Homepage of Aparna Higgins

Teaching adventures in Winter 2008

• Schedule including office hours

• Courses:

  • MTH 114 02  Contemporary Mathematics

  • MTH 361 01  Introduction to Abstract Algebra
     

• Drop-in tutoring organized by Student Learning Support

Items of interest to undergraduates

• Pi Mu Epsilon

            National mathematics honorary society.  UD has a chapter. 

2008 Application form (.pdf, .doc) due NOON, MONDAY APRIL 6, 2008 

• Putnam Competition

  See handout if you couldn't attend the Math Club Meeting on October 4.  The Competition is held annually on the first Saturday in December. 
   

• Teaching assistant?  Grading opportunities? 

  Contact Ms. Vicki Withrow, Math Dept secretary at x9-2511, SC 313. 

• REUs and other research opportunities

• The professional societies have pages of interest to undergraduate students.  The links below are to the pages for undergraduates, if I could find it easily;  if not, the link is to the main home page of these societies. Browse these for internships, etc. 
  • The American Mathematical Society
  • The Mathematical Association of America
  • The Society of Actuaries
  • The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • The Statistical Association of America

• Conferences

• 12th Annual High School Math Contest, Saturday 1 March 2008

• Undergraduate Mathematics Day on Saturday, 3 November, 2007

• Gayatri Gunda Berry Scholars thesis Colloquium

• Christopher Cabanski Honors Thesis Colloquium

• Kenneth C. Schraut Memorial Lectures

Project NExT

I serve as a co-director of Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching), a professional development program of the MAA for new and recent PhDs in the mathematical sciences who are interested in improving the learning and teaching of undergraduate mathematics.  Project NExT addresses all aspects of faculty responsibilities, including research, teaching and service.  Each year, about 70 Fellows are chosen to participate.  The first cohort of Project NExT Fellows was chosen in 1994.  There are now over 1000 Project NExT Fellows.  

 

Link to UD Department of Mathematics

email: Aparna dot Higgins at notes dot udayton dot edu