origami-Math is in Creasing”. He also led a hands-on origami workshop where we collaborated to build some modular structures. The September Math Colloquium consisted of presentation by students who had participated in research projects: Brittany Baker, Emily Pratt, Mary Spuches, and Kaiti Tuthill. Monthly Department Colloquia are co-sponsored by Pi Mu Epsilon, and members introduce the visiting speakers.

Induction Ceremony on October 1, 2010: all student PME members and math faculty

Origami tower built at Tom Hull’s workshop, October 1, 2010

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?

Four students, including 3 PME members, have had a paper accepted by the American Journal of Undergraduate Research. The paper, “Design Optimization for DNA Nanostructures” by Andrew Gilbert, Jake Girard, Dan Lewis, and Mary Spuches, reports on work done under the mentorship of Professors Jo Ellis-Monaghan and Greta Pangborn. The work was supported by several sources: NSF, CURM, NIH-VT Genetics Network, NASA-VT Space Grant. Brittany Baker ’11 will participate in the competitive program for Women and Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University followed by the Bridge Program at Texas A & M. She has She will enter the Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota in the fall. JasonDecoteau ’12 is participating in a funded on-campus research project in mathematics/economics studying the demographics of Medicare funding. Andrew Gilbert ‘11 received the Outstanding Math Major award at graduation, and was also named Class of 2011 Valedictorian. He will pursue graduate studies in Classics at Boston College. Dan Lewis ’10 will begin graduate study at Notre Dame. Emily Pratt ’12 participated in the NASA-Vermont Space Grant project “Cubesat”, a small lunar lander which is to be launched in 2013. She presented her paper “Trajectory Design Using a Linearized Restricted Three-Body Problem” at the Smith College WIMIN conference in October 2010. Jaqui Tuthill ‘12 is attending the Statistics REU at the Claremont Colleges. Kaiti Tuthill ’11 is co-author of a paper that has been accepted by the Journal of Applied Mathematics. The paper “Constraint Consensus Methods for Finding Interior Feasible Points in Second Order Cones” is the result of work done at the NSF-REU at Northern Arizona University in Summer 2010.

Advisor: Dr. Mark Tomforde

Chapter URL: Texas Theta

Number of New Members Inducted: 13

Number of Continuing Members: 15

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

We had a talk by an actuary and student presentations on undergraduate research opportunities.

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?

Advisor: Jeff Hood

PFC: Terry McDonald

Officers:

President: Chris Caruvana

Number of New Members Inducted: 12

Number of Continuing Members: 15-20

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

The students participated in the Sikes Lake Cardboard Boat Race during Homecoming Week. The students competed in Math Jeopardy at the TORUS conference.

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

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?

Sonny Skaaning will be attending graduate school at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Advisor: Prof Phil Yasskin

Officers:

President: Jeffrey Nolan
Vice President: Josh Meier
Secretary: Devin Light
AWM Chair: Cayleigh Hammit

Chapter URL: Texas Eta

Number of New Members Inducted: 46

Number of Continuing Members: 56

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

One of the interesting meetings had students from the undergraduate Mathematical Modeling class presenting their semester research projects. The projects included topics such as developing a model to quantify the effects of probiotics on the abundance of autochthonous intestinal bacteria, modeling and analysis of Coccidioidomycosis in the Endemic Regions of Texas, and modeling the optimal area of cooling zones following a marathon. Another interesting meeting was a presentation by Dr. Frank Sottile, titled “The Shape of Space.”

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

Yes. Three are attending. One will compete in the problem solving contest and the other two will be presenting reports.

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: 4

Number of Continuing Members: 3

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

We had our annual spring Calculus Bee. We had 3 undergraduate math talks. One was on going for it on 4th down, with Efton Park of TCU’s Math Department and Coach Gary Paterson of TCU’s #2 ranked team.

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?

Advisor: Ben Ntatin

Number of New Members Inducted: 15

Number of Continuing Members: Not sure

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

The 2011 spring semester Pi Mu Epsilon induction ceremony took place at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 12. During the ceremony, a total of 13 students and two faculty were inducted to the society. Dr. Jaime Taylor, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, spoke about “The Importance of Mathematics in Our Lives Today.” Dr. Taylor was also inducted that day.

2011 Induction Ceremony

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

James Wineger and Stephanie Jessie will be presenting 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?

Casey Mcnkight will work toward a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in California. She will pursue her studies on a full tuition-paid scholarship, as well as teaching and graduate assistantships.

Advisor: Maria Girardi and Rhonda Sanders

PFC: Maria Girardi and Rhonda Sanders

Officers:

President: Brittany Gunn
Vice President: Ryan Benitez
Secretary: Kinsey Parrish
Treasurer: Richard Voepel

Chapter URL: South Carolina Alpha

Number of New Members Inducted: 16

Number of Continuing Members: 41

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

Integration Bee and Undergrad Math Research Info Evening . For a very detailed explanation of these events, visit our web site. For photos, check us out on FaceBook.

