THE 2024 SECTION MEETING
NEW ORLEANS
February 29 - March 2
Registration is Closed ⟶
We're looking forward to seeing you at the 2024 LA/MS Section Meeting, which will be held at the Sheraton Downtown at 500 Canal Street. A block of rooms has been reserved at a conference rate, and we encourage you to reserve your rooms early! Deadline for hotel reservations is February 8, 2024.
Registration is open. You have the option of registering and including the Institutional Partner fee, and registering your students at the same time, or registering separately.
We will have a banquet following the Anderson Lecture. The banquet will be held at Landry's in the Jax Brewery building. Purchase your ticket when registering!
A tentative meeting schedule is below. Please check back soon for additional details.
The 2024 Louisiana Mississippi MAA Section Meeting is jointly hosted by Dillard University, Tulane University, the University of New Orleans, and Xavier University.
2024 LA/MS Section Meeting Location
Sheraton Downtown
500 Canal Street
Please note that the hotel parking cannot accommodate passenger vans. You can find many nearby parking options, and make advance reservations, through Premium Parking.
General questions about registration or the meeting should be directed to
Michael Pearson
pearson@maa.org
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2024 Anderson Lecture
Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
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Opening Plenary
Robert Miller, University of Louisiana Lafayette
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Section Visitor
Cindy Wyels, California State University Channel Islands
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MAA Editor Lecture
Jason Rosenhouse, U.S. Air Force Academy and James Madison University
ANDERSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
The Louisiana-Mississippi section of the MAA honors the life and work of Dr. Richard "Dick" Anderson through a lecture series held during the section's annual section meeting every year. The series was inaugurated during the 2009 meeting held at Mississippi College in Clinton with a video on the "Life and Legacy of R. D. Anderson". The first lecture associate with the series was given by Ezra "Bud" Brown during the 2010 meeting at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.
ANDERSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Anderson Lecturers
2024 - Lisa Fauci, “The fascinating world of flexible filaments in fluid”
2023 - Michael Pearson, "500 Years of Data Science”
2022 - Judy Walker, "Coding Theory: A cornucopia of mathematics”
2020 - Alissa Crans, "Cracking the Cubic: Cardano, Controversy, and Creasing"
2019 - Francis Su, "Mathematics for Human Flourishing"
2018 - Carol Schumacher, "Zeroing in on the Implicit Function Theorem"
2017 - Edward Burger, "Effective Thinking and Creative Puzzle-Solving"
2016 - Michael Starbird, "Geometric Gems"
2015 - Jennifer Quinn, "Mathematics to DIE for: The Battle Between Counting and Matching"
2014 - Jesus De Loera, "100 Years of Helly's Theorem"
2013 - Robert Devaney, “The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set”
2012 - Erik Demaine, "Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic"
2011 - Keith Devlin, "First Person Solvers: Mathematics Education in the Video Game Era"
2010 - Ezra "Bud" Brown, "Chocolate Key Cryptography - A Delicious Way to Send Secret Messages
Founding Members
(gifts of $1000 or more)
Stan and Kathleen Chadick
James Keisler
John Kenelly
Estate of John Harvey
Tommy Leavelle
John and Ruth Travis
Herbert Wathan
Kerry Davidson and LaSIP Colleagues
Legacy of R.L. Moore Project (Harry Lucas, Jr. and Albert Lewis)
Former MAA Presidents
Former MAA Vice Presidents, Secretaries, and Executive Committee Members
Estate of Charmaine Voss Kenelly
Jenna Carpenter
Leslie Horton
Michael and Ellen Pearson
Transfers following annual section meetings
2009 Meeting at Mississippi College
2010 Meeting at University of Southeastern Louisiana
2011 Meeting at the University of Mississippi
2012 Meeting at Northwestern State University
ANDERSON FUND
The Louisiana/Mississippi section of the MAA initiated the Anderson Fund during 2009 by designating $1000 from the general fund toward this special cause. Additional contributions toward the fund were generated through the 2009 section banquet with plans to continue adding to the fund in subsequent years.
In late 2009, James Keisler became the first Individual Founding Member of the Anderson Fund.
Individuals and groups interested in making a gift or becoming a founding member should contact the committee chair. Checks should be send to the committee chair payable to
"Anderson Fund - LA/MS MAA".
Items of Interest related to Dick Anderson
CALL FOR PAPERS
Several contributed paper sessions will be held in conjunction with the Spring section meeting. Faculty and Doctoral Students interested in presenting a 15 minute talk should respond to the Call for Papers.
The LA-MS Section of the MAA will hold its annual Student Paper Competition at the Spring section meeting. Papers are solicited in two categories: graduate and undergraduate. The graduate category is limited to master's students. Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit for the contributed paper sessions.
Presentations at the meeting will be limited to 12 minutes (Presentation time will be updated). A written paper of 6 pages or less must be received and include the author's name, institutional affiliation, faculty advisor and an e-mail address. Late entries will NOT be considered.
Student paper template: PDF and LaTeX (LaTeX template was created by Haiyan Tian, Haiyan.Tian@usm.edu).
PROCEEDINGS
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