Advisor: Prof M. Rosar

Number of New Members Inducted: 11

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?

Do 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: Daniel Toundykov

PFC: Allan Donsig

Officers:

President:Tyler Lemburg
Vice President:Jay Cummings
Secretary:Zach Norwood
Treasurer: Adam Azzam

Chapter URL: Nebraska Alpha

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 7

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

On Monday, November 1, 2010, Professor James Sellers delivered the Fourth Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture – “Revisiting What Euler and the Bernoullis Knew About Convergent Infinite Series”. The talk was attended by about 80 participants most of whom were undergraduate students. We are continuing the tradition of having undergraduate students talk about their research and outreach activities. Two students presented their work in the fall of 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?

PME Member Zach Norwood has become the first University of Nebraska-Lincoln student to win the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, and one of 30 in the United States this year. The scholarship is for graduate study in any field at the University of Cambridge in England.

Advisor: Nikolaus Vonessen

Officers:

President: Stephanie Bell

Number of New Members Inducted: 9

Number of Continuing Members: 15

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

Twice this semester we had presentations by undergraduate students: On March 15, several students shared their experiences with research in general, participating in REU’s, and presenting at conferences (all while being paid!). And on April 26, three students gave presentations on their research projects.

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: Julianne Rainbolt

Number of New Members Inducted: 19

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?

Do 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. Russell Euler

Officers:

President: Samantha Wylie

Vice President: Erin Johnson

Secretary: Cassie Gilland

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

9

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

Our chapter held a three-day book/bake sale that began on Pi Day this year. We had great support from faculty, staff, and peers, which led to a very successful event. The money raised at the sale went toward providing “Luck of the Pi-rish” t-shirts that were sold at the Math Olympiad 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?

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?

Two of our graduating members have recently been offered positions as high school mathematics teachers beginning Fall 2011. Another graduating member will be attending graduate school beginning this summer.

Advisor: Gayla Dance

President: Josh Whitam

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

12

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

Three chapter members participated in an integration bee and a team math contest, sponsored by the regional section of the Mathematical Association of America at the MS/LA meeting in Oxford, MS. On Friday, February 25, in a field of 30 teams, one of the Millsaps teams earned 5th place. Please congratulate the following members of the Millsaps Math Teams: Yue (Joyce) Jiang, Lihuang (Sean) Zhu, Andy Schmegal, Matthew Elliott, Alexander Olinger, and Michael Bell with Team Advisor Dr. Yan Wang. On Thursday, February 24, the Louisiana/Mississippi section of the MAA hosted its annual Integration Bee. This is similar to a spelling bee, but with integrals from calculus. Each college or university in Mississippi or Louisiana was invited to enter at most four students, who competed individually. In a field of 39 students, Yue (Joyce) Jiang won 2nd place.

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?

Two of our newest members have been accepted to medical school.

Advisor: Jody Sorensen

Officers:

President: Brian Love

Vice President: Jack Christopherson

Treasurer: Tom Lopez

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

4

2011 Inductees

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

Our induction ceremony on March 3 was a big success. There were parents and cupcakes and this fun video: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11259827/Why_Pi_Mu_Epsilon%3F We will be bringing a group of students to our local PME conference at St. John’s University in April. We’re excited to hear the talks by Bill Dunham.

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: Prof Tom Sibley
PFC: Prof Jennifer Galovich

Number of New Members Inducted: 6

Number of Continuing Members: 15

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

In the fall semester, we decorated our tensegrity tower with mathematical Christmas decorations and entered it in the Christmas tree decorating contest held for student clubs. To the students’ surprise, we didn’t win the award for the most creative decorating, but we definitely had fun. This spring we had our most successful Pi Mu Epsilon conference–our 32nd one. William Dunham was our featured speaker and everyone was enthusiastic about his talks. We had 157 people in attendance, a record. Thanks to our Pi Mu Epsilon grant, we were able to give each of the sixteen student speakers a copy of Dunham’s book _Journey Through Genius_, autographed by the author. In addition, since we had four more copies, we presented them to our mathematics majors who spoke at our campus Scholarship day. (So that we don’t dominate our Pi Mu Epsilon conference with our own students, we encourage this split. Our chapter has an additional requirement of a public mathematical presentation in an appropriate venue.)

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. Kelsey Larson and Hongying Zhao

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

Cong Van will go to Kansas State for math grad school. David Byrne will go to Bowling Green State for math grad school. Sara Kokkila will go to Stanford U. for computational chemistry grad school. Kristin Reinsvold will go to U. of Nebraska for an MD/PhD program and anticipates to include mathematical biology on the research side. She spoke at Mathfest last summer and won the CUR prize. Matt Donner presented his research at NCUR. Matt Donner and David Byrne presented their research at the CURM conference in Provo, Utah. All five of these students wrote honors theses. Kelsey Larson and Hongying Zhao will be doing summer research. All of these students spoke about their research either at our PME conference or our Scholarship Day.

