MAA Liaison
Newsletter
May
2002
Now is the time to stop thinking about all
those ungraded exams on your desk and the unopened e-mails from February. Instead, let's concentrate on the summer
and beyond.
PREP
Workshops
There are still openings available in two of
this year's PREP workshops:
*
Mathematical
Methods and Modeling for Secondary
Mathematics Teacher Education, on June 23-28,
2002, at
Lewis and Clark College in
Portland, Oregon; and
* Assessment at the
Department Level #2, to be held July 29-31, 2002, in Burlington,
Vermont, right before MathFest.
Recall that room and board are free, courtesy
of an NSF grant.
For more details and applications, check out
http://www.maa.org/pfdev/prep/prep.html.
MathFest
Remember that MathFest is coming up in
Burlington, Vermont, on August 1-3. The deadlines
for preregistration are listed at the end of this newsletter.
For details about invited talks, contributed papers,
minicourses and other special events, click on the banner page at MAA Online,
http://www.maa.org, or look it up in the April issue of
Focus.
SIGMAAs
Do you have a special interest in a
particular subfield of mathematics or math education? Then a SIGMAA (Special
Interest Group of the MAA) might be what you are looking
for. There are currently four
SIGs:
*
RUME-
Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
*
BIG-
Business, Industry, and Government
*
Stats-Ed- Statistics Education
*
HOM-
History of Mathematics
For more information, go to http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/sigmaa.html.
And, if you don't see a SIGMAA you might want to join, you can propose
one through the committee, chaired by Stephan Carlson at Rose-Hulman. The link above will give you details of
procedures and a model charter for submitting an application
for new SIGs. If
you have questions about this, contact Gretchen
Brown, gbrown@maa.org.
Staff Changes
And speaking of
Gretchen Brown, or "gbrown," you probably have noticed that
Brie
Danner has left the MAA. For the past two years, Brie has served the
MAA as Program Coordinator. She and her husband have recently moved to
Delaware for new work opportunities. Brie will be missed. We wish
her well in her new undertakings. We are pleased to announce that
Gretchen Brown has come on board as the new Program
Coordinator. Gretchen recently graduated from the
University of Maryland with a
major in Government and Politics. You will be receiving regular
liaison bulletins and newsletters from Gretchen. Hopefully, many of you will be
able to meet her at MathFest in August.
We should mention one other staffing change.
Tom Rishel, is stepping down from the position of
Associate Executive
Director,
Director of Programs &
Services, and will be
returning to Cornell University. We thank him
for his dedicated service for the past two years and wish him well in
his new adventures with Cornell University. Tom will be replaced by Michael
Pearson, from Mississippi State University. Some of you may know Michael because he
has been the Associate Chair of the Mathematics and Statistics Department at
Mississippi State University and has been very active in the
Louisiana/Mississippi Section.
We're happy to have Michael joining us here in
Washington in the middle of June.
Committee
Updates
The MAA's Committee on the Undergraduate
Program in Mathematics (CUPM) is preparing the latest edition of its Curriculum
Guide. Focus groups and panel
discussions have been held at regional and national meeting. CUPM's subcommittee
on Curriculum Reform Across the First Two Years
(CRAFTY) has also put in a great deal of work with its Curriculum Foundations
Workshops that will contribute a lot to the new
document.
CUPM still wants your input. Check out http://www.maa.org/news/cupm.html
for interim
reports and the latest updates. Focus groups will again be held at
MathFest in Burlington.
If you are interested in participating, contact Dr.
Dora Cardenas Ahmadi d.ahmadi@morehead-st.edu
or Herb Kasube hkasube@hilltop.bradley.edu. Watch
for events at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in
Baltimore as well.
Deadlines to
Remember
* June 17,
2002 -
early bird MathFest registration deadline
* July 15,
2002 -
regular MathFest registration deadline
* August 1-3,
2002,
MathFest, Burlington, Vermont
You may also register at MathFest
itself
* January 15-18,
2003,
Joint Meetings, Baltimore
For Special Sessions, Contributed Paper
Session Organizers, and MAA Session Organizers, contact Jim Tattersall at tat@providence.edu
Gretchen
Brown
Program
Coordinator
Department of Programs and
Services
Mathematical Association of
America
1529
Eighteenth Street,
NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-319-8496
phone
202-483-5450
fax