Section
Executive Committee Officers for 2012 – 2013
Chair
William Cherowitzo william.cherowitzo@ucdenver.edu
University of Colorado
Denver 303-556-8381
Denver,
CO 80217
Past Chair Daluss Siewert daluss.siewert@bhsu.edu
Black Hills State
University 605-642-6209
Spearfish, SD 57799
Vice-Chair
Sue
Norris sue.norris@northwestcollege.edu
Northwest
College Wyoming 307-754-6283
Powell,
WY 82435
Secretary/ Heidi Keck hkeck@western.edu
Treasurer Western State Colorado University 970-943-3167
Gunnison, CO 81231
Governor Mike Brilleslyper mike.brilleslyper@usafa.edu
USAFA 719-333-9514
Colorado
Springs, CO 80840
Program Matt Ikle moikle@adams.edu, 719-587-7791
Co-Chairs Stephen
Aldrich saldrich@adams.edu
Adams
State University
Alamosa,
CO 81101
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Other Committee Members and
Representatives
Section Nominating Committee
Cathy Bonan-Hamada
(Chair), Colorado Mesa University cbonan@coloradomesa.edu
Lynne Ipina, University of Wyoming ipina@wyo.edu
Jeff Berg, ACC jeff.berg@arapahoe.edu
Awards Selection Committee
Daluss Siewert, (Chair), BHSU daluss.siewert@bhsu.edu
Sue
Norris, Northwest College Wyoming sue.noris@northwestcollege.edu
Janet
Nichols, CSU-Pueblo janet.nichols@colostate-pueblo.edu
Stan Payne, UCD stan.payne@ucdenver.edu
Section NExT
Committee
Diane Davis (Co-Chair), MSU Denver ddavi102@msudenver.edu
Bob
Cohen (Co-Chair), Western State Colorado University rcohen@western.edu
Dan
Swenson, BHSU daniel.swenson@bhsu.edu
Kim Fix, Western State
Colorado University kfix@western.edu
John Carter, MSU Denver jcarte11@msudenver.edu
Section
Book Sales Coordinator
Janet Heine Barnett,
CSU - Pueblo janet.barnett@colostate-pueblo.edu
Section
Student Activity Coordinator
Carl Lienert, Fort Lewis College lienert_c@fortlewis.edu
Beth
Schaubroeck, USAFA beth.schaubroeck@usafa.edu
Higher Education Representative on
CCTM Governing Board
Gulden
Karakok, University of Northern Colorado gulden.karakok@unco.edu
Public
Information Officer and Section Liaison Coordinator
Heidi Keck, Western
State Colorado University hkeck@western.edu
Website Editor
Bill
Briggs william.briggs@ucdenver.edu
University
of Colorado Denver
Newsletter Editor
Linda Sundbye sundbyel@msudenver.edu
Metropolitan State University
of Denver 303-556-8437
Department of
Mathematical and Computer Sciences
P.
O. Box 173362, Campus Box 38 FAX:
303-556-5381
Denver,
CO 80217-3362
Each
year, the section recognizes one outstanding teacher of collegiate mathematics
with an award named in honor of Burton W. Jones, a lifelong advocate of excellence
in teaching at all levels. In addition to an honorarium, a certificate and an
invitation to deliver the opening lecture at the next Section Meeting, the
recipient is eligible to be the section’s nominee for the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University
Teaching of Mathematics. These national awardees (at most three) are honored at
the MAA winter meeting with a certificate and $1000 check. All nominators also receive a certificate of
in recognition of their efforts to support the section mission of promoting
excellence in teaching; nominators and nominees both receive free meeting
registration at the next section meeting. To begin the nomination process for
an outstanding teacher that you know, simply submit the one-page nomination
form (available at our website: http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~maa-rm and in this
newsletter) by 1 December 2013. Complete nomination materials
(described on the website) are due 15 January 2014.
Time to write another
chair’s report and I find myself thinking of the Joint Mathematics Meeting held
in January this year in San Diego. What I am thinking is, as many of our
students have lamented over the years, “I wish I had taken better notes!”
Actually, I am not sure that this would have helped as I have recently moved
and am in the “living out of boxes” stage of that house transfer. I don’t know
if I could find any notes - had I made them in the first place. The following
items must therefore have made an impression on me since they have stuck in my
no longer reliable memory.
