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FOCUS October 2007 October 2007 FOCUS 1 FOCUS October 2007 FOCUS is published by the Mathematical Association of America in January, February, FOCUS March, April, May/June, August/September, October, November, and December. Editor: Fernando Gouvêa, Colby College; Volume 27 Issue 7 [email protected] Managing Editor: Carol Baxter, MAA Inside [email protected] Senior Writer: Harry Waldman, MAA [email protected] 4 Michael Henle Named Next Editor of Please address advertising inquiries to: The College Mathematics Journal [email protected] By Harry Waldman President: Joseph Gallian 4 Gerard Venema Elected Associate Secretary of the MAA First Vice-President: Carl Pomerance, By Harry Waldman Second Vice-President: Deanna Haunsperger, Secretary: Martha J. Siegel, Associate 4 Kauffman Will Be Pólya Lecturer Secretary: James J. Tattersall, Treasurer: By Fernando Gouvêa John W. Kenelly Executive Director: Tina H. Straley 5 Teaching Time Savers: Modular Curriculum Files By Larry Lesser Director of Publications for Journals and Communications: Ivars Peterson 6 FOCUS on Students: Applying for an Academic Job By Robert Vallin FOCUS Editorial Board: Donald J. Albers; Robert Bradley; Joseph Gallian; Jacqueline 8 In Memoriam Giles; Colm Mulcahy; Michael Orrison; Peter Renz; Sharon Cutler Ross; Annie Selden; 9 Abbott and Torrence Named Editors of Hortensia Soto-Johnson; Peter Stanek; Ravi Math Horizons Vakil. By Harry Waldman Letters to the editor should be addressed to Fernando Gouvêa, Colby College, Dept. of 10 MathFest Short Takes Mathematics, Waterville, ME 04901, or by By Fernando Gouvêa email to [email protected]. Subscription and membership questions 11 On Being a Mathematical Citizen: The Natural NExT Step should be directed to the MAA Customer By Lynn Steen Service Center, 800-331-1622; e-mail: 13 MathFest 2007: A Rock Musician Finds Mathematics [email protected]; (301) 617-7800 (outside By Ryan Miller U.S. and Canada); fax: (301) 206-9789. MAA Headquarters: (202) 387-5200. 14 MathFest 2007 in Pictures Copyright © 2007 by the Mathematical Association of America (Incorporated). 18 Educational institutions may reproduce articles Joint Mathematics Meetings for their own use, but not for sale, provided that the following citation is used: “Reprinted San Diego, CA, January 6–9, 2008 with permission of FOCUS, the newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America 46 Employment Opportunities (Incorporated).” Periodicals postage paid at Washington, DC and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send On the cover: The view of San Diego from Point Loma. Photograph courtesy of the address changes to FOCUS, Mathematical San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau. Association of America, P.O. Box 90973, Washington, DC 20090-0973. FOCUS Deadlines ISSN: 0731-2040; Printed in the United States December January February of America. Editorial Copy October 12 November 10 December 8 Display Ads October 26 November 22 December 22 Employment Ads October 10 November 8 December 6 2 October 2007 FOCUS China Girls Math Olympiad: Success for U.S. Teams By Harry Waldman Sherry Gong, from Exeter, N.H., There were about 180 students from 42 The teams went to Beijing, then to Wu- earned a gold medal and tied for first teams in the China competition. Zhuo han, the capital of Hubei province, in place at the 2007 China Mathematical Chen, from Wuhan, China, tied Gong central China, for the competition. For Olympiad for Girls, which was held in for first place with 114 points (out of photos and messages from the girls dur- Wuhan, China, from August 11–16. 120). U.S. team member Wendy Hou re- ing their travels, see http://www.msri. ceived a silver medal, while Wendy Mu, org/specials/gmo. The MAA co-sponsored the participa- Patricia Li, and Mariana Mao garnered tion of two four-member teams of high bronze medals. Coaches for the U.S. team were Mela- school girls — one made up of par- nie Matchett Wood, a graduate student ticipants from the eastern U.S. and one The Olympiad problems that the partici- at Princeton who was the first female to from the western U.S. This was the first pants tackled are available at http://www. make a U.S. International Mathematical time the U.S. participated in that math msri.org/specials/gmo/files/cgmo07.pdf. Olympiad (IMO) team; Alison Miller, olympiad, which has been held annually a member of the 2004 U.S. IMO team; since 2002. To get ready for the contest in China, and Zuming Feng of Phillips Exeter the young high school women spent Academy and director of the Mathemat- The East team members were Sway July 16–Aug. 6 at the “AwesomeMath” ical Olympiad Summer Program since Chen (Lexington, Mass.), Jennifer Igle- summer program, in Dallas, which was 2003. sias (Aurora, Ill.), Wendy Hou (Tampa, designed to hone their problem-solv- Fla.), and Sherry Gong. The West team ing skills up to the Olympiad level; that Other sponsors of the U.S. teams were members were Marianna Mao (Fre- is, to help them think creatively about the IBM