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From the ChairIf you have ever wondered what is done with all those evaluation forms that you fill out at meetings let me assure you that each one is read and comments are shared with all members of the executive committee. We use them to help us decide on specific speakers or types of talks for future meetings (“talks geared to students or research”; “something on math and biology”). We use them to make adjustments to the schedule of the meeting (“fewer parallel sessions”; “more time for the book room”). Here are a few comments that let you know what some of those attending thought of the meeting: · The addition of Kentucky NExT is excellent! · Thank you! This conference was so personally inspiring to me! I have suddenly envisioned several major plans that I hope to implement because of the experience. · The atmosphere was wonderful. It was very relaxed and cheerful. I loved the conference and will definitely be attending again. I must thank all my colleagues here at Centre who made sure all the details of the meeting were carried out smoothly. Clearly this is something you do not want to miss next spring. I want to particularly urge faculty members who are new to Kentucky to come. As approved at our business meeting last spring we have amended our bylaws to split the office of secretary-treasurer into two offices. The new bylaws were approved by the Board of Governors at the MathFest in August and thus go into effect. In an effort to get our officer elections on a balanced schedule we will elect our first treasurer in spring 2007 for a 4 year term. All subsequent elections of Treasurer will take place in years numbered 3k+1 for a 3 year term. If you want to read our new and approved bylaws you will find them here. In addition to the Treasurer’s position we will hold elections for Vice-Chair and for Chair-Elect as well as Newsletter Editor at our spring meeting. Look for more information about opportunities to become involved as an officer in the KYMAA in the Call for Nominations section of this newsletter. You may read descriptions of these officer positions in the bylaws. Please let me know if you or someone you know is interested in serving the section in any of these offices. I want to thank Renee Fister for her service as the State Liaison
Coordinator for the last three years. Alex McAllister has agreed to do the
coordinating for the next few years. He will be in touch with all the
schools in the section to create an updated list of liaisons in the near
future.
John Wilson at
wilson@centre.edu
From the Chair-ElectMark your calendars for our 2007 meeting at Northern Kentucky University on March 30-31, 2007. Our featured speakers will be
Again I look forward to a wide selection of contributed talks from
faculty members and students. It is always nice to discover the variety
and extent of mathematics being done in Kentucky. The deadline for
abstracts is about 5 months away, so you still have plenty of time to
plan to for a contributed talk. Tom Richmond at
Tom.Richmond@wku.edu
From the Student Chapters Coordinator
Hello, students.
Mike Dobranski at m.dobranski@morehead-st.edu
The Governor's Corner
Knoxville was a great meeting, though I was glad to be driving home, not flying
under the new rules put in place while the meeting was underway. There were over
100 pages of agenda, plus a small pile of handouts. I can only mention a few
highlights here. Please call on me if you have questions about any MAA matter. I
may well not know the answer, but I will try to find out.
Dan Curtin at
curtin@nku.edu
KYMAA Teaching Award - Call for NominationsIn 1991, the MAA created the Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics in order to honor college or university teachers who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had influence beyond their own institutions. In 1993 the MAA Board of Governors renamed the award to honor Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo. Each year at most three college or university teachers are honored with this national award, each of whom is honored at the National MAA meeting and receives a $1,000 award and certificate. The KYMAA gives an annual teaching award, and the winner of our section award is automatically considered a nominee for the national Haimo Award. Most winners are chosen from among these (from either the current or the previous year), but the committee will also consider direct nominations from MAA members. Nominations for the Kentucky Section's 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award are now being accepted. The Kentucky Section Selection Committee will choose one of the nominees for the Section Award. The awardee will be honored at the KYMAA Annual Meeting in Spring 2007. The awardee will also be the official Kentucky Section candidate for the pool of teachers from which the national recipients of the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics will be selected, although the committee does also consider direct nominations from MAA members. More information on the award, past winners, and nomination instructions can be found on the national MAA website ate: http://www.maa.org/awards/haimo.html. Past winners of the KYMAA Distinguished Teaching Award can be found at: http://www.maa.org/kentucky/teaching.html We urge you to submit a nomination of someone who is eligible and qualified in your department. Even if the nominee is not selected this year, it is an honor to be nominated. Your department will receive recognition for its commitment to excellence in teaching, and the work done in preparing a nomination folder for your candidate is not wasted, since your candidate can be nominated again in a future year. Self-nomination is not permitted. Eligibility
Guidelines for