At the MAA book sale
held during our annual meeting, it is no longer possible to purchase a physical
copy of any MAA book and walk out with it (this has something to do with our
non-profit status and the tax code). Books will be on display, but you will
have to order them (either on-line or with a paper form) and they will be
shipped to you. To obtain the meeting discount (35%) you will have to know a
code which is linked to the specific meeting. This code is valid for two weeks,
the week before and the week after the meeting. The code should be widely
available and anyone (attending the meeting or not) can use it in the specified
interval to get the discount. As the section receives a percentage of the book
sales at its meeting, it would be in our best interest to have as many people
know about this code as possible. It has been suggested that we should
prominently display the code on our web page, and I think that is a good idea
(other sections will be doing this as well). For us, this would entail a
redesign of our web page (http://sections.maa.org/rockymt/) and I am asking for
members of our section to suggest improvements to our web page that I can bring
to our webmaster for implementation. Just e-mail your ideas to me (William.cherowitzo@ucdenver.edu) even if they are
just sketchy concepts.
At the section
officers meeting, a handful of sections were pre-selected to give short talks
about their section activities which would be of interest to other sections. As
I sat there, listening, I wondered what I would say about the Rocky Mountain
section, should I be asked at the next meeting. It occurred to me that I am
only a “temporary” spokesman for the section and that the content of what I say
should really be coming from the membership. So, I am asking you, gentle
reader, what does the section do that is worth boasting about, what activities
are you proudest of? Let me know.
There was a special
session at the meetings in which the MAA sections were asked to talk about some
aspect of their history as sections. Several talks centered on founding members
while others took a broader view and examined the impact of the section’s
activity in the local area. This focus on section histories is due to the
preparations for the MAA’s Centennial Anniversary celebration in 2015. Our own
efforts are being spearheaded by Janet
Barnett (CSU-Pueblo) and any tidbits or stories you may have heard,
historical documents or photos you may have concerning the Rocky Mountain
section should be directed to her.
Unfortunately I have
to report that our vice-chair, Sue
Norris (Northwest College, Wyo) will be moving to
Iowa in the Fall, and so, has resigned her position.
We will miss Sue and wish her the best. The executive committee is looking to
find someone to fill out the rest of Sue’s term of office, so if you are interested
in this position or know of someone who would be interested, please let a
member of the executive committee know. The only requirement for this position
is that the person selected should be an MAA member of this section associated
with a two-year college. Speaking of which, in the last newsletter I offered to
visit any community college in our section to discuss ways in which the MAA
could be more helpful and possibly give a talk. So far, there have been no
takers to this offer, but it still stands … just let me know that you are
interested and we can work out the details.
I understand that Sue
will be at the annual meeting in Alamosa, so that will be a perfect opportunity
to wish her well in person. Our meetings have always had a good showing of
students, but when there is a considerable distance to travel to a meeting, it is
often difficult for students to attend. Our student activity coordinators, Carl Lienert
(Fort Lewis College) and Beth Schaubroeck (US Air Force Academy) have obtained a
grant from the central MAA organization to help increase the number of students
attending our annual meeting, but unless we make a concerted effort to help
students get to Adams State this year, the effects of that grant will be very
hard to see. I urge our members to help organize students to attend and to talk
up the benefits that a good road trip will have on their scholastic endeavors.
I’m looking forward
to seeing everyone in Alamosa.
Respectfully submitted,
Bill Cherowitzo, UCD
Chair, Rocky Mountain Section
Putnam coordinators
at participating schools please send Dick Gibbs, gibbs_d@fortlewis.edu your top three scores. No names are requested
at this time. When we know the top three scores, we will contact the schools
for the names.
I heard the weather
was nice in San Diego and the Board of Governors meeting was exciting and
productive. I don’t know for sure because I wasn’t there. I feel remiss that as
your section Governor I did not attend the meeting, but I was told not to go by
some very powerful people in Washington DC (no, I’m not talking about MAA
Executive Director, Michael Pearson).
Instead, I am referring to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the
Air Force. It seems my travel plans got caught in an avalanche related to the
not-so-mythical fiscal cliff. Right before winter break, without much warning,
all funding for travel to civilian conferences was suspended. Hopefully, many
of you enjoyed JMM in San Diego; I spent that week teaching my classes in a
somewhat foul mood.
But what of the Board
of Governors meeting you must be wondering? Fear not, we were well represented.
Our own Hortensia Soto-Johnson (the current MAA Governor
for Minority Affairs, MAA Associate Treasurer-elect, and former Governor of the
RMS) served as my proxy in representing the interests of our section. By all
accounts (and there were many) she did a great job.
What follows is a
summary of key items from the Board of Governors meeting. Many
thanks to Tensia for taking such detailed notes.
After approving the
minutes from the MathFest 2012 board of governors
meeting, MAA President Paul Zorn
acknowledged the loss of Doug Faires who has given much of his time and energy to the
MAA. Doug’s undergraduate grants have provided financial support for our
PPRUMC. He will be greatly missed!
