A polynomial p(x) has coefficients that are nonnegative integers. That is all you know about it. You are permitted to ask the value of p(x) for two values of x. How do you do that in such a way that you can completely determine p(x)? (Thanks to Professor Ellis and Project NExT for this question)

• President: Tony Parillo
• VP: Keith Campbell
• VP: Aimee Totleben
• Secretary: Lucas Park
• Treasurer: Patrick Ten Eyck
• Faculty Advisors: Michael Pelsmajer & Igor Cialenco

• Meetings most Wednesdays 12:50-1:40 in E1 103 with pizza
• Thu Jan 24 12:45-1:00pm, Organizational meeting (student leaders and faculty)
• Wed Jan 30 5pm-7pm, Student Organizational Fair
• Wed Feb 6 12:45pm, Summer opportunities info session & pizza
  Student speakers: Jon Beagley, Hannah Kolb, Kevin Ventullo
• Fri Feb 15 7:30pm, kickoff movie night w/grad students SIAM chapter
• Mon Feb 18 4:40pm, E1 106, Statistics talk (AMATH dept. event)
• Wed Feb 20 12:45, E1 103, Julie Maddox speaks on Study Abroad, then problems & pizza
• Wed Feb 27 12:45, E1 103, movie "N is a Number" & pizza
• Fri Feb 29 5pm, First Problem of the week released!
• March 17-21 (Spring Break)
• Wed Apr 2 12:50pm, Actuarial Sciences talk by Israel Kowalowski
• Fri Sat Apr 4-5, ISMAA meeting and math contest
• Wed Apr 9 12:50pm E1 103, Infomation session about scheduling math classes
• Mon Apr 14, Nick Trefethen Menger Lecture (part of Remembering Menger 2008
• Tue Apr 15?, Nick Trefethen Math Club talk (& SIAM chapter talk)
• Wed Apr 16 (no meeting)
• Thu Apr 24, (tentative) talk by Prof.Velez
• Wed Apr 30, Dean/Prof.McMorris speaks on voting theory
• Someday: Elections for Fall 08 officers
• May 7 or 8?: IIT math competition, then BBQ
• Perhaps: Faculty visit to preview certain classes (similar to late Math 100)

• Weekly meeting
  Problem-solving session/pizza
  Time/location TBA (12:50 in E1)
  (W 9/5, Th 9/13, Th 9/20, Tu 9/25) Next: Tu 10/2
• Thursday September 20: Talk by Emily Breckenridge from the Career Management Center
  Upcoming events:
• Thursday, September 27, at 10pm
  Flatland, the movie
  at the Triangle Fraternity, 3360 S. Michigan (farthest corner), hosted by Preston Bailey.
• Saturday October 6, all day
  Illiana Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference, Wabash College, IN
• Monday October 8: Math Club Barbecue (BBQ)
  with AM dept. & MMF students, near the tennis courts
  Contact Ben Niu if you want to help
• VTRMC Math Contest
  Saturday October 27, 9:00am-11:30am, held at IIT
• Sometime: Undergraduates talk about summer experiences (Jon Beagley, Kevin Ventullo, Hannah Kolb, more?) and hear about possibilities for next summer
• More conferences we might attend:
  • AMS Fall Central Section Meeting (Friday-Saturday October 5-6, DePaul Univ, Downtown campus, Chicago)
  • Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics & Biology Conference (Saturday-Sunday October 27-28, held at MSU) conflicts with V-Tech Competition unfortunately;
  • Undergraduate Mathematics Day (Saturday, November 3, at University of Dayton);
  • 18th Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics & CSUI Research Conference (Friday-Saturday, November 2-3, at Argonne National Laboratory, which is not too far);
  • some others listed here
• Putnam Competition
  December 1, held at IIT

• Friday, May 4
  BBQ near the tennis courts
• Wednesday, April 18
  Job candidate talk, for Senior Lecturer position at IIT
• Thursday, April 12
  Job candidate talk, for Senior Lecturer position at IIT
• Wednesday, April 11 at 12:50pm
  As part of the Remembering Menger events, guest speaker
  Karl Sigmund, Professor of Mathematics, University of Vienna
• Wednesday, April 4
  Dr. Fasshauer speaks and answers questions on:
  Course Scheduling for Fall 2007 and beyond
  (Registration for Fall begins April 16)
• Friday & Saturday, March 30-31
  ISMAA 2007 meeting, including a undergraduate talks and a math competition!
  Brief Recap: Tony organized the trip
  Flat tire - no problem
  Talks given by Professor Kaul, Jon Beagley, and Keith Campbell[?]
• Wednesday, February 7
  Jon Beagley spoke about his research on Latin hypercubes.
• Wednesday, Jan 23, 12:15pm in E1 Room 121
  Come to the meeting and learn about opportunities for doing math research - as an undergraduate student! Starting at 12:30, you'll hear from Jon Beagley, Mike McCourt, and James Pierce about their experiences last summer. There will also be pizza & drinks.
  (It's about time to start applying to next summer's programs. If you can't wait for the meeting to learn more, you can start here .)
• Wednesdays at 12:50pm in E1 Room 121
  Weekly meeting/problem-solving session

• BBQ
• Organizing meeting
• Dr. Ledermann and Dr. Ledermann spoke about a scholarship opportunity for students interested in becoming teachers
• four undergraduates spoke about the mathematics of a form of the game, "Clue"
• weekly meetings to practice challenging Math Competition-type problems. And consume pizza.