Institution: Oregon State University
Reporting Year: 2022-2023
Advisor: Nathan Gibson
Advisor's Email Address: gibsonn@oregonstate.edu
Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: No
Permanent Faculty Correspondent:
Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address:
Officers: Chen, Daphny
Chapter Website: http://sites.google.com/oregonstate.edu/pme/home
Number of New Members: 12
Number of Continuing Members: ?
Activities: OSU and Portland State University (PSU) co-hosted the 2022 Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium (NUMS) on Nov 12, 2022. See below for more details.
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.
No
If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
The 14th annual NUMS meeting was held at Portland State University on November 12th, 2022, co-hosted by OSU. The link to the conference site is https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/nums2022 Due to PME and MAA funding, there was no registration fee for this conference. The Keynote Presentation was given by Nancy Neudauer, Pacific University. Following the Keynote Presentation, there were three sessions featuring 15-minute student presentations, as well as panel discussions on: pursuing graduate studies, taking advantage of internship opportunities, and BIG jobs (careers in Business, Industry, Government).
There were 53 participants and 15 presentations. Presentation Prizes were awarded to
First Prize: Harper Hultz, University of Washington Bothell, "A Markov Partition for the Penrose Shift"
Second Prize: John Bergquist, Willamette University, "Complementation of Subquandles"
Third Prize: Xallan Wilson, Pacific University, "Where the heavens stand still: Lagrange points of the Earth-Moon system"