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 Dunham’s book _Journey Through Genius_, autographed by the author. In addition, since we had four more copies, we presented them to our mathematics majors who spoke at our campus Scholarship day.

Advisor: Joon H. Kang

PFC: Robert Moore

Officers:

President: Theron Calkins
Vice President: Andrew Hoff
Secretary: Sandra Prieto
Treasurer: Sandra Prieto

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members:

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

There was the Pi Day(March 11) celebration of 2011. Many students who have interest in Mathematics came and joined the mathematics department, and shared various kinds of pie. In the eigen talk of January 15, 2011, many people came and joined to watch a video about “Flatland” provided by Theron Calkins.

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?

(1) Katie Parker, one of the graduates, was accepted to the graduate school of chemical engineering of Wayne State University for Fall 2011. (2) Eric Scott, one of the graduates, was accepted to the graduate school of computer science of George Mason University for Fall 2011. (3) Luis Garibay, a second year mathematics and chemistry major, won the American Chemical Society scholarship.

Advisor: Donna L. Beers

PFC: David S. Browder

Number of New Members Inducted: 12 students

Number of Continuing Members: 6 students, 2 faculty

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

At our second annual induction ceremony held in December 2010, the President of Simmons College, Helen Drinan, and the Chair of the Mathematics and Statistics Department, David Novak, welcomed friends and relatives of the new inductees which highlighted the importance of this occasion. In brief remarks preceding the induction of the new members, the Chapter Adviser described the historical role of mathematics in the liberal arts and illustrated the breadth of mathematics today by describing research projects undertaken by the new inductees. A new activity we initiated this year was to host an annual spring Pi Mu Epsilon lecture. Our speaker was alumna Estella Kanevsky (Class of 2007) who recently completed her M.S. in Biostatistics at Yale University. Her talk focused on the central role of observational studies in her health research. The title of her talk was “The Use of Observational Studies to Analyze Breast and Brain Lesions.”

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?

Yes, Chapter Adviser Donna Beers attended the 2011 PME national meeting.

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

Advisor: Donna L. Beers

PFC: David S. Browder

Number of New Members Inducted: 12 students

Number of Continuing Members: 6 students, 2 faculty

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

At our second annual December induction, the President of the College, Helen Drinan, as well as the chair of the mathematics department, David Novak, welcomed relatives and friends of the new Pi Mu Epsilon members and helped to make this year’s induction program meaningful. Also, this year we initiated an annual spring Pi Mu Epsilon lecture. Our guest speaker was alumna Estella Kanevsky (Class of 2007) who recently completed her M.S.in Biostatistics at Yale University. The title of her presentation was “The Use of Observational Studies To Analyze Breast and Brain Lesions.”

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, the Chapter adviser, Donna Beers, will attend and present a 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?

Advisor: Betty Mayfield

Officers:

President: Matthew Shives

Vice President: Christopher DiGangi

MD Delta Induction Ceremony

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

12

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

Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture: Dr. Michael Pearson, MAA, “A Ramble around the History of Pi.” Induction ceremony: The College president and provost attended, along with mathematics students and faculty and family members. We celebrated afterward with a reception and our traditional PME cake. We note that our long-time faculty correspondent, Judy Seymour, is retiring this year. We’re not sure we can get along without her.

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, 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?

Several of our students will participate in summer research programs: Kizza Nandyose will participate in the RIPS (Research in Industrial Projects) program at UCLA. Dubravka Bodiroga will participate in the Hood College Summer Research Institute. Chris DiGangi has been accepted into the SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) program at NIST.

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

We awarded the Pi Mu Epsilon Book Prize at the College’s Honors and Awards Program to two graduating seniors, Chad Doremus and Derrick Kuhn. We gave each of them a copy of “Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth,” the graphic novel about Bertrand Russell and the foundations of logic.

Advisor: Maria Calzada

Officers:

President: Jamal Lawson
Vice President: Holly Gardner
Secretary: Leah Birch
Treasurer: Christina Martinez

Number of New Members Inducted: 6

Number of Continuing Members: Unknown

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

The Joint Mathematics Meetings were in New Orleans this year. This presented a special opportunity for our chapter. Two of our members, Jamal Lawson and Holly Gardner, presented the results of their undergraduate research at the meetings. They both did an outstanding job. Jamal’s poster presentation received the award of best undergraduate poster. Our induction ceremony was very nice this year. We had a joint ceremony with the Physics Honor Society. Dr. Darryl Steiner, a physics professor, was the main speaker at the ceremony. He emphasized what makes the study of Physics and Mathematics special.

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 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?

This year Leah Birch, a new inductee, received the Goldwater Scholarship.