Action items included
approving the budget and the new membership schedule. Like many other
professional organizations, the MAA has experienced a financial strain but its
assets allow us to continue to offer numerous programs and services to our
members. The executive committee is optimistic about the coming years
especially because approximately $200,000 of this year’s deficit is due to
bringing in some customer service activities in-house while still being
out-sourced. Phasing out this parallel work will save funds for the MAA.
Furthermore, we expect AMC to bring in more funds to the MAA.
The second action
item related to the new membership dues. In an effort to simplify and better
manage the membership, the Board agreed on the following dues structure:
·
Member
Plus (this might be called something else): $269
·
Member:
$169
·
Member
who is 70 years old and has been a member for 25 years: $100
·
K-12
teacher: $55
·
Student:
$35
Given that membership
covers less than 25% of MAA expenditures, this new schedule will also alleviate
our financial strain because it will be cost neutral. It is important to point
out that this schedule does not prevent the MAA from offering discounts for
those who are unemployed and wish to be MAA members and new members. Those who
register for the member-plus or member package will be voting members of the
organization. Sections are encouraged to have differentiated registration rates
for MAA members and non-members even though this is difficult to verify.
Another important discussion centered on book sales.The following procedures
will be followed regarding MAA book sales at section meetings:
a. There will be a 35% discount on books
at section meetings.
b. The section book representative will
receive a code and this code should be distributed to section members. Members
can use this code to obtain the 35% discount during the week of the meeting and
the week after.
c. The host institution is encouraged to
have a computer and wifi available so that members
can buy their books at the section meeting. The section book representative can
facilitate this.
We will continue to get
paper forms and price lists in case someone chooses to not order on-line. The
Section will continue to get a percentage of sales and receive sample books to
have on display at the Section meeting.
The meeting was quite
successful with pre-registration being approximately 1000 people short of the
record number of participants from the 2012 JMM – 7156. See you at MathFest in Hartford, Connecticut from Aug 1-3, 2013 and at
JMM in Baltimore, Maryland from Jan 15-18, 2014.
That ends the
official part of the report from Tensia and all the
folks lucky enough to spend a few days in San Diego. Closer to home, I hope to
see all of you at the Rocky Mountain Section meeting on April 26-27 at Adams
State in Alamosa. If you’ve never been to Alamosa, it offers dramatic scenery,
the Sand Dunes National Monument, the Colorado Alligator Farm, and some great
local restaurants. Plus, I have no doubt
the meeting itself will be outstanding.
As always, please let
me or any member of the Executive Committee know how
the MAA can better serve the Rocky Mountain Section.
Respectfully
submitted,
Mike Brilleslyper, USAFA
Governor, Rocky
Mountain Section
The Department of
Applied Mathematics and Statistics (AMS) at the Colorado School of Mines is
pleased to announce the introduction of an Actuarial Science Program. The
program’s aim is to introduce students to mathematical methods and tools used
in the investment and insurance industries. The AMS Department and the Division
of Economics and Business will offer several courses to prepare students for
the preliminary actuarial exams and an actuarial career. The AMS Department will also organize a campus-wide Actuarial Science Club.
The goals of the club include increasing awareness of the
actuarial profession on campus, hosting guest speakers from local actuarial
companies, assisting with resume and interview preparation and providing a
bridge between students and the actuarial industry.
Anyone interested in
additional information about the new program should contact Willy Hereman
(whereman@mines.edu).
It has been a busy fall semester. We managed to attract
nine students to take the Putnam exam in December and we anxiously await the
results. We also had an ACM programming team qualify for the World Finals. This
is the fifth team we have had qualify for the World Finals, which is basically
an invitation to the top 1% of teams that compete from around the world. The
World Finals is going to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the end of June
this summer. We also have a new addition to the faculty with Dr. Christer Karlsson
joining us from the Colorado School of Mines. He will be teaching the
introduction to computer science class along with parallel programming.
Rob Tubbs of CU-Boulder has
been appointed director of the Miramontes Arts and
Sciences Program in the College of Arts and Sciences. This program is open to
undergraduates from traditionally under-represented groups; it offers both a summer
"bridge" program for incoming freshmen and year-round mentoring and
scholarships. As for his research, this past fall Rob spent three weeks in
Pisa, Italy at the Scuola Normale
Superiore studying diophantine
geometry.
Is news
from your school missing?
Send
your news to your department liaison now with a request to forward it to the Linda
Sundbye, Newsletter Editor for inclusion in the next issue. sundbyel@mscd.edu
On March 2, 2013 we
will be holding the 2013 SIAM Front Range Student Conference at the
University of Colorado Denver.
Undergraduate and graduate students
are encouraged to participate by giving 20 minute talks on a
class project or research project related to applied mathematics. Or please
come and listen and learn about all the great projects
that are being done at many of the front range
schools.
