The main event in the Section each year is the Annual Meeting in the Spring. This year the meeting will take place at the University of Michigan-Dearborn on May 4 and 5. The program committee, co-chaired by Tom Zerger (SVSU) and David Redman (Delta C), has put together what looks like an outstanding program for the meeting. Our colleagues at Dearborn, led by Margaret Höft, are taking care of local arrangements. You can read all about program details, registration, and lodging in the Program included in this Newsletter and online at the section Web site. The Michigan Section NExT Symposium will once again take place on the preceding afternoon and evening, May 3. This year’s Section NExT activities are being organized by Paul Yu (GVSU) and Mark Pearson (Hope C). Please encourage your colleagues to join us for the meeting this year and your younger colleagues to participate in the Section NExT activities as well.

I am pleased to announce that we now have locations and dates for the 2008 and 2009 meetings. Grand Valley State University will host the meeting on May 2–3, 2008, and Central Michigan University will host on May 8–9, 2009. We hope to return to the east side of the state in 2010, and it’s not too early to start thinking about whether your department would be willing to host in 2010 or 2011.

Dates have been set for the 2007 Upper Peninsula Regional Meeting as well. This meeting will take place October 5–6 at Northern Michigan University . I’m hoping I can attend this Fall, since I was unable to attend the last meeting. Perhaps a few other trolls can join the UPers in this long standing tradition in the section. John Kiltinen (NMU) is making arrangements this year, and Donald Saari (Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, UC-Irvine) will be one of the plenary speakers this year.

The third meeting sponsored by the Section each year is the Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. Although this meeting has a shorter history (the tenth annual meeting will be this coming Fall), it has rapidly become a tradition in the section. Aklilu Zeleke (MSU) is leading the team of organizers for the Fall 2007 MUMC, will be held at Michigan State University. This meeting will also be the first under our newly appointed Student Activities Coordinator, John Clifford (UM-Dearborn).

I hope to see many of you at one or another of these meetings, and wish to thank all of you who are involved in planning them this year.

Randy Pruim, Chair

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