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SUMS History timeline
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Posted by Michael Gage, 3/8/02 at 3:45:11 PM.
SUMS historical timeline
1988-1989
January, 1989 Prof Mike Gage shows Nelson Max's films on "Homotopies in the plane" and "Turning the sphere inside out" for math club
April, 1989 Prof Mike Gage organizes demonstrations of fractals and Mandelbrot sets for math club
1989-1990
??1990 Ben Alexander comes up with SUMS name
1990 -Summer -- Prof. Steve Gonek and Prof. David Yuen run math camp
1990-1991
1991 - Summer -- Prof. Steve Gonek and Prof. David Yuen run math camp
1991-1992
1992-1993
1993 -1994
1993?? Prof. Martin Guest has room 1104 set aside for math majors' use.
1994 - spring - Richard Caffelle wins Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a graduate student.
1994-1995
Rebecca Mc Koy revives SUMS organization and is first president. Wins Susan B. Anthony award (scholarship for senior year) February 1995
1995 - spring - Shieh-Shun Fu wins Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
1995-1996
November 1995 -- Renaissance plan announced
some graduates
Mc Koy graduates June 1996.
Spring 1996 -- SUMS meeting on careers with Patricia Schneider, UR MS alumna and employee of Kodak.
1996 -Summer
Scott Douglass and Basem Moussa are interns for WeBWorK
1996-1997
1997 -spring MATH MONDAY night series is held (organized by Prof. John Harper and Prof. Steve Gonek)
1997- spring - Prof. Marty Feinberg (Chem Eng.) appointed to math faculty? (Feinberg had won Curtis award.)
1997 - spring - Prof. Al Clark (Mech Eng.) appointed to math faculty.(Clark has won Curtis award.)
1997- spring - Prof. Mike Gage presented with MAA Seaway section teaching award
1997 - June - First lecture for West Irondequoit Central School graduating math class. -- Prof. Barbara Shipman spoke on quantum honey bees
some graduates
Conrad Link graduates 1997 (participated in REU)
Scott Douglass '97
1997 -Summer
Leeza Pachepsky is summer intern for WeBWorK
1997 - 1998
1997 - fall - Steven Chu (Math/physics '70) wins Nobel prize
1997 - October - Prof. Mike Gage receives one of the first Goegen awards for teaching.
1997-fall Prof. Jean Parks appointed.
1997-1998 SUMS Officers
President -- Leeza Pachepsky
Social Chairman -- Davis Dougherty
Speaker Organizer -- Govind Krishniswami
Web Pages/News -- Becky Dahl
1998 - April -- Math awareness week talks on Mathematics and Imaging by Prof. Adrian Nachman (Math) and Prof. Kyros Kutulakos (Computer Science)
1998 - April Leeza Pachepsky receives Alice De Simone Student Life award. (given to students who have demonstrated significant levels of responsibility, dedication, and enthusiasm for co-curricular life at the U of R). Leeza's presidency of SUMS is mentioned in the citation.
1998 Scott Jennings (Econ/Math) wins Alice De Simone Student Life as a Sophmore. (Scott became SA president some years later.)
1998-April - Celine Lossa wins Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student.
James Wilson and Matt Coppenbarger received departmental teaching awards
1998 - June - second lecture for West Irondequoit Central School graduating math class. -- Prof. Adrian Nachman spoke on "Seeing with your ears".
Some graduates
Troi Andre '98
Becky Dahl '98
Leeza Pachepsky '98 (Take 5 the following year)
1998 - Summer
Leeza Pachepsky and Jason are WeBWorK summer interns
1998 - 1999
1998-Fall - first regular SUMS talks - Prof. Davide Cervone (Union College)
1998 - October Prof. Steve Gonek wins Goergen award.
1998 - October Prof. Al Clark wins Goergen award
1998 - October Math Department wins department wide Goergen award.
1998-1999 SUMS Officers
President -- Davis Dougherty '00
Web Pages -- Leeza Pachepsky '98 (Take 5)
Speaker Organizer -- Govind Krishniswami '99
Publicity -- Katie Schack
1999 - June - third lecture for West Irondequoit Central School graduating math class. -- Prof. Doug Ravenel spoke on "an interesting sequence".
1999 - Graduates
Govind Krishnaswami '99
Summer 1999
1999 -summer: Math Undergraduate lounge completed and furnished
WeBWorK interns: None
1999 - 2000
1999 - October Prof Naomi Jochnowitz wins Goergen award
1999 - WeBWorK wins nation ICTCM award (International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics) (See )
2000 - June - Fourth lecture for West Irondequoit Central School graduating math class. -- Josh Lanskey spoke on "Elliptic curves and Fermat's last theorem".
1999-2000 SUMS Officers
President: Davis Dougherty('00)
Secretary: Andrew Blechman('01)
Director of Events: Katie Schack('00)
Public Relations: Kate Coleman('00)
Business Manager: Rob Fowler('00)
2000 - Summer
Tori Sweetser, David Etlinger and Robert Van Dam are summer WeBWorK interns supervised by Eva Culokova
2000 - summer 5 math REU students, plus 5 or more physics and other REU program
2000 - 2001
2000 - Fall - sesquicentennial talk by David Hoffman
2001 Summer
Webwork interns: Amanda Danforth, Chris Harrington, Sam Hathaway, Davit Etlinger, supervised by Maria Volshina
2001 - summer Over 11 undergraduates participating in summer enrichment programs
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