The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Illinois Section of the MAA
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Illinois Section of the Mathematical Association of America will be held March 28-29, 2025 at University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois.
Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.
Meeting Overview
Meeting Highlights
This year's conference will include:
- Two full days of speakers and activities beginning midday Friday, 3/28 and ending around lunchtime on Saturday, 3/29
- A pre-conference workshop on Friday morning (lunch provided) led by Jim Kulich from Elmhurst University
- Four plenary talks, including talks by:
- Deanna Haunsperger (Carleton College)
- Jim Kulich (Elmhurst University)
- Greg Larnell (University of Illinois Chicago)
- Cindy Wyels (CSU Channel Islands)
- Numerous concurrent sessions: you and your graduate students are welcome to give a 15-20 minute talk during one of these sessions
- Concurrent sessions for undergraduate student speakers giving talks: please encourage your undergraduates to present at the conference
- A conference banquet on Friday evening
- A student puzzle session led by Maria Amarakristi Onyido from Northern Illinois University (details to follow)
Please check back soon. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.
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Meeting Schedule
The conference will take place on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29. The pre-conference workshop will be held on the morning of Friday, March 28. Talks will take place that afternoon and the following morning, with the final plenary concluding around lunchtime on Saturday, March 29. A detailed schedule will be made available closer to the conference date.
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Conference Workshop
This year's pre-conference workshop will be led by Dr. Jim Kulich from Elmhurst University. Additional details will be made available closer to the conference date.
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Section NExT
Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) is a professional development program of the MAA. This program is designed to support new college faculty in their teaching, scholarly, and professional activities and to help these new faculty members to get involved in the mathematical community beyond their own institutions. The success of Project NExT on the national level has prompted some MAA sections, including the Illinois section, to organize their own local versions of this program, called Section NExT.
The annual ISMAA Section NExT Program will be held in conjunction with the ISMAA Annual Meeting, this year held at the University of St. Francis in Joliet on March 28 - 29, 2025. Anyone within their first four years of teaching mathematics (after finishing a master's or doctoral degree) at any two or four-year college or university in Illinois is eligible, as well as any graduate students at universities in Illinois who are completing their PhD this year and have a position in Illinois for the upcoming academic year. Newly selected ISMAA Section NExT Fellows will have their meeting registration, pre-conference workshop registration, banquet fees, and Friday lunch paid for by the ISMAA for the 2025 and 2026 ISMAA Annual Meetings.
The Section NExT Program will begin on Friday morning (March 28, 2025), with the pre-conference workshop. The ISMAA Section NExT program will conclude on the morning of Saturday, March 29, 2025, preceding the closing address of the ISMAA meeting. The topic for the Saturday morning round table discussion will be determined by interest of the Fellows.
Please send your application to Christina Jamroz at cjamroz@stfrancis.edu Application materials for ISMAA Section NExT Fellows can be accessed via the links below.
ISMAA
Section NExT Application (MS Word)
ISMAA
Section NExT Application (pdf)
For further information, please contact the Coordinator for the ISMAA Section NExT Program:
Christina Jamroz
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
Email: cjamroz@stfrancis.edu
The application deadline for the 2025 ISMAA Section NExT Fellows is Friday, March 7, 2025.
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Business Meeting
The annual business meeting of the section will be held on Friday, March 28. The time and location will be made available closer to the conference date.
The business meeting agenda includes approval of the minutes of the 2024 business meeting and the election of board members. A copy of the unapproved minutes of the 2024 business meeting is available for review.
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