Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Reporting Year: 2023-2024
Advisor: Tri Lai, Alexandra Seceleanu
Advisor's Email Address: tlai3@unl.edu, aseceleanu@unl.edu
Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: No
Permanent Faculty Correspondent:
Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address:
Officers: Kolton O'Neal, Noah Sorensen, Kaitlin Keleher, James Head
Chapter Website: http://math.unl.edu/math-club/pme
Number of New Members: 5
Number of Continuing Members:
Activities: This year we organized a social event for our current and prospective members in the spring. Our officers also organized multiple events of the UNL Math Club for undergraduate students. At the end of the spring semester, we invited Professor Richard Hoshino of Northeastern University Vancouver, Canada, to give our annual Pi Mu Epsilon lecture.
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.
If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
We were awarded the PME Conference Grant to support the 26th Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM) on January 26-28, 2024. The primary goal of the conference is to make the undergraduate participants aware of the opportunities for careers in mathematics and give them the information they need to succeed if they decide to pursue these opportunities. There were 249 undergraduate participants, and the main program included 111 talks or posters by 127 undergraduate women on their own research. The conference included three panel discussions on graduate school, careers in mathematics, and bits of advice. Our plenary speakers are Erika Tatiana Camacho of the University of Texas San Antonio and Emily Riehl of Johns Hopkins University. There were many informal opportunities for the undergraduate participants to talk to plenary speakers, panelists, invited graduate students, and others about mathematics, graduate studies in mathematics, and careers.