The keynote speaker will be Loren Cobb
of the University of Colorado. For more
information, please
see
http://amath.colorado.edu/cmsms/index.php?page=conference.
Sponsored
by the University of Colorado Boulder/ Colorado
Springs/
Denver,
Colorado School of Mines, and Colorado State University.
Anne
Dougherty, CU-Boulder
Registration is now
open for the MAA’s 2013 series of Professional Enhancement Program (PREP)
workshops. There are both online workshop and onsite workshops. For more
information, visit: http://www.maa.org/prep/2013/
Colorado Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (CCTM) is helping to host the NCTM national conference, which will
be in Denver on April 17-20, 2013. The focus of the NCTM national conference is
Reasoning and Proof: Is it true? Convince
me! The
registration for the conference is open on NCTM website.
CCTM needs volunteers to help with
this great event. This is a great
opportunity for pre-service teachers to volunteer and learn more about CCTM and
NCTM. Volunteers are able to register for the entire conference at the
member rate, which could save you up to $76, and will get free t-shirt! Student
volunteers will have an opportunity to get one
free day at the conference (on the day that they volunteer). Volunteers
will ask to devote a 4-hour block of their time to oversee meeting rooms or
direct conference attendees around the convention center. For more information on volunteering contact Diane Weaver (weavcctm@aol.com) or check NCTM
website
(http://www.nctm.org/conferences/forms.aspx?ekfrm=33382)
The annual CCTM conference will be
held in Denver on October 10-11, 2013. More details on how to register and
submit proposals will be available on the CCTM website:
www.cctmath.org.
Hoping to see
you at both events!
Gulden Karakok, UNC
Plans are being made
for the 18th Colorado Mathematics Awards Ceremony and Reception to be held on
Thursday, May 16 at the Grant - Humphreys Mansion in Denver. At the school
level we'll be recognizing the top ten participants on MATHCOUNTS, the AMC 8,
10, and 12 contests, and the outstanding members of the Colorado American
Regions Mathematics League team. At the collegiate level we'll be recognizing
the top three Putnam scorers and the top team(s) on the Mathematical Contest in
Modeling. We expect to recognize between 50 and 60 winners. With the winners,
parents, and teachers, we expect between 120 and 130 to attend the event.
We are very
appreciative of the support that the Rocky Mountain Section has provided for
this event over the years.
Other sponsors of the
Colorado Mathematics Awards are the American Mathematics Competitions,
CH2MHill, the Professional Engineers of Colorado, and members of the Colorado
Mathematics Awards Steering Committee.
Suggestions for
additional sources of funding are welcomed. Please contact me at gibbs_d@fortlewis.edu.
Thank you,
Dick
Gibbs, Co-Chair
Colorado Mathematics
Awards
Steering Committee
Emeritus Professor of
Mathematics
Fort Lewis College
The American
Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical
Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
announce that the theme for Mathematics Awareness Month, April 2013, is Mathematics
of Sustainability.
Humanity continually
faces the task of how to balance human needs against the world's resources
while operating within the constraints imposed by the laws of nature. Mathematics
helps us better understand these complex issues and is used by mathematicians
and practitioners in a wide range of fields to seek creative solutions for a
sustainable way of life. Society and individuals will need to make challenging
choices; mathematics provides us with tools to make informed decisions.
Math Awareness Month
is held each year in April. Initiated in 1986 to increase public understanding
of, and appreciation for, mathematics, this annual event highlights the
relevance of mathematics to a particular area of scientific endeavor.
For more information,
visit:
http://www.mathaware.org .
Experience
Alaska’s inside passage with the MAA on a small cruise ship with Alaskan Dream
Cruises, July 9-17, 2013. For more information and pricing, visit:
http://www.maa.org/studytour/
or call Alaskan
Dream Cruises at 855-747-8100 and ask for the MAA Tour.
I am the
department liaison for the department Connecting Research to Teaching for the
Mathematics Teacher, published by the NCTM and we are soliciting manuscripts.
You can find more about this department at:
http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=9290
or feel free to contact me at:
hortensia.soto@unco.edu.
If you
have done something in your classroom that is research-based, then please
consider submitting a manuscript. The manuscript should be accessible to
someone (not necessarily everyone) in the 8-14 grade range.
Hortensia Soto-Johnson, (UNC)
The Wyoming Math Articulation Meeting is April 5th
and 6th in Gillette Wyoming at Gillette College. Community
college math instructors from around the state and parts of Montana will gather
to hear of new innovations in teaching mathematics at the community college
level, research and articles written by math instructors, and share ideas for
improving student performance in mathematics. Transfer skills to the
university level, and progress to a bachelor’s and graduate degree are always
hot topics, as are educational opportunities for faculty. A round table
discussion/gathering of members of MAA is planned for sharing of ideas, value
of MAA membership, and experiences.
