Advisor and Officers

Advisor:Dr. Anita M. Walker

Number of New Members Inducted:

Unfortunately the individuals who were eligible for membership and were invited to join this year declined to accept the privileges of membership. We’ll try again next year!

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 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: Lisa Mantini

President: Jack Knorr

Vice President: Lauren Smith

Secretary: Deidra Allen

Number of New Members Inducted:

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 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: Martha Holland

President: Ben Milroy

Number of New Members Inducted: 7

Number of Continuing Members: 7

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

The Ohio Theta Chapter inducted seven new members in the fall of 2007, five students and two faculty members. The seven senior chapter members are in the process of presenting their research endeavors to faculty and students. Their research topics include set theory, modeling, applied mathematics, statistics, and the history of mathematics. Three menbers had notable accomplishments. James McShane and Karen Moelius were each on MCM modeling teams that received honorable mention. Brandon Weislak contributed a paper at the undergraduate mathematics conference at St. Norbert’s College in November , 2007.

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. :

Maureen Sartor received a Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of Cincinnati. She has accepted a faculty position at the University of Michigan.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: David Singer

President: Charles Pairan

Vice President, Communications: Sarah Adler

Vice President, Service: Thomas Reid

Vice President, Finance: Scott Moneypenny

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

13

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

Installation and Induction by with Leo Schneider, with talk by Richard Varga. Sponsored a Bubble talk by Frank Morgan with over 200 students attending. Sponsored a Career and Major fair for Freshman.

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?

Rebecca Winarski- George Tech- Math Ryan Dorow – University of Chicago – Economics Drew Kouri – Rice – Applied Mathematics

Advisor and Officers

Advisor :Dr. Laura K. Gross

President: Lauren Brubaker

Vice President: Shawn Ryan

Secretary: Sara Rollo

Treasurer: Melissa Merrill

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

36

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

We had a T-shirt-design competition. The department shirt spoofs our University athletics slogan (fear the Roo). It is “square the Roo.” We had a pizza gathering in which students presented their talks from MathFest and the joint meetings and gave a panel discussion on math student conference attendance

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

One student is a Goldwater Scholar.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Leo Schneider

President: Marie Nicole Dailey

Vice President: Rick Svob0da

Secretary: Julie Reifsnyder

Treasurer and LSO Representative: Louis Paumier

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

16

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

. In August 2007, three members, Marie Dailey, Kerry McIver, and Anne Rollick, flew to San Francisco to attend MathFest in San Jose and to make presentations at the national Pi Mu Epsilon conference. The Frame Lecture by Donald Knuth was awesome! 2. In September 2007, two members, Anne Rollick and Scott Zimmerman attended the two-day Mathematics Conference at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and gave 15-minute talks at the associated regional Pi Mu Epsilon conference on Friday evening. 3. In February 2008, two members, Marie Dailey and Anne Rollick, flew to Lincoln, Nebraska to participate in the conference for undergraduate women in mathematics.

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

Not sure. Summer jobs may interfere for those who have talks prepared.

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. :

