We hope you are ready for the 2008 PNW MAA meeting at Carroll

        College in Helena, MT, June 19 - 21!

        Registration is now open: http://math.carroll.edu/PNWMAA/.

        The invited speakers are Joe Gallian from University of

        Minnesota-Duluth, Sarah Greenwald from Appalachian State

        University, and Ivars Peterson from MAA Headquarters.

        The meeting begins Thursday, June 19 with two afternoon

        minicourses. Sarah Greenwald is offering a course entitled

        "Math is Not Only a Young Man's Game."

        Kelly Cline, Mark Parker, and Holly Zullo, from Carroll College

        are offering a course entitled "Active Learning Through

        Classroom Voting and Clickers."

        Friday morning Joe Gallian will speak on "Using groups and

        graphs to create symmetry patterns."  Friday afternoon Sarah

        Greenwald will present "Good News Everyone! Mathematical Morsels

        from The Simpsons and Futurama", and our Friday night banquet

        speaker, Ivars Peterson, will give a talk entitled "Soap Bubbles

        in Math, Science, and Art."

        Saturday morning Ivars Peterson will deliver the final invited

        presentation, "A Knotty Tale: From Vortex Atoms to DNA

        Tangles."

        There will be a variety of contributed paper sessions throughout

        the day on Friday and Saturday morning.  We will have special

        sessions for student presentations, so please encourage your

        students to attend.

        Information pertaining to the meeting including registration,

        paper submission, and lodging is available on the official

        meeting website http://math.carroll.edu/PNWMAA/

        Please note the following deadlines:

        Contributed papers: May 15

        Special PNW MAA rates for rooms at the Park Plaza Hotel: May 28

        Late registration: Postmarked after May 31

        Last day to reserve dormitory space at Carroll College: June 4

        Questions regarding

        registration/banquet/meals/location/accommodations can be sent

        to Holly Zullo, hzullo@carroll.edu.

        Questions regarding the program/paper submission can be sent to

        Chris Hallstrom, hallstro@up.edu.