- MAA JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETING
- Several members of the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science attended the Joint Mathematics Meetings held in Washington DC in early January. Rick Gillman co-presented two minicourses, “A Game Theory Path To Quantitative Literacy” and “Developing a Departmental Self-Study.” Bill Marion presented two contributed papers, “Conjecturing the Sum of an Infinite Series: CAS Lab Exercise in Calculus I” and “Using the Pile Splitting Puzzle to Enhance Student Learning of Mathematics,” and Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo was a co-organizer of a panel on “Academic Year Undergraduate Research.” Daniel Maxin, Sara Crawford, and Lara Pudwell participated in Project NExT, a national professional development program for new faculty. As part of this program, Maxin co-organized a session on “Designing New Courses.” In a separate session, he also gave a preliminary report “A gender structured model with single-biased separation rate.” Pudwell gave an invited presentation, “An Introduction to Enumeration Schemes,” at the Association of Women in Mathematics workshop, one of a very small group of new PhDs invited to do so. She also presented “Enumeration Schemes for Permutations Avoiding Barred Patterns" in the American Mathematical Society Special Session on Experimental Mathematics. Ken Luther, Shane Drew, and Melissa Desjarlais also attended the meeting. Senior Adam Shull presented a poster on his summer research. Gillman, Marion, Szaniszlo, and Luther also attended numerous committee meetings
