Sweet Briar College will be

presenting A Slot Machine, a

Test Tube, and the Timing of

Evolutionary Changes.

Come enjoy the meeting

with us during Election

Week—don’t miss out!

Read more about it, starting

on Page 4 inside.

On November 7– 8, Hood

College will be hosting the

Fall 2008 MD-DC-VA Sec-

tion Meeting of the MAA.

Highlights include:

On Friday, the afternoon

workshop will feature

Mike Bardzell from Salis-

bury University. He will be

presenting the workshop

entitled Abstract Algebra

Meets Fractal Geometry. That

evening, participants will en-

joy a banquet with Robert

Lewand of Goucher Col-

lege presenting the banquet

address Tales from the Crypt:

Anecdotes from the Annals of

Cryptology.

On Saturday, attendees will

enjoy invited addresses,

contributed paper sessions

and Section NExT meetings.

Bob Devaney from Bos-

ton University will give one

invited address, enti-

tled Chaos in the Class-

room. Raina Robeva from

F a ll M e eti ng at H ood Co ll e ge

MD-DC-VA Section of the Mathematical Associat ion of America

Fall 2008

Newsletter

Look inside for our Section’s news!

Join us at the Fall Section

Meeting, hosted by our col-

leagues at Hood College, as

we begin a busy year of MAA

activities around the Mary-

land-DC-Virginia section. As

you will read elsewhere in this newsletter, this meeting

will be one not to miss.

It was good to see so many

section members at the

Madison Mathfest last sum-

mer. It was, without doubt,

the best Mathfest ever. And

our section people were, as

always, actively involved, at-

tending and giving talks, orga-

nizing sessions, attending

committee meeting—the list

goes on and on. Thanks for

all you do for the MAA.

Please join me in congratulat-

ing our most recent award

winners. Katherine Socha,

of St. Mary’s College of

Maryland, received the Les-

ter R. Ford Award for her

Monthly article, ―Circles in

Circles:Creating a Mathe-

matical Model of Surface Wa-

ter Waves‖. In addition,

Katherine was awarded the

Henry L. Alder Award for

Distinguished Teaching by a

Beginning College or Univer-

sity Mathematics Faculty

Member. And Roland

Minton, of Roanoke Col-lege, received the George

Polya Award for his article

―Do Dogs Know Bifurca-

tions?‖, written for the Col-

lege Mathematic Journal with

co-author Tim Pennings.

Discussions at the Section

Officers Meeting centered on

the strengths and needs of

sections. Under strengths,

people mentioned section

NExT programs, special ac-

tivities for undergraduate and

graduate students, joint

meetings with AMATYC af-

filiates, and special sessions

for and by new faculty mem-

bers in the section. One of

the biggest needs was for

credit card registration for

section meetings (we’ve fig-

ured that out!). There were

also concerns about gaining

new faculty, particularly from

the research community, and

in deciding what section re-

cords need to be kept and

where to keep them. I came

away with some new ideas,

but also with a sense that

our section is in pretty good

shape.

In other good news, we’ve

just learned that Michael

Bardzell of Salisbury Uni-

versity, who won the sec-

tion’s distinguished teaching

award last year, will be

awarded the Haimo Award

for Distinguished Teaching.

Please make a special effort

to support Michael by at-

tending both the prize ses-

sion and his talk at the Joint

Meetings. Congratulations to

Michael.

And, sadly, let’s remember

our friend and section mem-

ber, Marcia Sward, the for-

mer executive director of

the MAA who just recently

passed away. She will be

missed.

Chair ’s Report —Jon Scott

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Officer Reports For the Treasurer’s Report, see page 12.

See page 13 for a complete list of our Section’s officers.

As usual, there’s a whole lot going

on in the MAA, both in the MD-

DC-VA Section and nationally, so

let’s begin with the section. On

November 7-8, 2008, Hood Col-

lege hosts our Fall 2008 Section

Meeting. Program Chair David

Shoenthal has arranged for a very

high quality crew of featured

speakers. We begin Friday after-

noon with Salisbury University’s

Mike Bardzell, who will direct a

workshop with the intriguing title

Abstract Algebra Meets Fractal

Geometry. Our own section’s

Bob Lewand will be our banquet

speaker; he will tell us some Tales

from the Crypt: Anecdotes from

the Annals of Cryptology. Our

Saturday speakers are Robert

Devaney of Boston University,

who will speak on Chaos in the

Classroom – a subject familiar to

all teachers young and old – and

from our own section, Sweet

Briar College’s Raina Robeva,

who will talk about A Slot Ma-

chine, a Test Tube, and the Tim-

ing of Evolutionary Changes. Frac-

tals, Chaos, Cryptology, slot ma-

chines, test tubes … something

for everyone! Please come, and

by all means think about contrib-

uting a paper (the Section website

has details). Bring a colleague,

bring some students, and get set

for a very enjoyable meeting.

