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Florida Section Newsletter The Mathematical Association of America February 2005 Volume 26, Issue 2 |
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Florida Section Newsletter The Mathematical Association of America February 2005 Volume 26, Issue 2 |
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The Awards Committee of the Florida Section, MAA, announces the following awards for this year. These will be presented at the February Conference.
Past award recipients can be found at http://www.spcollege.edu/central/maa/archives/.June White
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The Nominating Committee is pleased to forward the following slate of officers for election at the annual business meeting of the Florida Section of the MAA.
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Jacci White
St. Leo University
| Vice-president-elect for Programs |
Joel Berman
Valencia Community College
East Campus
| Vice-president-elect for Site Selection |
Eduardo Fernandez
Eckerd College
The 2005 Joint Meetings will bring together Florida’s dedicated mathematicians – professional and non-professional – for a weekend of exciting lectures, talks, and discussions on a variety of mathematical topics.
The plenary speakers for the conference will be David Bressoud, Brian Conrey, John Kenelly, and James Lang.
David Bressoud, DeWitt Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College, received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Temple University in 1977. He is a MAA Polya Lecturer and the chair of MAA's Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM). His areas of interest are Number Theory, Combinatorics, and Analysis. For more information, visit http://www.macalester.edu/~bressoud/.
Brian Conrey, Professor of Mathematics at Oklahoma State University, received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Michigan in 1980. He is the Executive Director of the American Institute of Mathematics. His area of interest is Analytic Number Theory, especially the analytic theory of L-functions. For more information, visit http://www.math.okstate.edu/~conrey/.
John Kenelly received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Florida in 1961. He retired from Clemson University in 1994 but maintains close ties with the Mathematics Department in an advisory capacity. Dr. Kenelly is currently the Treasurer for the MAA. For more information, visit http://www.math.clemson.edu/history/kenelly.html.
James Lang, Professor of Mathematics at Valencia Community College, will speak on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Florida Junior College Council of Teachers of Mathematics (FJCCTM) which grew to become FTYCMA. For more information, visit http://www.ftycma.org.
In addition to these four distinguished plenary speakers, there will be invited talks by some of the state’s leading mathematics professionals as well as student presentations.
Other events include:
| FTYCMA Annual Business Meeting and Luncheon, Friday |
| Conference Banquet and Awards Ceremony, Friday |
| Annual Business Meeting and Luncheon, Saturday |
More information on the program will be available soon.
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| Workshop | 8:00 - 10:45 | Discussions of the
Developmental Plan, focusing on assessment and implementation Room: 116-117, Selby Community Rooms |
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| Luncheon | 11:00 - 12:30 | Annual Business Meeting of
FTYCMA Room: 116-117, Selby Community Rooms |
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| Presidential Welcome |
12:45 - 1:00 | Scott Hochwald, President,
FL-MAA Martha Goshaw, President, FTYCMA John Rosen, VP Academic Affairs, MCC Room: 125, Auditorium |
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| Plenary Session |
1:00 - 1:50 | David Bressoud, Pólya
Speaker, Macalester College Room: 125, Auditorium |
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| Contributed Papers |
Rooms | 140 | 142 | 143 | 135-136 |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Lubomir P.
Markov Barry University The E(x)-ceptional E(1) and the Pi-ous π, Revisited |
Jacci White & Siamack Bondari Saint Leo University Interactive assessment with TurningPoint |
Martha Goshaw Seminole Community College An overview of the new TI-84 graphing calculator, particularly its application to college algebra/precalculus and calculus. |
Laura Lynch Florida Atlantic University Exciting Numerical Studies of a GR-type Nonlinear Scalar Wave |
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| Desirae Chamblin & Sean Simms Florida Southern College Using Markov Chains to Support Software Testing |
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| 3:00 - 3:45 | David Bressoud | Stephanie
Fitchett Florida Atlantic University Student projects in "Joy of Numbers," a number theory course for liberal arts students |
James Rutledge St. Petersburg College Enhance and Enliven your Teaching and Learning with MERLOT Online Resources |
Mathew Williamson University of South Florida Inversion and Geometry: An Interesting Technique Not Usually Taught in Geometry Classes |
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| Colleen Block University of Miami Will the Salmon Obey Ricker? |
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| 4:00 - 4:45 | Bob Hollister Jacksonville University Fathoming Least Squares Regression |
Craig D.
