Department of Mathematics Marywood University, Scranton, PA 18509

Marywood Mathematics

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Math Club Officers Elected The officers for the Marywood Student Math Club (aka Semi-Group) for the 2007-08 school year were elected at the first club meeting. They are: President: Colin Conrad Vice-President: Ashley Afieri Secretary: Kayla Troast Treasurer: Katherine Fisher	ALUMNI NEWS! Thank you to all those who have responded to the alumni newsletter! If you are still interested in signing up, please contact Melissa O'Brien at mobrien@marywood.edu Alumni News • Eric Sponza ('03) spoke at Binghamton University about Supersolvable Groups, on September 18th, 2007. • Eric Sponza ('03) and Liz Dittrick ('06) are currently graduate students in mathematics at SUNY, Binghamton, NY. Liz is in her first year in the doctoral program. Eric has attained his masters in mathematics and is now in his third year in the doctoral program. Both are teaching their own sections of precalculus students and enjoying it greatly. • Susan Kulikowski ('02) got married last summer and is in her third year teaching at Mountain View High School. • Cara Huldie ('98) attained her Ph.D. in mathematics at Stevens College last year and has recently moved with her husband and son to Milford, PA. • Susan Carlo ('01) recently moved back to PA from Maryland with her husband and son and is teaching at Tunkhannock Middle School. • Mike Dudley ('01) has attained a masters in computer science and, as always, is playing guitar in a very popular local band. • Brett Blair ('06) is in law school somewhere in Philadelphia! • Please let me know of any alumni news! (johnsonc@marywood.edu) Moravian Student Mathematics Conference This year the conference was held on Sat. Feb.17, 2007. Four math majors and two faculty members (Dr. J and Dr. Zhang) attended this conference. An excellent presentation on the subject of Searching for k-Smooth Integers was given by junior Colin Conrad. These results have significance in factoring very large numbers and therefore are instrumental in cryptology, the science of code encryption and decryption. (For an abstract, go to: Undergraduate Research)
Annual High School Math Contest Over 230 students representing 9 area high schools participated in this year's Marywood Mathematics Contest held on Saturday, February 24, 2007. For more information : Annual High School Math Contest	Math Club Fall Party The fall barbecue for the Math Club was held at Dr. J's house on Sunday, September 16th, 2007. The weather was beautiful and the day included many games of horseshoe as well as ping pong!
Attention! If you know of any alumni who you think would enjoy receiving this newsletter, please contact Melissa O'Brien , Department Secretary : mobrien@es.marywood.edu	American Regions Mathematics League Dr. Chaogui Zhang organized and coached the 2006 NEPA ARML team of 15 high school students that competed in the American Regions Math League contest at State College on June 2, 2006. Students were from Abington Heights, Honesdale, Scranton Prep, and Crestwood. Dr. Johnson tagged along on the contest day to eat pizza on campus and have ice cream at the Creamery. For more information, go to: NEPA ARML.

Comments to Dr. Craig M. Johnson, Chairperson, Department of Mathematics: johnsonc@ac.marywood.edu

Last update: October 3, 2003

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