| 1. | Thursday, January 17, 2002, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Pi Mu Epsilon Pizza Party, jointly sponsored by ScMaTA. All are invited. After the pizza, join us for bowling at the Bernhard Center. |
| 2. | Friday, February 15, 2002, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, John Daniels, WMU, will present a talk titled: "Where Have You Gone, Carl Yastrzemski?". |
| 3. | Friday, February 22, 2002, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Jonathan Hodge, WMU, will present a talk entitled "Separability and Symmetry and Algebra, Oh My!". |
| 4. | Friday, March 15, 2002, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Garry Johns, Saginaw Valley State University, will present a talk titled: "Crashes, Glasses, and Classes: Using Networks to Resolve Conflicts". |
| 5. | Thursday, March 21, 2002, 4:10 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Peter Hilton (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, State University of New York, Binghamton, and Distinguished Professor, University of Central Florida, Orlando) and Jean Pedersen (Santa Clara University) will present a talk titled: "The Euler Characteristic and the Descartes Deficiency". This event is partially funded by Student Activities Fees. |
| 6. | Friday, March 22, 2002, Initiation ceremonies at 3:15 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, to be followed by a special presentation by Peter Hilton entitled "Breaking High Grade German Ciphers in World War II", at 4:00 pm in 1104 Rood Hall. This event is partially funded by Student Activities Fees. |
| 7. | Friday, March 29, 2002, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Allen Schwenk, WMU, will present a talk entitled "The Anxious Gambler and Remarkable Strategy of Bold Play". |
| 8. | Friday, April 5, 2002, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Jay Wood, WMU, will present a talk, "Summing Digits" | 9. | Friday, April 12, 2002, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Steve Mackey, WMU, will present a talk titled: "Green's Theorem on Wheels". | 10. | Friday, April 19, 2002, 4:00 p.m., movie, to be announced, in the Alavi Commons Room. |
| 1. | Friday, September 7, 2001, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Pi Mu Epsilon Pizza Party, jointly sponsored by ScMaTa. All are invited. |
| 2. | Tuesday - Thursday, 11 - 13 September 2001, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, the Pi Mu Epsilon book sale will be held in 3375 Rood Hall. |
| 3. | Friday, September 28, 2001, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Dan Isaksen, University of Notre Dame, will present a talk entitled "How to Kick a Field Goal". |
| 4. | Thursday, October 4, 2001, H. Bauschke, University of Guelph, Canada, will present a talk titled: "The Mathematics of JPEG". |
| 5. | Friday, October 12, 2001, M. Shillor, Oakland University, will present a talk titled: "Thermostats, Suspensions and Noisy Brakes". |
| 6. | Friday, October 26, 2001, 4:00 p.m. in 1104 Rood Hall, David Ross, Eastman Kodak and Rochester Institute of Technology, will present a talk entitled "Mathematics in Photography". |
| 7. | Friday, 26 October 2001, 6:00 pm, PME Initiation Banquet, Rooms 157-158 Bernhard Center. David Ross will present an after dinner talk entitled: "Bad Jokes and Cheap Tricks, Modern Mathematics at its Essence". Banquet tickets are available, for information please contact Dr. Nil Mackey, at 387-4594. |
| 8. | Friday, 2 November, 2001, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor Everett Tower, Michael Kinyon, WMU, will present a talk entitled: "How To Add Vectors" |
| 9. | Friday, 9 November, 2001, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor Everett Tower, Mike Raines, WMU, "Graph Decompositions and Algebraic Representations". |
| 10. | Saturday, November 17, 2001 Trip to the National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan. Jointly sponsored with the Physics Club of WMU. For more information, please contact Dr. Mackey (nil.mackey@wmich.edu). |
| 11. | Thursday, 29 November 2001, 7:00 pm in room 1104 Rood Hall. Celebrate the end of the semester with a free movie and popcorn. The movie will be "A Brief History of Time". This event is jointly sponsored with the Physics Club. |
| 1. | Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Pi Mu Epsilon Pizza Party. All are invited. |
| 2. | Tuesday - Thursday, 16 - 18 January 2001, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, the Pi Mu Epsilon book sale will be held in 3375 Rood Hall. |
| 3. | Friday, January 26, 2001 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Danny Dunlavy, WMU student, will present a talk entitled "Mathematical Modeling in Industry: Notes From a Student Workshop". |
| 4. | Friday, 2 February 2001, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Common Room, Feedback Forum with Dr. Wood, for students only. |
| 5. | Friday, 9 February 2001, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Common Room, Tabitha Mingus, WMU, will present a talk entitled "A Peek at Peak Numbers". |
| 6. | Friday, 16 February 2001, 4:00 pm, in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, WMU students Daryl Findley, John McKenzie and Benjamin Phillips, will present a talk entitled "Domination... in all its graphic detail". |