Almaden Research Center; mont, Calif.), Wendy Mu (Saratoga, mathematical concepts. This preparation Akamai Foundation; Mathematical Sci- Calif.), Colleen Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), gave them a chance to get to know one ences Research Institute; Shiing-Shen and Patricia Li (San Jose, Calif.). These another, build team spirit, and develop Chern Foundation for Mathematical students were chosen from the ranks the confidence to participate in interna- Research; and Sunlin and Priscilla Chou of the top female finalists in the 2006 tional competition. Foundation. USAMO. An Interesting America COMPETES Act Signed Into Law Meetings Issue! By Harry Waldman Or at least we hope so. Up to now, On Aug. 9, 2007, President Bush math, science, and critical foreign lan- it has been our custom to devote the signed into law the America COM- guages in high-need schools. entire October issue and the entire PETES Act, now known as Public Law April issue of FOCUS to material on 110-69. As is common in legislative The legislation provides $22 billion to upcoming meetings: the Joint Mathe- acts, COMPETES is an acronym that NSF over fiscal years 2008–2010, put- matics Meetings in October, MathFest stands for “Creating Opportunities to ting it on a path to double its budget in in April. As you’ll notice from this is- Meaningfully Promote Excellence in approximately seven years. Particularly sue’s table of contents, we’ve decided Technology, Education, and Science.” strong increases are provided in fiscal to change that. About one third of this year 2008 for K-12 education programs issue contains the usual news and ar- The measure, proposed by Rep. Bart at NSF. These programs, including the ticles you’ll always find in FOCUS. Gordon of Tennessee and 21 co-spon- Noyce Teacher Scholarship program The other two thirds are devoted to sors, authorizes a 10-year doubling of and the Math and Science Partnerships the meeting, but we have changed that budgets for the National Science Foun- program, will help to prepare thousands part too. We’ve tried to devote more dation (NSF), the Department of Ener- of new science and mathematics teach- space than usual to invited speakers gy’s Office of Science, and the National ers and provide current teachers with and other attractive events — and we Institute of Standards and Technology content and pedagogical expertise in have tried to do it in a way that makes (NIST). The legislation also authorizes their area of teaching. for interesting reading. The rest of the December January February a program that would try to expand low- meetings information is presented in Editorial Copy October 12 November 10 December 8 income students’ access to Advanced The full text of the legislation can be fairly compressed form, with pointers Display Ads October 26 November 22 December 22 Placement and International Baccalau- found online at the Thomas congressio- to where you can find more informa- tion online. We hope this will work Employment Ads October 10 November 8 December 6 reate coursework by training more high nal web site; visit http://thomas.loc.gov school teachers to lead AP/IB courses in and search on COMPETES. well for you… let us know! 3 FOCUS October 2007 Michael Henle Named Next Editor of The Kauffman Will Be College Mathematics Journal Pólya Lecturer By Harry Waldman By Fernando Gouvêa At MathFest, Henle is a graduate of Swarthmore Col- the MAA Board lege and earned his PhD in mathematics of Governors from Yale University. At Oberlin since approved the 1970, he served as mathematics depart- selection of Mi- ment chair for ten years and has taught chael G. Henle courses in computer science, algebra, of Oberlin Col- analysis, differential equations, discrete lege as the next mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry, editor of The and topology. Henle is the author of the College Math- textbooks A Combinatorial Introduction ematics Journal to Topology and Modern Geometries: (CMJ). Henle Non-Euclidean, Projective, and Dis- will be Editor-Elect beginning in Janu- crete. He has published articles in both ary 2008, and will become the Editor in CMJ and Mathematics Magazine. ouis H. Kauffman of the University January 2009. L of Illinois at Chicago was elected Pólya Lecturer for 2008–2010 by the Board of Governors. Kauffman is an expert on Gerard Venema Elected Associate knot theory. He has a very broad view Secretary of the MAA of the subject, including its connections with statistical mechanics, quantum the- By Harry Waldman ory, algebra, combinatorics, and logic. He is an accomplished lecturer, having, in particular, given talks at MSRI in The MAA’s securing invited speakers for the scien- Berkeley and the Adler Planetarium in Board of Gov- tific programs of the national meetings; Chicago. He writes a regular column on ernors has and overseeing the organization of mini- “Virtual Logic” for Cybernetics and Hu- elected Gerard courses, short courses, social events, and man Knowing, an interdisciplinary jour- A.
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