Advisor: Dr. Deborah L. Clark

Officers:

President: Adrianna Guillory
Secretary: Joseph Walker
Treasurer: Dr. D. L. Clark
PME Committee Co-Chair: Mr. Christopher Marshall
Advisor: Dr. Katrina Cunningham

Number of New Members Inducted: 2

Number of Continuing Members: 9

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

Our 2011 Spring Induction Program activity was interesting and exciting in our effort to re-activate the chapter. On April 19th, we inducted two mathematics majors, Adrianna Guillory and T’Era Hartfield. Both learners had at least a 3.4 GPA in their major and overall. The induction ceremony was well attended with retired professor, current professors, friends of the inductees, and learners in and from the Master of Science graduate program in Mathematics. Freddie Spencer, a prospective summer graduate, was our presenter during the induction program who spoke on ‘ALTERNATE ESTIMATION OF KINETIC TRIPLETS USING CALCULUS’. The recently designed national PME buttons were distributed to our new members, and to current & graduated Master of Science learners previously inducted into Louisiana Beta.

New members of Louisiana Beta Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon are (lt. to rt.) T’Era
Hartfield and Adrianna Guillory at Southern University and A&M College in
Baton Rouge, LA.

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 do not have chapter members who plan to attend or present at MathFest this year. However, we will work on attending &/or presenting for next summer.

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

We proudly announce Learner Joseph Walker, an intern in Washington, DC. in the Quality Education for Minorities/National Science Foundation 10 week program; and Learner T’Era Hartfield, a participant in the Secondary Holmes Program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA as our newsworthy honorees.

Advisor: Alex M. McAllister

PFC: Alex M. McAllister

Officers:

President: Guoke Yang

Number of New Members Inducted: 7

Number of Continuing Members: 7

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

This year our group just inducted new members and presented them to the community at the annual campus-wide Honors Convocation. The members of Pi Mu Epsilon are also very active in the student mathematics club. This year the student math group beat the Chemistry Department in the 12th annual croquet tournament and lost to the Government Department in the first annual cornhole/beanbag-toss tournatment (but just by a single throw!).

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?

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

Two years ago, Angela Spalsbury visited Centre through the PME Good Lectureship Program. Based on her encouragament, Lesley Wiglesworth took the lead in applying for sponsorship for a Fall 2011 undergraduate research conference. The First Annual Bluegrass Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium will take place at Centre College on September 17th. More info here.

Advisor: Dale K. Hathaway

Officers:

President: Carl Trank

Number of New Members Inducted: 9

Number of Continuing Members: 10

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

2007 Alumni Heather Makarewicz spoke on graduate school and her experience at NASA. Her talk was on November 4, 2011. We had our first Putnam team this year. Four students participated and two scored points.

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?

Mark Lockwood and Dale Hathaway had a paper published in the Journal of Recreational Mathematics entitled “Probabilistic Polyforms”. Andrw Clark was accepted into a Master’s program at Eastern Illinois University with a Teaching Assistantship.

Advisor: Dr. Denise Reid

President: William Dunn

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

Math Competition on March 5, 2010. Received a PME matching grant that was used for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the mathematics competition.

Math Competition: Denise Reid (faculty advisor), Juston Bryant (2nd place in math contest), William Dunn (1st place in math contest, inductee, and President 2011-2012), Lin Yen (honorable mention in math contest), Antonijia Tangar (3rd place in math contest), and Janice Lowe (faculty advisor)

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?

A 2008 graduate, Katie Klimko, is graduating this year from Harvard with her law degree.

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

Received a PME matching grant fro $50 that was used for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the mathematics competition.

Advisor: Kari Fowler

Officers:

President: Robyn Lett

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 6

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

Pi Mu Epsilon/Math Club hosted several speakers on topics in math applications.

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: Fernando Burgos

PFC: Mile Krajcevski

Officers:

President: Gregory Churchill
Vice President: Mark Diba

Number of New Members Inducted: 10

Number of Continuing Members: 25

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

The “Florida Epsilon PME Outstanding Sholars” this year were graduatin math seniors Mary Billington, Greg Churchill, and Pedro Gomez:. They received plaques and $200.00 in scholarship money at the PME Induction Banquet in April. 2)In conjunction with the USF Student Chapter of the MAA, 13 meetings were held during the academic year. Four of the math presentations at those meetings were given by math undergraduate students.

Outstanding Scholars, graduating math seniors (from left to right) Pedro Gomez, Mary Billington, and Greg Churchill

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: Esther Diaguila

PFC: Bettye Anne Case

Officers:

President: Vivek Pal
Vice President: Aysley Casburn
Secretary/Treasurer: Heather Holbach

Number of New Members Inducted: 24

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?

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: Ryan Mullen

Officers:

President: Kyle Evans
Vice President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members:

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

We had a star battle battle, where we raced to see who could finish a star battle puzzle the fastest.

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 that I know of. There is one shaky maybe.