| 7. | Friday, 9 March 2001, 3:30 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor Everett Tower, Aparna Higgins, University of Dayton, will present a talk entitled "Demonic Graphs and Undergraduate Research". This event is SAF funded. |
| 8. | Thursday, 22 March 2001, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Rooms, Heather Gavlas, Grand Valley State University, will present a talk entitled "Decomposing Graphs". The talk will be preceded by the Annual Business Meeting at 3:30 pm. |
| 9. | Friday, 30 March 2001, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Rooms, Charles Groetsch, University of Cincinnati will present a talk entitled "Inverse Problems in Science and Mathematics". |
| 10. | Thursday, 12 April 2001, 7:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Rooms, celebrate the end of the semester with a free movie ("2001: Space Odyssey") and popcorn. Jointly sponsored with the Physics Club. |
| 1. | Friday, September 8, 2000, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Pi Mu Epsilon Pizza Party. All are invited. |
| 2. | Tuesday - Thursday, 12 - 14 September 2000, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, the Pi Mu Epsilon book sale will be held in 3375 Rood Hall. |
| 3. | Friday, September 29, 2000, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Robert Rogers, SUNY, Fredonia, will present a talk entitled "Calculus before Calculus". |
| 4. | Friday, October 27, 2000, 4:00 p.m. in 1104 Rood Hall, Keith Devlin, St. Mary's College, will present a talk entitled "How Mathematical Ability Evolved". This talk is jointly sponsored with SCMATA. Professor Devlin frequently appears as the Math Guy on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition - - Saturday". |
| 5. | Friday, 27 October 2000, 6:00 pm, PME Initiation Banquet, Rooms 208-209 Bernhard Center. After dinner talk by Keith Devlin, St. Mary's College, entitled "The Mathematical Ability of Supermarket Shoppers". Banquet tickets are available, for information please contact Dr. Nil Mackey, at 387-4594. |
| 6. | Friday, 10 November, 2000, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor Everett Tower, Kristin Moore, University of Michigan, will present a talk entitled "The Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge: Modeling Motion in a Nonlinearly Suspended Beam." |
| 7. | Thursday, 30 November 2000, 7:00 pm in room 1004 Rood Hall. Celebrate the end of the semester with a free movie and popcorn. Jointly sponsored with the Physics Club. |
| 1. | Friday, January 28, 2000 4:00 in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Allen Schwenk, Western Michigan University, will present a talk entitled "Turn Those Lights Out Now!" Pi Mu Epsilon pizza party to follow. All are invited. |
| 2. | Friday, February 4, 2000, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Jonathan Hodge, Western Michigan University student, will present a talk entitled "Trouble in Democracy: The Separability Problem in Multiple Elections." |
| 3. | Friday, February 18, 2000, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College, will present a talk entitled "Calculus Plus Topology Equals..." |
| 4. | Friday, March 17, 2000 4:00 p.m., in 1104 Rood Hall, Esther Tesar, Educational Testing Service, will present a talk entitled "Magic in Mathematics". |
| 5. | Friday, March 24, 2000, 3:30 p.m., in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, initiation of new members. Talk by Peter Hilton and Jean Pederson to follow in Rood Hall. |
| 6. | Friday, March 24, 2000, 4:00 p.m., in 1104 Rood Hall, Peter Hilton, SUNY Binghamton and Jean Pederson of Santa Clara University, will jointly present a talk entitled "Paradoxes of Traditional Thinking." |
| 7. | Friday, April 14, 2000, 4:00 p.m., in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Annual Business Meeting. After which, John Martino, Western Michigan University, will present a talk entitled "Henri Poincare and the King of Sweden." An end of the semester Pizza Party will follow the talk. |
| 1. | Friday, September 17, 1999 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Pi Mu Epsilon Pizza Party. |
| 2. | Friday, October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, "Mathematical Mindsets and Toolsets", Ed Moylan, Ford Motor Company. All interested students are welcome. |
| 3. | Friday, October 15, 1999, 4:00 p.m. in 1104 Rood Hall, Thomas Hales, University of Michigan, will present a talk entitled "Cannonballs and Honneycombs". |
| 4. | Tuesday, October 19 through Thursday, October 21, 1999, from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. the Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Book Sale will be held in 3368 Rood Hall. |
| 5. | Friday, November 5, 1999, 4:00 p.m., in 1104 Rood Hall, Frank Williams, Williams College will present a talk entitled "The Soap Bubble Geometry Contest: Questions, Answers, Demonstrations, and Prizes". |
| 6. | Friday, November 5, 1999, Pi Mu Epsilon Initiation Banquet, Presidents' Dining Room, talk by Frank Morgan, Williams College, on "Students and Mathematics in the News and on TV". |
| 7. | Friday, November 19,1999, 4:00 p.m., in 1104 Rood Hall, Western Michigan University students Mark Crawford and Oscar Neal will present a talk entitled "Using the Right Directions to Find Trees, Stars, and Other Interesting Objects". |
