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Volume 8: 2009-10 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 10, 2009	Vol. 8, No. 1: Root beer float event, First colloquium, Students pass actuary exam, Welcome new faculty, Stephenson namesd to state chair, Tintle receives grant, Math book sale, an integeresting POTF
Sept 23, 2009	Vol. 8, No. 2: Theology and Bell Ringing Colloquia, Math Club Roundup, Putnam and MATH Challege, a Checkered POTF, Math book sale
Oct 8, 2009	Vol. 8, No. 3: Fibonnaci Colloquium, Integration Confrontation, Math Club News, Putnam and MATH Challege, A trip to Grandma's House POTF, Math book sale
Oct 28, 2009	Vol. 8, No. 4: Student Research and Cryptology Colloquia, Integration Confrontation Results, Math Club News, A Cubic Polynomial POTF
Nov 11 , 2009	Vol. 8, No. 5: Statistical Genetics and Adventure Colloquia, MATH Challenge Recap, Club News, A Palindromic POTF

Volume 7: 2008-09 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 3, 2008	Vol. 7, No. 1: Root Beer Float Extravaganza, Math Club News, Hope students shine at MathFest, Pennings wins Polya Award, Want to be an Actuary?, An eggcellent POTF, Baby, Baby, Baby
Sept 17, 2008	Vol. 7, No. 2: Voting and chord diagram colloquia, Problem solving time, MUMC, NumberADay blog, Math Club News, A vantastic POTF, Baby, Baby, Baby (the results)
Oct 2, 2008	Vol. 7, No. 3: Mathematical Jeopardy, Elvis Tour, Putnam, Problem solving time, MUMC, Another eggcellent POTF
Oct 22, 2008	Vol. 7, No. 4: Mathematical Jeopardy, Fibonacci and Actuarial Exam Colloquia, MUMC, A Radical POTF
Nov 5, 2008	Vol. 7, No. 5: Student Research and Calculus Gone Bad Colloquia, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Pie-cosahedron, a perfectly square POTF
Nov 19, 2008	Vol. 7, No. 6: Student Research Colloquium, Fermat's Last Theorem Colloquium, Trisecting a Square POTF
Jan 14, 2009	Vol. 7, No. 7: P2+P' Problem Colloquium, Statistics Colloquium, Mathematician = Best Job, Students take Putnam, A Triangular POTF
Jan 28, 2009	Vol. 7, No. 8: Two Math-Bio Colloquia, Math in Action, The Big Chill, LMMC, Stats Showcase, An Integrating POTF
Feb 18, 2009	Vol. 7, No. 9: Favorite Calculus Problem Colloquium, Students Pass Actuarial Exam, Nebraska Conference, Promotions, Statistics Text Published, Reuleaux Triangles, Another Integrating POTF
Mar 4 , 2009	Vol. 7, No. 10: Frequency Modulation and Lanczos Derivative Colloquia, LMMC Sign Up Information, a Latin Square POTF
Mar 25 , 2009	Vol. 7, No. 11: Sieve for Betweeness and Graph Theory Colloquia, LMMC Sign Up Information, problems, puzzles and pizza,a factoring POTF
Apr 1 , 2009	Vol. 7, No. 12: Bear on Campus, 1=2, Sleep number pi, Geometrical cereal, a classic POTF, We will Derive!
Apr 8 , 2009	Vol. 7, No. 13: RSK Puzzle, Dog vs. Calculus, and Wreath Product Colloquia, LMMC roundup, Pi Mu Epsilon, Research Celebration, Teaching Awards, a exponential POTF
Apr 24 , 2009	Vol. 7, No. 14: Congratulations graduates, Mathematics and Math Ed Award Winners, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa, Student Research Award, Student Research Grant

