History
of G2,
the ISU Math/CS Club
[every
year] - [2009-10]
-[2007-8]
-[2006-7]
- [2005-6] - [2004-5] - [2003-4]
- [2002-3] - [2001-2] - [2000-1] - [1999-0] - [1998-9]
Please
send any corrections or additions to Michael McGregor or Dr. DeWayne Derryberry
Regular
Annual Events
Monthly
meetings and activities
Outside speakers, including opportunities to interact further with
them
over lunch or dinner
E-mail announcements about scholarship and other opportunities and activities
Volunteering and fundraising activities
Participation in ASISU Organizational Fairs and Interclub Council and
Club Advisor meetings
Preparation of annual budget
Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
President: Claire Chow
Treasurer: Dayton Syme (until November); Andrew Sayler (started November)
Public Relations: Kelli Sepulveda
Secretary: Josh Marks
Advisors: Dr. Cathy Kriloff
Events and presentations:
Share your favorite math web site, presented by Dr. Kriloff.
Movie “The Proof” For over 350 years, some of the greatest minds of science struggled to prove what was known as Fermat's Last Theorem.
Folding origami, Presented by Dr. Kriloff
Organized Sudoku contest as fundraiser
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
President: Rose Barnett
Treasurer: Collette Carter
Public Relations: Lisa Norman
Secretary: Sparrow Jones
Advisors: Dr. Cathy Kriloff
Speakers:
Debbie Davies - Head of the Mathematics Department and Teacher; Highland High School
Dr. Bob Fisher - Chair, Department of Mathematics; Idaho State University
Randy Nordquist, FCAS, MAAA - Actuarial Director; Farm Bureau Mutual Ins. Co. of ID
Deb Schleusener - Statistical Consultant, Instructor in Statistics; Idaho State University
Dan Valle - Senior Forecaster; National Weather Service
Events and presentations:
How long does it take to pay off a credit card? Presented by Dr. Kriloff
Folding origami, presented by guest Noriko Barrett
Fall
2006 - Spring 2007
President: Alicen Farnes
Treasurer: Ryan Burt
Public Relations: Mary Kuehler
Secretary: Sparrow Jones
Advisors: Dr. Cathy Kriloff & Annik Martin
Speakers:
Dr. Roger Alperin, San Jose University, Mathematics of Origami.
Dr.
Roland H. Lamberson, Humboldt State University, Individual-based Ecology:
A Virtual
Look at Habitat Selection and Competition.
Events
and presentations:
Surendra Prajapati
and Nikesh Joshi attended the Integration Bee held during the MAA meeting
at the University of Utah. Surendra Prajapati won first prize!
Origami
Folding, presented by Dr. Kriloff.
Building
Zometool models of 3-d projections of 4-d objects, presented by Dr.
Kriloff.
Helped sponsor Idaho State Linux Users Group Operating
Systems panel discussion
Organized Sudoku contest as fundraiser
Sparrow
Jones, Don Allen, Theresa Pham, Alicen Farnes, Surendra Prajapati,
and Dr. Kriloff volunteered at the ISPE junior high MathCounts competition.
Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
President: Kim
Peterson
Treasurer: Richard Lundeen
Public Relations: Mary Kuehler
Secretary: Sparrow Jones
Advisors: Dr.
Cathy Kriloff & Annik Martin
Career
Panelists:
Dr. Bob Fisher - Chair, Department of Mathematics; Idaho State University
Joe Morris - Mathematics Teacher; Century High School
Jared
Verba – Cyber
Security Researcher; INL
Sera
White – Senior
Engineer; INL
Speakers:
Dr. Rob Van Kirk, ISU and Idaho Water Resources Research Institute, University
of Idaho, Quantifying hydrologic alteration and its effects on stream
ecosystems.
Dr. Peter Alfeld, University of Utah, What can you do with a slide rule?
Events
and presentations:
Ryan Burt and
Ben Baker attended
the Integration Bee hosted by the College of Southern Idaho.
How to
solve the Rubik's Cube, presented by Sparrow Jones.