Sue Norris, Section Vice Chair
Northwest College Wyoming
Section
Vice Chair replacement
Sue Norris, our
current vice chair will be moving to Iowa. Best wishes to Sue and we wish to
thank her for her service! Consequently, we are looking for a replacement Vice
Chairperson to fulfill the remainder of Sue’s term.
The position of
Vice-Chair must be filled by a person associated with a two-year college. Anyone
interested in running for this position should contact the nominating committee
chair Cathy Bonan-Hamada at
cbonan@coloradomesa.edu.
The election will
take place at the annual meeting in April.
Section
Chair Position
The Nominating
Committee for the RMS-MAA is currently looking for individuals who are
interested in running for the position of Chair-elect. Chair-elect is a one
year position that commences in April 2013 and terminates in April 2014, when
this person becomes the Chair for a two year term (April 2014-April 2016) and
then serves as Past-chair for one year (April 2016-April 2017). The election
will take place at the Spring 2013 RMS-MAA meeting
that will be held in Alamosa on April 26-27 and is hosted by Adams State
University. Duties (taken from the RMS-MAA website at
http://sections.maa.org/rockymt) include:
Chairperson-Elect
(one year term)
1.
Watch and learn.
2.
Attend all Executive Committee Meetings.
3.
Act in place of Chairperson if that officer cannot fulfill his/her position.
4.
Serve on Program Committee
5.
Chair the Distinguished Teaching Award Committee
Chairperson (two year term,
usually preceding year's Chairperson-Elect)
1.
Provide
leadership for Section; much of the section business can be conducted by phone
or e-mail.
2.
Receive and answer mail from national MAA.
3. Arrange and preside at Fall
Executive Committee Meeting, if held (usually held on campus of host institution).
4. Preside at Spring Executive
Committee (luncheon) Meeting (held late morning on Friday of Annual
Spring meeting).
5. Preside at Annual Business
Meeting (held early Saturday morning of Annual Spring meeting).
6.
Represent the Section at the Section Officers' Meeting held in
conjunction with the Summer MathFest and the Winter
Joint Meetings of AMS/MAA, or designate a replacement. (Some travel costs are
subsidized by the national MAA; the amount of the subsidy varies.)
7. Serve on Program Committee.
8. Serve on Committee on
Profession Linkages, or designate a representative of four –year colleges.
9. Coordinate with Program chair
to arrange for invited speaker from national MAA speaker list. (MAA
furnishes an officer to act as a speaker at the Annual Meeting. We pay
only local expenses. We usually invite this officer for the Banquet Address and
an hour's invited address. The national office provides a list of suitable
speakers that they subsidize.)
10. Appoint a member for a one-year term
to the Distinguished Teaching Award Selection Committee.
11. Appoint a member (each year)
to the Nominating Committee.
Past
Chair (one year term)
1. Follow-up on programs begun
during his or her term as Chair.
2. Attend all Executive
Committee Meetings.
3. Act in place of Chairperson
if that officer cannot fulfill his/her position.
4. Serve on Program Committee.
5. Chair the Distinguished
Teaching Award Committee.
For more information about the
position, contact our current chair, William
Cherowitzo at william.cherowitzo@ucdenver.edu. If you're interested in the
position, please let one of the members of the nominating committee know as soon as possible. The members of the Nominating
Committee are Jeff Berg (Jeff.Berg@arapahoe.edu), Cathy Bonan-Hamada (cbonan@coloradomesa.edu) and Lynne Ipina, University of Wyoming.
Cathy Bonan-Hamada
Colorado Mesa
University
Adams State University
to
Host 2013 Meeting
April 26 -27, 2013
The 2013 Rocky
Mountain Section Meeting will be held at Adams State University in Alamosa on
Friday and Saturday, April 26-27, 2013.
We invite anyone who is interested in
mathematics to attend the meeting. A special invitation is extended to
mathematics teachers at all levels, as well as undergraduate students, graduate
students, industry and government mathematicians. There will be a variety of
invited talks and sessions catering to a multitude of interests.
Conference
information, registration, abstract submission will be posted on the conference
webpage at http://blogs.adams.edu/maa-meeting-2013. Please check back
regularly for conference updates.
The
meeting will feature the following invited speakers:
1)
Dr. Janet Nichols, Colorado
State University - Pueblo
The 2012 Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching
Award Recipient
2) Dr.
Michael Pearson, Executive
Director of the MAA
Everyone is invited and encouraged to present
a talk in the conference.