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

We hope to have a few.

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?

Too many to mention!

Advisor: Paul Klingsberg

Officers:

President: Megan Rigler
Vice President: Robert Cocci and Tyler Gaspich

Number of New Members Inducted: 9

Number of Continuing Members: 13

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

The chapter elected to induct 11 members of the SJU class of 1974 who were instrumental in the effort to establish a chapter here but who were not already members. These 11 are in addition to the 9 undergraduates elected, so in total, the chapter elected 20 new members.

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?

Tyler Gaspich presented a summary of his summer 2010 research at the Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, Portland OR, Feb. 24-Feb. 27, 2011. Brian Klatt received the Math Department award to best graduating senior. Mr. Klatt will commence work on his Ph.D. in mathematics at Lehigh University in the fall. Megan Rigler received the Actuarial Science award to best graduating senior. She also received the University Student Senate Award for Scholarship, and she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Advisor and PFC: Gary Hart

Officers:

President: Jake Wehar
Vice President: Maria Germansky

Number of New Members Inducted: 9

Number of Continuing Members: 7

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

During the spring of 2011, our chapter conducted our first annual Applied Mathematics Conference for Undergraduate Research in Sciences (AMCURS). Invitations were sent out to regional contacts at other colleges and universities. In total, we had students from 3 different colleges present their research to a panel consisting of their professors and peers. In addition to students giving presentations, we also extended invitations to local high schools in the area inviting their students to attend our conference and compete a mathematics challenge. Four different high schools visited our campus and competed in the challenge. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place were awarded in the categories of “Best overall score” and “Best overall team score”. Pictures from the conference will also be included in the chapter report. In additon to conducting AMCURS, our chapter also takes time out every year to celebrate Pi Day on March 14th. During this event, students are invited to come enjoy refreshments (mainly pie), hear a presentation on the history of the number PI, and compete in a contest to see who can approximate pi to the greatest number of decimal places. Students are also invited to buy a ticket in which they will select a member of the math faculty to pie in the face. All ticket proceeds are donated to a charity of our choosing. The Pi day event/celebration is a nice way of engaging in mathematical converstation with other students as well as getting to know the Pitt-Greensburg math faculty a little better.

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

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 our chapter is only in its second year, there is no news of this kind to report yet.

Advisor: Ryan Higginbottom

Officers:

President: Sommer Sprowls
Vice President: Jennifer Magee

Number of New Members Inducted: 16

Number of Continuing Members:

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

At our installation and induction ceremony, Dr. Jacqueline Jensen (Sam Houston State University) delivered a rousing presentation: “Unknotting Conjectures, or Everything I needed to know I learned by being a math major.” At the reception afterward caffeine and sugar were enjoyed by all.

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

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: Jennifer Vasquez

PFC: Anthony Ferzola

Number of New Members Inducted: 7

Number of Continuing Members:

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 2011 PME national meeting at MathFest in Lexington, Kentucky?

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?

Advisor: Timothy Feeman

Number of New Members Inducted: 11

Number of Continuing Members: 12

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

Our annual induction event, held on April 26, 2011, featured a fascinating talk by Dr. Tony Rothman, of Princeton University, on Japanese Temple Geometry. The talk was based on Rothman’s book SACRED MATHEMATICS: JAPANESE TEMPLE GEOMETRY, co-authored with Hidetoshi Fukagawa.

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

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 of our students scored ten or more points each on this year’s Putnam Competition, with two students scoring over twenty points each. Our outstanding senior, Stephen Twigg, will be pursuing a doctorate in electrical engineering at UC-Berkeley.

Advisor: Professor Colin Starr

PFC: Joshua Laison

Chapter URL:

Number of New Members Inducted: 4

Number of Continuing Members: 12

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

The Math Club (which includes PME) hosted an inter-collegiate “Ginormous Blokus” tournament. The club had constructed giant foam Blokus pieces and converted our second-floor patio into a Blokus board measuring about 15 feet on a side. We invited three other local universities to participate. We also hosted another Pi Day celebration with pizza (pie), pie, a running simulation of the Buffon needle experiment, a competition using Laura Taalman’s pi-themed sudoku, and more.

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?

Jared Nishikawa, now a graduate student at University of Colorado, Boulder had a paper with two faculty members accepted for publication in the Pi Mu Epsilon journal.

Advisor: Naimoi Cameron

Number of New Members Inducted: 23

Number of Continuing Members: 11

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

Our chapter activities this year included an Installation Ceremony on March 1 and a Pi Day Celebration on March 15, which hosted 5 middle school teams in a fun-filled math competition, including problem contests, a circle-drawing contest, a Pi eating contest and Pi recitation contest.