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

Advisor: Joan Weiss

Officers:

President: Matthew Shugrue
Vice President: Christine Capele
Secretary: Michael Powell
Treasurer: Joseph Mauro

Number of New Members Inducted: 27

Number of Continuing Members: 4

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

Sponsored a Panel of Students who had REU’s and Internships in the summer of 2010. A sponsor of “Calculus the Musical”

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?

Christine Caples ’11 will enter the PhD Program in Mathematics at the University of Iowa fully funded Joseph Mauro ’11 will enter the PhD Program in Economics at Fordham University fully funded.

Advisor and PFC: Dr. Kurt Herzinger

Number of New Members Inducted: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 9

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?

David Cooke – Grad School at the Air Force Institute of Technology
John Kessler – Grad School at MIT
Eric Robinson – Grad School at MIT
Dylan Asmar- Grad School at MIT
Nichole Stilwell – Grad School at Rice Univ
Nolan Sweeney – Grad School at RAND

Advisor: Professor Jean Bee Chan

Officers:

President: Robin Decker

Treasurer: Michael Harris

Chapter URL:

Number of New Members Inducted: 3

Number of Continuing Members: 7

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

1.) Our chapter was awarded the Good Lectureship Grant, at which Dr. Brigitte Servatius gave a very interesting lecture on “Hyperperfect Numbers and a Beautiful Mind”.

2.) There was a Math and Stats Festival in Spring, including a lecture by Keith Devlin on First Person Solvers: Mathematics Education in the Video Game Era”, awards ceremony for students and dinner.

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?

Y Vu is working at Kenilworth Jr High in Petaluma. Luis Soto has a teaching position in Sonoma. Brian Speck is also teaching. Ethan Baldinger is in the doctoral program at UC Santa Cruz.

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

Our chapter was awarded the PME Lectureship Grant in Fall 2010. Dr. Brigitte Servatius of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mathematics Department spoke on “Hyperperfect Numbers and a Beautiful Mind”. This event was a great success, and the lecture hall was overflowing.

Advisor and PFC: Kenneth Roblee

Officers:

President: Treyce Addison
Vice Presidents: Elizabeth Tidwell and Christian Randolph
Secretary: Carry Cawley
Treasurer: Xavier Brooks

Number of New Members Inducted: 16

Number of Continuing Members: 20

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

1. We had “Math Game Night,” where members participated in a variety of board and card games related to mathematical, strategic, or logical thinking.
2. Many of our members participated in our “TROY MathFest 2011” undergraduate conference by helping organize or help out the day of the conference, and/or by giving talks at the 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? 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 new member received the “Chancellor’s Fellowship” here at Troy University to work under a faculty mentor during 2011-12 on a mathematical research project. Several members gave paper presentations at our TROY MathFest 2011 undergraduate math conference. Three members were accepted to graduate school.

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Advisor: Maria Girardi and Rhonda Sanders

PFC: Maria Girardi and Rhonda Sanders

Officers:

President: Ryan Benite

Vice President: Richard Voepel and Jeff Bobineaux

Treasurer: Kinsey Parrish

Secretary: Alyssa Todaro

Chapter URL: South Carolina Alpha

Number of New Members Inducted: 11

Number of Continuing Members: 53

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

One of our most popular events is our Annual Integration Bee. This year marked your 10th year. It is great in that our graduate students run the Bee so that the undergraduate students can partake. It’s hard to say only one more event for there were so many. For example, here is a few activities. 1) PME students, as community service, helped stuff stockings for the Salvation Army at Christmas time. 2) PME students started a mentoring program, matching underclassmen with upperclassmen. 3) PME students (undergraduate and graduate) gave seminars to their peers. 4) PME students tutored, once a week, at a local high 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?

Yes. The winner of our “Problem of the Month” contest will 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?

Too many to mention. Here are just a few (sorry if I overlooked some). Below is a cut&paste from USC’s math dept homepage (each student mentioned is a PME member). 1) Taylor Jones on winning a very prestigious University leadership and service award! He won the Wilson-Kibler Bicentennial Award which also comes with a scholarship. 2) two Math majors are among the three USC students named 2012 Goldwater Scholars! They are William “Cole” Franks and Daniel Grier, both of whom are attending the prestigious Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program. 3) The USC Math Jeopardy team placed 4th out of over 30 teams at the 2012 Southeast Regional Meeting of the Math. Assn. of America. Our team of Reggie Bain, Connor Bain, Reid Harris, and Richard Voepel was supervised by grad student Virginia Johnson. Great job! Thanks to Pi Mu Epsilon/Gamecock Math Club, the Department’s donors, and especially the Residence Hall Assn. for their support of the team. 4) Congratulations to Robin Neumayer, SCHC senior mathematics major, and Reginald (Reggie) Bain, SCHC senior double physics and math major! Each received a 2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a prestigious and highly competitive award reserved for exceptional students pursuing research-based graduate degrees

Advisor: Matthew Glomski

PFC: Joe Kirtland

Officers:

President/Secretary: Kelley Gould

Vice President/Treasurer: Lauren DaLeo

Number of New Members Inducted:13

Number of Continuing Members: 11

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

Dr. Robert McGrail, Bard College, delivered the 2012 induction keynote speech. He began by handing out a test to all in attendance–inductees, faculty and parents.

