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Announcements

• Ohio Focus (Current issue.)
• Announcing the third annual Ohio Section of the MAA Student Team Competition: Undergraduate students from institutions of the Ohio Section are invited to participate in the competition, which will take place at The University of Akron on March 31, 2006, from Noon-1:20 p.m. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three teams. Rules and registration can be found at http://personal.ashland.edu/~dwick/constum.html or you may view a pdf version of the poster.
• Summer Short Course. Are you a baseball fan or someone interested in discovering ways to use baseball applications in your teaching of probability and statistics?  Come be part of the fun at the Ohio Section 2006 summer short course:  “Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game,” which is being planned for June 7-9, 2006 at Mount Union College, in Alliance, Ohio.  Learn how to use baseball for teaching statistical thinking and probabilistic modeling.  Explore baseball data, as you search for the ultimate batting statistic, look for clutch ability, model run production with Markov Chains, or compare great players of different eras, such as Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds.  The instructor for this course will be Dr. James Albert, professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Bowling Green State University, author of Teaching Statistics Using Baseball, and coauthor of Curve Ball:  Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game.   For further information go to http://www.muc.edu/~zwilliml/shortcourse/.
• AcroTeX.net (http://www.acrotex.net) is a recently established web site that is dedicated to electronic education using a LaTeX to PDF workflow. The site features (1) the AcroTeX eDucation Bundle (AeB), a bundle of LaTeX packages for producing interactive exercises and quizzes; and (2) the AcroTeX Presentation Bundle (APB), the newest product of the AcroTeX Software Development Team. The APB is used to create high quality presentations for academic talks or for the classroom.  See the AcroTeX.net web site for many examples of APB, examples include presentations with talking points, slideshows, and animations.
• Update or nominate a new Liaison
• 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TEACHING OF
  
• UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH:
  • The Department of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics of The University of Akron has been approved by the National Science Foundation to run an NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the summer of 2006.
  • Miami University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics will conduct its sixth Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Science Research Institute (SUMSRI) program. African Americans and other underrepresented minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
• Ohio Masters of Mathematics is a collection of biographical sketches and part of Ohio's Bicentennial celebration. See call for submissions. 
• MAA News

Section Events and Activities

• Section Meeting Schedule.
  • Fall Section Meeting, October 27-28, 2006, Muskingum College, New Concord, OH
  • Spring Section Meeting, April 13-14, 2007 at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio
• Section Teaching Awards. (Nominating Instructions)
• Summer Short Course, June 7-9, 2006, Mount Union College (Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game)
  • 2004 [Photos]
  • 2003 [Photos]
  • 2002 [Photos] 
• Ohio Project NExT (Application Form)
  
• State Science Day Award (2003) (2002) 

Student Activities

• Time Magazine article on the Putnam exam. 
• MAA Student Page.
• SIAM Undergraduate Page
• Mathematics honorary societies: 
  • Pi Mu Epsilon. 
  • Kappa Mu Epsilon. 
• American Mathematics Competitions. From the American Junior High School Mathematics Examination (AJHSME) to the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 
  • Scores, pictures and biographies of participants, and the problems for the International Mathematical Olympiad just held in Washington DC are all accessible through imo.wolfram.com. 
• Careers in mathematics.
• CNN article on careers in mathematics. 

  

  Dwight Olson
  Section President
  olson@jcu.edu

Section Governance and Documents

• President's Message
• 2004-2005 Section Officers and Committees (2004-2005)
• Governor's Report (January 2006)
• CUPM 2004 PowerPoint Presentation (pdf version)
• Bylaws of the Section.
• OhioFOCUS, The Section newsletter  (Information and previous issues.)
• Other documents and meetings.
• The Section history: The Ohio Section: 1915-1990, is now on-line. See what the Section looked like in 1917. Paper copies are still available from David Kullman. 

Other Items of Interest

• Calendar of meetings and conferences. 
• Departments and Institutions in the Ohio Section.
• The Combined Membership List.. 
• MAA Online. 
• The sections of the MAA
  • Contiguous Sections:  Allegheny Mountain, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan
• Project NExT for new faculty. 
• PMET Activities Open on Four Fronts
• American Mathematical Society
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. 
• Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• AMATYC Online (The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges). 
• OhioMATYC. 
• American Statistical Association
• Cleveland Chapter
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  Great Lakes Section
• Ohio Mathematics and Science Coalition. 
• Ohio Academy of Science
• Young Mathematicians Network (YMN). 
• NSF-funded Math Forum. Information on important mathematics education topics for the mathematics community.
• Deadline for the Spring 2006 newsletter is February 2, 2006.
• Support the teaching and practice of mathematics, join the MAA now.

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Please send all materials for the web page to Tom Price, the University of Akron.

Revised: February 18, 2006