MathFest 2008, which was held in

Madison WI, was a hoot! At vari-

ous times, conference attendees

could spot a wizard (the legen-

dary John H. Conway, who was

the Frame Lecturer), a magician

(MacArthur Fellow Eric Demaine,

who packed the house three days

in a row with his Hedrick Lectures

on dissections and other wonders),

and a dog (Elvis, the Welsh corgi

who may know calculus), as well as

a large number of small children.

The Section certainly had a pres-

ence at Mathfest. Laura Taalman

of JMU gave the MAA Student Lec-

ture, Rebecca Goldin of George

Mason University gave the AWM-

MAA Etta Z. Falconer Lecture, and

Georgetown’s James Sandefur

gave a minicourse. Roland

Minton of Roanoke College re-

ceived a Polya award for his Col-

lege Math Journal paper ―Do Dogs

Know Bifurcations?‖ written with

Timothy J. Pennings, whose talk on

this work featured the aforemen-

tioned Elvis, Finally, Katherine

Socha of St. Mary’s College of

Maryland received double recogni-

tion – a Henry Alder Award for

outstanding teaching by a young

faculty member, and a Lester Ford

Award for her Monthly paper

―Circles in Circles: Creating a

Mathematical Model of Surface

Water Waves‖. Quite a fun meet-

ing, indeed!

This year, the Joint Mathematics

Meetings will be in Washington

DC, January 5-8, so we are the

host section. Better than that,

practically every college and uni-

versity in our section is less than a

day’s drive to the meeting site, so

you don’t have to go through the

ordeal and grief of airline reserva-

tions and air travel. (If you lose

your luggage, you probably left it at

the last rest stop.) A major feature

of the JMM is the presentation of

the Haimo Awards for outstanding

teaching, and one of the three re-

cipients will be Michael Bardzell

of Salisbury University. Mike is the

first member our section ever to

receive this prestigious award. In

addition, undergraduate student

activities are now a big feature at

the Joint Meetings, thanks to the

leadership of our own Betty May-

field of Hood College, who is now

the MAA’s First Vice President. If

you have taken students in the past,

great –keep ’em coming! If not, why

not consider doing so this time?

Some things from the national office

worthy of your attention: the MAA

Department of Programs and Ser-

vices has become more and more

central to the work of the Associa-

tion. The Department is doing a

great deal of wonderful work with

grant support, helping our members

and the mathematical community in

addressing issues in education and

supporting student mathematical

activities. Please visit the MAA web-

page (www.maa.org) and check out

the menu under ―Programs.‖ Also

check out the menu under commit-

tees. Pick one you like – there are

over a hundred – and think about

joining one of them. Send me an

email if you’re interested. These

could be excellent opportunities for

a member of our section, and you

never can tell where they lead.

See you on November 7!

Governor ’s Report —Bud Brown

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Mike Bardzell

Salisbury University

Workshop: Abstract Algebra

Meets Fractal Geometry

Abstract:

Pascal's Triangle contains a

plethora of interesting combina-

torial and number theoretic

properties that have been stud-

ied extensively over the years.

But there are also some inter-

esting connections that can be

made with group theory. In this

workshop we will generalize

Pascal's triangle to other struc-

tures generated over finite

groups. These structures can

exhibit self-similar properties

and, in many cases, a basic type

of fractal dimension can be de-

fined. Participants will be intro-

duced to the PascGaloisJE soft-

ware system and applets to cre-

ate colorful graphical images,

perform a variety of computa-

tions, and see how these fractal-

like images can be related back

to abstract algebra concepts such as closure, subgroups, and

quotient groups.