This year 7 John Carroll University B.S. Mathematic majors received the Eugene R. Mittinger Award for Scholarship in Mathematics. This was the largest number to receive this award since 1975. The recipients were Gina Antonelli, Sarah Donnelly, Sandra Gliga, Betsy Rafferty, Anne Rollick, Peter Strada, and Scott Zimmerman. In addition, Rodney Galloway, a graduate with an A.B. Teaching Mathematics degree, received the Raymond W. Allen, S.J. Award. Naturally, all of the above are members of the Ohio Lambda Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon. In addition: Gina Antonelli (B.S. 2008) has accepted a Graduate Assistantship at John Carroll to continue her education in mathematics in the fall. Sandra Donnelly (B.S. 2008) plans to continue her mathematics education in mathematics at John Carroll University in the fall. Sandra Gliga (B.S. 2008) has accepted a Graduate Assistantship at John Carroll to continue her education in mathematics in the fall. Katherine Henley (M.S. 2008) enjoyed her work as a Graduate Assistant at John Carroll so much, that she plans to continue her education at Notre Dame to complete the Ohio requirements for licensure to teach mathematics in high school. Debra (Zwilling) McGivney (M.S. 2006), who has been teaching at Gilmour Academy these past two years, has accepted a Teaching Fellowship to pursue her Ph.D. beginning next fall at Case Western Reserve University. She has also applied for this summer’s program in mathematical biosciences at Ohio State University since she hopes it is in that direction of applied mathematics that her research will take her. Liuyi Liu (B.S. 2007) has accepted a Graduate Assistantship at John Carroll to continue her education in mathematics in the fall. Kerry McIver (B.S. 2007) is working toward her M.A. in Education at John Carroll University. Betsy Rafferty (B.S. 2007) has been accepted into the A.C.E. program at the University of Notre Dame. This is a two-year program with courses during the summer leading to a Master’s in Education combined with full time teaching mathematics as service work in a high school in Alabama. She had been accepted into the UND law school, and they will hold her acceptance open until she completes the ACE program. Anne Rollick (B.S. 2008) was invited to be on a panel to give information about R.E.Us to undergraduates attending the Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at the University of Dayton in November 2007. Anne has been accepted into the Jesuit Volunteer Core to do a year of service on Indian reservations in the Dakotas. Dr. Thomas Short (B.S. 1986) who, after teaching at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University, will return to John Carroll University as a Professor in the fall. During his interview, he stated that attending and presenting at student mathematics conferences were the highlights of his undergraduate days. Brittany Simon (B.S. 12/2008) will be applying this fall to continue her education in the medical field. Liz Smietana (B.S. 2007) is doing a year of environmental service in Massachusetts. She hopes to return to Ohio next fall to teach in high school. Peter Strada (B.S. 2008) has been successful in his studies of the Actuarial Examinations, and has accepted an actuarial job in Hartford, Connecticut upon graduation. Scott Zimmerman (B.S. 2008) has accepted a Teaching Assistantship at John Carroll to continue his education in mathematics in the fall.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Harold Reiter

President: Gabor Hetyei

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

8

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

The only meeting we had was the induction ceremony, at which time we had a brief(two question) math contest, followed by a talk on curvature by Stas Molchanov. Then refreshments.

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

Yes, Shira Stav will be attending and giving a paper in the PME student talks.

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

No

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Sarah Raynor

President: Tommy Guy

Vice President: Eric McAnally

Number of New Members Inducted:

32 (?)

Number of Continuing Members:

Unsure

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

Bowling night. Math talks from professors in Computer Science, the Business School, and other departments.

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: Robert Lavelle

President: Janine Tepedino

Vice President: Cheyne Miller

Treasurer: Matthew Krammer

Secretary: Jessica Beyer

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

Lecture: A Brief Introduction to Knot Theory and the Jones Polynomial Peter L. Gregory Abstract: Knot theory, combinatorial knot theory in particular, can be explored and understood without much technical or high powered mathematics This talk hopes to display this relative accessibility. The notion of knot and knot equivalence will be discussed so that we may address the fundamental questions of the theory: When are two knots the same? When are they different? How can we tell? For an answer, we will need to define some spatial isotopies, in particular Reidemeister Moves. From these definitions we will have a method for determining when knots are equivalent The opposite, determining when Knots are not the same, will not come as easily, and will require the development of a knot invariant. One such invariant is the Jones Polynomial. We will construct this polynomial from scratch via Kaufmann’s Bracket Polynomial and the Writhe, show that it is indeed a knot invariant, and perform a sample calculation. Lecture: The Fundamental Group: An Introduction to Homotopy Theory David Allen Abstract: In this talk, basic notions in the study of Topology will be discussed. From a “Space” X one constructs an algebraic invariant called the Fundamental Group of X which allows one to detect differences in geometry. The notion of continuous deformation as well as loops at a fixed point in X will be explored. Roughly speaking, the fundamental group of X, denoted !1(X) is the set of all maps from the circle into X satisfying some additional properties. The basic ideas behind the mathematics and computations of this important invariant will be sketched. Cheyne Miller “Algebraic Properties Associated to Certain Simple Convex Polytopes in Lower Dimensions” Abstract: Let P be an n-dimensional simple convex polytope and hp be its associated h-vector. It is natural to ask whether or not the standard vector operations on h-vectors yield any interesting results. For two polytopes, P1 and P2, one has operations such as the product, the connected-sum, and the box product. In the case of the connected-sum, the h-vector of the resulting polytope is defined and can be explicitly computed. This paper will give a detailed example of the connected-sum operation, as this operation is relatively new and explicit examples are not easily found. Moreover, it will be shown that the set of h-vectors associated to simplex convex n-polytopes is a semi-group under the connected-sum for n=2 or n=3.

