Meeting: August 26th, 2011

Hello all,

Here are the minutes for the first Math/CS club meeting of the new year. I will try to keep these going and getting them posted with 24 hours of a meeting.

1. Meetings will be held in the Math Department, either in the conference room, or the math lounge (PS 327). Meetings will be held on Friday's at 4pm, typically every other Friday. If anybody has any conflicts with the meeting time, please let us know, and we'll see what we can do.
2. The next meeting will be held on Friday, September 9th
3. Tentative date for an inter-club laser-tag event is September 23th. Location TBD. The clubs that we will be contacting to try to plan this event with are Econ, Physics, and Chemistry.
4. We decided that we will try to get a table at the Major/Minor fair and represent both Math and CS programs, as well as recruit for the Math/CS club.
5. Tentative date for a career panel board is November 9th. We need 4 to 5 individuals to speak at the panel. We agreed that we would try to get the following to speak:
1. A Teacher
2. An Actuary
3. Possibly a Tiger Team individual from INL, or another INL professional
4. An engineer/scientist from local industry, possibly an individual from Simplot
5. Dr. Derryberry has offered to be the 5th person to speak
6. Possible activities that were discussed for the year are:
1. Lectures, guest lecturers
2. Movies, sci-fi/nerdy or math-related. Suggested idea is 'King of Kong'.
3. Oragami
7. We are taking movie ideas to compile and vote on for one of the next couple meetings. (Claire suggests Tron) ;)
8. This year we are also trying to do a slightly stronger recruiting push in both the Math and CS areas.

We had quite a few people show up at yesterday's meeting, but no new faces. The officers for the year are Jeremy Farrell as President, Claire Chow as Vice-President/Public Relations, and myself as Secretary/Web Maintenance. Jeremy and myself will be splitting the Treasurer responsibilities. Also, Dr. Derryberry is the new faculty advisor for the club this year. If anybody else has anything else to add to this, please feel free to reply to the mailman list. I will be posting these minutes on the website, and I will be working to keep the website up to date and accurate. That being said, if anyone sees a discrepancy on the webpage (give me a couple days to work on it), please email me. Otherwise, let's make this a great year for the club, and a great year for everyone's academics!

Meeting: September 9th, 2011

Math/CS club

Friday, September 09, 2011

Erik suggested a possible activity - an iterated Prisoners dilemma contest.

Folks in Computer Science and Economics could be particularly interested in this activity. Faculty members Greg Green (who teaches game theory) and Philosophy lecturer William McCurdy might be especially interested in helping boost this activity.

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Laser Tag (and miniature golf) event - Outer limits:

Some ground rules

i) Food costs should be split proportionate to club size with all food shared.
ii) Each club handles the tickets for their regular members in whatever manner they choose.
iii) Newbees/recruits pay their own way, but get free food , all clubs splitting the cost equally.
iv) Program setting should be set to focus on hunting rather than "capture the flag" and to discourage "farming the base".
v) All should try to be there by 5:45 Friday September 23 to register.

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What to say at recruiting

General comments about Math/CS club- we meet every other week, we often have pizza or snacks. Some of our big events are movies and a career panel. This Friday (September 23) we will have a Laser tag/miniature golf event at the Outer Limit from 6:30 - 7:30. Registration at 5:45. This will be a joint event with the Chemistry, Physics, and Economics clubs.

Although you must pay for your own ticket ( $10), free food will be provided by the clubs.

Recruitment schedule

Calc 2: 8 am - Michael*; noon - Jeremy; 5:30pm Damon

DE 9 am: Dr. D

Linear Algebra: 10 am Jeremy; 11 am : Claire

Calc 3: 1 pm(?) Garrett; 7pm Dr. D

326: Garrett

*Michael McGregor agreed to cover this class because he is in it. In addition to any of these classes we are specifically targeting feel free to talk to any of your classes that are Math or CS related.
Also anyone that is planning on coming please email (farrjere@isu.edu) me by Wednesday September 21, 2011.

Meeting: October 7th, 2011

Career Panel will be on November 9th, 2011 between 6pm and 9pm at Portneuf Valley Brewery in the upstairs loft.

Much advertising will need to be done to hopefully get a full turn-out to this event.

Claire will be taking care of advertising on ISU's weekly bulletin email.

Claire will also be generating flyers to be posted around pertinent areas of campus.

Flyers will be posted in the following departments/buildings by the following members:

• Math Department - Matt
• Geological Sciences - Damen
• Physics Department - Erik
• Chemistry Department - Doug
• Library - Garrett
• Lillibridge Engineering Building - Michael

Before posting any flyers in the preceding departments/buildings, please obtain the permission of the appropriate administrative staff for that area.