Institution: Purdue University Fort Wayne
Reporting Year: 2017-2018
Advisor: Lowell Beineke
Advisor's Email Address: beineke@pfw.edu
Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: No
Permanent Faculty Correspondent: Douglas Townsend
Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: townsend@pfw.edu
Officers: President: Casey Cornett, cornca02@pfw.edu Secretary: Xiao Yuan, yuanx01@pfw.edu Treasurer: Vincent Rivera, rivevg01@pfw.edu
Chapter Website: http://
Number of New Members: 8
Number of Continuing Members: 17
Activities: Induction ceremony with Speaker Prof. Christer Watson speaking on "You know of heat waves, ocean waves, hand waves, and amber waves, now learn the latest about gravitational waves" "Math Matters": Six student talks, Cellular Automata, Pappus’s Hexagon Theorem, Modeling Dependence Among Stock Prices, Solving Second-Order Recurrence Relations, Numerical Investigation on the Solar System, IHSAA's Nearest-Neighbor Nightmare.
Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? Yes
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.
If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
Matching prize grant of $100, with a total of $220 in cash awards given to "Math Matters" speakers.