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?

Patrick Cummings (’12) accepted to graduate program in mathematics at Boston University; Jennifer Kile (’12) accepted to graduate program in mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Thomas Murphy (’12) accepted to graduate program in mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University; Emily Schroder (’12) accepted to graduate program in statistics at Colorado State University Fort Collins Renee Gennarelli (’11) accepted to graduate program in biostatistics at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine Edward Ohanian (’11) co-authored March 2012 College Mathematics Journal article: “Eradicating a disease: Lessons from mathematical epidemiology.”

Advisor: Heather Ames Lewis

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

Officers: President: Kerry Gannon

Number of New Members Inducted:12

Number of Continuing Members: 1

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

At our award ceremony, the guest speaker was Jessica Burchfield, a class of 2007 Nazareth College graduate with BAs in Mathematics and Italian, and 2006 PME inductee. Jessica addressed the audience with a presentation entitled, “Math, Agatha Christie, Language, and Other Deceivingly Random Topics.”

Did any of your chapter members attend or present a paper at the 2011 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?

Kerry Gannon will be studying abroad in the fall, through the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics.

Advisor: Maria Calzada

Officers:

President: Leah Birch

Number of New Members Inducted:7

Number of Continuing Members: Unknown

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

This year we had a large number of invited speakers. The attendance to our talks was excellent, indicating a growing interest in the mathematical sciences. We are looking forward to our induction ceremony on May 1st, 2012.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2012 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?

Leah Birch, our student president, will attend the Harvard Applied Mathematics program.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: David Schmitz

Officers:

President: Tyler Schroeder

Vice President: Shaun Ballard

Secretary: Bryan Taylor

Treasurer: Maria Gommel

Number of New Members Inducted: 12

Number of Continuing Members:42

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

We held three Prime Time Colloquia, featuring talks given by faculty, students, and invited guests who use mathematics in their careers. Attendance at these colloquia ranged from 30 to nearly 100. Our primary social events were two “Trivia Break” competitions, each attended by around 30 students and faculty.

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?

Maria Gommel, our chapter secretary, won a Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Tyler Schroeder, our chapter president, received an honorable mention in the Goldwater Scholarship competition. Four of our members (Maria Gommel, Sam Jaros, Jonathan Rascher, and Kelvin Guilbault) presented original mathematics research at NCUR this year. These four, and several others, presented research at North Central’s Rall Symposium for undergraduate research. Last fall, Nathan Pierson began his doctoral studies in mathematics at the University of Notre Dame, and Michael Smallwood began his doctoral studies in mathematics at Bowling Green State University. This fall, Grace Muganda will begin medical school and the University of Illinois, and Kelvin Guilbault will begin his doctoral studies in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Terry Jo Leiterman

President: Sarah Schultz

Vice President: Beth Colletti

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

12

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

Three students presented papers at the San Jose Mathfest. We conducted our 22nd annual St. Norbert College Pi Mu Epsilon Regional Undergraduate Math Conference. The featured speaker was Keith Devlin, and the conference had its largest attendance in its 22-year history. Students from 15 different colleges and universities participated.

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. :

Mark Krines has been offered fellowships from Indiana University and the Un iversity of Iowa. Alumnus Phil Busse completed his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Kentucky

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Dr. Elena Toneva , Dr. Dale Garraway

President: Zachary Alexander:

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

3

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

In November a graduate of our university gave a talk about “An Actuarial Career” about her experience in the real world. A faculty presented a talk titled “The Misadventures of the ‘Gyclo’ Tom” about stacking and shifting tasks with misterious results are explained dy deep theorems from abstract algebra. We also had a gathering to discuss voting and matemathics.

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

Zachary Alexander

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

Zachary Alexander, Brent Knutson – two of our current students are accepted in graduate school. Cathy Brown (BA, 1973) received the Oregon Mathematics Education Hall of Fame Award, which recognizes her for her long history of service to and achievement in math education in Oregon and for her commitment to improving the quality of math education. Bonni Kealy (BA, 2004; MS, 2005) is attending WSU pursuing a PhD in mathematics. Upon acceptance she was awarded a teaching assistantship and an additional scholarship. Emil Kraft (BA, 1996) is President and CEO of EnterCalc Inc. He previously served for more than a decade as an Actuarial Analyst for Milliman of Seattle, WA. Juul Quick (BAE, 2007) served a tour at Ar Ramadi, Iraq as a Marine Corp Reservist Amber Smith (BA, 1999; MS, 2003) won the National Meritorious Abstract award from the American Professional Sleep Society (APSS) in June 2007. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Mathematics at WSU, and in April 2008 won the WSU GPSA 2007-2008 Research Assistant Award. She is currently working on code to implement an individualization of the 95% confidence interval for performance under sleep deprivation and will be presenting a poster called “Efficient computation of 95% confidence intervals for Bayesian model predictions based on multidimensional parameter space” at the annual APSS meeting this June.

