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Southern California-Nevada Conference CalendarApril 4-6, 2013: 44 th Interface Symposium, Chapman University, Orange, CA. Withthe theme “Big Data and Analytics,” the symposium will focus on the interface betweenComputing and Statistics. More information: http://www.chapman.edu/events/interface-2013/Saturday, April 20, 2013: Mathematical Association of America Southern California-Nevada Section Spring Meeting, University of San Diego, Old Town, San Diego, CA.See this newsletter and/or http://sections.maa.org/socalnv/ for more information.Sunday, April 21, 2013: Twin WiMSoCal (Women in Mathematics of SouthernCalifornia), University of California, San Diego. First annual San Diego version of thepopular Los Angeles area gathering of women mathematicians will include a plenarylecture and talks by participants. Contact organizers Alina Bucur and Kristin Lauter viaWiMSoCal organizer Cymra Haskell chaskell@usc.edu for more information.Friday, April 26, 2013: 4 th Cal State University–Fullerton and Chapman UniversityJoint Mathematics Colloquium, to be held at Cal State Fullerton, 2–5 p.m. Watchhttp://mathcs.chapman.edu/mathcs/index.php/MathCS_Seminar for details.August 5-9, 2013: BLAST 2013 Conference, Chapman University, Orange, CA. Theconference will focus on Boolean algebras, lattices, algebraic and quantum logic,universal algebra, set theory, set-theoretic topology, and point-free topology. Moreinformation: http://www.chapman.edu/events/BLAST-2013/Saturday-Sunday, November 2-3, 2013: American Mathematical Society (AMS)Western Fall Sectional Meeting, University of California, Riverside. Seehttp://www.ams.org/meetings/sectional/sectional.html for details.Save these dates for future MAA national meetings!Summer 2013 Hartford, CT August 1-3Winter 2014 Baltimore, MD January 15-18Summer 2014 Portland, OR August 7-9Winter 2015 San Antonio, TX January 10-13Summer 2015: MAA Centennial, Washington, DC, August 5-8Winter 2016 Seattle, WA January 6-9Winter 2017 Atlanta, GA January 4-7Winter 2018 San Diego, CA January 10-13Winter 2019 Baltimore, MD January 16-1918
Francis Su Wins MAA National Haimo Teaching AwardBy Min-Lin Lo, Cal State San BernardinoChair, Section Teaching Award Committee, 2011-12Section Chair, 2012-13Francis Edward Su of Harvey Mudd Collegewas one of three winners of the MAA’shighest award for distinguished teaching, theFranklin and Deborah Tepper Haimo Awardfor Distinguished College or UniversityTeaching, for 2013. He received the awardduring the Joint Prize Session at the JointMathematics Meetings held in San Diego,California, in January of 2013.Dr. Su is an outstanding teacher asevidenced by numerous student commentsand peer evaluations. He has not only madea positive impact at Harvey Mudd College asa great teacher (influencing mathcurriculum, mentoring undergraduateresearch, overseeing the Putnam seminar),but also by reaching out to a broaderaudience in other teaching venues (CornellUniversity, MAA PREP workshops, ParkCity Mathematics Institute) and outreach tomiddle-school students (Foothill CountryDay School, Math Path). Furthermore, Dr. Suauthored the widely popular “Math Fun Facts” websiteand iPhone app, and also made his Real Analysiscourse available to a worldwide audience on YouTube.Dr. Su received the Southern California-NevadaSection Distinguished Teaching Award during ourApril 2012 Section Meeting at Cal State Fullerton.To find out how to nominate a colleague for the MAASouthern California-Nevada Section DistinguishedTeaching Award, see the next page of this Newsletter!19
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