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

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?

Alyssa Kent ’11 will enter the graduate school at UC Irvine. Juan Cervantes ’11 will enter graduate school at University of Iowa, Geoinformatics for Environmental and Energy Modeling and Prediction IGERT Program. Evan Carmean ’10 will be entering the Peace Corps. Jacob Owens ’11 has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Fellowship in South Korea.

Advisor: Marth VanCleave

Officers:

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

Number of New Members Inducted: 11

Number of Continuing Members: 6

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

This year we held a raffle fundraiser. Tickets were 50 cents a piece and were placed toward specific professors, who were willing participants. On Pi day, the four professors with the most tickets were pied; each by a student who won the raffle for that specific professor. We rasied around $90! We also made Oregon Epsilon Chapter PME shirts!

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

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: 4

Number of Continuing Members:

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

Our four newest members were inducted during the College of Health and Sciences Award Evening in April. PME members joined ECU Math Club members in a special Pi Day activity for students from Bethel Public Schools after spring break.

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

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: Tom Short

Officers:

President: Roy Bower
Vice President: Michael Joseph
Secretary: Louis Paumier
Treasurer: Kaylee Sutton

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 12

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

We celebrated National Pi Day (3/14) on March 14, with a large group of students and faculty coming together for some mathematical fun. With computer-generated background music provided by rendering the first 5,000 or so digits of Pi as musical notes, the 41 people in attendance each signed their names to a paper band representing one of the first 41 decimal digits of Pi. The bands were then made into links of a “Pi-chain,” to which additional links will be added in future years. There was a Pi trivia contest, Pi-related web videos and, of course, lots of pie to eat! Two Ohio Lambda Chapter members presented talks at the meeting of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of America at Youngstown State University on March 25 and 26. Sophomore Brian Harrison II presented the results of his research in his talk “From Primes to Polygons,” and junior Bob Short presented his research in number theory in his talk “Generalizing the Collatz Conjecture.”

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

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?

Mike Joseph will begin working on a doctorate in Mathematics at the University of Connecticut. Roy Bower will be entering the Masters Program in Applied Statistics at Villanova University. Kaylee Sutton will work toward her Master of Science in Mathematics at John Carroll University.

Advisor: Professor Robert Lavalle

Officers:

President: William May

Number of New Members Inducted: 10

Number of Continuing Members: 2

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

Pi Mu Epsilon celebrated a good year with the Iona College Mathematics Society with ICMS’s annual “Pizza and Problems”.

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

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 Mingione is continuing her education in Iona College’s Graduate program. Nick Florio is working as a Microbiology tech/Laboratory Assistant at Northern Westchester Hospital. William May submitted a paper along with Dr. Lisa J. Evered entitled “A JAVA Program for the Gale-Shapley Algorithm” to the HUIC (Hawaii University International Conference). The conference was held in Honolulu, O’ahu, Hawaii on June 13 – 15, 2011.

Advisor: Joseph Straight

Number of New Members Inducted: 27

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

Induction of 27 new members was held on April 14 as part of the Department of Mathematical Sciences Annual Awards Dinner. Approximately 120 people attended the dinner. Eighteen undergraduates, including eight members of Pi Mu Epsilon, attended the Spring Conference of the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America, April 1 – 2, at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. The following members gave talks: Steven Lockwood, Generalized Ellipses: The Case of Weighted Means Bernard Moore: Pythagorean Triples Modulo a Prime

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

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: Cornelia Yuen

Officers:

President: Jeremy Amidon
Vice President: Rebecca Shoemaker
Secretary: Brittany Yando
Treasurer: Nick Ahlfeld

Number of New Members Inducted: 14

Number of Continuing Members: 29

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

A few of our members participated in REUs last summer, and gave talks about what they learned (mathematically and more generally) in their program. Also, we had our annual end-of-semester game and pizza night. We had a decent turn out this year, and everybody present had a good time socializing with their fellow students and some faculty members.

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, I don’t think 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?

Quite a few members got awards and scholarships from our math department. Also, four of our graduates will start their Ph.D. programs in mathematics this coming Fall semester. A couple students presented at MathFest last summer, and a couple other students presented at the St. Lawrence Valley Mathematics Symposium.

Advisor: Aaron Luttman

Officers:

President: Joshua Lamontagne
Vice President: Kristopher Lee
Secretary: Steven Foti
Treasurer: Amber Clinton

Number of New Members Inducted: 36

Number of Continuing Members: Unknown

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

Our chapter co-sponsored, with funding from the PME national organization, the 3rd Annual Saint Lawrence Valley Mathematics Symposium, an undergraduate research conference in the mathematical sciences that is hosted here at Clarkson University. We also co-sponsored a visit by Dr. Timothy Chartier of Davidson College, who presented on “The Force of Math in Star Wars.”