Advisor: Ron Persky

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

We forgot to have elections before the students left, but will do so this Fall. Pi Mu Epsilon with the Math Club ran a set of problem solving sessions. Four students talked about their problems at the end of the year and some problems were submitted to journals.

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: David Shoenthal

President: Jessica Frohock

Vice President/Secretary/Treasurer: Elizabeth Creath

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

Number of Continuing Members:

2

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

1) The Pi Mu Epsilon Problem of the Month continues its popularity, and now its internationally known–we had a solution from China this year. 2) We continued tutoring before finals week. This year we required a minimum donation; the $2 cover charge didn’t seem to prevent attendance. Each session lasted 3 hours, and there were two sessions: one on the Sunday before finals and another on the Wednesday during finals week.

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

Zack Johnson is currently in the midst of job hunting–the outcome of which will determine whether or not he can attend.

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

Zack Johnson was part of an undergraduate Jeopardy team from Longwood that took first place among six competing teams at the Spring Meeting of the Maryland-DC-Virginia Section of the MAA. Also, Zack Johnson was part of a COMAP team that received Honorable Mention for its submission.

We continue to have success with the awards grant. The Pi Mu Epsilon Problem of the Month is slowly reaching more people due to my associated web site. While that site has no real effect on the prize, it’s exciting to see how the problem has grown. Our first place prize this year ($40 to local restaurant) went to Richard Hayden (Mathematics major); the second place prize ($20 to same local restaurant) went to Elizabeth Creath (Mathematics major and Pi Mu Epsilon member).

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Shannon Miller

President: Danielle Clark

Vice President: Clyde Meador

Secretary: Michael Lake

Number of New Members Inducted:

8

Number of Continuing Members:

20

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

Problem Solving Team – Some of the student members of PME here at Marshall University created a weekly meeting where they simply get together and work on open interesting problems. There have been discussions about doing problems from journals for submission next year. The students have also discusses joining in competitions now that they have experience working on problems together. Table Tennis Tournament – The student members of PME hosted a mathematical awareness ping pong tourny this spring in the student center at Marshall University. We made posters with interesting artwork and math information. Also we were able to raise a little money with a baked goods sale and give prizes to the winners.

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?

We had a few presentations at the fall meeting of the PME Ohio Section and a presentation at the spring meeting of the MAA Ohio Section. Three students graduated and one of them is going into the AirForce. Congratulations everyone!

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Zsuzanna Kadas

President: Andrea Austin

Vice President: Jordan Scampoli

Secretary: Allison Levesque

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

4

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

The Induction Ceremony was held on October 12, 2007, with a reception for parents and friends afterward. We had a very lively lecture on the topic Chaos and the Mathematics of Prediction: Harry Potter, Hurricane Katrina, and Happiness by Prof. Christopher Danforth of the University of Vermont. (This talk was also a hit at the MAA Northeast Section Meeting we hosted at St. Michael’s in May 2008 and he has since given the talk at an MAA function in Boston as well.)

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?

Eleven St. Michael’s students presented papers at the Hudson River Undergraduate Math Conference held on April 19, 2008 at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, including PME members Andrea Austin, Katie Berry, Nick Bruno, Akie Hashimoto, Brian Hopper, Jon Kaptcianos, Hannah LaPlante, Tom Raymond, and Jordan Scampoli. A photo and story are posted here .

Andrea Austin received the Outstanding Math Major award at graduation. Chris Swanson had a NASA- Exploration Systems Missions Directorate summer internship at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. The April 2008 issue of Math Horizons included an article “Alumni Profiles: St. Michael’s College.” Written by Prof. George Ashline, it featured careers of several alums including PME member Patti Bodkin Martucci. Graduate Schools: Andrea Austin – Brown Public Health; Allison Levesque – University of Southern Maine (Statistics); Kate Morrow – University of Vermont (Statistics)

Advisor and Officers

Advisor:Angie Gardiner

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

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

For Pi Day (which was not over our spring break for the first time this year) our chapter sponsored a Pi Day quiz with 10 questions. The student with the most correct answers received a gift certificate to the campus bookstore..

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

Not at the moment.

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

We have several students who are graduating this spring headed off to graduate school, and several continuing students who have received scholarships.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor:Jeff Hood

President: Anthony Burson

Vice-President: Taryn Maxwell

Number of New Members Inducted:

32

Number of Continuing Members:

19

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

We are a new chapter and in March 2008, we held our Chapter Installation and Induction ceremony. One of our students, Bo Gilbert, gave a talk entitled “Zeros of Two-Term Recursive Polynomials” at the Texas Section of the MAA. Three of our students (Bo Gilbert, Austin Howard, and Rayyan Bilwani) gave talks at the TORUS conference. They also won the student Jeopardy competition.

