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Michigan NExT Speaker Listing

Contact any of the Michigan NExT Fellows and Friends below to arrange for a lecture at your department colloquium, seminar, or Math Club. Speakers are arranged by school and schools are arranged by location in the state, so finding one near you is made easier.

Albion College (Southern Michigan, ZIP: 49224)

• Mark Bollman, mbollman at albion dot edu
  1. Title: Some Really Interesting Fibonacci Numbers
     Topic: Number Theory
     Intended Audience: General undergraduate
     Technology/Other Needs: ?
  2. Title: Quadratic Approximations to pi
     Topic: Number Theory
     Intended Audience: General undergraduate
     Technology/Other Needs: ?
  3. Title: A Rapid History of the Pocket Calculator
     Topic: ?
     Intended Audience: General audience
     Technology/Other Needs: ?

Grand Valley State University (West Michigan, ZIP: 49401)

• Sukanya Basu, basus at gvsu dot edu
  1. Title: Global Behavior of Solutions to Discrete Dynamical Systems
     Topic: Dynamical Systems
     Intended Audience: Math majors
     Technology/Other Needs: ?
  2. Title: Applications of Discrete Dynamical Systems
     Topic: Dynamical Systems
     Intended Audience: Math, Engineering, and Science majors
     Technology/Other Needs: ?
• Matt Boelkins, boelkinsm at gvsu dot edu
  1. Title: Fibonacci's Garden
     Topic: Geometry, Sequences, Nature of Mathematics
     Intended Audience: General Audience (no prereq's needed, still appropriate for math majors though)
     Technology/Other Needs: Projector to connect my laptop to
  2. Title: How Seashells Grow
     Topic: Geometry, Multivariable Calculus
     Intended Audience: Students who've studied spacecurves and surfaces in calculus
     Technology/Other Needs: Projector to connect my laptop to
  3. Title: The Geometry of Polynomials: Classic Results, Recent Progress, and Problems Still Unsolved
     Intended Audience: Students who have had calculus 1
     Technology/Other Needs: Projector to connect laptop to

Hillsdale College (Southern Michigan, ZIP: 49242)

• David Murphy, dmurphy at hillsdale dot edu
  1. Title: Counting RSK Puzzles
     Topic: Algebra, Combinatorics
     Intended Audience: Math majors with linear algebra
     Technology/Other Needs: Computer with a projector
  2. Title: Pythagoras, Fermat, and Euler: a progression of Diophantine equations
     Topic: Number Theory
     Intended Audience: General Audience (no prereq's needed, still appropriate for math majors though)
     Technology/Other Needs: Computer with a projector

University of Detroit Mercy (Eastern Michigan, ZIP: 48221)

• Dawn Archey, archeyde at udmercy dot edu
  1. Title: Linear Algebra Behind Google
     Topic: Linear Algebra
     Intended Audience: General or Math majors with linear algebra (two versions)
     Technology/Other Needs: ?
  2. Title: Mandelbrot Set
     Topic: Fractals
     Intended Audience: Math majors
     Technology/Other Needs: ?

The last seven year's national Project NExT fellows from the Michigan Section of the MAA are

Current Michigan NExT members from the Michigan Section of the MAA are