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Adrian College [reported by Elizabeth Lamprecht]
Justin Witt has joined the department as an Instructor for the Spring semester. Justin has an M.S. in Mathematics from Middle Tennessee State U. [elamprecht@adrian.edu]
Albion College [reported by Robert Messer]
Again this year, the Math/CS Department at Albion C encourages people from around the world to show their support of mathematics by wearing plaid on April 27, the last Friday of Mathematics Awareness Month. [Ram@albion.edu]
Calvin College [reported by Daryl Brink]
Chis Moseley is visiting at the U of Hawaii this semester. Dorett Pronk from Dalhousie U is a Visiting Scholar in Residence for the Spring semester. [brkd@calvin.edu]
Central Michigan University [reported by Sid Graham]
We had the following outside speakers give colloquia in the Fall: P. C. Wang (Taiwan), Akalu Tefera (GVSU and MIT), Nikita Netsvetaev (University of St. Petersburg and Penn State U), and Jennifer H. Van Mulleken (Dupont). • Richard St. Andre is on administrative leave in the Spring semester. He has finished 13 years as Associate Dean in the College of Science and Technology, and he will rejoin the Mathematics Department as a faculty member in the Fall. [sidney.w.graham@gmail.com]
Eastern Michigan University [reported by Tim Carroll]
Ovidiu Callin was tenured and promoted to Assoc. Prof. John Ginther is retiring after 41 years at EMU. Tanweer Shapla and Andrew Ross have joined the department as Assist. Profs. [tcarroll@emich.edu]
Grand Valley State University [reported by Reva Kasman]
Akalu Tefera and David Coffey are currently on sabbatical. Charlene Beckmann was recently recognized with the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Mathematics Department at WMU. • GVSU’s Art of Mathematics series continues in 2007. The final talk is “Mathematics in Stone and Bronze” by artists Clair and Helaman Ferguson. It will be held on April 12 at 7 p.m. in Loutit Lecture Hall 102 at the Allendale Campus. Admission is free. [kasmanr@gvsu.edu]
Hope College [reported by Todd Swanson]
Prof. Emeritus Elliot Tanis has co-authored a new book A Brief Course in Mathematical Statistics with Robert Hogg, a retired professor of statistics from the U of Iowa. [swansont@hope.edu]
Lawrence Technological University [reported by Michael Merscher]
The Robofest World Championship will be held again this April at LTU. CJ. Chung will head up the festivities. The 38th Annual LTU Math Competition for High School students will be held on April 29, authored again this year by Mike Merscher. The department fielded four teams in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, February 8–12. [merscher@ltu.edu]
Oakland University [reported by Jerry Grossman]
OU is hosting the SIAM Great Lakes Section Spring Meeting, whose theme is Numerical Partial Differential Equations, Modeling, Algorithms and Applications. It will be held on the OU campus on April 21, 2007. For more details, see www.engin.umd.umich.edu/glsiam/SIAMGL.htm. [grossman@oakland.edu]
University of Detroit Mercy [reported by John O’Neill]
We will be hosting the 45th Midwestern Graph Theory Conference in October. Those interested should contact Lazaros Kikas for more details (313-993-3379 or kikasld@udmercy.edu). We also have a number of ongoing programs this Spring and Fall for elementary and high school students, cosponsored by GMC, Ford and DaimlerChrysler, to interest them in Mathematics and Science. For further details contact Dan Maggio (313-993-1435 or maggiodd@udemercy.edu). [oneilljd@udmercy.edu]
University of Michigan-Dearborn [reported by F.-J. Papp]
Judith Flowers, Research Assoc., and Roger Verhey are engaged in a state-wide Mathematics Science Partnership grant to develop teacher-leaders for grades 5–8 across the state. The leadership for this grant includes mathematics and science educators from UM-Ann Arbor, UM-Dearborn, GVSU, and SVSU. • Roger Verhey was recently awarded the designation Prof. Emeritus. • Jennifer Zhao has received a sponsored research trip to Eastern Europe as part of her sabbatical. • New to the department this year is Margaret Rathouz, Mathematics Education. Margaret was formerly at California State U-Monterey Bay. • Nesrin Cengiz will join the department in September. She is currently completing her doctorate in Mathematics Education at Western Michigan University. • The Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn will host the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Section of the MAA and MichMATYC. [fjpapp@umich.edu]
Wayne State University [reported by Daniel Frohardt]
The department is in the process of making a tenure-track hire. • Robert Devaney of Boston U will give this year’s Owens Lecture, “Chaos Games and Fractal Images”, on March 26. • Douglas Ravenal of the U of Rochester will be a Visiting Scholar in the department in late February. • Eugene Driker, a 1959 graduate of the department, was elected to an eight-year term on the WSU Board of Governors in last November’s election. • The guest of honor at last year’s departmental awards ceremony was Yousif B. Ghafari, who received a 1974 BA degree and a 1975 MA degree from the department. [danf@math.wayne.edu]
Western Michigan University [reported by Paul Eenigenburg]
Our department is pleased to host two visitors this term. Vinod Kumar is visiting from Rajagiri University in India and works in the area of topological dynamics and chaos theory. Shigeru Kuroda is a postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University. His area of research is commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. [paul.eenigenburg@wmich.edu]
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