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: Professor Gove Effinger

President: Jessica Reynolds

Vice President: Chris Sacca

Treasurer: Bill Stitson

Secretary: Oliver Layton

Number of New Members Inducted:

14 students and 4 faculty members

Number of Continuing Members:

125, including graduates

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

This was a year of leadership transition, so the chapter was not as active as it should have been. (We are planning to do much better this coming year!) We did have an excellent initiation ceremony that featured a splendid presentation by Catherine Roberts on the modeling of river traffic through the Grand Canyon — the photos alone were worth the price of admission!

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

Not Sure

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?

Claire Stawski (now Davenport), who was elected to PME last year, graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa this year. She is currently being featured on Skidmore’s home page: “Claire Davenport graduated May 17—summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Periclean—with a B.A. degree in chemistry. Davenport was a single mother who supported herself and her first child while attending Skidmore. Now a married mother of two, she will start Albany Medical College this fall.” Lori Bordzuk, Katie Butler, and Claire Rupprecht, all elected to PME this year, also graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Several members of the chapter presented talks at the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at St. Lawrence University in April.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Nikolaus Vonessen

President: Stephen Schutten

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

20

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

In April, we had our 9th annual Math Film Festival. We worked hard to make it a great event. The main attraction in the evening was a new, feature-length animated version of the classical novel Flatland, which was created by independent film maker Ladd P. Ehlinger, Jr., who directed, animated and edited the entire film personally. We also had a special treat: the three-minute film The Math Geek, produced by Laura Williams and starring Nick Paterno, both math majors. The only disappointment was the low attendance. Next year, we will have to do a better job advertising. Other fun events included our Gambling Day in November, and the (not-so-unusual) Pi Day fund raiser selling, guess what, pies.

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: Dr. Russ Euler

President: Colette Cenac

Vice-President: Melynda Burk

Secretary: Laura Smith

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

Number of Continuing Members:

3

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

The Northwest campus was hit hard by an ice storm in December, causing severe damage to the trees. The Pi Mu Epsilon chapter held a book sale during a high school math competition to raise money for the replanting of a tree on campus. The tree will have a plaque naming the Math Department on it.

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: Kevin Dennis

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

Pi Day Celebration in which we Buffon’s Needle to calculate the value of pi (which turned out to be 2.8). Co-hosted “Women in Mathematics” colloquium with math department.

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

Have several students thinking about attending, no presenting.

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 current member has been accepted to an REU this summer.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Paul Fishback

President: Daniel Gorski

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

In the spring, the chapter held a workshop for students interested in learning LaTeX, as well as a “pie day” fundraiser. Each faculty member had a cup in the department office labeled with his/her name and picture. The faculty members whose cups received the most cash donations from students and faculty was “pied” in the fact on March 14th.

In the fall, the club held a lunch gathering in which faculty and students discussed experiences and opportunities for other students interested in pursuing research projects this summer.

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

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. :

Dan Gorski received a “best speaker” award at the Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. GVSU alumnus and former PME Journal author Nicolas Ceglarek was recognized by the university as part of its alumnus in residence program. Nick pursued a teaching career, but quickly rose through the ranks to become the youngest school superintendent in the state of Michigan.

Two graduates and PME members, Christopher Frayer and Matthew Wells, completed their Ph.D.’s at the University of Kentucky.