Nomination
* "teaching" is to be interpreted in its broadest sense, not necessarily limited to classroom teaching (it may include activities such as preparing students for mathematical competitions at the college level--for example, the Putnam Prize Competition or the Mathematical Contest in Modeling--or attracting students to become majors in a mathematical science or to become Ph.D. candidates). ** "influence beyond their own institutions" can take many forms, including: demonstrated lasting impact on alumni; influence on the profession through curricular revisions in college mathematics teaching with national impact; influential, innovative books on the teaching of college mathematics; etc. Nominations must include the appropriate "Evidence of Extraordinary Success in Teaching," the first page of which is the "Nomination Form." Please follow the instructions on that form precisely to assure uniformity in the selection process both at the Section and National level. The form and instructions can be obtained at the MAA website: http://www.maa.org/awards/teachingawards.htm or via the following links:
If the Nomination Form is received by the Section Secretary by November 8, 2006, the Secretary will ask the nominee's Department Chair to work with the nominator in supplying the additional required materials. Ultimately, a complete nomination must also include Evidence of Success in Teaching as described on the back of the nomination form. Final deadline for receipt of all materials is December 1, 2006. If the file on the Section's awardee significantly exceeds the limits prescribed, it will not be considered for a national award and will be returned to the Section. Please send one copy of all materials to the Section Secretary (electronic submissions preferred):
The Section Selection Committee will select the Section awardee during December and January and communicate its selection to the National Selection Committee no later than February 1, 2007, so that the National Committee can then make its selections. We look forward to your participation in this exciting MAA venture of taking substantive action to honor extraordinarily successful teaching. We want to see such teaching recognized at all post-secondary school levels. We depend on you to help us identify those who merit such recognition. The committee to choose this year's distinguished teacher for KYMAA is:
Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished TeachingHenry L. Alder Award for Distingushed Teaching byA 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.
Call for KYMAA Nominations
This spring we will be holding elections for Vice-Chair, Chair Elect, Newsletter Editor, and Treasurer. All new officers will begin their terms at the Executive Committee Meeting immediately following the Annual Business Meeting in the spring. The new Vice-Chair and Newsletter Editor will serve three-year terms. The Chair Elect will serve for four years, two as Chair Elect and then two years as the Chair of the section. The new Treasurer will serve for four years simply to balance out the future election schedule. Subsequently the Treasurer’s term of office will be three years. If you have any questions about these positions, please feel free to contact the current people in these positions or read the “job descriptions” in our bylaws.
Please forward the name and affiliation of any Section member you would like to nominate for one of these offices to any member of the Nominating Committee. Self-nominations are entirely appropriate.
The Annual KYMAA MeetingOur 2007 KYMAA Annual Meeting is scheduled for March 30-31, 2007 at Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky. Further information will be appearing on our 2007 Annual Meeting and 2007 Meeting Program webpages in the coming months.
Some of the relevant dates and deadlines:
Our schedule of hosts for future section meetings is:
Please contact any officer of KYMAA if you would be interested in hosting a future meeting.
KYMAA Visiting Lecturer ProgramWe would like to remind everyone of the Visiting Lecturer Program for KYMAA. We have compiled a list of those willing to give visiting lectures, the titles of those lectures, a short bio of the speaker, and contact information. This list also includes speakers willing to speak at high schools. You are invited to consider our list of speakers on the webpage for the KYMAA Visiting Lecturer ProgramLectures are undergraduate accessible, but not necessarily freshman/sophomore accessible (talks are designated as accessible to high school students). Being listed does not obligate a speaker to accept invitations, but participants are willing to travel within a reasonable radius of their home institutions. Participants do not require or expect an honorarium from the host institution. However, the host institution is expected to take full responsibility for making all arrangements directly with the speaker, covering all travel expenses, publicizing the event, and acting as a host throughout the speaker's visit. We are still looking for speakers to include on our list of visiting lecturers; those interested in being visiting lecturers should e-mail their information to either: Kathryn Lewis of Morehead State University at k.lewis@moreheadstate.edu or Daylene Zielinski of Bellarmine University at dzielinski@bellarmine.edu. Please send them the following information:
News from the ChaptersAsbury College reported by David Coulliette at david.coulliette@asbury.eduWe had four faculty members and one student attend MathFest 06 in
Knoxville on 10-12 August. David Coulliette (faculty) made a presentation on
classroom techniques for teaching finite difference solution of boundary
value problems at the session on 'A good approximation to a numerical
