Iowa Alpha
Iowa State University
2003-2004 Chapter Report


 

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Stephen J. Willson

President: Tamara Hudson

Vice President: Keven Marasinghe

Treasurer: Scott Moser

Secretary: Tad Patterson

Number of New Members Inducted:

16

Number of Continuing Members:

35 (estimated)

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in Providence, Rhode Island?

No.

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1. Lecture by Christian Roettger on "Counting lattice points, Euler's totient and the Moebius function."
2. Lecture by Cliff Bergman on cryptography.
3. Many club members participated in the Iowa Intercollegiate Mathematics Competition.
4. Lecture by Howard Levine on "Mathematical modeling of tumor angiogenesis."

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

No.