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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 Highlights

This year's conference will include:

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. Below is an overview of the meeting schedule. A detailed schedule will be made available closer to the conference date.

Friday, March 28, 2025

Saturday, March 29, 2025

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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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Student Travel Support

Travel funds are available to support student attendance at the ISMAA meeting at the University of St. Francis. Up to $75 per student is available for Illinois institutions to use in support of student travel, with a max of $300 per institution. Limited funds are available.

We ask that institutions which already provide full support not request these funds. Travel funds are not available to the hosting institution or to institutions within 50 miles of the meeting site. Travel awards are available for all students (secondary, undergraduate, or graduate); however, preference will be given to students presenting at the meeting.

To apply for travel funds, please fill out the Student Travel form (Word file or PDF). Please send completed forms electronically to Cara Sulyok (csulyok@lewisu.edu) by March 14, 2025.

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Call for Presenters

Parallel sessions of contributed talks are planned for Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29 at the ISMAA Annual Meeting. Students and faculty are invited to propose a presentation on a topic dealing with mathematics or the teaching and learning of mathematics by clicking on the Abstract Submission link below. We expect talks to be 15-20 minutes long, depending on the number of submissions.

Abstract Submission Form

Individuals interested in presenting should submit an abstract (at most one paragraph) with the name(s) of the author(s) by March 7, 2025 via the link above. Please note that this form does NOT register you for the 2025 ISMAA Annual Meeting.

Questions or special needs may be directed to Program Committee chair, Kevin A. Palencia Infante, at palencia@niu.edu.

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Award Nominations

A number of awards may be presented at the meeting. Those awards may include the Early Career Teaching Award, the Distinguished Service Award, the Distinguished Teaching Award, the Outstanding Undergraduate Research (OUR) Award, and the Outstanding Graduate Research Exposition (OGRE) Award. However, in order to be able to make those awards, the Awards Committee needs your help to identify deserving candidates. Additional information on the requirements of each award, as well as the nomination process, can be found on the Awards page.

Nominations for the Early Career Teaching, Distinguished Service, and Distinguished Teaching awards are due by February 28, 2025.

Nominations for the Outstanding Undergraduate Research (OUR) and Outstanding Graduate Research Exposition (OGRE) awards are due by March 14, 2025.

Questions should be addressed to the Awards Committee chair, Tim Comar (timcomar@gmail.com).

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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 at 5:15pm - 6:15pm on Friday, March 28. The meeting will take place in the building listed as Donovan Hall on the campus map, in the room labeled San Damiano Hall.

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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