The invited speaker was MAA Past-President David Bressoud. According to the MAA web-page, ''David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College and President of the Mathematical Association of America. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1971, he served in the Peace Corps, teaching math and science at the Clare Hall School in Antigua, West Indies. He earned his doctorate in Mathematics at Temple University in 1977 and then taught at Penn State for 17 years. He chaired the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Macalester from 1995 until 2001. He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Minnesota, Uni-versité Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France), and the State College Area High School.
David has received the MAA Distinguished Teaching Award (Allegheny Mountain Section), the MAA Beckenbach Book Award for Proofs and Confirmations, and has been a Pólya Lecturer for the MAA. He is a recipient of Macalester's Jefferson Award. He has published over fifty research articles in number theory, combinatorics, and special functions. His other books include Factorization and Primality Testing, Second Year Calculus from Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity, A Radical Approach to Real Analysis (now in 2nd edition), A Radical Approach to Lebesgue's Theory of Integration, and, with Stan Wagon, A Course in Computational Number Theory. David has chaired the MAA special interest group, Teaching Advanced High School Mathematics as well as the AP Calculus Development Committee and has served as Director of the FIPSE-sponsored program Quantitative Methods for Public Policy.''
The seventh annual Kansas Mathematics Competition was held on March 5, 2011. For more information on the 7th Kansas Math Competition, visit http://www.math.ku.edu/~stefanov/Kansas_math_competition.html .
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