Talks on all
mathematical topics are welcome!
The standard length
of a contributed talk will be 15-20 minutes. However, we will make an effort to
accommodate requests for longer talks and other scheduling preferences (within
the constraints of the schedule).
The preferred way to
submit the title and abstract of a talk is on-line, through the conference web
site:
http://blogs.adams.edu/maa-meeting-2013
In addition to the
general sessions which will encompass all mathematical topics, special sessions
are being organized around the following themes.
History
of Mathematics
Teaching Innovations
Graduate Student Research
Undergraduate
Research
General
Contributed Papers
Please come and join us for the section
meeting in April! We received a grant to support student activities at the
section meeting. In particular, we will have a pizza and games session to
kick off the meeting (Friday lunch) and will encourage student attendance at
the banquet by reducing the cost of student attendance at that event. While
you’re there, please consider giving a student talk! We had one of our
best showings of student talks at the 2012 section meeting—can we surpass it in
2013? We hope so!
Feel free to contact Beth (beth.schaubroeck@usafa.edu) or Carl (lienert_c@fortlewis.edu) with any questions.
*Funding for the student activities is
provided by NSF grant DMS-0846477 through the MAA Regional Undergraduate
Mathematics Conferences program, www.maa.org/RUMC.
.
Travel Information,
including maps and directions will be available on the conference webpage: http://blogs.adams.edu/maa-meeting-2013
Group hotel rates are
offered by the Hampton Inn and the Ramada Inn in Alamosa. To take advantage of
these rates, please make your reservations by April 1, 2013 and request the MAA
group rate.
Please visit the
conference webpage for more information and links to the hotel websites.
Participants: Bill Cherowitzo,
Mike Brilleslyper, Sue Norris, Daluss
Siewert, Heidi Keck
On October 12, 2012 section
president Bill Cherowitzo proposed the executive committee consider six issues
via email. Discussion concluded on February 1, 2013.
1.
Section support for
officers attending national meetings in official capacities.
This motion was made,
seconded, and approved unanimously:
As long as section
funds allow, we support travel for the official section representative at
MATHFEST each year by matching the amount from national office. Specifically,
the official section representative would receive two times the regular MathFest registration fee from the section, where one
regular registration fee will be reimbursed to the section by the national
office ($250 for this past year) through the annual subvention payment. The
official representative for the section will be the section chair or his/her
designee.
This discussion was
started before MathFest, the national payment of $250
that we will receive was for this year's MathFest,
and the intent of the motion was that it was for starting at MathFest 2012.
Section president
Bill Cherowitzo was the official section representative for MathFest
2012. He received $500 for travel reimbursement.
2. Shall the section support the SIGMAA-RUME by applying for a
Colorado Tax exempt status?
Consensus
was that the section should not get involved with this. Denver has specific
sales tax rules as a “home rule city” that would not apply to meetings or
events hosted in other places.
3. 2013 Haimo award nomination.
At the spring 2012
Executive Committee meeting in Denver, the executive committee decided to look
at past DTA award winners to determine who would be the 2013 nominee for the
national Haimo award. The past five years of section
DTA winners were re-examined. The committee chose Eric Stade
as this year’s Haimo nominee.
4.
Application to RUMC
for money available for increasing undergraduate student participation at
regional meetings.
Discussion followed on funding a Friday lunch for students
and possibly subsidizing the banquet costs for a limited number of student
tickets. Travel reimbursement was discussed and rejected as too cumbersome. Beth Schaubroeck applied
for and was awarded $650 to support student activities at the spring meeting.
5.
Mini - job fair at the
annual meeting.
There was
support for this idea, but some concern that an April meeting falls after the
main hiring season. Space and time could be set aside to facilitate discussion
between potential candidates and schools.
6. Colorado 2yr - 4yr articulation agreements.
Consensus
was that we should not get involved with this issue, as the section represents
several states and many non-state schools.
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MATHEMATICAL
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
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Rocky Mountain
Section Financial Report - Year Ended 12/31/2012
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(A)
BEGINNING BANK BALANCE, 12/31/2011
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$15,893.51
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(B) REVENUES
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B.1 MAA Subvention
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$1,023.00
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B.3 Meeting - Registrations
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$8,281.55
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B.6 Meeting Exhibitors
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$300.00
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B.9 Interest Savings/CD
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$9.02
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B.10 Book Sales
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$294.51
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(B)
TOTAL REVENUES
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$9,908.08
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(C)
EXPENSES
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C.6 Newsletters
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$330.06
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C.7 Travel
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$500.00
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C.8 Meeting Expenses
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$7,254.73
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C.10 Students Lecture Program
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$400.00
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C.11 Book Sale
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$99.75
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C.13 Awards
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$323.95
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C.15 CO Math Awards
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$250.00
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C.16
CC PPRUMC
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$750.00
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(C)
TOTAL EXPENSES
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$9,908.49
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(D)
ENDING BANK BALANCE, 12/31/2012
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$15,893.10
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(A
+ B - C = D)
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Heidi
Keck
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Secretary/Treasurer
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January
31, 2013
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Signature
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The
Rocky Mountain Section would like to offer the following suggestions, especially to first-time speakers,
regarding preparation of a talk at the conference.