Hardesty Manatee Community College Trigonometry and the New York City Skyline |
* | Valentine Sobirov Honors College of Florida Atlantic University DSP, DFT, and DWT: Discrete Transforms in Signal Processing |
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| Robert Lamar Stetson University |
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| Plenary Session |
5:00 - 5:50 | J. Brian Conrey, American
Institute of Mathematics, Oklahoma State University Room: 125, Auditorium |
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| Reception | 6:00 - 6:30 | Refreshments provided by
Thomson, Brooks/Cole Room: 139 |
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| Banquet | 6:30 - 7:20 | Awards Ceremony Room: 116-117, Selby Community Rooms |
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| Plenary Session |
7:30 - 8:20 | John Kenelly, MAA National
Officer, Clemson University Room: 125, Auditorium |
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| Saturday, February 26, 2005 | |||||
| Contributed Papers |
Rooms | 140 | 142 | 143 | 135-136 |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Ismail Sakmar Sum of Powers from Hyper-Pyramids |
Ken Mulzet Florida Community College at Jacksonville |
Stacie Badran Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Classroom Assessment Techniques |
Student Integral Contest | |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Zhihong Jelsovsky, Susan Serrano, Daniel Jelsovsky & Kenneth Henderson, Jr. Florida Southern College Basic statistics to a biased audience |
Li Zhou Polk Community College Prime Time for the Prime Number Theorem |
Sabrina Lyon Jacksonville University My Experience as an Undergraduate Calculus Class Teaching Assistant |
Sanjay Rai Montgomery County Community College & Mike Nancarrow Jacksonville University Survey of TI-89 Applications |
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| 11:00 - 11:45 | Will Miles What I did on my summer vacation |
Underwood Dudley Angle Trisectors |
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| Plenary Session |
12:00 - 12:50 | James Lang, Valencia
Community College Room: 125, Auditorium |
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| Presidential Farewell | 12:50 - 1:00 | Scott Hochwald, President,
FL-MAA Martha Goshaw, President, FTYCMA Room: 125, Auditorium |
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| Luncheon | 1:00 - 2:30 | Annual Business Meeting of
FL-MAA Room: 116-117, Selby Community Rooms |
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We invite talks (45 minutes) from mathematicians in the State University System, the Florida Community College System, and the state’s private colleges and universities. Undergraduate students are also invited to participate with presentations (20 minutes).
Those who wish to be considered for the program should e-mail their name, institutional affiliation, category of the presentation (research, exposition, pedagogy, student paper, etc.), title, and an abstract of fifty words or less to the Vice-President for Programs:
Pam Crawford
Jacksonville University
pcrawfo@ju.edu
Banquet: Friday, February 25, 2005
Menu - Too Jays's
Stuffed Chicken
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Vegetable Lasagna
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Menu - MCC Food Services
Sandwiches
Salads
Beverages
From North of Sarasota
| South on I-75 |
| Take University Parkway exit number 213 |
| Turn left onto University Parkway |
| Turn right onto Business Boulevard |
| Turn left onto Professional Parkway East |
| Lakewood Ranch Campus about 0.3 miles on left |
| North on I-75 |
| Take University Parkway exit number 213 |
| Turn right onto University Parkway |
| Turn right onto Business Boulevard |
| Turn left onto Professional Parkway East |
| Lakewood Ranch Campus about 0.3 miles on left |
| West on SR-70 |
| Turn left onto Lakewood Ranch Boulevard |
| Turn left onto Professional Parkway West |
| Lakewood Ranch Campus about 0.8 miles on left |
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Circle all that apply.
Send check and Pre-registration Form by February 10, 2005 to:
Note: Pre-register by February 10, 2005, to be entered into a random drawing for six $50.00 awards. Only one entry per person is allowed. For additional information, contact Joe Skala at skala.joe@spcollege.edu or (727) 791-2558. |
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Circle all that apply.
Send check and Pre-registration Form by February 10, 2005 to:
For additional information, contact Joe Skala at skala.joe@spcollege.edu or (727) 791-2558. |
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This fall, tentatively scheduled for September 9-10, 2005, Mathematics in the Sun will have as its theme College Algebra: Refocused. We will have workshops that use materials that exemplify the Standards of AMATYC, and the MAA’s Recommendations for Courses Below Calculus. The ideas that will be presented in the workshops will model the MAA’s Standards for College Algebra, a document that is currently in creation/revision by CRAFTY. The Retreat will take place on the campus of Central Florida Community College in Ocala.
Norma M. Agras
Chair, Department of Mathematics
Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
300 NE 2nd Avenue, Room 1540
Miami, FL 33132
Telephone: (305) 237-3926
Department: (305) 237-7461
Fax: (305) 237-7652
Student ActivitiesFlorida Section
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The MAA currently reports 22 student chapters in the Florida Section. This includes 2 universities in Puerto Rico, three two-year colleges in Florida and 16 four-year institutions. One college in Florida, St. Petersburg College, has two chapters, one at each of two different branches. Eight of the eleven public universities in Florida currently have chapters. The Florida Section ranks seventh among the twenty-nine regions in student sections reported.
There is room for improvement on the student chapter front. The largest university in the state of Florida does not have a student section listed on the MAA website. Only eight of the twenty-eight major independent colleges and universities listed at the Florida Department of Education's website currently report having an MAA chapter. Only four of the 28 public community colleges (SPC is still considered a community college by the FDOE, even though it has some four-year degrees) have student chapters. In the future, we will need to work harder to create more chapters.
This year will institute two new programs at our section's annual meeting. First, we have an integral contest for undergraduates, tentatively scheduled for 9:00 - 9:45 am on Saturday. The winner and runner-up of the contest will each receive monetary prizes. Also, we are reinstating a small stipend for any undergraduate student who wishes to give a presentation at the state meeting.
