Aaron works in the general area of combinatorics, speci¯cally in Ramsey theory on the integers and restricted permutation enumeration. He is a coauthor, with Bruce Landman, of the recent book Ramsey Theory on the Integers. He is also the Associate managing editor of the online journal Integers. When not researching or teaching math at Colgate University, he enjoys playing guitar and spending time with his wife and two children.
Shelly Gordon is Distinguished Teaching Professor at Farmingdale State University of New York. He is a member of a number of national committees involved in undergraduate mathematics education and is leading a national initiative to refocus the courses below calculus. He is the principal author of Functioning in the Real World , a co-editor of the MAA Notes volume A Fresh Start for Collegiate Mathematics: Rethinking the Courses Below Calculus, and a co-author of the texts developed by the Harvard Calculus Consortium.
Jennifer Beineke is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Western New England College, where she has taught since 2001. She earned Bachelors degrees in mathematics and French from Purdue University, and went on to earn her Masters and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA, under the supervision of Don Blasius. She also held a visiting position at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where she received the Arthur H. Hughes Award for Outstanding Teaching Achievement. Her research is in the area of analytic number theory, most recently focusing on moments of the Riemann zeta function. Other activities Jennifer enjoys include reading, working on puzzles and cryptic crosswords, and traveling with her husband and 18-month-old daughter. In fact, her daughter is showing signs of becoming a mathematician, having already been to eight math conferences and slept through three talks.
Konstantin Lurie received his B.Sc. and M. Sc, from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, (St. Petersburg, Russia) and his Ph.D, Dr.Sc. from A.F. loffe Physical-Technical Institute, Acad. of Sci. USSR, St. Petersbrug, Russia. He moved to USA in 1988. Since 1989, he has been a Professor Mathematics at WPI. His esearch interests include optimal control and design of distributed parameter systems, homogenization and effective properties of composites, multidimensional and nonconvex variational problems. Konstantin is the author of 3 books and about 100 papers on these subjects.
Gilbert Strang was an undergraduate at MIT and a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. His doctorate was from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. Professor Strang has published a monograph with George Fix, "An Analysis of the Finite Element Method," and six textbooks:
Introduction to Linear Algebra (1993, 1998, 2003)
Linear Algebra and Its Applications (1976, 1980, 1988, 2006)
Introduction to Applied Mathematics (1986)
Calculus (1991)
Wavelets and Filter Banks, with Truong Nguyen (1996)
Linear Algebra, Geodesy, and GPS, with Kai Borre (1997)
Gilbert Strang served as President of SIAM during 1999 and 2000. He was Chair of the US National Committee on Mathematics for 2003-2004. He won the 2005 von Neumann Medal of the US Association for Computational Mechanics. His home page is http://math.mit.edu/~gs and his courses are on MIT's OpenCourseWare ocw.mit.edu.
Nancy Hagelgans is Professor Emerita of Mathematics and Computer Science at Ursinus College, where she taught a great variety of mathematics and computer science courses for 26 years and served two terms as department chairperson. She earned a Ph.D. in algebraic topology at Johns Hopkins University and later an M.S. in computer science at Villanova University. Her A. B. in mathematics was awarded by Goucher College, which she entered on a Ford Foundation Early Admissions Scholarship and where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her interests include discrete mathematics, computer solutions to mathematics problems, and student learning. She was a co-author of the MAA book A Practical Guide to Cooperative Learning in Collegiate Mathematics. Currently she is a member of the MAA Executive Committee, Chair of the MAA Committee on Sections, Chair of the MAA Strategic PlanningWorking Group on Professional Development, and an adjunct faculty member in graduate computer science at Villanova University. She plays the violin in a symphony orchestra and various chamber music groups.
John Little received his A.B. from Haverford College with a major in mathematics in 1976, and his Ph.D. in mathematics by Yale University in 1980. Since 1980 he has taught of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, where he is currently Professor of Mathematics. His research interests are in algebraic geometry, computational techniques, and applications of algebraic geometry to error-control coding theory. He has been active in teaching and in directing undergraduate research. He is also an active amateur violist, performing in orchestras and chamber music in the Worcester and Boston areas.
Kathy Gundersen has been a professor at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, CT since 1982. She has been teaching on-line courses since 2002. Kathy earned her BA in mathematics from Assumption College and her MS from Central Connecticut State University. Her current interest is in developing on-line materials to teach analytical skills and group problem-solving. Besides teaching math, she loves her camp on Toddy Pond in Maine.
Kem Barfield is the Director of Distance Learning at Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT. His responsibilities include course management system technical support, software application training, and web site administration and maintenance. He is the co-chair of Connecticut Community Colleges’ Distance Learning Council and is an active member of the Academic Information Technology Advisory Committee (AITAC), the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (CTDLC) Membership Council and the Connecticut Community Colleges Vista Implementation Teaching and Learning Workstream. He is a co-author of “Effective Teaching Practices for Web-enhanced, Hybrid and Online Classes.” He is an active adjunct instructor, in face-to-face and online classes in computer applications, basic programming, college algebra, and freshman critical thinking. He enjoyed a career as a Navy submariner. At the Navy Submarine School he trained a variety of groups including astronauts from the International Space Station.