Biographical Sketch:

Mike Bardzell received a B.S in

Physics from Mary Washington

College in 1989 and a Ph.D. in

Mathematics from Virginia Tech

in 1996. Since then he has been

a faculty member at Salisbury

University where he enjoys

teaching a variety of mathemat-

ics and computer science

courses. In his spare time he en-

joys camping with his family and

cycling on the Eastern Shore.

Workshop — Mike Bardzel l

Fall Meeting

Highlights!

November 7-8,

Hood College

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Bob Devaney

Boston University

Invited Address: Chaos in the

Classroom

Abstract: In this talk we will

describe a number of ways

that contemporary topics in

mathematics (chaos and frac-

tals) can be easily introduced

into a variety of introductory

mathematics courses. This

gives students a glimpse of

some of the things that are

new and exciting in mathemat-ics. As a subtheme, all of these

topics will be displayed and

animated using spreadsheets.

Biographical Sketch: A na-

tive of Methuen, Massachu-

setts, Robert L. Devaney is

currently Professor of Mathe-

matics at Boston University.

He received his undergraduate

degree from the College of

the Holy Cross in 1969 and his

PhD from the University of

California at Berkeley in 1973

under the direction of Stephen

Smale. He taught at North-

western University and Tufts

University before coming to

Boston University in 1980.

His main area of research is

dynamical systems, primarily

complex analytic dynamics, but

also including more general

ideas about chaotic dynamical

systems. Lately, he has be-

come intrigued with the in-credibly rich topological as-

pects of dynamics, including

such things as indecomposable

continua, Sierpinski curves,

and Cantor bouquets.

He is the author of over one

hundred research papers in

the field of dynamical systems

as well as a dozen pedagogical

papers in this field. He is also

the (co)-author or editor of

thirteen books in this area of

mathematics.

Invited Speaker — Bob Devaney

Robert Lewand

Goucher College

Banquet Address: Tales from

the Crypt: Anecdotes from the

Annals of Cryptology

Abstract: The field of cryp-

tology is rich in both its his-

tory and folklore. This talk will

include a selection of some of

the more interesting stories

that relate to this subject and

will offer some cryptological

challenges to the audience.

Biographical Sketch:

Robert Edward Lewand re-

ceived his B.S. in mathematics

from the University of Dayton,

M.S. in computer science from

the Johns Hopkins University,

and Ph.D. in mathematics from

the University of Virginia. He

has been teaching at Goucher

College since 1977.

Banquet Speaker — Robert Lewand

Raina Robeva

Sweet Briar College

Invited Address: A Slot Ma-

chine, a Test Tube, and the Tim-

ing of Evolutionary Changes

Abstract: About 200 years

ago John Baptist Lamark pro-

posed his Theory of Acquired

Trait hypothesis as a way to

account for evolution. Fifty

years later, in his work The

Origin of Species, Charles

Darwin introduced the alter-

native concept of Natural Se-

lection. Both hypotheses main-

tained that life on earth has

evolved from fewer simpler

organisms to more and more

complex life forms but contra-

dicted themselves on the criti-

cal question of timing. Lamark

claimed that organisms adapt

in response to environmental

stimuli, passing the changes on

to their offspring. Darwin, on the other hand, asserted that

changes occur continuously

and independently of the envi-

ronment but those organisms

with variations that provide an

advantage survive and those

with a disadvantage gradually

die out. It is a remarkable and,

surprisingly, not a widely

known fact that the dispute

was finally settled through sta-

tistical and mathematical argu-

ments in 1943. The talk will

examine the laboratory ex-

periments and the mathemati-

cal model and theory used by

biologist Salvador Luria and

physicist Max Delbrück in fur-

nishing those arguments. The

two scientists were awarded

the Nobel Prize in Physiology

and Medicine in 1969 in part

for this work.

Biographical Sketch: Raina

Robeva is Professor and Chair

of the Department of Mathe-

matical Sciences at Sweet Briar

College and the Chair-elect of

the special interest group BIO

SIGMAA of the MAA. She

holds a Ph.D. degree in mathe-

matics from the University of

Virginia and has research in-

terests spanning a wide range of topics including the Markov

property of random fields,

spectral synthesis in Bessel

spaces, and mathematical mod-

eling for the biomedical sci-

ences. In the past five years

she has co-directed MAA-

sponsored faculty professional

workshops in Mathematical

and Computational Biology.

