We are happy to announce that the Allegheny Mountain Colloquium will be renamed as the Barbara T. Faires Allegheny Mountain Colloquium Series, beginning in Fall ’23, in recognition of her service to the section and particularly, in recognition of her support of students and early career faculty. We continue in our goals of promoting the mathematics community of our region and providing excellent math talks for undergraduates in our section, but we additionally commit to having early career mathematicians among our speakers each year. In 2022, she was awarded the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics. A generous donation from Barbara from this award will fund honoraria for colloquium speakers. Details will be announced in the fall newsletter.

Prof. Faires is professor emeritus at Westminster College. She has served in our section and the national MAA for more than 40 years. In 1976, she suggested a student puzzle session, which would evolve to be our student problem competition. She served as the Coordinator of Student programs from 1979-1982, the governor (chair) of the section from 1987-1990. Working with others, she began the Section NExT program in our section and served as coordinator of our Section NExT program from 2000-2008. Prof. Faires has served the MAA at the national level since 1990, most importantly, as Secretary for the MAA from 2010-2018. She has also served as First Vice President from 2004-2006, and as chair of the Audit, Budget, and the Committee on Sections Committees. You can read more about her contributions at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2022.2073139.

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UPCOMING colloquiA

• TBA

PREVIOUS colloquia

• (February 20th, 4PM-5PM) Dr. Harvey Diamond (WVU)

  “Insights and Revelations: Computational exploration with MATLAB” [flyer] [video]

• (October 31st, 4:30PM-5:30PM) Dr. Samantha Allen (Duquesne)

  “The algebra of knots: searching for primes” [flyer] [video]

• (September 26th, 4PM-5PM) Dr. Mike McConnell (PennWest Clarion)

  “Modular Residue Designs: Fixed Points, Rotational Symmetry, and Circles” [flyer] [video]

• (31 January 2023, 4PM-5PM) Dr. Sabrina Streipert (University of Pittsburgh)
  ”Square Root Identities for Harvested Beverton–Holt Models” [flyer]

• (8 November 2022, 4PM-5PM) Dr. Bismark Oduro (PennWest California)
  ”Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases” [flyer]

• (12 September 2022, 4PM-5PM) Dr. Florian Frick (Carnegie Mellon University)
  ”Geometry of fair division” [flyer]

• (7 February 2022, 4PM-5PM) Dr. Stephen Deterding (West Liberty University)
  ”Pell’s equation and the Chakravala method” [flyer]

• (15 November 2021, 4PM-5PM) Dr. Rob Muth (Washington & Jefferson College)
  ”Art galleries and sleepy guards” [flyer]

• (13 September 2021, 4PM-5PM) Dr. Kuei-Nuan Lin (Penn State Greater Allegheny)
  “Blow Up Chemical Reaction Networks” [flyer]

• (15 March 2021, 4PM-5PM) Dr. Kim Roth (Juniata College)
  “Seeing the forest for the trees: Random Forests and Predicting Fracking” [flyer]