KSC to Host Mathematics Conference In April

Keene State College will be hosting the 17th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (HRUMC) on Saturday, April 17, 2010. The conference was founded under the leadership of Emelie Kenney of Siena College, with the help of Frank Morgan (Williams), David Vella (Skidmore), and William Zwicker (Union), to welcome undergraduates to the community of mathematics. HRUMC now attracts about 400 students and faculty (mostly students) from about 90 colleges and universities throughout the Northeast, and has served as a model for many other undergraduate conferences throughout the country.

HRUMC is a one-day event, and consists of several parallel sessions of mixed faculty and student presentations (as many as 200 student presentations) on various areas of mathematics, statistics, mathematics history, mathematics education, and computer science. Keene State College faculty and students have been attending the HRUMC since 1995, and have frequently given talks at the conference. A distinguished mathematician is invited to give a keynote address. This year’s speaker will be Erik Demaine, from MIT.

Ockle Johnson and Vince Ferlini (Mathematics) have been awarded $5,000 from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) to support bringing the conference to campus, and additional funding will be coming from the Provost and the Dean of Sciences and Social Sciences. (Funding for the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference is provided by NSF grant DMS-0846477 through the MAA Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences program.)