Robeva has received funding

for her research and educa-

tional projects from federal

and private sources including

the National Science Founda-

tion, the National Institutes of

Health, the Jeffress Memorial

Trust, and the Commonwealth

Health Research Board. She is

also the lead author of the un-

dergraduate textbook "An In-

vitation to Biomathematics"

published this year by Aca-

demic Press. More information

is available at her website http://www.faculty.sbc.edu/robeva.

Invited Address — Raina Robeva

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Register for the meeting online!

Visit http://www.mddcvamaa.org for more information.

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Randolph College announced

in September, 2007, the arrival

of Yesem Kurt as Assistant

Professor of Mathematics.

Yesem earned B.S. and M.S. de-

grees at the Middle East Techni-

cal University in Ankara, Turkey, and her Ph.D. at Indiana Univer-

sity. She studies algebraic cryp-

tography. (The late announcement

is an editorial mistake.)

Salisbury Univeristy an-

nounces four additions to their

faculty. First is Veera Holdai, a

statistician from Wayne State

Univeristy. Brian Dean joins

the ranks of the tenure track fac-

ulty, having previously served as

a lecturer. G.E. Keough joins as

a visiting professor from Boston

College. Mike Gauger, having

retired from the University of

Massachusetts, joins to help Bar-

bara Wainwright develop an ac-

tuarial science track in the

mathematics program.

Roanoke College welcomes

Durell Bouchard as a Visiting

Assistant Professor of Computer

Science, who comes from the

University of Pennsylvania, and

Bryan Snare, as a Visiting In-

structor of Mathematics, who

comes from Appalachian State

University.

Hood College welcomes

James Parson, who earned his

Ph.D. at Princeton and previ-

ously taught at Davis & Elkins

College.

The University of Mary

Washington welcomes Leo Lee this fall, who earned his

Ph.D. from Iowa Sate.

Longwood University is ex-

cited to welcome two new fac-

ulty this year. Wendy Hage-

man Smith comes from Rad-

ford to work with their secon-

dary education math majors and

their math specialist master’s

p r o g r a m . M a r i a A .

Timmerman joins from the

Dept. of Defense, and will work

with their liberal studies majors

as well as the math specialists

program.

The U.S. Naval Academy wel-

comes two new faculty mem-

bers. Doug Altner is from

Georgia Tech and studies Com-

binatorial Optimization and De-

terministic Network Interdiction,

and Max Wakefield is from the

University of Oregon and studies

Hyperplane Arrangements.

Montgomery College, Ta-

koma Park/Silver Spring,

welcomes Nancy Lawrence

Hill. Nancy has taught at Georgia

Perimeter College, Mercersburg

Academy, Hollins University and

Radfor University.

Goucher College welcomes Mi-

cah Webster, a graduate of UC

Irvine. Micah studies nonlinear dif-fusions both theoretically and nu-

merically, and has recently begun

studying connections to image

processing.

Randolph-Macon welcomes

David Clark, a recent graduate of

UC San Diego, and a Project NExT

fellow.

The University of Maryland,

College Park, welcomes three

new hires: Professor Richard

Wentworth, formerly at Johns

Hopkins, Associate Professor

Sandra Cerrai, formerly at the

University of Florence, Italy, and

Assistant Professor Antoine Mel-

let, formerly at the University of

British Columbia.

Virginia Military Institute wel-

comes Meagan (McNulty) Her-

ald. Meagan graduated from the

University of Utah and did a post-

doc at the College of William and

Mary and studies biomathematics.

Even better news: Meagan got

married this summer (and hence

the name change).

New Faculty— A col lect ion of new (and not so new) faces

Section News and Updates

The newsletter strives to be a semi-annual update of the goings on in our Section. Read on to find out about

new arrivals to our Section, who retired, who deserves congratulations for an award, tenure or promotion,

and interesting programs run in our Section. If your school is not represented in these pages, contact your

liaison and encourage them to report for your school!

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Marcia Peterson Sward, who

served as the MAA Executive Di-

rector from 1989–1999, died on

September 21, 2008. The cause

was kidney cancer.

Marcia Peterson Sward leaves a

rich legacy of programs and ser-

vices to members of MAA, to the

mathematical sciences community

of faculty, students, and math lov-

ers, and to the public.

