Welcome from the mayor participating chapters

Table of Contents

Welcome from the Mayor Inside Front Cover
National Officers 2
Student Delegate Officers 3
Welcome from the President 4
Welcomes from Representatives 5
National Conventions 8
Award Winners 11

Kalin, Sister Scholastica

Schedule of Events 14

More Award Winners 17

Diane Rubin, Huneke, Andree, Mary Rhein
History of Mu Alpha Theta 21
Scholarship Winners 23
Mu Alpha Theta Educational Foundation 24
Speaker Sessions 25
Participating Chapters Inside Back Cover

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NATIONAL OFFICERS

President		Tom Tosch Mount Rainier High School Des Moines, WA
President-Elect		Carol Botzner Lakota West High School West Chester, Ohio
Secretary-Treasurer		Paul Goodey University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma
Region 1 Governor		Darryl Edmunds Highline High School Burien, Washington
Region 2 Governor		Doris Parrino Baton Rouge Magnet High School Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Region 3 Governor		Betty Hood Brentwood High School Brentwood, Tennessee
Region 4 Governor		Sam Koski Miami Springs High School Miami Springs, Florida
MAA Representative		Steve Dunbar University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska
NCTM Representative		Tom Kilkelly Wayzata High School Plymouth, Minnesota
SIAM Representative		Terry Herdman Virginia Tech University Blacksburg, Virginia
AMATYC Representative		Kathy Mowers Owensboro Community and Technical College Owensboro, Kentucky
Executive Director		Kay Weiss University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma

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Monday, July 18, Speakers First and Second Sessions cont.

Hamilton

Title: 2011/2012 Project Math Minds

Presenter: Robert Eaton

Learn about the newest project presented by The Actuarial Foundation. Students submitting a finished project are eligible for up to $5000 in scholarship money for college.

Robert Eaton, FSA, MAAA, is an actuary at John Hancock in Boston, Massachusetts, and a former Mu Alpha Theta competitor from Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, Florida.


Tuesday, July 19, REQUIRED Speaker Session, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Frisco 6

Title: Mathematics Careers and Applications

Presenter: Dr. Terry Herdman
Dr. Herdman will discuss various career options for those interested in mathematics. The presentation will include examples of applications of mathematics that are of interest to the business and industrial communities, as well as government agencies.  

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r. Herdman holds the title of Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Tech, and in 2005 was appointed to the position of Associate Vice President for Research Computing. His research has been funded by the Air Force Research Laboratories, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the FBI, NASA Langley Research Center, Sandia National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Terry was a member of the NASA Large Space Systems Team that was awarded the 2008 NASA Center Team Award for contributions in the develop­ment and testing of inflation deployed, rigidizable space structures and materials. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Integral Equations and Applications.

Terry is one of three co-founders of the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics (ICAM) at Virginia Tech and has served as the Director of ICAM for 21 years. He directed Virginia Tech’s undergraduate program in applied and computational mathematics at the Blacksburg campus and the graduate program in interdisciplinary applied mathematics at Virginia Tech’s Northern Virginia campus. He served six years as Vice President for Education for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and is currently a member of the SIAM Education Committee and co-directs the SIAM Visiting Lecturers Program. Terry is a member of the Board of Governors for Mu Alpha Theta, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), He serves as the Virginia Tech liaison to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Monday, July 18, Speaker Sessions

Frisco 6 - First Session

Title: Problem Solving to Motivate our Talented Youth

Presenter: Dr. Titu Andreescu, University of Texas at Dallas
Dr. Andreescu is interested in mathematics education for highly gifted students.  To help motivate the next generation of math scholars — one of his passions — he founded and directs AwesomeMath, which is a summer math program and a lecture series. Andreescu also created a free online journal on mathematical problem solving called “Mathematical Reflections.”

In his field of mathematics, his area of expertise is with Diophantine analysis, with emphasis on quadratic Diophantine equations and he has solved or otherwise provided important results that offspring from the general Pell’s equation.

He has served as US IMO Team Leader, Director of the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC), Director of the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program (MOSP), Coach of the US IMO Team, Member of the IMO Advisory Board, Chair of the USAMO Committee, and is an MAA Edyth May Sliffe Award winner for Distinguished Mathematics Teaching.


Frisco 6 - Second Session

Title: Where Am I? Where Are They? Target Location & GPS

Presenter: Chuck Pruszynski, Raytheon Corporation
This session will include a 45-minute presentation about the Geometry of Global Positioning followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.

Chuck Pruszynski is the Technical Director for the Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance Sensor (LRAS3), an infrared sensor system developed for the US Army battalion scout and forward observer. In this capacity, Chuck provides technical oversight and leadership of the $1.9 billion program in the Combat Systems Department of Raytheon NCS.

Chuck has been at Raytheon for 15 years. Prior to joining Raytheon, he had a diverse career in the area of RF and EO sensor development for both airborne and ground platforms. He is a Raytheon Senior Engineering Fellow, a two-time winner of the Raytheon Excellence in Technology award, and has been recognized for his technical contributions by the US Army Armor Center, PM-Night Vision and PM-FLIR.

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