2012
Annual Meeting
Welcome!
Our 2012 KYMAA Annual Meeting is scheduled for March 30 - 31, 2012, at Bellarmine University in Louisville.
Registration forms can be
obtained in Microsoft Word format via the following link:
Registration forms can be obtained in PDF format via the following link:
Information to facilitate your attendance of the KYMAA meeting, including a map, directions,
and lodging information, can be found on our meeting website:
2012 Annual Meeting. A meeting program
(with a schedule of all speakers and events) can be found at
2012 Meeting Program[Word] or at
2012 Meeting Program[pdf].
There are also Quick Guides, one each for friday and Saturday, which give an at-a-glance overview of all the activities at
the meeting on those days.
Click here for them:
Friday Quick
Guide[Word] and Saturday Quick
Guide[Word]
or here:
Friday Quick Guide[pdf]
and
Saturday Quick Guide[pdf]
Elections
The Nominating Committee proposes the following set of nominees for KYMAA offices.
Student Chapter Coordinator
Rus May - Morehead State University
Ryan Stuffelbeam - Transylvania College
Secretary
Robert Hebble - Kentucky State University
The elections for these two offices will take place at 10am Saturday, March 31, immediately following the 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award
Address, in the Cralle Theater of Bellarmine University. All KYMAA members are eligible to vote.
Hey Students!
I hope your fall term went well. Seniors who are planning to go to graduate school are busy applying to graduate programs - and working hard to finish their undergraduate
studies strong! If you will still be an undergraduate in the Fall Semester of 2012, then you should consider participating in a summer REU (Research Experience for
Undergraduates). Check out http://www.maa.org/students/undergrad/research.html for more information.
Faculty members can help you determine which REUs you would like best, and they can help you apply. Depending on the REU, the application deadline may be any time from the
end of January through late March.
April is Mathematics Awareness Month. This year's theme is "Mathematics, Statistics, and the Data Deluge". For information concerning activities and to download a poster, check out
http://www.mathaware.org/. Encourage your mathematics and computer science clubs to organize activities during the month of April.
You can also kick off the 2012 Mathematics Awareness Month celebration by organizing a trip to attend the Annual
KYMAA Section Meeting, March 30-31, 2012 at Bellarmine University. (see elsewhere in this Newsletter for more information.)
This activity makes your resume more attractive. When you register for the meeting, register for the Friday evening banquet, too. Meals for students will again
be at a discounted price. Students who have attended the banquet in the past have truly enjoyed it. Don't miss it!
I will be writing a newsletter to be included with the registration packet at the section meeting, and I need your help providing highlights of your activities. Please have
one of your club members send a brief summary to m.dobranski@moreheadstate.edu. Your responses are highly appreciated.
If you have any questions about the information above, please feel free to contact me.
Mike Dobranski, KYMAA Student Chapters Coordinator
Future KYMAA Meetings
Our schedule of hosts for future section meetings is:
| March 30-31, 2012 |
Bellarmine University in Louisville |
| March/April, 2013 |
Transylvania University in Lexington |
| March/April, 2014 |
Murray State University in Murray |
| March/April, 2015 |
..(Your school's name here?)... |
Please contact any officer of KYMAA if you would be interested in
hosting a future meeting.
KYMAA Meeting Program & Abstracts
The meeting program can be found at:
Program 2012[Word]
and at Program 2012[pdf]
The abstracts for talks can be found at:
Abstracts 2012[Word] and at
Abstracts 2012 [pdf]
Henry L. Alder Award for Distingushed Teaching by
a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member
In January 2003 the MAA established the Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University
Mathematics Faculty Member to honor beginning college or university faculty whose teaching has been extraordinarily successful and
whose effectiveness in teaching undergraduate mathematics is shown to have influence beyond their own classrooms. An awardee must have
taught full time in a mathematical science in the United States or Canada for at least two, but not more than seven, years since
receiving the Ph.D. Each year at most three college or university teachers are to be honored with this national award and are to
receive a $1,000 award and a certificate of recognition from the MAA. Award recipients will be expected to make a presentation at one
of the national meetings of the MAA.
Nominations for the award may be made by any member of the MAA.
For more information, see
http://www.maa.org/awards/alder_award.html. Note that this year, the deadline for nominations is October 1,
2012.
Come to MathFest this August
MathFest is the annual national summer meeting of the MAA. This August it returns to Madison's Monona Terrace Convention Center, the beautiful facility designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright. Those who attended the fabulous 2008 MathFest there will want to come back, and those who didn't, -- DON'T MISS IT!
Click below for more information:
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