| 6. | Thursday, December 2, 1999, Movie and Popcorn. Rood Hall 1104, at 7:00p.m. Jointly sponsored with the Physics Club. |
| 1. | Friday, January 22, 1999 4:00 in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower "All Tied Up", a talk in Knot Theory will be presented by Dawn Jones, Western Michigan University. |
| 2. | Friday, February 5, 1999, 4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, "Discover What Lurks in the Shadows..." by Natascha Shinkel and Gina Garza, Western Michigan University students. |
| 3. | Friday, February 19, 1999,4:00 p.m. in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Dr. Allen Schwenk, Professor of Mathematics at WMU, will present a talk entitled "What is the Correct Way to Seed a Knockout Tournament" |
| 4. | Friday, March 12, 1999, 4:10 p.m., in 1104 Rood Hall, Dr. Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College, will present a talk entitled "Escher's Combinatorial Patterns". This talk is supported in part by Student Assessment Fees. The initiation ceremonies for new members will be held following the talk. |
| 5. | Friday, March 26, 1999, 4:00 p.m., in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Dr. Marc Lipman, Oakland University, will present a talk entitled "Paradox". |
| 6. | Thursday, April 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m., in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Peter Buczkowski, will present a talk. Title to be announced. This will also be our end of the year Pizza Party and General Business Meeting. |
| 7. | Thursday, April 15,1999, 7:00 p.m., in 1104 Rood Hall, Film, "N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos". Refreshments will be served. |
| 1. | Friday, September 11, 1998, 4:00 in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Pizza Party. |
| 2. | Friday, September 25, 1998, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower Raluca Muntean, Western Michigan University student, will present a talk entitled "The Money Changing Problem". This talk is cosponsored by the Kalamazoo Area Student Chapter of the MAA. Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. |
| 3. | Thursday, October 15, 1998, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower Dr. Joseph Gallian, Professor of Mathematics, will present a talk entitled "Breaking Driver's License Codes". Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. |
| 4. | Thursday, October 15, 1998, 6:30 pm in Rooms 157-159, Bernhard Student Center, Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Initiation Ceremony. Punch bowl at 6:00 pm. Dr. Joseph Gallian will present an after dinner talk entitled "The Beatles". |
| 5. | Tuesday, November 10, 1998, through Thursday, November 12, 1998, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm each day the Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Booksale will be held in Room 3360 Rood Hall. |
| 6. | Friday, November 20, 1998, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor Everett Tower, Dr. John Stoughton, Hope College, will present a talk entitled "How Archimedes (287-212 B.C) Used his Laptop Computer to Compute the Value of Pi". Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. |
| 7. | Friday, December 4, 1998, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Room on the Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Professor Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University, will present a talk to a joint meeting of Pi Mu Epsilon and the Kalamazoo Area Student Chapter of the MAA entitled "Research in Mathematics for Undergraduates: How Do We Do It?". This talk will be followed by our end-of-the semester pizza party. |
| 1. | Friday, February 13, 1998, 4:10 in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower. Dr. Alan Koch, Hope College, will present a talk entitled "The Cantor Shadow Problem".. Refreshments will be served at 3:50 pm. |
| 2. | Friday, February 20, 1998, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower. Chris Poisson, Western Michigan University, will present a talk entitled "Graphs, Dimensions, and Chemistry. Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. |
| 3. | Friday, March 20, 1998, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower. Professor Robert Megginson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor will present a talk entitled "Native American Mathematics. Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. |
| 4. | Thursday, March 26, 1998, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower, Professor Underwood Dudley, DePauw University, will present a talk entitled "Angle Trisectors". Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. Preceding the talk at 3:50 there will be an initiation of new members and the election of 1998-99 officers for Pi Mu Epsilon. This talk is supported in part by Student Assessment Fees. |
| 5. | Friday, April 10, 1998, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor of Everett Tower. Dr. Thomas Richardson, Western Michigan University, will present a talk entitled "How Real is Real". Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. The talk will be followed by a pizza party. |
| 6. | Monday, April 13 1998, 4:00 pm in the Alavi Commons Room, Sixth Floor Everett Tower, Chris Rodger, Auburn University, will present a talk entitled "Discrete Mathematics Today". Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. |