James Madison University
April 9 & 10
Speaker Biographies
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Lynchburg College
Dr. Barzilai received his PhD from Cornell University in 1997, completing a dissertation in topology alongside the considerable distractions of initiating a graduate student led calculus reform program, including authoring the Cornell Calculus Reform Pages. While tempted by a hybrid research/educational postdoctoral offer from Duke, he followed his passions to the University of Minnesota for an educational mathematics position before coming to Lynchburg College, to take a new position created by the Dean for a mathematician to liaison with the School of Education.
While at Cornell, his attention was so captured when Adleman's article
on DNA computing was published that he give a talk on the subject to faculty
and graduate students. He has since given similar talks to mixed audiences
of undergraduates and faculty, and hopes to both stimulate students' interest
in mathematics, and to encourage closer ties between mathematicians and
scientists in other disciplines.
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Randolph Macon Women's College
Dr. Anita Solow is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of
the College at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, and is the First Vice President
of the MAA. She was a member of the Faculty at Grinnel College for 16 years,
serving as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
and Co-Director of the New Science Project. She also served as Dean of
Academic Affairs at DePauw University. Her service to the profession includes
chairing the Advanced Placement Calculus Committee, membership of the Advisory
Panel for a review of NSF's ILI Program, and a wide variety of committee
assignments for the MAA. She also is the editor of two MAA Notes volumes:
Learning by Discovery and Preparing for a New Calculus. Dr. Solow's mathematical
interests include calculus reform, combinatorics, and changing pedagogy
in mathematics and science.
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Georgetown University
Dr. James Sandefur is Professor of Mathematics at Georgetown University,
and is currently the Principal Investigator for an NSF grant to develop
hands-on models for developmental college math courses. He is a writer
for the NCTM's Standards 2000, and author of texts "Discrete Dynamical
Systems: Theory and Applications" and "Discrete Dynamical Modeling". Dr.
Sandefur served a term as a program officer at NSF in the Instructional
Materials Development Program. His interests in mathematics curricula for
nonmajors led him to develop a technology rich course in discrete dynamical
modeling for liberal arts students, and to serve as a consultant for commercially
produced videos for mathematics instruction (Cerebellum Corp "The Candy
Coated World of Calculus", parts I and II.)
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Providence College
Jim Tattersall received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1963, a Master's degree in mathematics from UMASS in 1965, and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma in 1971. He has been a visiting scholar at Wolfson College and the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University. He was a visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a visiting mathematician at the American Mathematical Society. He was given the NES/MAA Award for Distinguished Service (1992) and the NES/MAA Award for Distinguished College Teaching (1997). He serves as president of Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Archivist/Historian of NES/MAA, and Associate Secretary of the MAA.
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