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Dick Anderson, Boyd Professor Emeritus and 39th president of the Mathematical Association of America, was inducted into the Icosahedron Society at the Silver and Gold Banquet during this year's MathFest. The complete story is in the November issue of the MAA Focus Magazine.

An art exhibit “Quantum Connections” of a local artist Marion Drenner is on display at the Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge until January 27, 2007. On January 5, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, the gallery will host a Questions and Answers session with LSU Mathematics Professor James Madden.

"Beyond partial differential equations: A course on linear and quasi-linear abstract hyperbolic evolution equations" by Horst Beyer will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Mathematics series.

"Mathematics Magazine" is one of the journals of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Its predecessor "National Mathematics Magazine" was published at LSU in Baton Rouge. JSTOR incorrectly gives the publisher of "National Mathematics Magazine" as the MAA but now gives an explanatory note.

College Algebra, Trigonometry, and Precalculus are changing at LSU. The redesign has been under development since Fall 2003. One aspect of the change was an experiment comparing the new Roadmap to Redesign method, the traditional classes, and large lectures classes. A report appears in the August/September issue of the Mathematical Association of America magazine FOCUS: “College Algebra Redesign at Louisiana State University” on pages 34–35.

Robert Lipton represented the AMS at the Coalition for National Science Funding exhibition, highlighting his recent work on "Mathematics for Advanced
Composites Technology." The AMS report (PDF) is in the August Notices of the American Mathematical Society page 809.

LSU Mathematics Department Graduate Student Picnic & Orientation Conference Saturday, September 16, 2006, 9:45 AM - 2 PM

Dean Ferreyra appointed four new named professors:

• Pat Gilmer as the A.K. and Shirley Barton Professor
• Gestur Olafsson as the Hubert Butts Professor
• Len Richardson as the Herbert Huey McElveen Professor
• Peter Wolenski as the Russell B. Long Professor

Congratulations to Pat, Gestur, Len, and Peter on their richly deserved recognition.

Robert Perlis has been appointed the Cecil "Pete" Taylor Alumni Professor.

Debra Kopcso received the George H. Deer Distinguished Teacher Award.