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Florida Section Newsletter The Mathematical Association of America October 2004 Volume 26, Issue 1 |
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Florida Section Newsletter The Mathematical Association of America October 2004 Volume 26, Issue 1 |
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Awards CommitteeFlorida Section
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The Service Award to be given for outstanding service to the Florida Section |
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The Teaching Award to recognize distinguished college or university teaching |
June White
St. Petersburg College
whitejune@spcollege.edu
Nominating CommitteeFlorida Section
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President-Elect |
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Vice-President-Elect for Programs |
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Vice-President-Elect for Site Selection |
Judy Jones
Past President
jonesj3@mac.com
Past officers can be found at http://www.spcollege.edu/central/maa/archives/.
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, 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/.
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 three 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.
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.eduPlease submit the requested information by December 1, 2004.
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Fairfield Inn & Suites
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Comfort Suites
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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 |
Manatee Community College
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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 skalaj@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 skalaj@spcollege.edu or (727) 791-2558. |
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Regional MeetingsFlorida Section
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Of the six Florida MAA regions, Suncoast is the only region that currently has a meeting scheduled for this academic year. The First Coast region is working on scheduling a spring meeting, the West Coast region has postponed its meeting until Fall 2005, and the other three regions seem to have lost momentum. We may want to see if we can facilitate planning and recruit volunteers to organize regional meetings at this year's state meeting.
Big Bend
No meeting planned at this time. No one has stepped forward to take over for Ben Fusaro, Florida State University.
Central Florida
No meeting planned at this time.
Firstcoast
Scott Hochwald, shochwal@unf.edu, University of North Florida, is working on scheduling a meeting for the First Coast region.
Goldcoast
No meeting planned at this time.
Suncoast
The Suncoast regional meeting is scheduled for December 3rd at St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs campus, and an announcement is in the October newsletter. The contact person is Carolyn Kistner, kistner.carolyn@spcollege.edu, St. Petersburg College.
West Florida
The West Florida regional meeting, originally planned for Spring 2005, has been postponed to Fall 2005 because of the recent hurricanes. Dr. Schell, University of West Florida, will be the organizer, with the assistance of Dr. Kuiyuan Li, kli@uwf.edu, also at the University of West Florida.
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Suncoast Regional MeetingDecember 3, 2004
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The 29th annual meeting of the Suncoast Region of the Florida Section of the MAA will be held on the Tarpon Springs Campus of St. Petersburg College on Friday, December 3, 2004. The meeting will be exciting with many presentation, a docent led tour of the Leepa-Rattner Museum, authentic Greek cuisine, and entertainment.
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| Call for Presentations (PDF*) |
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| Mail to: | Carolyn Kistner Mathematics Department St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs Campus 600 Klosterman Road Palm Harbor, FL 34683 (727) 712-5835 kistner.carolyn@spcollege.edu |
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Hosted by St. Petersburg College - Tarpon Springs CampusA catered buffet dinner by MYKONOS, an authentic Greek restaurant on
the Sponge Docks, will include: Greek salad, dolmades (stuffed grape
leaves), Chicken Sofia, spanakotiropita (spinach and cheese pie), Greek
oven potatoes, homemade bread, baklava, and Greek wedding cookies.
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$15.00 Florida Section MAA Suncoast Conference Dinner Carolyn Kistner Mathematics Department St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs Campus 600 Klosterman Road Palm Harbor, FL 34683 (727) 712-5835 kistner.carolyn@spcollege.edu |
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students) Florida Section MAA Suncoast Conference Registration Carolyn Kistner Mathematics Department St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs Campus 600 Klosterman Road Palm Harbor, FL 34683 (727) 712-5835 kistner.carolyn@spcollege.edu |
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Jim Rutledge was invited to review and evaluate the Tennessee Board of Regents' Regents Online Degree Program in Mathematics. He gave presentations to math faculty from across the state of Tennessee in June on Active Learning in the Online Environment. Professor Rutledge also gave presentations on active learning at the MERLOT International Conference in Costa Mesa, California, in August, and represented St. Petersburg College as Editor-in-chief of the MERLOT Mathematics editorial board. He was nominated by the St. Petersburg College Board of Trustees for the William H. Meardy Faculty Award sponsored by the Association of Community College Trustees.
Daryl Schrader wrote an article on the St. Petersburg College Planetarium and Astronomy program which was published in the summer issue of Southern Skies: Journal of the Southeastern Planetarium Association. He was interviewed on Tampa Bay's Channel 10 on July 30th on the Blue Moon and on August 11th on the Perseid Meteor Shower. Professor Schrader lectured on Jupiter and the Killer Comet at Great Explorations for their National Astronomy Day celebration. He will give a lecture on Relativity and Black Holes on December 11th at the Science Center of Pinellas County for the World of Physics 2005 celebration. His biographical profile will appear in Who’s Who in America, 59th Edition.
Al Goodman
Al Goodman was born on July 20, 1915, in San Antonio, Texas. He obtained a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati. During World War II, he worked at the United States Navy Yard, the Army Specialized Training Program, and for Republic Aviation Corporation. After the war, he received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Columbia University and then spent two years at Rutgers University and fifteen years at the University of Kentucky as an Associate and later Full professor. In 1964 he moved to the University of South Florida where he became a Distinguished Service Professor. He retired from teaching in 1993, becoming a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in 1995. He published over seventy research papers – mostly in geometric function theory but also in set theory, number theory, and graph theory. He also wrote twelve elementary textbooks, including Analytic Geometry and the Calculus, and a five-volume work Algebra from A to Z, on high school and college algebra.
Transitions
Saralees Nadarajah, who had received his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 1994, and had worked in England, California and New Zealand before coming to USF, left us last fall. An author of six books and over seventy articles, he is now at the University of Nebraska. We wish him well on his further adventures.
New Faculty
Helen Gerretson joins USF as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education. Dr. Gerretson received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida and is joining USF from the University of Northern Colorado where she had a position in the mathematics department.
George Yanev joins USF as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Yanev received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Sophia (Bulgaria) and was a Research Fellow at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for six years. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics with a statistics concentration from USF in 2001 and for the past four years he was an Assistant Professor with the Environmental Science, Policy and Geography program at USF St. Petersburg campus. His research interests include statistical modeling, branching stochastic processes, and Bayesian inference.
Cliff C. Morris, Jr. received doctorates in both Theology and Mathematics Education from the United Bible College and Seminary and the University of South Florida, respectively. He has taught at Valencia Community College since 1975 and has been a member of many college committees over the years. Dr. Morris has also been very active in the community both here and abroad. He received the 1996 Exemplary Service to Community Award at Valencia Community College's graduation ceremony. Cliff is currently Dean of Mathematics on the west campus of Valencia Community College and is the Past President of the Florida Two-Year College Mathematics Association. He plans to retire on April 25, 2005.
Jacksonville University
Jacksonville University, a small private comprehensive institution, invites applications for a tenure-track position at assistant professor level starting Fall 2005. Ph.D. in mathematics required. Ability to teach applications of mathematics and interest in undergraduate research desired. Commitment to excellence in teaching and classroom use of technology essential. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, transcripts, and three letters of recommendation to: mathsearch@ju.edu or Chair, Mathematics Search Committee, Department of Mathematics, Jacksonville University, 2800 University Boulevard North, Jacksonville, Florida 32211-3394. (EOE)
Valencia Community College
Valencia Community College invites applications for the administrative position of Dean of Mathematics at the West Campus. For more details, visit http://valencia.cc.fl.us/HR/jobdetail.cfm?ID=817.
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