Spring 2009
Chapter
News
The Newsletter for Advisors of Student Chapters of the MAA
MathFest 2009
Students and faculty
will meet in Portland, OR August 6 - 8, 2009, for MathFest 2009.
For information about upcoming activities, see the articles
below.
Call for
Undergraduate
Student
Papers
by Robert W. Vallin |
Undergraduate Student Activity: Secrets of Mental
Math
Art Benjamin
|
Math Jeopardy
|
Guide
to Writing an Abstract |
Undergraduate Student Activity: Chop-chop! A Look
at Dissection Puzzles
Travis Kowalski
|
MAA Lecture for Students: Mathemagic with a
Deck of Cards on the Interval
Between 5.700439718 and
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Colm Mulcahy
|
MAA - PME Student Reception |
MAA Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)
Winners Recognized |
Student Problem Solving Competition |
Student Hospitality Center |
MAA Ice Cream Social |
|
For more information about student events, see
/mathfest/students.cfm.
For up-to-the-minute information about MathFest, check out the
MathFest
wiki.
2009
Joint Mathematics Meetings
In January 2009, faculty and students met in Washington, DC
for
the Joint Mathematics Meetings. This national meeting of the MAA and
the American Mathematical Society (AMS) brought together many
opportunities for students to present their research, network with
faculty and meet other students. Faculty also had
opportunities
to gather information about organizing activities for math clubs and
MAA Student Chapters. See the articles below for more
information.
Other
Information
April is
Math Awareness Month.
This year's theme is "Mathematics and Climate."
Calculus, differential equations, numerical analysis, probability, and
statistics are just some of the areas of mathematics used to understand
the oceans, atmosphere, and polar ice caps, and the complex
interactions among these vast systems.
NSF Special Report -
Math:
What is the problem? Highlighting the importance
of mathematics, this report features MAA President David Bressoud in
the ’Learning the Language of Mathâ? video segment,
and also has links to a variety of on-line resources.
AMS List
of REU Opportunties for Summer 2009
Look to
the MAA for Career Information and Job Searching
No matter what stage of their education your students are in, the MAA
has the career resources they need. The MAA website has several places
dealing with vocational possibilities. The MAA Career Page
contains descriptions of many of the myriad of professions for people
with mathematics degrees along with links to follow for more
information. An electronic version of Andrew Sterrett’s 101
Careers in Math is available. Here one can get
first-hand accounts of what mathematicians with all types of degrees
are doing in their profession. To help students find jobs, there is the
immensely successful MathClassifieds,
hosted by the MAA. Here employers post advertisements and job-seekers
can upload resumes and cover letters. After signing up for a free account,
people can search for jobs by keyword, location, or job type and can
create a Job Alert, which will notify the seeker when an advertisement
matching chosen criteria is posted. This service is for
employment-seekers at all levels (Bachelor’s,
Master’s, and PhD). Examine these sites and you will find
that the MAA is the place for you and your students to go for the scoop
on careers.
How to
Reach the MAA
For Membership
Information, Subscriptions and Publication Orders, contact:
The MAA Service Center
P.O. Box 9112
Washington, DC 20090-1622
800-331-1522 or 301-617-9415
Fax: 301-206-9789
For the MAA Headquarters:
1529 Eighteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1385
800-741-9412 or 202-387-5200
Fax: 202-265-2384
Suggestions, concerns
and/or contributions for the CUSAC newsletter may be sent to the
newsletter Chapter Newsletter Editor:
Jacqueline Jensen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Sam Houston State University
Box 2206
Huntsville, TX 77341-2206
936-294-3517
jensen@shsu.edu