Volume 6: 2007-08 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 5, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 1: Root Beer Floats, Stephanie Edwards, Barber's Kids Problem, Tales from the South Pacific
Sept 19, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 2: Polynomial Colloquium, Pascal, Page Folding Problem, Janet Andersen Award
Oct 2, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 3: Army Worm and Volleyball Colloquia, MATH Challenge, Putnam, MUMC, Tetrahedron Problem, Mathematics on Campus
Oct 24, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 4: Mathematical Games and Referendum Elections Colloquia, Changes to Math 310, Three Roots Problem
Nov 7, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 5: Algebraic Geometry and Basal Problem Colloquia, Travels with Elvis, MUMC and MATH Challenge Recap, MAA-You Tube Challenge, Sequence POTF
Nov 28, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 6: Integration Bee, Summer Research, Ripley's Believe it or Not!. Science and Ethics, Slips of Paper POTF
Jan 16, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 7: Statistical Genetics and Pi Colloquia, Integration Bee and MATH Challenge results, Summer Research, Bowlizza, Math Club, Daly wins award, Parallelogram POTF
Jan 31, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 8: Statistics and Career Colloquia, Summer Research, Bowlizza, Math Club t-shirt contest, A very integrating POTF, A letter for Elvis
Feb 20, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 9: Mathematical Philosophy and Mime-matics Colloquia, Scholarship Opportunity, Memorizing Pi, Math t-shirt announcement, Special challenge problem, and Log equation POTF, Another letter for Elvis
Mar 5, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 10: Better slide colloquium, LMMC announcement, pf POTF, Greetings from Ryan Johnson
Mar 26, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 11 : Actuarial and Outer Billiards Colloquia, LMMC Announcement, an exponentially hard POTF, Tim turns 50
April 1, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 12: Students win prestigious award, Math Prof has PhD revoked, Where are the Math Club T-shirts?
April 9 , 2008	Vol. 6, No. 13: Philosophy, Quaternions, Sodoku, and Painting Complex Numbers Colloquia, LMMC and Putnam recap, a counting POTF, Elvis answers a trig question.
April 25 , 2008	Vol. 6, No. 14: Congratulation Seniors, Mathematics Awards, Pi Mu Epsilon, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa

Volume 5: 2006-07 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 6, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 1: Root Beer Floats, Grigory Perelman, High IQ Society, Adding Problem
Sept 20, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 2: Tiling and Class Number Colloquia, Art of Math at GVSU, Bridge Problem, Root Beer Floats wrap up
Oct 4, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 3: Bifurcation and Math Stories from the Hill Colloquia, MUMC, MATH Challenge, Polynomial Problem, Soccer questions
Oct 18, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 4: Dropping Scores and Math Stories from the Hill Colloquia, MUMC, MATH Challenge, Welcome Dorian, Real Root Problem, Ig Nobel
Nov 1, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 5: Student Research Colloquia, MUMC and MATH Challenge Recap, Triangle Path Problem, Pi and 300! questions
Nov 15, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 6: Actuary Colloquium, Students publish papers, Andersen Memorial, Chomp Problem
Nov 29, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 7: Random Polygon Colloquium, Golf Team Problem, Maggie the Mathematical Dog
Jan 17, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 8: Mapping Genes Colloquium, Sudoku Puzzle Problem, Bowling and Pizza Extravaganza
Jan 31, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 9: New book in Mathematical Statistics, Problem Inspired by a Red-tailed Hawk, Bowlizza
Feb 14, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 10: Statistics Showcase, Research Celebration, Math Teaching Opportunity in Ecuador
Feb 28, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 11: Hope Awarded 5-year REU Grant, Graduate School Panel.
Mar 14, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 12: Pi Day Celebration, Lower Michigan Math Competition, Infinitesimal Calculus Colloquium
Mar 28, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 13: Hyperreal number system, GVSU Art and Mathematics Lecture, LMMC
April 11, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 14: Problems, Puzzles and Pizza, Goldwater scholarship and Sigma Xi, Math Semester in Budapest.
April 25, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 15: Math Seniors and their plans after graduation

Volume 4: 2005-06 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 8, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 1: Root Beer Floats, Nathan Tintle, Faculty Vacations Archimedes
Sept 21, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 2: Stat. Career Day, Math Challenge, New Trig., Mt. Baldhead Challenge, GEMS book, Math in Media, Puns in Headlines
Oct 5, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 3: Poincare Colloquium, Jeopardy, Stat. Career Day, Math Challenge, Putnam, MUMC, Supreme Court
Oct 19, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 4: Jeopardy, 100 digit problem, REU, Ant problem, Skiing Magazine
Nov 2, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 5: MUMC, MATH Challenge, Student Colloquium, AIDS Colloquium, Jeopardy Results, Genesis, Triangle problem
Nov 16, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 6: Pew Conference, REU, Bug problem, Shannon Limit, The Klein Four Group
Jan 18, 2006	Vol. 4, No. 7: Undergrad Research Celebration, REU, Chaos talk, Math Modeling Comp., Largest Prime, Sudoku.
Feb 1, 2006	Vol. 4, No. 8: Undergrad Research Celebration, REU, Stats Showcase, Math in Action, Polynomial talk, Ground Hog Day
Feb 22, 2006	Vol. 4, No. 9: Pebbling and Escher Colloquia, REU, Bowling & Pizza, Math Major Musings, Paths on Box Problem
Mar 8 , 2006	Vol. 4, No. 10: Dynamical Systems Colloquium, LMMC, Math Major Musings, Tiling Problem, Pi Day
Mar 29 , 2006	Vol. 4, No. 11: Actuary, Math Ecology, Yoda, Biostatistics, and Marketing Research Colloquia, Math Major Musings, GRE Prep
Apr 12 , 2006	Vol. 4, No. 12: Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Algebraic Topology, and RCA Research Colloquia, Klein Four, LMMC, Poem
Apr 26 , 2006	Vol. 4, No. 13: Graduating Seniors, Student Awards, Math Major Musings, Statistics Research Colloquium