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

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?

Our outgoing Math Club President and former PME chapter treasurer, Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu will be attending graduate school at MIT. Our newly elected Math Club President and PME Secretary, Clarice Dziak, will be spending this summer at the National Security Agency.

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

We received a conference grant for the 3rd Annual Saint Lawrence Valley Mathematics Symposium. Fifteen colleges and universities were represented by over 100 registered participants. The keynote address, given by Dr. David Kung of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, was attended by over 130 people, and there were over 30 student presentations. The PME money was specifically used to purchase prizes for a drawing at the end of the conference.

Advisor: Professor Kira Adaricheva

Officers: Elisa Karp, Elana Rosengard

Chapter URL:

Number of New Members Inducted: 19

Number of Continuing Members: 2

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

The talk of Prof. Hamel on financial mathematics and a sudoku competition.

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

Robert Rand from Yeshiva college presented the talk based on his Honor’s project.

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?

Rira Carla Bron got accepted to financial mathematics program at Columbia University. The paper of Adina Erdfarb was accepted to the presentation at PME national meeting in Kentucky. Robert Rand’s honor’s project became a part of joint paper with K.Adaricheva and J.B.Nation. It was presented at two conferences in summer, one of them in Marseille, France (TACL-2011). The paper will be also presented at ISAIM-2012 in Florida. The paper is to appear in Discrete Applied Mathematics.

Advisor: Gregory Quenell

PFC: Gregory Quenell

Officers:

President: Jessica Brown

Number of New Members Inducted: 10

Number of Continuing Members: 1

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 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?

Advisor: Una Bray

Advisor Address: Math. & Comp. Sci. Dept Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

PFC: Mark Huibregtse

Officers:

President: Cooper Boniece
Vice President: Jay Brett
Secretary: Sara Keeney

Number of New Members Inducted: 13

Number of Continuing Members: 8 students and faculty

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

1. In the fall, we held a mathematical “Family Feud” night, which turned out to be a lot of fun.
2. In the spring, we changed the format of our induction ceremony to include a sit-down dinner followed by a brief mathematical “entertainment” and induction ceremony. We hope to continue this “upgraded” ceremony format in the future.
3. Skidmore hosted the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference this year (in April), and some PME members assisted with the logistics.

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

Not to my knowledge, but there may be some faculty attending the MathFest.

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

The winners of the department’s two top prizes (the DeSieno and Taylor prizes) were won by two senior PME members this spring: Cooper Boniece and Alexandra McGuire.

Advisor: Matthew Glomski

PFC: Joe Kirtland

Officers:

President/Secretary: Kristen Zirkel
Vice President/Treasurer: Andrew Paulsen

Number of New Members Inducted: 27

Number of Continuing Members:

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

Our PME induction ceremony took place on March 24, 2011 at Marist College’s historic Cornell Boathouse. Twenty five students and two faculty were inducted. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. John McCleary of Vassar College: “Pi(x), mu(x) and epsilon: Primes and their distribution.”

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

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?

Olivia Brozek: Klaus Fischer research assistantship, PhD program at George Mason University; Michael Caiola: PhD program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Daniel Espina: PhD program at University of North Carolina Charlotte; Megan Joyce: Masters program at Hunter College (CUNY); James Kreinbihl: PhD program at Wesleyan University. Three PME student members are attending summer mathematics REU: Patrick Cummings, Jennifer Kile and Thomas Murphy. Five PME student members presented papers or posters at local conferences: Michael Caiola, Daniel Espina, James Kreinbihl, Eric Kopser and Emily Schroder.

Advisor: Aaron Heap

PFC: Patrick Rault

Chapter URL: New York Alpha Delta

Number of New Members Inducted: 11

Number of Continuing Members: 2

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 11 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 second year we have offered the prize, and beforehand participation was usually 3 students.

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

Chapter adviser Patrick Rault will attend, with students Kirill Lazebnik and Jeffrey Singer. Kirill will be giving a talk 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 Spring 2011 conference and the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference; at the former, the Geneseo team placed first in the student Math Jeopardy competition.

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 11 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 second year we have offered the prize, and beforehand participation was usually 3 students. Increasing from a 3-student average to 11 students is a big achievement! 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/Secretary: Joseph Giovannone

Vice-President/Treasurer: Katelyn McGlynn

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

30

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

1) In December 2010 two of the chapter members, Zhasmina Baramova and Keith Veenhuizen, participated in the Putnam Competition. 2) In March 2011 the chapter participated in the New Jersey Undergraduate Mathematics Competition.

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

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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