Sparrow
Jones and Theresa Pham volunteered at the ISPE junior high MathCounts
competition.
Fall
2004 - Spring 2005
President: Dina
Dicic
Treasurer: Jill Parker
Public Relations: Kim Peterson
Secretary: Hidayatullah Ahsan
Advisors: Dr.
Cathy Kriloff & Dr. Rob Van Kirk
Career
Panelists:
Randy Nordquist, FCAS - Actuarial Director; Farm Bureau Mutual
Ins. Co. of ID
Dr. Dennis
Stowe - Chair, Department of Mathematics; Idaho State University
Debbie Davies
- Mathematics Teacher; Highland High School
Mike Krumberger
- Electronics Designer; AMI Semiconductor
Speakers:
Dr. Doug Shaw, University of Northern Iowa, The Rigged Urn Game / The Collatz
conjecture (colloquium).
Dr. Donna Cosgrove, University of Idaho, Using mathematics and applied
hydrology to inform management of the Snake River Plain Aquifer.
Events
and presentations:
COMAP Mathematical
Contest in Modeling participation and presentations to the club:
Successful Participants: Hidayatullah Ahsan (Math), Anisa Como (Civil Eng.),
Bright Komeng (Math)
Topic: “Tollbooths”
Kim
Peterson, Dina Dicic, and Jill Parker attended the Nebraska Conference
for Undergraduate Women and made a subsequent presentation to the Club.
Edwin Guerra
and Sparrow Jones attended
the MAA Conference at Idaho State University.
Counterintuitive
results in statistics, presented by Dr. Bruce
Schaalje, Associate Chair and Graduate Coordinator in the Department
of Statistics at BYU.
Primitive Pythagorean Triples, presented by Dr. Larry Ford, Associate Professor, ISU.
E-mail
math contest - Dr. Kriloff with problem suggestions from some colleagues
Club members served at a Christmas dinner for the homeless,
went apple picking, and went for a hike.
Fall
2003 - Spring 2004
President: Theresa
Pham
Treasurer: Rose Barnett
Public Relations: Travis Winks
Secretary: Hidayatullah Ahsan
Advisors: Dr.
Rob Van Kirk & Dr. Ann Gironella
Career
Panelists:
Ann Egger
- Software developer; INL
Dr. Dennis Stowe - Chair, Department of Mathematics; Idaho State University
Joe Morris -
Mathematics Teacher; Century High School
Dr. Maxine
Dakins - Associate Professor of Environmental Science; University of
Idaho
Speakers:
Russell Hunter, Microsoft Games Division in Salt Lake City, Xbox Live
and Xbox game programming.
Dr. Edsel Pena, University of South Carolina, Statistics on statistics /
Analysis of failure time data (colloquium).
Events
and presentations:
Embracing
uncertainty: environmental decision making in the real world, presented
by Dr. Maxine Dakins, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, University
of Idaho.
Assisted
with Sonia Kovalevsky High School Math Day for 10th – 12th grade
girls.
Fall
2002 - Spring 2003
President: Caitlin
Stevens
Treasurer: Brandon Einfeldt
Public Relations: Suzanne Lundeen
Secretary: Daniel Brindle
Advisors: Dr,
Cathy Kriloff & Dr. Rob Van Kirk & Dr. Ann Gironella
Career
Panelists:
Jane
Gibson, P.E. - Software & Electronics Department
Manager; INEEL
Frank
Halverson, P.E. - Senior Project Manager; Power Engineers
Holli
Hirschi - Mathematics Teacher; Highland High School
Randy
Nordquist, FCAS, MAAA - Actuarial Director; Farm Bureau Mutual
Ins. Co. of ID
Speakers:
Dr. Monica Vazirani, University of California, Combinatorics of Young tableaux
/ Crystal graphs and Hecke algebras (colloquium).
Dr. Fred Adler, University of Utah, Gender bias in a virus / Revisiting
the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: Localized natural enemies may be less effective
at maintaining diversity than widely dispersing enemies (colloquium).
Events
and presentations:
Theresa Pham attended
the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women and made a subsequent
presentation to the Club.
