Conference

NMMATYC 2024 

NMMATYC will host its 36th annual conference at
El Paso Community College.

The conference will be on Friday & Saturday,
April 5th & 6th, 2024 in El Paso, TX.
The conference will consist of an amazing set of keynote and special guest speakers.
We hope you can join us!


Keynote Speaker:
Dr. James Tanton

James Stuart Tanton is a mathematician and math educator. He is a winner of the Kidder Faculty Prize for his teaching at The St. Mark’s Math Institute, scholar at the Mathematical Association of America,[1] author of over ten books on mathematics, curriculum, and education, and creator of videos on mathematics on YouTube. As of February 2020 his approximately 190 videos had earned over 800,000 views.

Luncheon Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Lawrence Lesser

Professor Lesser (hey, that rhymes!) is a UTEP statistics/mathematics education researcher who has won state and national awards (e.g., the 2021 Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award from the American Statistical Association).  He also is an award-winning songwriter (e.g., Winner and 4-time Finalist in the New Mexico Music Awards) and his STEM songs have won national awards (e.g., winner in the National Museum of Mathematics’ “Pi Day of the Century” contest), helped land NSF grants (e.g., https://www.causeweb.org/smiles/), and yielded plenary performances at regional and national STEM conferences (e.g., MAA MathFest, USCOTS, NCTM, etc.).  This is no one-way lecture – it’s also a math song sing-along you can join as a Choral-Larry!   More Lesser at https://larrylesser.com/mathemusician/.

Special Guest Speaker via Zoom:
Dr. Ken Ono

Dr. Ken Ono is a mathematician who specializes in number theory, especially in integer partitions, modular forms, umbral moonshine, the Riemann Hypothesis and the fields of interest to Srinivasa Ramanujan. He is the STEM Advisor to the Provost and the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.

Special Guest Speaker:
George Soliman

George is currently in his 8th year at Raritan Valley Community College. Prior to that, he was an adjunct mathematics instructor at two other community colleges in NJ, as well as a part-time mathematics lecturer at Rutgers University and DeVry University. Outside of the classroom, he is very actively involved in his church. He is also a huge sports fan, particularly of his New York Jets.

Submit a Proposal


We are currently accepting proposals to the 2024 conference. Please fill out the form below to have your proposal considered for the upcoming conference.

Click here to open proposal form  

Deadline to submit a proposal is Friday, March 29, 2024.

Any questions, contact:
Alberto Isassi
aisassi@epcc.edu

 

Registration


To register for this year's conference, please complete the following two steps below. 

First, fill out the registration form.

Click here to register 

Second, complete your registration by paying the conference fee via PayPal.

Note: Registration for the conference will include annual membership fee to NMMATYC.

*Lifetime registration option is only for current Lifetime members. If you would like to become a Lifetime member, please see our Membership page for details.

Conference Map

      El Paso Community College -
Administrative Services Center -
Building B

                  9050 Viscount​​

         El Paso, Texas 79925​


Hotels in the vicinity

Hilton Garden Inn
El Paso Airport
6650 Gateway Blvd E, El Paso, TX, 79915
(915) 772 - 4722

Holiday Inn Express & Suites
 El Paso Airport Area
 6666 Gateway Blvd E, El Paso, TX, 79915
 (915) 771 - 6200

Super 8 by Wyndham
El Paso Airport
7144 Gateway Blvd E, El Paso, TX, 79915
(915) 201 - 4740

Best Western Plus
El Paso Airport Hotel &
 Conference Center
6655 Gateway Boulevard W, El Paso, TX, 79925
 (915) 778 - 6411

Note: Although hotels are named by the term "Airport," they are located on interstate 10, (I-10), our main highway in El Paso, TX.Please be advised that hotels do not have conference rate. Therefore, registering as soon as possible will ensure best rate.

Vendors

If you would like to submit a vendor presentation for our conference, please fill out the form below.
Download, complete and submit via email to the contact as indicated in the document.

Vendor Application Form: 



Tentative Schedule

FRIDAY APRIL 5TH, 2024

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

Lobby 8:30AM – 8:55AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 1

9:00AM – 9:50 AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 2

10:00AM – 10:50 AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 3

11:00AM – 11:50 AM

LUNCH

Lobby 12:00PM – 1:00 PM

LUNCH SPEAKER: Dr. Larry Lesser
“Formula for a Hit:  Using Song to Teach Math and Statistics!”

BREAKOUT SESSION 4

1:05PM – 1:55 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 5

2:00PM – 2:50 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 6

3:00PM – 3:50 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 7

4:00PM – 4:20 PM

TeXMex Music Hour

5:00PM – 6:00 PM

DINNER, BANQUET, & AWARDS CEREMONY

6:00PM – 8:00PM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. JAMES TANTON


SATURDAY APRIL 6TH, 2024

COFFEE & PASTRIES

8:00AM – 8:55 AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 8

9:00AM – 9:50 AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 9

10:00AM – 10:50AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 10

11:00AM – 11:50AM 

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!

Past Conferences

Silver City, NM

Gallup, NM

Rosewell, NM