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

Acceptances to graduate school: Bo Gilbert, Texas Tech University, Mathematics Austin Howard, UT Dallas, Physics Thuy Ngo, Midwestern State University, Computer Science

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Alison Marr

President: Leslie Schwind

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

16

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

We really are just trying to get our chapter going again. So, the only activities we did were 1) induction and 2) a math scavenger hunt with our MAA chapter.

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

Not at the current moment.

Do 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: Philip Yasskin

President: Hannah Saugier

Vice President: Jason Pfister

Number of New Members Inducted:

31

Number of Continuing Members:

35

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

As a demonstration of Buffon’s needle problem, we did a hotdog toss to attempt to calculate pi. Afterwards we grilled and ate the hotdogs and some twinkies. Fun was had by all. Dr. Ted Turocy gave a talk at a math club meeting about mechanism design. This was a very interesting application of some mathematical probability to economics.

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. :

Students attending graduate school: John Fulk: Georgia Institute of Technology- Math Andrew Matteson: NYU- Computational Biology and Applied Mathematics Bret Lockhart: Texas A&M University- Mathematics Lindsey Novak: The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland- International Economics Cara Montgomery: Texas A&M University- Applied Mathematics

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: George Gilbert

Number of New Members Inducted:

5

Number of Continuing Members:

0

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

Aside from several undergraduate talks, we have an annual Calculus Bee every April. A problem is posted on the board and all students have one to three minutes to complete the problem, depending on the problem. The contest is triple elimination. Students are given a numerical alias (Putnam style) and everyone’s (or really every number’s) stat! us is updated on the board for all students to see.

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

No

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Matthew Boylan

President: Tyler Ray

Vice President: Kevin Pompey

Secretary: Travis Goldie

Treasurer: Jennifer Guest

Number of New Members Inducted:

11

Number of Continuing Members:

33

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

(1) Sudoku Championship, Nov. 13, 2007. USC graduate student Ivan Haynes explained to us the connection between Sudoku and graph theory. We then learned some Sudoku strategies from USC undergraduate Forrest Spence. After this, the students tested their skills to see how good they really are by participating in the USC Sudoku Championship. Here are some of the competition categories: (i) Can you solve the most puzzles in a set amount of time? (ii) Can you solve a tough puzzle faster than everyone else? (iii) How much progress can you make on an insane puzzle? Prizes were given to the overall winners. Door prizes and snacks were distributed throughout the meeting. About 30 students participated/competed. ———————————————————– (2) Annual USC Integration Bee: Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The USC Integration Bee was begun by Carrie Finch (a former graduate student at USC and current tenure-track assistant professor at Washington and Lee Univ.) on April 8, 2003. Since then, PME/GMC hosts the USC Integration Bee annually. It is similar to a spelling bee, but one integrates insteads of spells. In teams, students try to work through each integral before the music ends. Snacks, drinks, and prizes are all provided. To quote a student: “This event is more fun than seems feasible, really”. The USC Math Department and the South Carolina Honors College generously supported this event. The integrals were provided by graduate student Daniel Savu. Daniel and Ben Ingram, another graduated student moderated/officiated the competition. More than 50 students attended.

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

Not as of right now.

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

Here are some of the awards/scholarships won by South Carolina PME members: * Tyler Ray (Outstanding Senior in Engineering and National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellow and Who’s Who) * Andrew Cron (Rising Senior Award in Statistics) * Joshua Hendrickson (Nina and Frank Avignone Fellowship in Physics) * Kevin Ludwick (Nina and Frank Avignone Fellowship in Physics and Who’s Who) * Joey Montoya (Goldwater Scholar) * Bill Kay (Goldwater Honorable Mention, Markham Scholarship) * Timothy (Hudson) Harper (Polston Family Scholarship) * Joshua Hendrickson (Yang Award) * James Manning (Polston Family Scholarship) * Kelvin Pompey (CAS Rising Senior Scholarship) * Holly Watson (Pi Mu Epsilon Award)

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Frank Ford

President: Jackie Anderson

Number of New Members Inducted:

22

Number of Continuing Members:

20 (est.)

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

Induction with a graduate now teaching at West Point as our speaker. Alumni returning to speak to students.

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?

Jackie Anderson was accepted in the pure math department at Brown University. Jason Price received his Ph.D from the University of Vermont. Will Wylie did a post-doc at UCLA and at MRI. Janet Bronstein finished her Ph.D at SUNY-Stony Brook and has a three year appointment at West Point.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor James Baglama

Number of New Members Inducted:

10

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

1) We had an induction ceremony in April along with a very successful Calc Bowl. Learn more this event here and visit here to learn about news coverage of this event.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Timothy Freeman

Number of New Members Inducted:

9

Number of Continuing Members:

10

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

Our annual induction, held this year on April 25, featured a wonderful talk by Dr. Helen Grundman, of Bryn Mawr College, on Niven numbers and n-Niven numbers.

