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Recent Postings
- Spring 2026 Student Poster Session is now accepting applications. Deadline Thurs Mar 5, 2026 5pm.
- Brian P Katz recieved the 2025 Section's 2025 Teaching Award
- Read our section's past history! Help write the history of the past 25 years!
- It was great to see you at our 100th Anniversary Section Meeting at CSU Fullerton!
- Save the date for the Spring 2028 Section Meeting at University of Southern California on Saturday March 28, 2026. Besides invited addresses, there will be our usual Student Poster Session. Appliations will be opening soon.
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Spring 2026 Student Poster Session Accepting Applications
Students (undergraduate and graduate) are invited to submit short proposals for the Poster Session of the Spring 2026 Section Meeting of the MAA, taking place on Saturday, March 28 2026 at University of Southern California.
Here are some ideas of what students can present:
- Results of masters thesis, honors, senior, or independent study projects
- Results of classroom projects or modeling contests
- Results of REUs or other summer research programs
- Historical investigations in pure or applied mathematics
- Solutions of problems from the Putnam Exam or from the Monthly or other journals
Applications to present in the poster session are submitted online. Applications include submitting an abstract (max 150 words) and are due by 5pm on Thurs March 5, 2026.
Each poster abstract should only be submitted once. You will have an option to list a second co-presenter/author who will also be emailed a discount code for free student registration. (You can have more than 2 presenters, but only two will be eligible for the registration discount code).
Additional presenters beyond two should register for the meeting through the online student registration.
The MAA Mathematical Communication website has useful articles about giving an effective talk, including poster presentations (scroll down to that heading) and also writing an abstract. Be sure to check out their helpful tips!
Direct questions to the Program Board: Bahar Acu (Bahar_Acu@pitzer.edu), Amelia Stone-Johnstone (astonejohnstone@Fullerton.edu), and Christina Edholm (CEdholm@Scrippscollege.edu)
Brian P Katz (BK) wins the Section's 2025 Teaching Award
Dr. Brian P Katz (BK) of California State University Long Beach is the winner of the 2025 Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics and our Section's nominee for the national MAA's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.
Quoting from his nomination, "BK is an exceptionally skilled educator whose writing, editorial work, and leadership work has had a tremendous positive impact on the mathematical community – both locally and nationally" and "BK is driven by a conviction that many common teaching practices cause epistemic harm to our students and he has written extensively to the mathematics community with the goal of shifting the norms and expectations for college mathematics classrooms." Moreover, from his work with Inquiry Based Learning and his work in his role as the MAA Project NExT Associate Director as well as his editorial work for PRIMUS among many other contributions, it is an honor to be able to bestow BK this award.
We congratulate BK for this award and look forward to his plenary talk at our 100th anniversary Fall 2025 MAA SoCal/Nev section at California State University Fullerton on October 18, 2025!
Did you know...
...that the SoCalNv Section of the MAA had its first meeting in 1925? Read about SoCalNv MAA Section History (pdf) in this article written for the Spring 2000 meeting program by Ernie Solheid.
Help Write Our Section History!
Do you have a special memory of an MAA Southern California Section meeting, event, or personality? Please share it with Karrolyne Fogel kfogel @ callutheran.edu.