Rachel Levy is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. She is currently the editor-in-chief of SIAM Undergraduate Research Online and founder of the blog Grandma got STEM. She serves on the editorial board of Math Horizons and on the SIAM Education Committee. Rachel is especially passionate about all kinds of communication. In addition to teaching first-year writing, she integrates writing and public speaking assignments into her courses on differential equations and fluid dynamics. Her research focuses on fluid motion using both experimental and mathematical approaches. She also works with elementary school teachers on their mathematical practice and pedagogy. She was honored to receive a 2013 Henry L. Alder award from the Mathematical Association of America for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member.

Perla Myers is Associate Dean of Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Diego (USD), where she has been on the faculty since 1999. She earned the B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Houston in 1990, and the M.A and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. Although her dissertation was on graph theory and number theory, she has focused more recently on the mathematical education of teachers.

Perla co-organized (with Magnhild Lien) two Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers (PMET) national workshops and was co-PI on a California Mathematics and Science Partnership Grant for an “Inquiry Learning Partnership” between USD, the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center (a local science museum), and the Lemon Grove and Chula Vista School Districts. Perla believes in the importance of creating opportunities for future teachers to enhance their mathematical understanding through experiences working with children. In collaboration with her students and colleagues, Perla enjoys organizing Mathematics Events at USD and at local elementary schools, including summer camps, mathematics walks, and Family Math Nights, where USD students work with elementary school children and their parents on mathematics activities. Her latest project is a pilot program called “Mathigami,” a collaboration of USD students, alumni, the YMCA, a local elementary school and children to enrich mathematical understanding and appreciation through origami explorations.

Perla is co-PI of an NSF grant to enhance the diversity of USD faculty through recruitment, advancement and retention of women in mathematics, science, engineering and the behavioral sciences, and is active with the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). At USD, she received the Women of Impact and Innovations in Experiential Education awards and directed the Mathematics Center. She is our MAA Southern California-Nevada Section Governor and the winner of our Section's 2013 Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.

James (Jamie) Pommersheim is the Katharine Piggott Professor of Mathematics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under William Fulton, he held post-doctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, MIT, and UC Berkeley, and taught at New Mexico State University and Pomona College. He has published research papers in a wide variety of areas, including algebraic geometry, number theory, topology, and quantum computation. He has enjoyed teaching number theory to students at many levels: college math and math education students, talented high school students, and advanced graduate students, and is co-author, with Erica Flapan and Tim Marks, of Number Theory: A Lively Introduction with Proofs, Applications, and Stories (Wiley, 2010). He also starred with our MAA Section Chair, Mike Krebs, in the video, "The Definition of the Limit," available at the National Curve Bank website and on YouTube.

Hal Stern is Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean and Professor of Statistics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. After receiving the B.S. in Mathematics from MIT in 1981 and working as a research associate for Commodities Corporation for two years, he earned the M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University in 1985 and 1987, respectively. He held faculty positions at Harvard and Iowa State before becoming Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Statistics at UC Irvine in 2002.

Although he is a biostatistician who has published mainly on Bayesian methods and on medical applications of statistics, he has written and spoken widely on applications of statistics to sports, especially football and baseball. The second edition of his co-authored text, Bayesian Data Analysis, was published in 2003 by Chapman and Hall. He also co-edited and contributed to Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown (4th edition, 2006), and for two years wrote the column "A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages" for CHANCE, a magazine about statistics and its use in society aimed at students and others interested in data analysis.