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: Martha Van Cleave

President: Celia Speer

Vice President: Meghan Flink (fall) Tyler Bryson (spring)

Treasurer: Cassie Kanable

Secretary: Katy Swanson

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

Number of Continuing Members:

29

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

We had a pie eating contest in celebration of Pi Day. Students and professors raced to complete their pies. The first two people to finish their pie, flip the tin and read off the digits of pi that were written on the bottom won gift cards. We also hosted a Math Department bbq to honor graduating students and to thank professors.

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, many plan to attend, and a few have expressed interest in speaking.

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

We have five students continuing their education in grad school and one working in Portland.

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

Angela Spalsbury came to visit in March. While she was here, she met with officers individually and the entire chapter for dinner. She provided a lot of great ideas for events that we could do. She also gave a talk regarding math modeling of voting systems.

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Michael Ward

President: Wesley Parker

Secretary: Kristal Temple

Number of New Members Inducted:

3

Number of Continuing Members:

1

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

Our most notable activities of the year were held in conjunction with our university’s annual daylong campuswide Academic Showcase. All new PME inductees gave talks as part of the Showcase. Our induction ceremony was also part of the Showcase. The speaker was outgoing chapter advisor, Maria Fung, who spoke on “Hamilton’s Quaternions: A Brief Introduction.”

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

Kristal Temple attended and spoke on “What I did with my summer,” a report on her time at The Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women .

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

Courtney Stowell ’08, is earning a Master of Arts in Teaching in preparation for becoming a secondary mathematics teacher. Jen Carmichael ’06 and Keith Schloeman ’07 co-authored a paper with chapter advisor Michael Ward titled “Cayley-Sudoku Tables,” which has been submitted for publication. Jen and Keith spoke on various parts of the paper at Math Fest and at Pacific Northwest Regional MAA meetings during the past two years.

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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• California Eta – Santa Clara University – 5/10/08
• California Nu – Sonoma State University – 2/16/2008
• California Omicron – California State University – Chico-2/10/2008
• California Xi – Pepperdine University 10/5/2008
• Connecticut Gamma – Fairfield University – 5/29/2008
• Florida Delta – The University of Florida – 5/23/2008
• Florida Theta – University of Central Florida – 5/29/2008
• Illinois Kappa – Millikin University – 5/29/2008
• Indiana Epsilon – St. Mary’s College – 5/23/2008
• Iowa Beta – Luther College – 4/22/2008
• Kentucky Beta – Western Kentucky University – 6/4/2008
• Louisiana Theta – Loyola University New Orleans – 5/29/2008
• Maine Alpha – University of Maine – 3/18/2008
• Massachusetts Eta – Fitchburg State College – 10/5/2008
• Michigan Iota – Grand Valley State University – 5/8/2008
• Minnesota Zeta – Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota – 5/29/2008
• Missouri Epsilon – Northwest Missouri State University – 4/22/2008
• Montana Alpha – University of Montana – 5/8/2008
• New Jersey Lambda – William Patterson University – 5/23/2008
• New York Kappa – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – 6/4/2008
• New York Alpha Theta – Skidmore College – 5/29/2008
• North Carolina Beta – Wake Forest University – 5/29/2008
• North Carolina Theta – University of North Carolina Charlotte – 6/6/2008
• Ohio Lambda – John Carroll University – 5/8/2008
• Ohio Nu – The University of Akron – 5/16/08
• Ohio Sigma – Case Western Reserve University – 6/6/2008
• Ohio Theta – Xavier University – 4/16/2008
• Oklahoma Beta – Oklahoma State University – 5/29/2008
• Oklahoma Delta – East Central University – 5/3/2008
• Oregon Delta – Western Oregon University – 10/5/2008
• Ohio Epsilon – Linfield College – 10/5/2008
• Pennsylvania Beta – Bucknell University – 5/8/2008
• Pennsylvania Iota – Villanova University – 5/8/2008
• Pennsylvania Xi – Saint Joseph’s University – 5/29/2008
• Rhode Island Alpha – University of Rhode Island – 2/10/08
• Rhode Island Gamma – Providence College – 5/29/2008
• South Carolina Alpha – University of South Carolina – 5/3/2008
• South Dakota Alpha – University of South Dakota – 11/2/2008
• Texas Eta – Texas A & M University – 5/16/2008
• Utah Alpha – University of Utah – 5/3/2008
• Virginia Beta – Marshall University – 6/4/2008
• Virginia Epsilon – Longwood University – 5/8/2008
• Washington Zeta – Eastern Washington University- 5/29/2008
• Wisconsin Delta – St. Norbert College – 4/14/2008

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
• Connecticut Gamma – Fairfield University – 5/18/07
• 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.