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3.14: Celebrating Pi Day

Pi Day celebrations take place, appropriately enough, on March 14 at 1:59 p.m. For a glimpse of activities highlighting the enduring fascination of the digits of pi (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter), take a look at the Exploratorium's Web pages devoted to pi, then sample the following links to other weird and wonderful pi pages.

Puzzle Solved: Ramanujan's Mock Theta Conjectures

An uncanny coincidence recently led two University of Wisconsin number theorists to solve a puzzle posed more than 85 years ago by self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920).

HRUMC XIV to be Held at Siena College

HRUMC XIV to be Held at Siena College

Administration Seeks 6.8% Increase in NSF Budget

On Feb. 5, President Bush presented his fiscal year 2008 budget request to Congress for the federal government. In the proposed budget for FY 2008, funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF) rises to $6.43 billion, an increase of $409 million (or 6.8 percent) above the 2007 budget request. At the same time, the U.S. Congress hasn't yet completed action on NSF's 2007 request. The FY 2007 funding bill passed by the House, which is now awaiting Senate consideration, would provide $5.92 billion.

NSF Conducts Survey of Principal Investigators

As you may know, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is conducting a survey of principal investigators. If you received the survey invitation, we encourage our members to participate. More information about the purpose of survey can be found below as well as answers to frequently asked questions. You may also visit the Special Notice section of the NSF website, http://www.nsf.gov.

New Orleans Meetings Raise $10,000 for Second Harvest

We are proud to announce that the Joint Mathematics Meetings raised $10,000 for Second Harvest in New Orleans. These funds were used for the Second Harvest Food Bank BackPack Program. The BackPack program provides food for children, who would otherwise go hungry, by issuing them a backpack filled with food to take home for the weekend and out-of-school times. BackPacks are stocked with nutritious, child-friendly food. We are pleased that we could help Second Harvest by making this donation. Thank you to everyone who bought a tee-shirt, a raffle ticket or gave a donation.

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May 12, 2009 National Survey Shows Improvements in School Mathematics Scores
May 11, 2009 National Academy of Sciences Elects Eight Members in Mathematics
May 08, 2009 Math Helps to Map Metabolism of Iron
May 07, 2009 Baylor MAA Section Teaching Award Winner Practices What He Preaches
May 06, 2009 UCLA Hosted a Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival for Students
May 05, 2009 Visiting British Mathematician at ASU Takes Part in Math Awareness Month Activity
May 04, 2009 Carnegie Mellon's Dana Scott Awarded Russian Gold Medal for Contributions to Mathematics
May 01, 2009 Terence Tao and Seven Other Esteemed Mathematicians Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 30, 2009 Winner of 2009 JMM Art Award Reveals Science Fundamentals via Origami
April 29, 2009 SUNY New Paltz Suspending Graduate Math Program
April 28, 2009 CSU Freshmen Are Better Prepared for Mathematics
April 27, 2009 New MSRI Lecture Series Links Mathematics and Medicine
April 24, 2009 New Documentary Highlights Beauty and Diversity of Mathematical Origami
April 23, 2009 AAAS Focuses on a World of Counterterrorism Mathematics
April 22, 2009 Nebraska's Math Department Judged Outstanding
April 21, 2009 Sea Ice Permeability Offers Insights into Climate Change
April 20, 2009 The House That Calculus Built
April 17, 2009 Mathematics Is Focus of Four of This Year's Guggenheim Fellowships
April 16, 2009 Square Date Surprises
April 15, 2009 Freeman Dyson's Mathematical Prestidigitation

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