Event Archive 1998-2010
Events from when the Department of Mathematical Sciences was part of the campus known as Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)
Bill Frederick retires after many years at IPFW. Photos from April 2010 reception.
College of Arts and Sciences 2010 Honors Banquet Program
Professor Adam Coffman presents "Geometry in Nature" in the Lunch with a Scientist series at Science Central, April 10, 2010. Photos and links
Photos from Spring 2010 meeting of Indiana Section of the MAA, at Franklin College.
Janet Kruse retires after many years as department secretary. Photos from March 2010 reception.
MathCounts Competition, middle school students, Feb. 13, 2010. (See also this 2010 press release, and a 2010 news story, copied below)
The Mathematical Sciences Display Case outside Kettler 200 featured the work of Professors Beineke, Dragnev, and Pan, and student Drew Swartz: 2008-09 photo page
Photos from Fall 2009 meeting of Indiana Section of the MAA, at Purdue Calumet.
2009-10 Pippert Science Research Scholar award presented to Professor Bill Frederick. photos
Professor Pan attended the International Conference on Several Complex Variables, Complex Geometry, and PDE in Wuhan, China, July 6-9, 2009. PDF photo
Prof. Marc Lipman returns to Math Department after several years as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Photos from June 25, 2009 A&S reception.
March 2009: Professors Adam Coffman and Yifei Pan attend the AMS meeting at the University of Illinois. Conference photos
March 2009: Professors Lowell Beineke, Adam Coffman, Peter Dragnev, David Redett, Doug Weakley, and a team of students competing in the ICMC attend the Indiana MAA meeting at IUPUI. Conference Photos
IPFW Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer event, Todor Cooklev, Director of the ETCS Wireless Technology Center, IPFW. Modern Wireless Systems: From Marconi's Radio to Cognitive Radio. February 16, 2009.
MathCounts Competition, middle school students, Feb. 14, 2009.
Professor Adam Coffman represented the department in IPFW's Featured Faculty community relations campaign, 2006-2008. Color Brochure
2008 Careers Dinner, Oct. 29, 2008.
Photos from Fall 2008 meeting of Indiana Section of the MAA, at Rose-Hulman.
2008-09 Pippert Science Research Scholar award presented to Professor Matt Walsh (photo)
Prof. Lowell Beineke was selected to be included in Purdue University's Book of Great Teachers. The induction was August 28th, 2008 at the Purdue Memorial Union. Link to photo page.
Photos from: Farewell party for Dr. Erwin Miña-Díaz, post-doctoral researcher, April 28, 2008.
Photos from Spring 2008 meeting of Indiana Section of the MAA, at St. Mary's College.
MathCounts Competition, middle school students, Feb. 23, 2008.
Photos from the October 2007 event: Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer, Dan Rockmore, on "Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis."
Photos from Fall 2007 meeting of Indiana Section of the MAA, at Manchester College.
Prof. Adam Coffman receives the 2007 Researcher of the Year Award from the IPFW chapter of Sigma Xi. Photo page
Photos from: Arts & Sciences Honors Banquet, April 18, 2007.
Photos of Prof. Adam Coffman's Pi Day visit to Science Central, March 10-11, 2007.
Prof. Adam Coffman's bubble demo at Summit Middle School in Fort Wayne, Feb. 8, 2007.
MathCounts Competition, middle school students, Feb. 3, 2007.
IPFW hosts MIGHTY conference (Midwest Graph Theory), November 3-4, 2006. Photos from the conference
Extremal Mathematical Structures and their Application, Lecture and reception honoring Peter Hamburger, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, 2006 recipient of the IPFW Outstanding Research Award. September 22, 2006.
Workshop: Enhance Elementary and Intermediate Algebra with the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition, August 11-12, 2006.
June 2006: Professors Adam Coffman and Yifei Pan attend International Conference in PDE, Complex Analysis, and Differential Geometry at Notre Dame. Conference photos
Professor Peter Hamburger retires in 2006 after 17 years at IPFW. Photos.
Spring 2006 Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Peter Hamburger, My Cup of Combinatorial Tea, April 4. Photo page
MathCounts Practice Session, led by Mr. Josh Pan, March 5, 2006.
MathCounts Competition, middle school students, Feb. 11, 2006.
2005-06 Pippert Science Research Scholar award presented to Professor Adam Coffman (photo)
Workshop: Enhance Elementary and Intermediate Algebra with the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition, August 15-16, 2005
Making Waves 2005, a workshop on math and science for teachers, June 13th-15th, 2005.