A summa cum laude graduate of

Vassar College, Marcia Sward re-

ceived her Ph.D. from the Uni-

versity of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, writing her disserta-

tion on partial differential equa-tions. She taught at Trinity Col-

lege in Washington, D.C., before

joining the MAA in 1980 as Asso-

ciate Director.

Her duties then included direct-

ing the publication of the MAA's

three journals and editing FO-

CUS, the Association's newslet-

ter. Employing paper, red pencil,

and a typewriter, she managed to

bring out the first issue in March

1981.

Marcia Sward served as editor of FOCUS until September 1985,

when she left the MAA to be-

come Executive Director of

the Mathematical Sciences Educa-

tion Board.

Marcia Sward returned to lead

the MAA in 1989 when Alfred

Willcox retired after 22 years as

its Executive Director. Under

Marcia's leadership, the MAA in-

creased its membership, pro-

grams, and revenue. She was in-

strumental in initiating new pro-

grams, many of which were grant

s u p p o r t e d . O n e w a s

the SUMMA (Supporting Under-

graduate Minority Mathematics

Achievement) program. She also

worked closely with mathemati-

cians such as James Leitzel and

Chris Stevens to found and

fund Project NExT and collabo-

rated with Ed Dubinsky to de-

velop SIGMAAs.

After her retirement from the MAA, Marcia served as Director of

Education of the Audubon Natural-

ist Society.

(Article adapted from www.maa.org)

Remembering — Marcia Peterson Sward

Radford Univeristy announces

its Department of Mathematics

and Statistics has collaborated

with the College of Education

and Human Development and

plans to introduce a new master's

program in mathematics educa-tion, expected to begin fall 2009.

This program offers 18 hours of

graduate mathematics course-

work, combined with 12 hours of

education coursework and 6

hours of mathematics education

coursework. This is not a licen-

sure program, but coursework

does address grades 6-12 mathe-

matics endorsement regulations.

Please encourage your graduating

seniors to apply, if interested.

American University is proud

to partner with the Carnegie In-

stitute of Washington and Math

for America, offering a masters

degree program in secondary

school math Teaching. After

training and certification, partici-

pants in the program will teach in

the DC public schools for at least

four years. Promising math stu-

dents who are committed to teaching and want to make a dif-

ference in the nation's capitol can

learn more about the program at http://www.mathforamerica.org/dc.

New Degrees

Harel Barzilai of Salisbury

University seeks other inter-

ested in mathematics and quan-

titative literacy, including lower/

freshman level, applied to major

environmental issues, such as

Hubbert’s peak and the climate.

Deirdre L. Smeltzer and

Owen Byer of Eastern Men-

nonite University have com-

pleted a rough draft of a text-

book, ―Elements of Euclidean Ge-

ometry,‖ a text suitable for either

a geometry class or a senior cap-

stone course. They are currently

seeking a publisher, but if anyone

is interested in reviewing a chap-

ter, please contact Deirdre at

smeltzed@emu.edu.

“Personals” — Miscel laneous Notes

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Radford University's College

of Science and Technology

hosted its third annual Summer

Bridge Program in math, science,

and information technology this

summer. The Summer Bridge

Program is a one-week residen-tial camp supporting high school

female rising sophomores, jun-

iors, and seniors to learn about

possible college majors and ca-

reer paths. Ten academic tracks

are offered in total, with stu-

dents choosing two tracks in

which to participate. Students

additionally have opportunities

to learn about the college admis-

sions and financial aid process as

well as to visit and hear from

faculty and students at on- and

off-campus sites such as the

Planetarium, Greenhouse, Wet-lands, Selu Conservancy, and Art

Museum. A catered dinner,

guest speakers, and game night

are all components of the Sum-

mer Bridge Program. Sixty-four

students attended the program

in Summer 2008. Three RU

mathematics faculty teach tracks

in the Summer Bridge Program.

St. Mary's College of Mary-

land hosted the SMCM Summer

Science Camp for Girls. This

free, week-long math and science

program was the brainchild of mathematics professor Kathe-

rine Socha and biology profes-

sor Samantha Kerry. The day

camp recruited an economically

diverse group of twelve ninth-

grade girls who showed an inter-

est in science.

Summer Programs

Salisbury University thanks

Donald Cathcart and Phillip

Luft for their years of service,

and wishes them many hours of

R&R.

