Location: Oxford, MS

Sponsoring University: University of Mississippi

Contact Person: Catherine Putnam, LA-MS Program Chair, cputnam@deltastate.edu

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James Reid, Chair, University of Mississippi, mmreid@olemiss.edu

ANDERSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

The Louisiana-Mississippi section of the MAA honors the life and work of Dr. Richard "Dick" Anderson through a lecture series held during the section's annual section meeting every year. The series was inaugurated during the 2009 meeting held at Mississippi College in Clinton with a video on the "Life and Legacy of R. D. Anderson". The first lecture associate with the series was given by Ezra "Bud" Brown during the 2010 meeting at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.

Currently, a committee consisting of section officers and a few national members is developing a plan for the future of the Anderson Distinguished Lecture Series fund. All comments are appreciated and should be directed to the committee chair.

List Of Committee Members

1. Section Chair: Judith Covington, Northwestern State University

2. Chair: MAA Section Representative: Laura Sheppardson, University of Mississippi

3. At-Large Representative: Jenna Carpenter

4. Member: John Travis, Mississippi College

5. Member: Tommy Leavelle, Mississippi College

Individuals and groups interested in making a gift or becoming a founding member should contact the committee chair. Checks should be send to the committee chair payable to "Anderson Fund - LA/MS MAA".

Anderson Lecturers

1. 2022 - Judy Walker, "Coding Theory: A cornucopia of mathematics”

2. 2020 - Alissa Crans, "Cracking the Cubic: Cardano, Controversy, and Creasing"

3. 2019 - Francis Su, "Mathematics for Human Flourishing"

4. 2018 - Carol Schumacher, "Zeroing in on the Implicit Function Theorem"

5. 2017 - Edward Burger, "Effective Thinking and Creative Puzzle-Solving"

6. 2016 - Michael Starbird, "Geometric Gems"

7. 2015 - Jennifer Quinn, "Mathematics to DIE for: The Battle Between Counting and Matching"

8. 2014 - Jesus De Loera, "100 Years of Helly's Theorem"

9. 2013 - Robert Devaney, “The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set”

10. 2012 - Erik Demaine, "Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic"

11. 2011 - Keith Devlin, "First Person Solvers: Mathematics Education in the Video Game Era"

12. 2010 - Ezra "Bud" Brown, "Chocolate Key Cryptography - A Delicious Way to Send Secret Messages

Items of Interest related to Dick Anderson

1. Professor Anderson's Video "My Three Lives in Mathematics"

2. Dr. Anderson's doctoral students at LSU

3. Wikipedia entry

ANDERSON FUND

The Louisiana/Mississippi section of the MAA initiated the Anderson Fund during 2009 by designating $1000 from the general fund toward this special cause. Additional contributions toward the fund were generated through the 2009 section banquet with plans to continue adding to the fund in subsequent years.

In late 2009, James Keisler became the first Individual Founding Member of the Anderson Fund.

Founding Members

(gifts of $1000 or more)

• Stan and Kathleen Chadick

• James Keisler

• John Kenelly

• Estate of John Harvey

• Tommy Leavelle

• John and Ruth Travis

• Herbert Wathan

• Kerry Davidson and LaSIP Colleagues

• Legacy of R.L. Moore Project (Harry Lucas, Jr. and Albert Lewis)

• Former MAA Presidents

• Former MAA Vice Presidents, Secretaries, and Executive Committee Members

• Estate of Charmaine Voss Kenelly

• Jenna Carpenter

• Leslie Horton

• Michael and Ellen Pearson

Supporters

(gifts of $100 or more)

Transfers following annual section meetings

• 2009 Meeting at Mississippi College

• 2010 Meeting at University of Southeastern Louisiana

• 2011 Meeting at the University of Mississippi

• 2012 Meeting at Northwestern State University

Individuals and groups interested in making a gift or becoming a founding member should contact the committee chair. Checks should be send to the committee chair payable to "Anderson Fund - LA-MS MAA".

CALL FOR PAPERS

Several contributed paper sessions will be held in conjunction with the Spring section meeting. Faculty and Doctoral Students interested in presenting a 15 minute talk should respond to the Call for Papers.

The LA-MS Section of the MAA will hold its annual Student Paper Competition at the Spring section meeting. Papers are solicited in two categories: graduate and undergraduate. The graduate category is limited to master's students. Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit for the contributed paper sessions.

Presentations at the meeting will be limited to 12 minutes. A written paper of 6 pages or less must be received and include the author's name, institutional affiliation, faculty advisor and an e-mail address. Late entries will NOT be considered.

Click HERE to see the Student paper template.

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