Advisor and Officers:

Advisor: Robert C. Moore

President: Thomas C. Adams

Vice President: Eric Shull

Secretary/Treasurer: Danielle Wuchenich

Number of New Members Inducted:

16

Number of Continuing Members:

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

Michigan Gamma sponsored four meetings of Eigen*, the weekly math & physics colloquium series. One meeting was “Meet the Math Faculty,” during which the faculty shared why they love math, how they became mathematicians, and their greatest mathematical achievements and failures. We also sponsored Pi Day and served pie and ice cream to many smiling faces.

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?

Nicholas Valles, our 2006-07 president, will be entering a doctoral program in physics at Cornell this fall. Danielle Wuchenich, our 2007-08 Secretary-Treasurer, will be going to Australia to enter a doctoral program in physics. Robert L. Wilson has completed a year of doctoral studies in inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with generous support from a teaching assistantship. Andrea Moore is headed to Oklahoma for doctoral studies in Environmental Science.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Stephanie Edwards

Number of New Members Inducted:

26

Number of Continuing Members:

12

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

We sold t-shirts (How’s my deriving? Call 1-800-MATHCLUB) and we had a volleyball team.

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

Advisor:: Ward Heilman

Number of New Members Inducted:

16

Number of Continuing Members:

6

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

During our Abramson Colloquium/Pi Mu Epsilon Ceremony held on April 27, 2008 we inducted 14 students and 2 new faculty members and heard a wonderful talk, ” Music and Math: Exploring the Connections” (which included music of Bach, Gershwin and bell ringing)by Dr Gareth Roberts of The College of the Holy Cross.

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?

A few of our members presented at Bridgewater’s undergraduate research symposium and ! at (NCUR) the Natuonal Conference of Undergardute research. One of our students recieved a scholarship based on her 4.0 average for all classes taken.

Advisor and Officers

Advisors: Professor Betty Mayfield, Professor Judy Seymour

President: Shawn Paylor

Vice President: Raechal Geesaman

Secretary: Chris Berman

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture: Dr. Tina Straley, Executive Director of the MAA: “Gems from Math Horizons” Induction of new members: The provost and the president of the college attended and welcomed all the attendees. Our current members introduced the speaker, gave the history of the society, introduced the new members, and explained the insignia. We gave honor cords to our graduating seniors and had a nice reception afterwards.

New Inductees

Seniors with Honor Cords

The Pi Mu Epsilon Cake

Pi Mu Epsilon Tee Shirts

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

I hope so; not sure

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

Two of our current students attended the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics. Abby Brackins started graduate school in the mathematics program at the University of Nebraska. Lindsey Naylor began grad school in economics at the University of Arizona.

If you were awarded a PME matching prize fund grant, please briefly describe what took place during the councilor’s visit.

With our Prize Grant, we awarded the Pi Mu Epsilon Book Prize to two student members at our college’s annual Honors and Awards Ceremony. We gave the books “Mathematical Delights” and “Math Chestnuts from Around the World” to two graduating seniors, Stephanie Tomasello and Michael Naylor. Thanks for making this possible!

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Steven Kimball

President: Jenifer Stevens

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

36

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

1) Monthly talks given by faculty or students accompanied by a pizza party, called the Pizza Pi talk series.

2) Five members attended the Fall Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America at Framingham State College.

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: Maria Calzada

President: Eric Cox

Vice President: Sarah Cabali

Treasurer: Josue Jimenez

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

28

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

As usual, we had our Annual Calculus Competition, co-sponsored by all the science departments at Loyola. The competition was held on March 28, 2008. We also had our Calculus Competition Award Banquet and Induction ceremony on April 25, 2008. This was a time for faculty and students to come together outside of the classroom to celebrate student achievement. Everyone had a good time.

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

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?

Taniecea Arceneaux, who was inducted to PME in April of 2005, just finished her first year at Princeton University. She reports that this year “has been the most challenging and exciting year of my life!” She also reports that she was awarded a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: John Spraker

Officers:

Stephanie Micallef

Cody Lorton

Jacob Vervynckt

Nathan Salazar (2008-2009)

Number of New Members Inducted:

13

Number of Continuing Members:

22

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

We had a career panel discussion. There were representatives from about seven different careers who answered questions from students. Our banquet was a big success. We had at least 30 people in attendance.

