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Glen Van Brummelen
Quest University, British Columbia, Canada
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Renowned expert in the history of Greek and other early mathematics, past president of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Professor Van Brummelen returns to his fifth year at MathPath. He is author of the upcoming book on the
history of trigonometry (the first in over a century).
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John H. Conway
John von Neumann Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Princeton
University
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Conway is one of the great creative thinkers of our time and a master of mathematics communication with mathematical audiences at all levels. Conway originally suggested the name MathPath as fitting a national program for the very young students beginning their journey on the mathematical path.
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Thomas Drucker
Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Wisconsin at Whitewater
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An expert in the history and philosophy of mathematics, Drucker has contributed to and edited books and journals on the use of history in the classroom. He speaks about this and related issues in Europe and North America. He is also current president of the Wisconsin Association of Scholars.
In addition, he plays a mean ping-pong game, and is the man to beat when students are competing in the ping-pong tournaments he organizes. Professor Drucker returns to his fifth summer at MathPath. |  |
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Robin Hartshorne
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
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Author of Foundations of Projective Geometry (1967), Algebraic Geometry(1977), and Geometry: Euclid and Beyond (2000),
Hartshorne is an expert in communicating with an historical perspective. He will discuss various sorts of geometry, how they are related to one another, and hold some sessions on the delights of Ruler and Compass constructions.
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Alan Lippert
Mathematics Teacher and Math Team Coach, retired first from IBM and then from Lakeside Middle School, Seattle, WA
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Academic Director of MathPath 2003-2005, with long experience in training highly gifted middle school students for Mathcounts competitions, and with national and regional winners to his credit, Mr. Lippert now serves as the Mathounts Prep Coach and also leads the daily problem solving wrap up at MathPath.
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Stephen Maurer
Professor of Mathematics, Swarthmore College, PA
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Professor Maurer is former Chair of the American Mathematics Competitions, co-author of "Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics" and "Contest Problem Book IV", and an expert on mathematical writing, in which he will lead the students at MathPath through discussion of their solutions to the Qualifying Test. He also runs MathPath courses on AMC competitions and various fundamental discrete mathematics topics such as mathematical induction. Beyond MathPath and Swarthmore, he has been a participant in several mathematics curriculum projects and is the Editor of the Notes series of the Mathematical Association of America.
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Francis Edward Su
Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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George R. Thomas
Executive Director of MathPath, Founder and Executive Director Emeritus of
Canada/USA Mathcamp for mathematically talented high school students
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After a short stint of seven years teaching college in South Carolina, Thomas has worked with summer camps he founded. He has taught at these camps since 1993 and is in his eighth year at MathPath. He will lead two sessions this year - one on Hyperbolic and Spherical Geometry and the other on Analytical Geometry. He has published journal articles in Extremal Graph Theory and is also a soccer player and an inventor.
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Sam Vandervelde
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. Lawrence University, NY and Coordinator
of the Mandelbrot Competition
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presenting beautiful mathematics in an engaging manner to students of
all ages. He is an experienced problem solver and writer, and has
spent a number of summers working with middle school students. Aside
from math, he enjoys building with Zometools, playing soccer, and
going rock climbing. He returns to his third year at MathPath.
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Jennifer Beineke
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Western New England College, Springfield, MA
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Professor Beineke is a specialist in analytic number theory. While teaching earlier at Trinity College (Connecticut) she received the Arthur H. Hughes Award for Outstanding Teaching Achievement. Besides research and teaching, activities she enjoys include working on puzzles and cryptic crosswords, and traveling with her husband and young daughters. Mathematics is becoming a family affair for her, as she and her film-maker husband have fun searching for accurate portrayals of math in the movies.
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Vladimir Chernov
Associate Professor, Mathematics, Dartmouth College, NH
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Vladimir Chernov grew up in St Petersburg, Russia, and participated in Math Circles as a school student. He is eager to continue the tradition of active mathematicians working with young students. During the past few years he has been a faculty advisor for the Dartmouth College Undergraduate Mathematics Society and he helps students to prepare for the Putnam Mathematics Exam. His research areas include: knot and link theory, virtual knots, Lorentzian geometry, contact and symplectic topology, and some aspects of mathematical physics.
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Jeff Dinitz
Professor of Mathematics, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT
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Professor Dinitz is an expert in combinatorial designs, for which he is editor-in-chief of the flagship international research journal, and has also edited several standard reference works. One application is to sports scheduling. In 2001, Professor Dinitz and his colleague Dalibor Froncek constructed the schedule of play for the ill-fated XFL football league. He will speak about this and other sports scheduling problems at MathPath. He is also co-director of Vermont's own high school summer math camp, the Governor's Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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John McCleary
Professor of Mathematics, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
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| Author of A User's Guide to Spectral Sequences, Geometry from a Differentiable Viewpoint, and A First Course in Topology: Continuity and Dimension. McCleary is deeply interested in geometry, topology, and the history of mathematics, but loves a good problem of any kind.
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John Voight
Assistant professor of mathematics, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT
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John Voight received his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 2005. He was a policy debater in high school and college and brings his experience as a summer debate camp faculty member to bear in the communication of mathematics to young students. His research involves computational number theory and algebraic geometry. He is also interested in the deeper relationships between mathematics and art and
will speak about Escher and the Droste effect.
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Paul Zeitz-- Away from MathPath in 2008
Professor of Mathematics, University of San Francisco, CA
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Former Chair of the American Mathematics Competitions, co-author of "Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics" and "Contest Problem Book IV", and expert on mathematical writing in which he will lead the students at MathPath. Professor Zeitz specializes in mathematical problem solving. As a high school student, he was a member of the first USA team to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad, and, as a college professor, has helped to coach several of the recent USA teams, including the 1994 team that received a perfect score in Hong Kong. He has organized several math competitions in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of "The Art and Craft of Problem Solving."
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