Mathematics Convening Group

Math Club 

Math Club Officers for the Academic Year 2005/2006

•     President- Ken Bellottie

•     Vice President- Dimo Dimitrov

•     Secretary- Jessica Crane

•     Treasurer- Hilton Seibert

           Click here to view the descriptions of the responsibilities of the club's officer positions.

Meetings

•   Meetings during Spring 2006 are every other Friday with an exception of the Pi Day week and Easter/Passover week, namely:

•   Friday Feb. 10,  Friday Feb. 24, Tuesday March 14 (3.14 Pi Day), Friday March 31, Tuesday April 11, Friday April 28. Other exceptions will be announced in mass e-mail to all math majors and club members.

•   Time: 1:15pm-2pm in G220

You're most welcome to join our meetings, whether you are a math major or not, with no obligation to attend every meeting.

A letter from the President

     To all students, future students, faculty, and future faculty the math club of Ramapo College would like to extend an open invitation to join us.  We provide group study sessions for advanced level math courses and attend conferences to enhance students' math skills.  Throughout the academic year we invite guest speakers to provide valuable information regarding careers in the mathematics field.  The more participation we have, the more beneficial the organization will become to the Ramapo community. 

Yours Truly,

President, Ken Bellottie

More Information

            For this year we plan to continue the study sessions for advanced math courses.  Meetings will be held every other week to discuss potential guest speakers, schedule for study sessions, any other topics or activities that would enhance the club. All majors are welcomed to attend.  First meeting date is still to be determined. We will be inviting  2-3 guest speakers per semester.

            There will a mathematics conference each semester that the club will attend.  The conference may include, but will not be limited to, group and individual competitions, guest speaker talks, students talks, student poster sessions, and mathematics book exhibits.

Recent/Current/Upcoming events:

• 2/10/06 Math Club Meeting.  Dr. Edward Saiff, Professor of Biology and an Advisor of the Biology Club at   RCNJ will talk about how to develop and run an active academic club. A brainstorming session about planning the Math Club activities for Spring 2006 will follow.      

• 2/18/06 ( Saturday) Math Club trip to Moravian College Student Mathematics Conference in Bethlehem, PA. Conference guest speaker: famous number theorist, Carl Pomerance. Conference activities: undergraduate student talks on their research projects. http://math.moravian.edu/conference/

•  2/24/06 Math Club Meeting. Dr. Katarzyna Potocka, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at RCNJ, will talk about graduate schools.

• 4/8/06 (Saturday) Math Club trip to MAA-NJ mathematics conference at Georgian Court College, NJ. Guest speaker: Robert Devaney from Boston University. Activities: math contest, undergraduate student talks about their research projects, student poster sessions, mathematics book exhibits. http://csam.montclair.edu/mathsci/maa-nj/maa-nj.html

• 4/12/06 Math Club Meeting. Dr. Pangyen Weng, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at RCNJ, will talk about actuarial science.

• Fall 2005 / Spring 2006. Tutoring mathematics at a local high school.

Mathematics Help Sessions

Math club members offer informal help sessions for students taking a variety of upper level mathematics courses. You are welcome to drop by if you need help or if you'd like to become one of our tutors. Hours and location: 

Mondays 8:30 pm by Ken Bellottie, Tuesdays 9 pm by Dimo Dimitrov, Wednesdays 2:30 pm by Jessica Crane.

Room G119.

Note: the tutor will leave after 30 minutes if there are no students asking for help.

Club Advisors - contact information

Dr. Maxim Goldberg-Rugalev,  Math Club Advisor  (mgoldber@ramapo.edu)

Dr. Katarzyna Potocka, Math Club Advisor (kpotocka@ramapo.edu)