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: Eric Westlund

Number of New Members Inducted:

23

Number of Continuing Members:

12

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

An induction ceremony together with an annual banquet and scholarship announcements.

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: Heath Martin

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

The chapter itself is not active, but members of the chapter are part of the local Mathematics Club, which is just now becoming more active. This year, students participated in the Putnam Exam and the Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Competition.

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: Kevin Keating

President: Jeff Yelton

Vice President: Larry Mackey

Treasurer: Kyle Huey

Secretary: Jessi Shroads

Newly-elected officers to serve during 2008-2009 year.

Number of New Members Inducted:

4

Number of Continuing Members:

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

Neil White gave a talk on Coxeter groups in which he explained why a mirror reverses left/right, but not up/down. Patrick De Leenheer gave a talk about ranking sports teams.

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: Joan Weiss

President: Lauren Loomer

Vice President: Annie Corbett

Treasurer: Paige Boticello

Secretary: Christa Napolitano

Number of New Members Inducted:

24

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

In the fall: Panel on Internships and REUs–4 PME members described their REUs and actuarial internship experiences In the spring: 23rd annual induction ceremony including the lecture, “Frieze Patterns of the Alhambra” by Professor B. Lynn Bodner of Monmouth University

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

Peter Olszewski’08 will be presenting “Group Presentations, Cayley Graphs and Markov Processes” at the PME student paper 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?

Christine Mauro’08 was accepted into the PhD program at Columbia University in Biostatistics. She was awarded a three year fellowship which covers tuition along with a $25,000/year stipend. Peter Olszewski’08 has been accepted into the PhD program in mathematics at CUNY.

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2006-2007 Chapter Reports

• California Eta – Santa Clara University – 5/16/07
• California Kappa – Loyola Marymount University – 6/12/07
• California Xi – Pepperdine University – 5/25/07
• Connecticut Alpha – University of Connecticut – 4/21/07
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• Florida Beta – Florida State University – 5/7/07
• Florida Delta – University of Florida – 4/27/07
• Florida Epsilon – University of South Florida – 5/307/07
• Florida Kappa – University of West Florida – 4/25/07
• Georgia Epsilon – Valdosta State University – 5/23/07
• Illinois Alpha – University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana – 4/11/07
• Illinois Kappa – Millikin University – 4/25/07
• Indiana Alpha – Purdue University – 4/25/07
• Indiana Epsilon – Saint Mary’s College – 5/29/07
• Kentucky Beta – Western Kentucky University – 4/25/07
• Kentucky Delta – University of Louisville – 4/25/07
• Kentucky Zeta – Northern Kentucky University – 7/30/07
• Louisiana Theta – Loyola University New Orleans – 5/14/07
• Louisiana Kappa – Louisiana Tech University – 5/15/07
• Maine Alpha – University of Maine – 2/27/07
• Maryland Delta – Hood College – 4/25/07
• Massachusetts Gamma – Bridgewater State College – 5/31/07
• Massachusetts Delta – University of Massachusetts Lowell- 5/25/07
• Massachusetts Zeta – Boston College – 4/25/07
• Michigan Gamma – Andrews University – 5/1/07
• Michigan Kappa – Siena Heights University – 5/7/07
• Michigan Lambda – Aquinas College – 4/27/07
• Minnesota Delta – St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict – 5/8/07
• Minnesota Theta – Winoma State University – 4/25/07
• Mississippi Alpha – University of Mississippi – 7/30/07
• Mississippi Delta – Millsaps College – 5/17/07
• Missouri Gamma – Saint Louis University – 4/25/07
• Missouri Epsilon – Northwest Missouri State University – 4/25/07
• Montana Alpha – University of Montana – 4/27/07
• New Jersey Epsilon – Saint Peter’s College – 5/2/07
• New Jersey Eta – Georgian Court University – 5/1/07
• New Jersey Lambda – William Paterson University – 6/11/07
• New Mexico Alpha – New Mexico State University – 4/30/07
• New York Beta – Hunter College (CUNY) – 5/14/07
• New York Alpha Gamma – Mercy College – 6/13/07
• New York Alpha Theta – Skidmore College – 6/19/07
• New York Alpha Lambda – Hofstra University – 6/18/07
• North Carolina Theta – University of North Carolina Charlotte- 5/25/07
• North Carolina Kappa – North Carolina A&T State University – 5/1/07
• North Carolina Lambda – Wake Forest University – 4/25/07
• Ohio Theta – Xavier University – 3/5/07
• Ohio Iota – Denison University – 5/2/07
• Ohio Nu – The University of Akron – 6/29/07
• Ohio Xi – Youngstown State University – 5/23/07
• Ohio Omicron – Mount Union College – 4/30/07
• Ohio Rho – Ashland University – 7/30/07
• Oklahoma Beta – Oklahoma State University – 4/24/07
• Oklahoma Delta – East Cenetral University – 4/25/07
• Pennsylvania Beta – Bucknell University – 4/16/07
• Pennsylvania Iota – Villanova University – 5/7/07
• Pennsylvania Xi – Saint Joseph’s University – 5/6/07
• Rhode Island Gamma – Providence College – 4/30/07
• South Carolina Alpha – University of South Carolina – 4/9/07
• South Carolina Epsilon – Coastal Carolina University – 4/25/07
• South Dakota Alpha – University of South Dakota – 4/27/07
• Tennessee Delta – University of Tennessee – 5/7/07
• Tennessee Epsilon – Austin Peay State University – 5/22/07
• Texas Zeta – Angelo State University – 5/22/07
• Texas Eta – Texas A&M University – 6/21/07
• Texas Theta – University of Houston – 5/10/07
• Vermont Alpha – Saint Michael’s College – 6/18/07
• Virginia Epsilon – Longwood University – 5/3/07
• Virginia Zeta – University of Mary Washington – 4/27/07
• Virginia Iota – Randolph-Macon College – 4/25/07
• Virginia Lambda – College of William and Mary – 4/25/07
• Virginia Mu – Christopher Newport Universityy – 5/25/07
• Wisconsin Epsilon – Carthage College – 4/26/07
• West Virginia Alpha – West Virginia University – 5/1/07
• Wisconsin Delta – St. Norbert College – 5/1/07