analysis course'. Bellarmine University reported by Bill Fenton at
wfenton@bellarmine.edu Centre College reported by John Wilson at john.wilson@centre.edu Ken Dutch has taken a job at EKU this year after 5 years of teaching at Centre in a temporary position while Bill Johnston was serving as Associate Dean. This year we are happy to welcome Art Moore back into the math classroom as he takes a partial leave from being Director of Information Technology Services on campus. Alex McAllister begins his term as the new chair of the math program this fall. New officers for the student math association are Josh Qualls, Mandy Smith, Leah Campbell, Sara DeSanctis, and Rachel Stamper. Eastern Kentucky University reported by Dirk Schlingmann at Dirk.schlingmann@eku.edu We have several new faculty members: Vincent Castellana: Assistant Professor, PhD, Auburn University Mathew Cropper was promoted to Associate Professor last year and received
tenure this year. Robert Thomas received tenure. Shane Redmond and Pat Costello gave Math presentations at the MathFest in
Knoxville, TN. Hopkinsville Community College reported by James Hunter at james.hunter@kctcs.edu Hopkinsville Community College has a new math instructor, Meha Darooka, who has an MA in Mathematics and an MBA from Marshall University and is a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Morehead State University reported by Kathy Lewis at k.lewis@moreheadstate.edu We have two new faculty members: Six students, along with several mathematics faculty members, attended
the MAA MathFest this August in Knoxville, Tennessee. Murray State University reported by K. Renee Fister at renee.fister@murraystate.edu Dubravko Ivansic, Chris Mecklin, Kelly Pearson, and Tan Zhang received tenure and promotion to associate professor. Maeve L. McCarthy, Associate Professor, had a research sabbatical in the Spring semester of 2006. Our Euclidean Mathematics Club initiated a student colloquium series. There were several talks given by graduate students and undergraduates on chaos theory, geometrical design, and mathematical education. Several members of the department have published literally dozens of
papers in national and international journals focusing on mathematical
research or the teaching of mathematics. A few examples of these journals
are SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, Algebraic and Geometric Topology,
Algebra Colloquium, and MSU Teaching Chronicles. The department is involved
in several grant activities. An NSF grant, Biology and Mathematics in
Population Studies, involves Drs. Fister, McCarthy, Mecklin, and Roach from
the mathematics department and three biology professors, Drs. Derting,
Gerlanc, and Whiteman. These faculty members serve as mentors on
interdisciplinary projects for undergraduate students with mathematical and
biological emphases. Two recent grants involve multiple faculty members
within the department and across the university. These grants are funded by
Microsoft and Hewlett Packard and are to enhance learning through technology
associated with Tablet PCs. Northern Kentucky University reported by Steve Rankin at rankin@nku.edu We have several new faculty members: Brooke Buckley, Assistant Professor, with a PhD in Statistics from the
University of South Carolina. University of Kentucky reported by Carl Lee at lee@ms.uky.edu Alan Demlow, a numerical analyst who received his doctorate from Cornell
University in 2002, will join the faculty as a tenure-track assistant
professor in fall 2006. After his graduation from Cornell, Dr. Demlow was a
visiting assistant professor at Cornell in 2002-2003 and a National Science
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate, and Guest Scientist at
the University of Freiburg in Germany from 2003 to 2006. Dr. Demlow studies
finite element methods for the numerical solution of partial differential
equations. We are happy to announce that Dr. Hamid Kulosman has joined us this year as tenure-track Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is working on commutative algebra and its applications. He has post-doctoral experience at UC Riverside and UofL and industrial experience in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and was a coach for the Yugoslavian Math Olympiad team. Prof. Yongzhi (Steve) Xu was appointed internship director. Prof. Manabendra Das will be on sabbatical for the 2006-07 academic year. Prof. George Barnes retired after 30 years of service. Please see our web-site
www.math.louisville.edu for seminar, colloquium and Bullitt Lecture
announcements. Peter Hamburger (PhD, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary) joins
the department this year as our new Department Head. Dr. Hamburger comes to
us from Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN. The 26th annual WKU Mathematics Symposium will be held November 17-18, 2006. This year's title is "A Tour Through Mathematics...Approximately." Invited speakers are Joseph Gallian from University of Minnesota Duluth and Larry Schumaker from Vanderbilt University. This year we again will have funds available through MAA NSF-RUMC (NSF Grant DMS-0241090) to support student travel and lodging. The call for papers and more information is available at www.mathsymposium.com. West Kentucky Community and Technical College reported by Rhonda Adkins at Rhonda.Adkins@kctcs.edu Jason Taylor was promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Mathematics. Rhonda Adkins was promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of Mathematics. Gary Goodaker, Associate Professor of Mathematics, received the Phelps Award for Excellence in Teaching, an endowment award presented to a faculty member on the campus of West Kentucky Community & Technical College.
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