KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Using Mathematics to Create Symmetry Patterns
Joseph A. Gallian, President, MAA
University of Minnesota Duluth
We explain how to create symmetry patterns using Hamiltonian paths, spanning trees, exponential functions, logarithms, and modular arithmetic. These methods were used to create the image for the 2003 Mathematics Awareness Month poster.
 Joe Gallian took office as the President of the Mathematical Association of America in January of 2007. He obtained a B.A. from Slippery Rock University
in 1966, an M.A. from the University of Kansas in 1968 and a Ph.D. from the
University of Notre Dame in 1971. After serving as a visiting Assistant
Professor at Notre Dame for one year, he went to the University of Minnesota
Duluth where he is a Morse Alumni Distinguished University Professor of
Teaching.
Among his honors are the MAA's Haimo Award for distinguished teaching, the
MAA Allendoerfer and Evans awards for exposition, an MAA Polya Lecturer, a
term as MAA Second Vice President, co-director of the MAA's Project NExT,
associate editor of the *American Mathematical Monthly* and the *Mathematics
Magazine*, advisory board member for Math Horizons, and the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Minnesota Professor of the Year
in 2003.
Since 1977 over 100 research papers written under his supervision by
undergraduates in his summer research program have been published in
mainstream journals. He has given more than 250 invited lectures at
conferences and colleges and universities and is the author or editor of
five books and more than 100 articles.
Besides the usual math courses, he has taught a Humanities course called the "The Lives and Music of the Beatles" for more than 25 years and a liberal
arts course on math and sports. In 2000 a Duluth newspaper cited him as one
of the "100 Great Duluthians of the 20th Century."
His website: http://www.d.umn.edu/math/people/faculty/jgallian.html.
PANELISTS
Career Opportunities in Mathematics
- Lael S. Woods , The Aerospace Corporation
- Michele Raad, Mercer LLC
- Suneel Sundar, National Security Agency
- Stefanie Knutson, Vistamar School
- Andrea Sisk, Raytheon Company
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