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FOCUS February 2007 FOCUS February 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 2 [email protected] Managing Editor: Carol Baxter, MAA Inside [email protected] Senior Writer: Harry Waldman, MAA hwald- 4 Ivars Peterson Named MAA Director of Publications for [email protected] Journals and Communications Please address advertising inquiries to: 4 Furstenburg and Smale Will Share the 2006-2007 Wolf Prize [email protected] President: Joseph Gallian 5 Bylaws Change on the Agenda for MAA Business Meeting at the San José MathFest First Vice-President: Carl Pomerance, Sec- ond Vice-President: Deanna Haunsperger, By Martha J. Siegel, MAA Secretary Secretary: Martha J. Siegel, Associate 7 In FOCUS: The 2007 Joint Mathematics Meetings Secretary: James J. Tattersall, Treasurer: John W. Kenelly By Fernando Q. Gouvêa Executive Director: Tina H. Straley 8 JMM 2007: Report of the MAA Secretary By Martha J. Siegel, MAA Secretary FOCUS Editorial Board: Donald J. Albers; Robert Bradley; Joseph Gallian; Jacqueline 11 Undergraduates Win Awards in New Orleans Giles; Colm Mulcahy; Michael Orrison; Peter By Joe Gallian Renz; Sharon Cutler Ross; Annie Selden; Hortensia Soto-Johnson; Peter Stanek; Ravi 12 Undergraduate Students at the Joint Meetings Vakil. By Betty Mayfield Letters to the editor should be addressed to 13 The Undergraduate Poster Session 2007 Fernando Gouvêa, Colby College, Dept. of By Diana Thomas Mathematics, Waterville, ME 04901, or by email to [email protected]. 14 Prizes and Awards at the 2007 Joint Mathematics Meetings By Fernando Q. Gouvêa Subscription and membership questions should be directed to the MAA Customer 19 Photos from the New Orleans Joint Mathematics Meetings Service Center, 800-331-1622; e-mail: [email protected]; (301) 617-7800 (outside 23 Harry Lucas, Jr. is Inducted into the Icosahedron Society at the U.S. and Canada); fax: (301) 206-9789. MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans Headquarters: (202) 387-5200. 24 The MAA Goes To Middle School (and How You Can Too) Copyright © 2007 by the Mathematical By Steven R. Dunbar and Bonnie Leitch Association of America (Incorporated). Educational institutions may reproduce articles 27 In FOCUS: Curriculum Focal Points for their own use, but not for sale, provided Articles by Francis Fennell, Anthony Ralston, and Barbara Reynolds that the following citation is used: “Reprinted with permission of FOCUS, the newsletter 33 Call For Papers: Contributed Paper Session at MathFest 2007 of the Mathematical Association of America (Incorporated).” 37 Employment Opportunities Periodicals postage paid at Washington, DC and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to FOCUS, Mathematical Association of America, P.O. Box 90973, On the cover: Since the Joint Meetings began on the 12th day of Christmas, it was Washington, DC 20090-0973. only appropriate that mathematicians be greeted, in the lobby of the Sheraton, by a ISSN: 0731-2040; Printed in the United States New Orleans-style Santa and his alligators. of America. FOCUS Deadlines May/June August/September October Editorial Copy March 9 June 9 Display Ads March 9 June 9 August 1 Employment Ads March 24 June 16 August 13 2 February 2007 FOCUS MAA’s Math Gateway Now Online M AA’s new NSF-sup- ported digital library project, The Math Gateway, a pathway within the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is now online at http://mathgate- way.maa.org. The Math Gateway is the only mathematics pathway among the NSDL’s nine “pathway projects,” each of which has stewardship for a particular community of users. At Math Gateway you can simulta- neously search for online mathematics materials held by 17 partner collections, including all the components of MathDL, Math Forum, MathWorld, PlanetMath, the National Curve Bank, Demos With Positive Impact, iLumi- na Digital Library, causeweb. org, the Connected Curricu- lum Project, Virtual Labo- ratories in Probability and Statistics, the Mathematics Survey, the Ethnomathemat- ics Digital Library, and the NSDL Middle School Portal. The Gateway home page also features a Math in the News column, new each week. Soon a new Math in the News (MathDL) at http://mathdl.maa.org is one • Applied Math and Science Education column will appear each working day. of the original NSDL collections. Repository, with resources for two- year schools, at http://amser.org If you register at The Math Gateway, In addition to Math Gateway, other • your My Library section enables you NSDL pathway projects include: Teachers’ Domain at WGBH, with to collect particular resources and share • comPADRE, for physics, at http:// professional development for K–12 selected ones with a list of friends and compadre.org teachers, at http://teachersdomain. org colleagues. You may upload small files to • your Library, work on them collectively MatDL, for materials science, at http://matdl.org • NSDL