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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2009 SOUTHEASTERN SECTION AWARD for DISTINGUISHED TEACHING by a BEGINNING COLLEGE or UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICS FACULTY MEMBER

In Spring 2009, the Section will present its first "Beginning Faculty" Teaching Award. The Section urges departments or individual faculty to submit a nomination. We have many outstanding young teachers in our Section---make sure the one you know about is a candidate for this recognition!

The deadline for submission of all nomination materials is January 26, 2009.

Questions about eligibility or the nominations process may be addressed to the Chair of the Selection Committee, David Stone, at dstone@georgiasoutehern.edu. The nominations form is here, and the instructions are here.

Project NExT-SE: Please encourage new Ph.D.s to apply to this sectional professional development opportunity!

Here are some resolutions expressing our gratitude for the wonderful welcome that The Citadel provided us at our 2008 annual meeting, thanking all those responsible for organizing the meeting, as well as thanking others for their services throughout the year(s). Our 2009 annual meeting will be held on March 13-14 at Belmont University in Tennessee. Our 2010 annual meeting will be held on March 26-27 at Elon University in North Carolina.

Find out more about the Walt and Susan Patterson Prize.

In the Section Information section, you will find links to lists of Section colleges and universities, departmental liaisons, Section officers, Section by-laws, information on the Section's NExT-SE program, and archives of Section information from previous years.

I have posted two documents about the history of our section: John Neff's history of our section 1922-1992   (PDF) , as well as a history of minority participation in our section   (PDF) by Etta Falconer et al. The latter document in particular is inspirational, in terms of how far we have come and the work it took to get us here.

Our Section Lecturer for 2008-2009 is Chris Rodger of Auburn University. Here are three topics that he is prepared to lecture on.

  1. Discrete Math Today. This is a talk suitable for a very general audience, discussing some or all of:
    1. Coding theory and how compact discs work (would a CD for a dog be bigger or smaller?)
    2. Access structures (how can the boss go to play golf and give two people a share of the key to the safe, neither share giving any information on its own)
    3. Looking for contaminated blood samples among largely pure samples
  2. How to Schedule a Week of Dinner Parties. This is also suitable for a general audience, looking at combinatorial designs, neighbor designs (an experimental design) and finite geometries in a comfortable setting--audience participation is sometimes an option.
  3. Amalgamations of Graphs. This is a more mathematical talk in the area of graph homomorphisms, but is presented in a very visual way, so it is still accessible even to math undergraduates. This involves a lot of edge-coloring that tries to distribute colors evenly in at least three different senses simultaneously.

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Have you ever considered hosting a state MAA dinner? Are you currently planning one? Check the section on Hosting a State Dinner to help you in your planning.