Roanoke College bids farewell to Frank Munley, who recently

consulted with the Lao People’s

Democratic Republic on issues

concerning global warming and

the environment.

American University bids

farewell to I-Lok Chang after

many years of distinguished ser-vice. Dr. Chang was our Sec-

tion’s Distinguished Teaching

Award recipient in 1995.

The U. S. Naval Academy

thanks three professors for their

years of service: Carol Craw-

ford, John Turner, and Wil-liam Wardlaw.

Retirements — A col lect ion o f those who recent ly put down t he chalk

Mathematics and Statistics faculty

Neil Sigmon, Laura Spiel-

man, Patterson Rogers, Jean

Mistele, and Carrie Case of

Radford University will each

teach sessions in the upcoming

Females Advancing STEM Event, hosted at the Southwest Virginia

Higher Education Center. Fe-

males Advancing STEM is an an-

nual event aimed at supporting

sixth-grade girls' interest and par-

ticipation in STEM disciplines and

eventual career paths. Neil Sig-

mon and Laura Spielman have served on the Steering Commit-

tee to organize, plan, and imple-

ment this event, which is a col-

laboration of several colleges,

universities, and school districts.

This year's STEM Event will take

place on December 2, 2008.

Other Act iv i t ies

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This has been a big year for

awards in our Section.

Unreserved congratulations go to

Roland Minton of Roanoke

College, who has been awarded

the 2008 George Poyla Award for expository excellence in

mathematics for his article ―Do

Dogs Know Bifurcations,‖ written

with Tim Pennings of Hope Col-

lege and published in the Novem-

ber 2007 College Mathematics Jour-

nal.

Katherine Socha of St. Mary’s

College of Maryland deserves

double recognition! She is one of

three recipients of the MAA's

Henry L. Alder Award for Dis-

tinguished Teaching by a Beginning

College or University Faculty

Member. She was credited for

her exceptional classroom teach-

ing as well as for the influence of

her activities beyond the class-

room. She is the director of St.

Mary's Summer REU for young

underrepresented students spon-

sored by the MAA's SUMMA of-

fice, a co-director of SIAM's Why Do Math program, a co-director

of AWM's Women in Math

Poster Project, and a co-director

of two MAA PREP workshops on

creating an effective Emerging

Scholars Program.

Katherine also received a Les-

ter R. Ford Award for her

outstanding expository article

"Circles in Circles: Creating a

Mathematical Model of Surface

Water Waves," which appeared

in the Monthly in March 2007.

Leigh Lunsford of Longwood

University received the 2008

Longwood Junior Faculty

Award in recognition of her pro-

fessional excellence and devoted

service to students.

Jake Bennett, a double math

and physics major, was the 2008 valedictorian of Roanoke Col-

lege.

From the Spring meeting: Amy

Winslow of Randolph-Macon

College, Deena Hannoun and

Leslie Hindman of JMU and

Jamey Szalay, also of JMU, won

1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, respec-

tively for their student papers.

Also, Danielle Shiley of Roa-

noke College , Matthew

Spencer of JMU, and Dan

Boxer, Brent Kohler and

Molly McHarg of JMU won 1st,

2nd and 3rd prizes, respectively,

in the student poster competi-

Awards — recognizing t he acco mpl ishments of our members and st udents

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Jan Minton of Roanoke Col-

lege has been named Acting Di-

rector of the Honors Program.

Jan is also our Section’s new

Treasurer.

Artur Elezi and Josh Lansky of American University have

both been promoted to the rank

of Associate Professor with ten-

ure. (Artur studies algebraic ge-

ometry and string theory; Josh

studies automorphic forms and

representation theory of p-adic

groups. Both are popular with

undergrads and would make ex-

cellent speakers at a colloquium

with a broad audience.)

Susan Goldstine of St. Mary’s

College of Maryland is now a

tenured Associate Professor.

Eve Torrence of Randolph-

Macon has been promoted to

the rank of Professor. Addition-

ally, Eve has been elected Presi-

dent Elect of Pi Mu Epsilon.

Bruce Torrence of Randolph

-Macon begins his term as Edi-

tor of Math Horizons in Janu-

ary, 2009. We all look forward

to this issue!