Middle School Portal, the with those on your list, and discuss topics remaining public part of the Eisen- of common interest. • Engineering Pathway, at http://engi- hower National Clearinghouse, at neeringpathway.org http://msteacher.org The NSDL (see http://nsdl.org) is an • BiosciEdNet (BEN), for biology, at NSF-sponsored program that was begun http://www.biosciednet.org. • ChemEd Digital Library, being in 2000. Currently there are over 200 created by the Journal of Chemical individual projects supported by the • Shodor Foundation, for computa- Education. program, and the NSDL database has tional science, at http://shodor.org information on more than two million Lang Moore is the Director of the Math May/June August/September October online materials and services. MAA’s Gateway and the Executive Editor of Editorial Copy March 9 June 9 Mathematical Sciences Digital Library MathDL. He can be reached by email at Display Ads March 9 June 9 August 1 [email protected]. Employment Ads March 24 June 16 August 13 3 FOCUS February 2007 Ivars Peterson Named MAA Director of Publications for Journals and Communications The MAA is pleased to announce it has and Chemistry from the University of To- selected Ivars Peterson as its new Direc- ronto. He is currently a writer at Science tor of Publications for Journals and Com- News and editor of Science News Online munications. Peterson will begin working and Science News for Kids. Peterson is with the Association at its Washington also a weekly mathematics columnist headquarters on Monday, March 5, 2007. for Science News Online and FOCUS In his position as Director, Peterson will Online, where his MathTrek column has be overseeing the MAA’s journals and been a perennial favorite. He is the author other periodicals, both in print and elec- of several books, including Mathematical tronic. He will also oversee the content Treks: From Surreal Numbers to Magic and resources available at the MAA’s Circles, published by the MAA. He pre- website. His other activities will entail viously worked as a high school science duties related to communications from and mathematics teacher. the MAA to its members, its sections, the public, and other constituencies. We are very pleased that Peterson will be joining the MAA and welcome him to the Peterson has an M.A. in Journalism from staff and the leadership team. the University of Missouri-Columbia, a B.Ed. in Education and a B.Sc. in Physics Ivars Peterson Furstenberg and Smale Will Share the 2006–2007 Wolf Prize The 2006–2007 Wolf Prize in Math- ematics will be shared by Harry Fur- stenberg of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Stephen Smale of the University of California at Berkeley. The prize, which has a total value of $100,000, is one of seven prizes given annually by the Wolf Foundation to rec- ognize achievement in different areas of science and the arts. The prize will be formally awarded in Israel this May. Furstenberg was honored “for his pro- found contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analy- sis on symmetric spaces and homoge- neous flows.” Smale was honored for his “ground-breaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping dif- Stephen Smale Harry Furstenberg ferential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics.” More details, including a more complete description of the mathematical achievements of both men, can be found at the Wolf Foundation web site at http://www.wolffund.org.il. 4 February 2007 FOCUS Bylaws Change on the Agenda for MAA Business Meeting at the San José MathFest By Martha J. Siegel, MAA Secretary The MAA Board of Governors, at its Committee on Sections (see Article MOTION 2: meeting on January 4, 2007, passed the VI.7), the members of the Audit Com- following Bylaws changes to allow flex- mittee (see Article IX.3), and a current To change the current Article IX. 3: ibility in meeting government regulations journal editor or the chair of the Com- for organization audits. mittee on Publications. It shall be the The accounts of the Association shall function of this Committee to review be audited annually by a certified Currently, two members of the Associa- continually the policies and activities public accountant (the auditor). There tion are elected by the Board to serve on of the Association, to plan and organize shall be an Audit Committee, a sub- the Audit Committee for terms of four new activities, to formulate in broad committee of the Executive Commit- years. Members of the Audit Committee outline the programs of meetings and tee, consisting of two members each plus the Treasurer form the MAA’s Bud- of publications, to act on behalf of the elected by the Board in alternate get Committee, and all members of the Board on all financial matters as speci- even-numbered years for a term of Budget Committee are members of the fied in Article IX, and in general to four years.
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