- The standard
talk length is 20 minutes, (with longer times available upon request,
subject to the limitations of the program). Thus, you should prepare your
presentation to fit the time allotted. If possible, plan to leave a few
minutes at the end of your presentation for questions.
- A moderator will
be assigned to facilitate each session of presentations. The moderator
will introduce the speaker, assist in distribution of any handouts, signal
the end of the presentation, and ask for questions from the audience.
- If handouts are
to be provided, give them to the moderator prior to the beginning of the
session including your talk. Plan to bring about 35 handouts and be
prepared to give attendees your e-mail address in case the supply runs
out. It may also be possible to arrange for posting of electronic materials from your talk on
the section website. Check with program organizers concerning this
possibility.
- Do not include
too much detailed technical material in your presentation. Focus on
providing the audience with insight into your topic and its key notions.
Remember that most members of the audience will not be experts in the
field you are discussing, and that the audience is likely to include
students.
- All session
rooms will be equipped with a projector and a laptop hook up. Accordingly,
you can present your talk using Power Point slides, PDF, or similar, which
will greatly enhance the pace of a presentation. However, make sure that
notes on the slides or transparencies are typed in a font big enough and with
spacing adequate to be seen clearly 50 to 100 feet away.
The purpose of the
Section Activity Grants program is to assist Section members in funding
projects in support of Section Mission. These projects must be clearly tied to
one or more of the Rocky Mountain Section Mission Goals and the project
director must be a member of MAA.
Grants will not exceed $750 per project. Matching funds from host
institution are preferred, but not required. To apply for a Section Activity
Grant, submit the following to the Section Secretary/Treasurer:
(a) Description
of project (no more than one page);
(b) Statement of how project supports Mission Goals (no more than one
page);
(c) Estimated budget;
(d) Description of matching
funds available, if any;
(e) Vitae of project director(s).
If funded, a report
on the project will be filed by the Project Director upon completion (no more
than one page) and a report will be made at the next meeting of the Section.
Complete details on the selection process and application guidelines are posted
on the section website. Grants will be reviewed once a year. All application
materials are due November 1st of each year.
The establishment of
a Student Recognition Grant Program was approved by the section membership at
the 2003 Annual Business Meeting. In support of this program, the Section will
set aside $500 every calendar year. From these monies, the Section will make grants
for the purpose of recognizing superior achievement in mathematics on the
part of (1) students enrolled in post-secondary institutions within the
geographic region served by the Section and (2) high school students whose
school districts, or other appropriate political subdivisions, substantially
intersect the geographic region served by the Section.
Proposals
for such grants must
1. Originate
from a member of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of
America on behalf of an agency, institution, or organization whose stated
purposes are consistent with recognizing or encouraging superior academic
achievement at the high school level;
2. Be in the hands of the Chair of the Rocky Mountain Section
no later than March 15 of the year in which the proposed recognition is to be
made;
3. Include
the criteria under which superior achievement in mathematics is to be
recognized, together with the time and the manner of such recognition;
4. Report,
insofar as possible at the time of the proposal, other potential sources of
support together with proposals or requests made or intended; and
5. Be limited to a maximum amount of $250.
The
Executive Committee will review all proposals for grants under this policy and
will make such grants as, in its sole judgment, it deems proper. In keeping
with the section mission, funding priority will be given to grants that include
recognition of undergraduate students. Funding decisions will be announced no
later than the Annual Business Meeting of the Section. Monies not expended
during any particular year shall revert to the Section’s general fund.
The logo for the Rocky Mountain Section of
the Mathematical Association of America was created in by Mark Petersen in
2001. A graduate student in the Applied Mathematics Department at the University of Colorado
at Boulder at
that time, Mark says of his design:
“The mountain symbols were chosen because
analysis is the foundation for all of mathematics. The equation eip + 1 = 0 must rank among the
most beautiful formulas in mathematics. It connects the five most important
constants of mathematics with the three most important operations - addition,
multiplication, and exponentiation. These five constants symbolize the four
major branches of classical mathematics: arithmetic, represented by 0 and 1;
algebra, by i; geometry, by p; and analysis, by e.
(Quoted from Eli Maor’s e, The Story of a Number).