Gregory Hartman of the Vir-ginia Military Institute has

been promoted to the rank of

Associate Professor (and Lieu-

tenant Colonel of the Virginia

Militia).

Tenure , Promotions, and New Posit ions

Plan now for the Spring Meeting at

Mary Washington, April 17-18!

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Treasurer’s Report

October 3, 2008

General Account Balance, March 7, 2008 $ 11,480.75

Receipts Expenses

Meeting Registrations, Spring 08 $ 3457.60 Meals, Spring 08 $ 1465.15

MAA Subvention 2710.00 MAA River of Bricks 303.00

Interest 9.91 John Smith Teaching Award 200.00

MCM Awards 100.00

PayPal Testing 2.37

Transfer to Sec. NExT, F07 reg. fees 330.00

Transfer to Project NExT Fund 2055.00

Total Receipts $ 6177.51 Total Expenses $ 4455.52

General Account Balance, October 3, 2008 $ 13,202.74

John G. Milcetich Memorial Student Achievement Fund Balance, March 7, 2008 $ 943.36

Contributions 35.00

MAA Book Sale, Fall 08 298.64

Student Poster Awards (80.00)

Student Talk Awards (100.00)

Math Jeopardy Awards (75.00)

Balance, October 3, 2008 $ 1022.00

Section NExT Fund Balance, March 7, 2008 $ 464.26

From on-site registration fees, Fall 07 330.00

From pre-registration fees, Spring 08 580.00

From on-site registration fees, Spring 08 300.00

Meals, Spring 08 (307.00)

Book and Merchandise Awards, Spring 08 (321.75)

Balance, October 3, 2008 $ 1045.51

Project NExT Fund Balance, March 7, 2008 $ 340.00

Contributions, Spring 08 105.00

Transfer from General Fund 2055.00

Project NExT Fellowship, 2008-09 (2500.00)

Balance, October 3, 2008 $ 0.00

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Section Officers For complete contact information, visit our website, http://www.mddcvamaa.org.

Chair - Jon Scott (2 year term ending 2009)

Montgomery College Phone: 240-567-7795 E-mail: jon.scott@montgomerycollege.edu

Chair Elect - Dipa Choudhury

Loyola College in Maryland Phone: 410-617-2898 E-mail: dchoudhury@loyola.edu

Past Chair - Eve Torrence

Randolph-Macon College Phone: 804-752-7372 E-mail: etorrenc@rmc.edu

Program Chair - David Shoenthal (2 year term ending 2010)

Longwood University Phone: 434-395-2193 E-mail: shoenthaldw@longwood.edu

Past Program Chair - Laura Taalman

James Madison University Phone: 540-568-3355 E-mail: taal@math.jmu.edu

Governor - Bud Brown (3 year term ending 2010)

Virginia Tech Phone: 540-231-6950 E-mail: brown@math.vt.edu

Past Governor - David Carothers

James Madison University Phone: 540-568-2817 E-mail: carothdc@jmu.edu

Secretary - Daniel Joseph (3 year term ending 2009)

Virginia Military Institute Phone: 540-464-7495 E-mail: josephds@vmi.edu

Treasurer - Jan Minton (3 year term ending 2011)

Roanoke College Phone: 540-375-2488 E-mail: jminton@roanoke.edu

Newsletter Editor - Gregory Hartman (2 year term ending 2009)

Virginia Military Institute Phone: 540-464-7492 E-mail: hartmangn@vmi.edu

Departmental Liaisons Coordinator - Deirdre Smeltzer (3 year term ending 2009)

Eastern Mennonite University Phone: 540-432-4291 E-mail: smeltzed@emu.edu

Student Activities Coordinator - George Rublein (3 year term ending 2009)

College of William and Mary Phone: 757-221-2028 E-mail: gtrubl@math.wm.edu

At Large Executive Committee Member (Project NExT) - Leigh Lunsford (1 year term ending 2009)

Longwood University Phone: 434-395-2189 E-mail: lunsfordml@longwood.edu

At Large Executive Committee Member - Daniel Symancyk (1 year term ending 2009)

Anne Arundel Comm. College Phone: 410-777-2587 E-mail: dfsymancyk@aacc.edu

Webmaster - Don Spickler (3 year term ending 2010)

Salisbury University Phone: 410-543-6148 E-mail: despickler@salisbury.edu