IPFW hosted the Spring 2005 meeting of the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America - on campus, April 1-2, 2005. The meeting also included the Indiana College Mathematics Competition.
MathCounts Competition, middle school students, Feb. 05.
Retirement dinner for Prof. Ray Pippert, 12-03-04
IPFW 40th birthday event. Photos
Physics-Based Calculus Workshop, Summer 2004. (3 photo pages)
MathCounts competition, middle school students, Feb. 2004.
Mathematical Sciences Exposition, high school students visiting IPFW, October 2003.
Art exhibit of Edit Hepp and Peter Hamburger, Summer 2003.
Physics-Based Calculus Workshop, Summer 2003. (3 photo pages)
Professor Hamburger gave a talk on Venn diagrams at the AMS conference in Bloomington, Spring 2003. Photo page
The IPFW mathematics team wins the Indiana College Mathematics Competition at Butler University! Click here for details. Spring 2003.
Physics-Based Calculus Workshop, Summer 2002.
Physics-Based Calculus Workshop, Summer 2001.
MIGHTY XXXII Midwest Graph Theory conference, Fall 1999.
Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day, November, 1998.
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From the Feb. 14, 2010, Journal Gazette:
Journal Gazette photos by Laura J. Gardner
It all adds up at competition
Young math wizards calculate win
Rosa Salter Rodriguez
The Journal Gazette
James Bolduc of Warsaw isn’t quite sure where his son got his math ability. But, boy was he proud of his boy on Saturday.
Sitting in the audience at the regional Mathcounts competition at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, Bolduc exclaimed, “Oh wow! How about that?” when his son Louis was announced as the top individual scorer among about 60 participants.
The showing qualified Louis, an eighth-grader at Warsaw Community Schools’ Edgewood Middle School, to compete in statewide competition next month.
“I don’t know where the genes come from. We’re both music teachers,” said James Bolduc with a smile. His wife, Amy, was beaming beside him.
A countdown round in which the contest’s top-eight students, including Louis, must solve problems head-to-head in 45 seconds left the elder Bolduc’s head spinning.
“I haven’t done math like this in so many years,” he said. “If I had a paper and pencil and absolute silence and no time limit, maybe I could do some of them. Maybe.”
Contest officials asked that the media not report specific questions and answers so as not to give an advantage to students from other areas who haven’t competed yet.
But the countdown round’s problems ran the gamut from having participants figure out statistics based on “American Idol” voting to coming up with the likelihood of fishing out certain combinations of those red and white balls that have been the dreaded denizens of probability problems for decades.
Louis Bolduc said the head-to-head contest, which requires participants to sound a buzzer before answering, was nerve-wracking for a shy person such as himself.
He lost in the countdown round to fellow Edgewood student Bryce Carter, who in turn was eliminated by Derek Gloudermans of St. Vincent de Paul School in Fort Wayne.
Louis Bolduc said he thinks his strengths are the paper-and-pencil tests and algebra.
“Most of the questions were things we haven’t gone over in school,” he said, adding that he prepared for the contest, his second, by attending math club practices after school.
“I think I’m going to do really good at states,” he said.
Before the countdown round, students compete individually in two rounds of paper-and-pencil tests and then in teams in which only one test paper counts.
In the team competition, Canterbury School placed first. Edgewood was second, and Summit Middle School in Southwest Allen County Schools was third.
Canterbury and Edgewood advance to the state competition March 13 at Rose-Hulman Institute in Terre Haute.
Others who qualified for the statewide event based on their individual scores were Gloudermans; David Landrigan of Summit, who came in second; Walter Lee of Southwest Allen’s Woodside Middle School, who was third; and Tan Phan of Canterbury, who was fourth.
Students from Adams Central Middle School also competed.
Event coordinator Linda Wagner, who teaches math at IPFW, says the competition aims to snag middle-school students’ interest in math with camaraderie, trophies and team T-shirts. It’s “at a critical age,” she said.
“The thing is that today’s society is very technically oriented, and we want kids interested in both math and science because we need them to stay competitive in the world market,” she said.
Competition sponsors are the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; the Anthony Wayne chapter of the National Society of Professional Engineers; IPFW’s mathematical sciences department and College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science; and Raytheon Co.
Austin Hillman, an eighth-grader at St. Vincent De Paul, works on a math problem during the team round.
Canterbury School students, from left, Georgia-Lea Williams, Danish Ghazali, Harsha Chilakamarri, and Ankur Lal work on problems during the team round of the MathCounts Anthony Wayne Chapter Math Contest on Saturday at IPFW.
