Senior Director of Programs, MAA
Availability ongoing

This Section Visitor is available to present on the following topics at Section meetings:

Votes of Confidence: Leveraging Mathematics to Ensure Election Security
From investigations into foreign interference to problems with voting equipment, news of election security leaves many questions for our democracy. In this talk, I’ll discuss why voting poses difficult problems and how mathematicians and computer scientists are working alongside political scientists, lawyers, and activists to solve these problems. I’ll share my story and discuss ways we as a mathematical community can contribute to election security in a non-partisan way.

Rebuilding our Mathematics Community
Post-pandemic, students returned to classrooms and to campus, but nothing really returned to “normal.” This talk is based on the article Welcome Back to the Math Lounge with Drs. Lydia Kennedy and Margaret Reese (Virginia Wesleyan University), which appeared in the Aug/Sep 2022 issue of FOCUS. I’ll discuss my experiences as a faculty member and department chair working to rebuild and reinvent a vibrant community of mathematics students.

Kool-Aid, Dice, and Snails: Modeling Activities for Mathematics Classrooms
This talk highlights projects from the SIMIODE project, which together with NSF funding created classroom materials and trained faculty to use a modeling first approach to differential equations. I’ll share my experience creating and using modeling projects in calculus and differential equations classes, including sharing some of my favorite projects

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