Michigan
Epsilon Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon
http://www.wmich.edu/math/pimuepsilon
Fall 2003
1. Friday, September 12, 2003 at 4 p.m.
in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor of Everett Tower: Pi Mu Epsilon Pizza
Party. All are invited.
2. Monday, September 15, 2003 through Wednesday, September 17, 2003 from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursday, September 18, 2003 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., in
the Mathematics Education Center, Rood 3375: Pi Mu Epsilon Used Book Sale.
3. Friday, September 19, 2003, 4 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor
of Everett Tower: Dr. Joe Buckley, professor emeritus of the Mathematics Department,
Western Michigan University, will present a talk entitled "Factorization
in the Gaussian Integers"
4. Friday, October 3, 2003, 4 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor of
Everett Tower: Dr. Jeffrey Strom,
Western Michigan University, will present a talk entitled "The
Geometry of Perspective Drawing"
5. Friday, October 10, 2003, 4 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor of
Everett Tower: Dr. Radu Teodorescu, Western Michigan University, will present
a talk entitled "Linear Recurrence Relations"
6. Friday, October 17, 2003, 4 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor of
Everett Tower: Games Night. Have fun playing all sorts of games (mancala, rumicube,
chess, yahtzee, etc.)
7. Friday, October 24, 2003, 4 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor of
Everett Tower: Dr. Jonathan Hodge and Micah TerHaar, Grand Valley State University,
present a talk entitled "Separable Preferences and Admissible Characters"
8. Friday, October 31, 2003, 4 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor of
Everett Tower: Michael Kinyon, Western Michigan University, will present a talk
entitled "Adventures in automated reasoning".
9. Friday, November 14, 2003, 4 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor
of Everett Tower: Dr. Josh Naranjo, Statistics Department, Western Michigan
University, will present a talk entitled " On Regression toward the Average "
10. Friday, November 21, 2003, 4 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor
of Everett Tower: Feedback Forum with Dr. Jay Wood, Mathematics Department Chair.
Please note: This event is open only to undergraduate and graduate students.
11. Friday, December 5, 2003, 6 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor
of Everett Tower: PME Movie Night! Come see a movie and eat free popcorn. Discussion
of mathematics to follow viewing. Title TBA.