I chose to portray this equation as a train because rail has historically been
the life blood of the American West, and trains are complementary to any
mountain scene.”
ICTCM; Boston, MA
March 21-24, 2013
MAA Rocky Mountain Section Meeting
Adams State University
April 26-27, 2013
NCTM annual meeting; Denver, CO
April 17-20,
2013
MAA MathFest; Hartford, CT
July 31 - August 3, 2013
CCTM; Denver, CO
October 10-11, 2013
Joint Mathematics
Meetings; Baltimore, MD
January 15-18, 2014
MAA Rocky Mountain
Section Meeting
University of Wyoming
April 2014
NCTM annual
meeting; New Orleans, LA
April 9-12, 2014
MAA MathFest; Portland, OR; August 7-9, 2014
Joint Mathematics
Meetings; San Antonio, TX
January 10-13, 2015
NCTM annual
meeting; Boston, MA
April 15-18, 2015
MAA 100th
Anniversary MathFest
Washington, DC; August 5-8, 2015
Joint Mathematics
Meetings; Seattle, WA
January 6-9, 2016
NCTM annual
meeting; San Francisco, CA
April 13-16, 2016
Joint Mathematics
Meetings; Atlanta, GA
January 4-7, 2017
Joint Mathematics Meetings;
San Diego, CA
January 10-13, 2018
Joint Mathematics
Meetings; Baltimore, MD
January 16-19, 2019
The Rocky
Mountain Section of
The Mathematical
Association of America
Burton W. Jones Award
for Distinguished College or University
Teaching of Mathematics
Burton W. Jones Award Nomination Form
Name of Nominee _________________________
(First name first)
College or
University Affiliation _______________
College or
University Address _______________
City ____ State Zip ___
Is the nominee a
member of the MAA?
Number of years of
teaching experience in a mathematical science
Has the nominee
taught at least half time in a mathematical science
for the past three
years (not counting a sabbatical period)? _
On a separate page, briefly describe the unusual or extraordinary
personal and professional qualities of the nominee that contribute to her or
his extraordinary teaching success.
Name of Nominator) ________________
(First name first)
Address of Nominator ______________
______________
Email Address
______________
Telephone: Work ______ Home ______ Fax ______
Nominator’s Signature _________________
Nomination forms should reach Section Secretary by December 1 of each
year.
Complete nomination materials should reach Section Secretary by January
15 of each year.
Section Secretary: Heidi Keck,
hkeck@western.edu
Western State College;
Hurst Hall; Gunnison, CO 81231.
Please consult the Section webpage (http://sections.maa.org/rockymt)
for complete guidelines.
Many thanks to
those members who have made a voluntary dues contribution to the section along
with their Spring Meeting Registration!
Although the
section has found itself in good financial health in recent years, additional
funds are always needed in order to pursue special initiatives suggested by the
membership. The successful John Fauvel Memorial
Conference and William Dunham Special Lecture, both supported in part by the
Section Activity Grant program, provide excellent examples of what can be done
with even a small amount of funding to support our section mission and goals.
A voluntary
section dues contribution from you now can help build up funds in support of
similar initiatives!
To submit your
dues, simply return the coupon below with a check for any amount you wish -
every little bit will help, and all contributors will receive a letter
acknowledging the contribution for their financial records.
Name
_____________________________________________________________
Address _____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________
ZIP __________________
Please indicate in the
space provided how you would like your dues to be used:
____________ Undergraduate
Student Initiatives
_____________ Graduate
Student Initiatives
_____________ Burton W. Jones DTA
Fund
_____________ Section
Activity Grant Program
_____________ Wherever
needed most
_____________
Other: ____________________________________
_____________ TOTAL DUES PAID ($10 recommended)
Please make
check payable to: MAA Rocky Mountain Section and return to: Heidi Keck, MAA Rocky
Mountain Section Treasurer/Secretary: Western State College, Hurst Hall; Gunnison,
CO 81231
To promote excellence in mathematics
education,
especially at the collegiate level.
Mission Related Goals
1.
To
foster scholarship, professional development, and professional cooperation
among the various constituencies of the mathematical community within the
region.
2. To foster the implementation and study of
recent research recommendations for the teaching, learning and assessment of
collegiate mathematics.
3. To support the implementation of effective
mathematics preparation programs of prospective teachers at all levels.
4. To enhance the interests, talents and
achievements of all individuals in mathematics, especially of members of
underrepresented groups.
5. To provide recognition of the importance of
mathematics, mathematical research and quality mathematics teaching, and
promote public understanding of the same.
6. To provide regional leadership in the
promotion of systemic change in mathematics education, and in the enhancement
of public understanding about the needs and importance of mathematical research
and education.
