Institution: University of Alaska Southeast

Reporting Year: 2025-2026

Advisor: Andrzej Piotrowski

Advisor's Email Address: apiotrowski@alaska.edu

Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: No

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: Christopher Hay-Jahans

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: cnhayjahans@alaska.edu

Officers: Dylan Wood (President)

Chapter Website: http://uas.alaska.edu/arts_sciences/naturalsciences/math/alaska-pi-mu-epsilon.html

Number of New Members: 0

Number of Continuing Members: 25

Activities: Dr. Patricia Commins, a postdoctoral scholar at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute in Berkley, California gave a talk titled "Trees, Colorings, and the Chromatic Symmetric Function." Elizabeth Bruch, a UAS Alumna and graduate student in the UAF Earth System Science program gave a talk titled "How the S and M Work Together in STEM!"

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? No

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduations? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences, etc.
Remington (Remi) Wiley attended a week-long research workshop at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) in Providence, Rhode Island with Andrzej Piotrowski. As a result of a collaboration begun at this workshop, Remi co-authored a paper, "Characteristic Polynomials for Ladder Tournaments", with two undergraduates from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. This paper has been accepted for publication in the Pi Mu Epsilon journal. He also presented his research at the UAS mathematics seminar and the annual UAS UReCA Symposium.

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