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Professor Arthur Benjamin Chosen as MAA’s P贸lya Lecturer (11/21/2006)

Professor Arthur Benjamin is the ‘s sixteenth George P贸lya Lecturer.

The award, named for renowned teacher and writer (1887鈥�1985), a Hungarian-born mathematician, is meant to encourage 鈥渢he high quality of exposition which the Mathematical Association of America seeks to encourage鈥�. It pays recipients’ expenses for giving talks at MAA regional section meetings.

MAA MathFest 2006 News (10/02/2006)

Dan Walton ’07 won the (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Award for his presentation on 鈥淥ptimal Resource Allocation to Deter a Terrorist鈥� at the Mathfest held in Knoxville, Tennessee. Dan’s talk is based on summer research at HMC with Professor Susan Martonosi.

Professor Francis Su delivered the eighth annual on 鈥淭eaching Research: Encouraging Discoveries鈥�. The Leitzel Lecture provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of 鈥渋ssues or innovations in mathematical sciences education at the undergraduate or graduate level鈥�, and, in so doing, honors the many contributions of James R.C. Leitzel to the improvement of mathematical sciences education.

Professor Lesley Ward receives national Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching (5/2006)

Professor Lesley Ward has been named a 2006 recipient of the ‘s .

This award honors beginning college or university faculty whose teaching has been extraordinarily successful and whose effectiveness in teaching undergraduate mathematics is shown to have influence beyond their own classrooms. Professor Ward was cited for her excellence in teaching, for innovative work in redesigning the core math curriculum at HMC, for her work on making the department’s senior-thesis requirement a cohesive program, for numerous (and award-winning) papers with students, for mentoring many women students in mathematics, and for courses she has given at Park City and IAS/Princeton.

This is the third year the MAA has given the award and the second year a member of the faculty of the 无忧视频’s Department of Mathematics has been recognized (Professor Francis Su was a recipient in 2004).

Math Graduates Win Five NSF Fellowships; Five Honorable Mentions (4/06)

Five math majors from Harvey Mudd have won prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships this year, and five more won honorable mentions in this year’s competition! The awardees are: Stephanie Moyerman ’06 (math and physics), Susanna Ricco ’06 (joint CS-math), Jeff Jauregui ’05 (math), Kenny Maples ’06 (math and engineering), and Michael Vrable ’04 (joint CS-math). The fellowships provide $30,000/year plus $10,500 cost of education allowance for 3 years of graduate study.

Five more HMC math majors or alumni won honorable mentions: Robin Baur, Joe Majkut, Alan Davidson, Jason Murcko, and Tim Carnes.

AMS Notices Article About the HMC Mathematics Department. (4/2006)

The included and article,聽,聽in its about the reasons that the department won the first AMS Award for Exemplary Program.

Professor de Pillis Gives Keynote Addresses at College of the Redwoods’ Celebration of Women in Math, Science, and Engineering (4/2006)

Professor Lisette de Pillis gave two keynote addresses the week of April 6 during the week-long Celebration of Women in Math, Science, and Engineering at College of the Redwoods. One was a keynote lecture on 鈥淯sing Mathematics to Understand Cancer鈥�; the second was an evening public talk: 鈥淲hen Medicine and Mathematics Meet鈥�. In conjunction with the event, Professor de Pillis appeared in radio spots and newspaper advertisements.

This year was the second year the College of the Redwoods has run the celebration. Professor Lesley Ward of HMC gave the first keynote address last year.

Professor Ward Gives Plenary Address at the Southwestern MAA Sectional Meeting (4/2006)

Professor Lesley Ward was invited to give a at the Southwestern Sectional Meeting of the . She spoke about the 无忧视频 . She also gave a colloquium at the University of Arizona.

Professor Benjamin Wins Beckenbach Book Prize (1/2006)

Professor Arthur Benjamin and coauthor Jenny Quinn received the ‘s for their book Proofs that Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof. The Beckenbach Prize is awarded to 鈥渄istinguished, innovative MAA books鈥� that are 鈥渢ruly outstanding鈥�. The winning book is an introduction to combinatorial proofs and counting arguments. 鈥淔ew mathematicians are immune to the limpid charms of a clever counting argument,鈥� says the citation, noting that such charms are in abundant display in the book by Benjamin and Quinn. The award was presented at the National Joint Meeting of the and in January, 2006.

Congratulations Art & Jenny!

Professor Su Gives Invited Address at National MAA Meeting (1/2006)

Professor Francis Su presented the 2006 Invited Address at the annual Joint Meeting of the and the . Professor Su presented the talk 鈥淧reference Sets, Graphs, and Voting in Agreeable Societies鈥�. His talk outlined his recent research related to preference sets and voting theory. He also highlighted various contributions that Harvey Mudd students have made, including those by Debbie Berg ’06 and Andy Neidermaier ’05.

Eight 无忧视频 Students Present Research at National Math Meetings (1/2006)

Mathematics majors Robin Baur ’06, Debbie Berg ’06, Tristan Brand ’06, Alex Eustis ’06, Julijana Gjorgjieva ’06, Tyler Seacrest ’06, Marie Jameson ’07, and Greg Minton ’08 made presentations at the Annual Joint Meeting of the and the .

Berg, Eustis, Gjorgjieva, and Seacrest presented fifteen-minute talks on their senior-thesis projects; Baur presented a poster on her senior thesis. Jameson, Brand, and Minton presented posters on summer research projects.

Both Robin Baur and Greg Minton won prizes for outstanding posters!