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Kendra Killpatrick

Officers:

Ashley Burt

Brent Hancock

William Cousins

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

8

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

We again held our annual Math Formal in November during which time we have the PME induction ceremony, followed by a formal dinner, dance and game playing. Attendance at this event is usually around 40 students and faculty and we had a marvelous time! In the spring, we celebrated Pi Day by writing the digits of pi around our central fountain and then holding a hands-free pie eating contest in the afternoon.

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

Yes, we had three members give talks at the meeting in Madison, Ashley Burt, Will Cousins and Brent Hancock.

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: Professor Thomas Mattman

President: Arielle Leitner

Vice President and Treasurer: Teresa Jacobson

Secretary: Marcia Macias

Publicist: Ryan Hake

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

15

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

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

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

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

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

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Jean Bee Chan

President: Aaron Donahue

Vice President: Nick Dowdall

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Glen Appleby,

President: Rebecca Glover

Vice-President: Thomas Wong

Secretary-Treasurer: Craig Louis

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

33 (12 students + 21 faculty)

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

1) Pi Mu Epsilon student members provide tutoring throughout the year in the departmental student lounge. 2)During the initiation banquet annual awards were presented to departmental scholars in various categories (e.g., high score on the Putnam, research award). A special award was given to Prof. Gerald Alexanderson, a charter chapter Pi Mu Epsilon member and former department chair, for completing 50 years on the faculty at Santa Clara University. Special awards were also presented to three students, one who did a mathematics presentation at a local primary school, and two who presented a poster or paper at conferences.

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

Some of the faculty Pi Mu Epsilon members may attend 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. :

Four graduating students have been accepted to graduate school. Currently recent alumni are studying at UCLA, Texas-Austin, Oregon, Vanderbilt, U Illinois, Colorado. One graduating student gave a student poster presentation at the Sectional MAA meeting in March, and another gave a paper at the Northern California Undergraduate Mathematics Conference in April.