E-mail
math contest - Dr. Kriloff with problem suggestions from some
colleagues
Study group for Math GRE.
Volunteer tutoring at Crossroads, the alternative school
in District 25.
Fall
2001 - Spring 2002
President: Andrew
Bulawa
Treasurer: Daniel Brindle
Public Relations: Suzanne Lundeen
Secretary: Ryan Mueller
Advisors: Dr.
Cathy Kriloff
Career
Panelists:
Mike
Bray - Co-founder and CEO; Frontline Solutions
Kurt Hamman
- Staff Engineer/Scientist, Bio-Energy Group; INEEL
Holli Hirschi
- Mathematics Teacher; Highland High School
Craig Rieger
- Controls Engineer; INEEL
Speakers:
Dr. Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University, Euler's 14 problems
/ Euler and the greatest homework ever? (colloquium).
Events
and presentations:
COMAP Mathematical
Contest in Modeling participation and presentations to the club:
Successful Participants: Sera White (Computer Science), Jason Williams (Physics),
Elena Zheleva (Computer Science)
Topic: “Wind and Waterspray”
Caitlin
Stevens attended
the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women and made a subsequent
presentation to the Club.
Rob
Mottishaw, Theresa Pham, Caitlin Stevens, and Josh Peterson attended
the MAA Conference at Westminster College.
Applying
an embedded computer system to control irrigation – Gerald
McNabb, instructor, ISU.
E-mail
math contest - Dr. Kriloff with problem suggestions from some
colleagues
Picnic for club members and Math Department faculty
Spring
city-wide clean-up
Indoor soccer team and outdoor softball team
Fall
2000 - Spring 2001
President: Suzanne
Lundeen
Treasurer: Jenny Hawkins
Public Relations: Rob Mottishaw
Secretary: Cody Permann
Advisors: Dr.
Cathy Kriloff & Dr. Jim Hoffman
Career
Panelists:
Robert
Ammon Jr - Software Engineering Manager; SCIENTECH Inc.
Jane
Gibson, P.E. - Software & Electronics Department Manager;
INEEL
Ken Harmon,
Mathematics Teacher; Bonneville High School
Lynda Pierson,
Scanning Electron Microscopist Engineer; AMI Semiconductors
Speakers:
Dr. George Miel, University of Nevada, Gems in computer modeling.
Events
and presentations:
Spring city-wide clean-up
Homecoming
parade float
Fall
1999 - Spring 2000
President: Kasey
Legaard
Treasurer: Randy Bowen
Public Relations: May Chaffin
Secretary: Michael Payne
Advisors: Dr.
Cathy Kriloff & Dr. Jim Hoffman
Career
Panelists:
Allen
Lundeen - Supervisor: Modeling, Networking, Web and Object Technology;
INEL
Dr. Larry Ford
- Chair, Department of Mathematics; Idaho State University
Dr.
Carole McWilliam – Retired Math Teacher, Principal, Director
of Secondary Education,
Assistant Superintendent, and SBOE Member;
School District #25
Frank
Halverson, P.E. – Senior Project Manager; Power Engineers
Steve Wells
- Statistician; AMI Corporation
Speakers:
Harry Calkins, Illinois State University, Wolfram Research Inc., Tilings
and transformations - Symmetries of the plane / The 2-D design system of Northwest
Coast Indian artwork (colloquium)
Dr. Stan Benkoski, West Valley College, The mathematics of DNA sequencing /
How to prepare for a mathematics career in industry (colloquium).
Events
and presentations:
Fall
1998 - Spring 1999
President: Dan
Woodruff
Treasurer: Jacob Clawson
Public Relations: Hal Snarr
Secretary: Michael Payne
Advisors: Dr.
Cathy Kriloff & Dr. Jim Hoffman
Speakers:
Dr. George Francis,
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Mathematical video feast / A
geometrical puppetshow / Forty years of sphere eversions (colloquium).
Events
and presentations:
COMAP Mathematical
Contest in Modeling participation and presentations to the club:
Honorable Mention: Dan Woodruff
Topic: “Egress from a Burning Building”