The second annual Embry-Riddle Undergraduate Mathematics Conference will take place Saturday, April 9, 2005 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Undergraduate students are invited to give talks on any aspect of mathematics, including (but not limited to) research, internships, career planning, problem solving, and contest experiences. A prominent mathematician from the Central Florida region will deliver a keynote speech. The conference is free. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Attendees traveling by automobile will be reimbursed for travel costs. Depending on available funding, attendees may be reimbursed for lodging costs. For more information, or to register to give a talk or attend the conference, see the Web page http://faculty.erau.edu/spradlig/erumc/ERUMC.htm, or contact the Conference Program Director, Greg Spradlin, at spradlig@erau.edu. This conference is an MAA NSF-RUMC sponsored activity funded by NSF grant DMS-0241090 (see http://www.maa.org/ugconf ).
Retirements
Gilbert K. French has retired from Manatee Community College after 15 years. Gil graduated from Yale University with a B.A., from North Adams State College with a M.Ed., and from Bowdin College with a M.A. He was a 2000 NISOD award winner for his excellence in teaching.
Don Gordon and Mary Leesberg will be retiring from Manatee Community College in May 2005.
Other News
Manatee Community College will be hosting the annual FL-MAA/FTYCMA Joint Conference on February 25-26, 2005.
A chapter of Mu Alpha Theta Chapter was established at Manatee Community College.
Faculty
Norma Agras was named to CRAFTY (Curriculum Revision Across the First Two Years) which is a MAA subcommittee of CUPM. She continues to serve on COTP (Committee on the Profession) for MAA and would be glad to share updates on their progress. Professor Agras also is the Director for a project submitted to NSF for funding by MAA - 11 schools around the country were selected to participate in a Refocused College Algebra study.
Other News
At Miami Dade College (MDC) the New Year signifies renewal, resolve, and the third annual Mathematics Retreat (MR)! MR ’05 is scheduled for March 10th and 11th, 2005. This year’s theme is Advancing Student Success: Technology for Faculty and Students/Relating Mathematics to Other Disciplines. Presentations will be made on topics such as implementing mathematics competitions, using various electronic classroom management tools, and incorporating instructional software and hardware.
Also, and of continued interest, will be the implementation of the faculty-driven Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). This is the College’s unique application for continued accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). With its focus on the success and retention of mathematics students, the QEP is a College-wide course of action for institutional improvement on all levels and across disciplines. The agenda for MR ’05 will highlight one of the six QEP goals – mathematics across disciplines. Mathematics faculty College-wide are proud to report that the QEP grew out of the efforts put forth in MR ’04.
For further information concerning MR ’05 and the QEP, please contact Linda Burton at lburton@mdc.edu and Patrick Bibby at pbibby@mdc.edu , respectively.
New Faculty
Cora Wilkerson joins St. Petersburg College as a full-time faculty member on the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus this spring semester. She received her B.S. in Secondary Education from Pennsylvania State University in 1984 and M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from New Mexico State University in 1997. Professor Wilkerson has been with us as an acting full-time and percent-of-load faculty member since the fall of 1999. She also spent the past few years as an adjunct faculty member of both Florida Metropolitan University and Schiller International University. Mrs. Wilkerson was a key person in organizing the 25th Annual Suncoast Regional Meeting held at SPC on December 1, 2000. In her spare time, she tutors for our Student Support Services and offers graphing calculator workshops for our students taking College Algebra and Statistics.
Transitions
Tom Swiersz has left St. Petersburg College at the end of fall semester to take a position in the Department of Mathematics of International College in Fort Meyers. He received his Ph.D. from Florida State University, M.Ed. from University of Illinois, and B.S. from Illinois State University. Dr. Swiersz joined the Department of Mathematics at the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus of St. Petersburg College in the fall of 1989. Although Tom and his family reside in Fort Meyers, he will continue to teach at SPC through our e-Campus. We wish him well on his future adventures.
Other News
Jim Rutledge gave a presentation at the November AMATYC meeting in Orlando on Liberal Arts Math and the use of web-based resources to engage students in their learning processes. He was also appointed as an editor for MERLOT's new journal, The Journal for Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT). The first issue is scheduled for release this Spring.
Manoug Manougian won the 2003/2004 USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, on October 27, 2004, presented by President Judy Genshaft and Provost Renu Khator.
Vilmos Totik gave invited talks at the 4th International Congress of the European Mathematical Society, in Stockholm, Sweden; at the 5th Encuentro Internacional de Approximación de la Universidad de Jaen, in Ubeda, Spain; and at the 5th International Conference on Functional Analysis and Approximation Theory, in Maratea, Italy.
Cliff C. Morris, Jr., Dean of Mathematics at the west campus of Valencia Community College, is retiring this year, effective May 31, 2005 after 30 years at the college. Dr. Morris began as a professor of Mathematics September 3, 1975 and became chair of Mathematics in July of 1991. Among other interests, he will continue to develop a teaching exchange program to Cape Town, South Africa high schools, a personal project he has been involved with for five years.
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