Volume 3: 2004-05 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 8, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 1: Students attend conference: win award, LMMC results, Matt Boelkins, Gauss
Sept 22, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 2: 2004 Summer research student reports, MATH Challenge-Putnam, Poincaré
Oct 6, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 3: Math Ed summer research, MUMC, MATH Challenge, Len Adleman
Oct 20, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 4: Problems & Pizza, Statistical Genetics, Pi on a computer, Ramanujan
Nov 3, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 5: Ice cream, MUMC, Tutors needed, Garfield, parabola picture
Nov 17, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 6: Ice cream, Pew, Oak Ridge, bisecting a triangle, MathDL website
Dec 1, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 7: Statistics colloquia, Murphy’s Law, periodic table, Lobachevsy & Hardy
Jan 19, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 8: Math in Action, NUMB3RS, Google calculator, Baseball & Hausdorff colloquia
Feb 2, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 9: Undergraduate Research, Bowling Pizza, Venus Flytrap, Stats showcase
Feb 23, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 10: Summer Research Opportunities, Path Length and Binomial Colloquia, Shigefumi Mori
Mar 9, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 11: LMMC sign up, GRE info, Max Zorn, Sprialing Colloquium
Mar 30, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 12: Penrose and icosahedron colloquia, Grad School Info, Stefan Banach
April 13, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 13: Escher and elliptical curves colloquia, Math Forum POTW, LMMC saga, Francesco Severi, phi, book sale
April 29, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 14: Graduates, senior, sophomore, and other awards, Prob. & Stat. book published, book sale

Volume 2: 2003-04 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 10, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 1: New Faculty, Cut the Knot, Undergrad Conferences, MATH Challenge, Lunes
Sept 24, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 2: GRE, Wikipedia, Undergrad Conferences, Famous Nonmathematicians
Oct 8, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 3: 100 digit problem, Math Jeopardy!, Penrose Tilings, Rubiks, NSF Fellowships
Oct 22, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 4: Tessellation and Derivative Colloquia, Jeopardy winners, 4-Color Problem
Nov 5, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 5: REU and Polynomial Colloquia, Interesting Numbers, Fibonacci Problem
Nov 19, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 6: MATH Challenge Champs, Turkey Surgery Problem, Archimedes' Laboratory
Jan 14, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 7: Faculty Awards, REU, Bowling-Pizza, Budapest Semester, Plus Magazine
Jan 28, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 8: Bowling results, Stats showcase, Elvis, REU, MMPC, Mathwright Library
Feb 11, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 9: Julia-Google, Pop-up Colloquium, Cardiods, Gibbs, Hankel, Hilbert
Feb 25, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 10: Minesweeper Colloquium, Packing M&M's, 7 UP, Cantor, Catenary
Mar 10, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 11: LMMC, Pi Day, Chomp Problem, Trifolium, Daniel Bernoulli
Mar 31, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 12: Putnam Results, Summer Research, Math Forum, GRE, Graph Pebbling
Apr 14, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 13: Alleman in Budapest, Math Awareness Month, Pi Mu Epsilon etc, LMMC
Apr 28, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 14: Senior and Sophomore Awards, Senior plans, Graduate Award

Volume 1: 2002-03 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 11, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 1: Welcome back, faculty summer activities, GRE information, art exhibit
Sept 25, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 2: Math week, Math poetry, MATH Challenge, sabbatical projects, Kate Vance
Oct 10, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 3: Math week, Math in the Movies, National Curve Bank, REU
Oct 23, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 4: Math week, Statistics Colloquium, Geometry Junkyard
Nov 6, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 5: Winning poems, Math Inverse Problems Colloquium, MacTutor History
Nov 20, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 6: Escher Colloquium, Shirt Sale, Math World, MATH Challenge Results
Jan 15, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 7: REU Funded, Virtual Polyhedra, Where's my Prof?
Jan 29, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 8: Rininger to go to Budapest, Summer research opportunities, Math Modeling Competition
Feb 19, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 9: Math Modeling Competition, Problems from the History of Math, MUMC
Mar 5, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 10: LMMC, Torus and Klein Bottle Games, Calculus of Variations Colloquium
Mar 26, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 11: Fall 2003 classes, LEGO sculptures, New faculty, Putnam results
Apr 9, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 12: Dogs & Calculus, Math Awareness Month, Twin Primes, Pi Mu Epsilon Luncheon
Apr 23, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 13: Congrats Seniors, Award Winners, LMMC Champs, Poincare Conj., Math Puzzles