Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Social Events

Opening Reception and Banquet
The Madison Concourse Hotel Ballrooms

OPENING RECEPTION
Wednesday, July 30, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
The Association is pleased to hold a reception with a cash bar for all MathFest participants immediately preceding the Opening Banquet.

OPENING BANQUET

Wednesday, July 30, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Continue the exciting evening by joining new and long-time friends and colleagues for a fine dinner. There will be an after-dinner presentation by Larry Lesser, University of Texas at El Paso, who will lead a “Non-Monotone Math Song Sing-Along!” To whet your appetite, you may sample some of Lesser’s greater hits at: www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Mathemusician.html.

Serving as mistress of ceremonies will be Jennifer Quinn, from the University of Washington at Tacoma.

Dinner ticket price only $45. Choice of entrees available.

Jazz on the Terrace
Thursday, July 31, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Join us on the rooftop of The Monona Terrace on Thursday evening where we will have an evening of Jazz in the gardens overlooking the Capitol and Lake Monona. This event will feature heavy hors d’oeuvres, and a cash bar.

Music will be provided by SwingTime Music, a Madison based jazz combo headed by drummer John Lombardo. The group provides fun, danceable music which will make you smile and be the highlight of our evening.

You will recognize jazz standards, as well as adapted pop tunes from the fifties, sixties and seventies. Familiar tunes, like “Satin Doll”, “Take the A Train”, “Girl From Ipanema”, and “Shadow of Your Smile” bring back the glamour of the swing era and jazz greats such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Cole Porter.

Ticket to this fun event only $45

http://www.swingtimemusic.net/

Math Jeopardy

Four teams of students will provide the questions to go with the mathematical answers in many categories. Come cheer for your favorite team. The event will be emceed by Mike Berry, University of Tennessee.
Wednesday, July 30, 5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.

Monona Terrace Green Tours
Group Tours of our Conference Site, a Green Certified Convention Center will be conducted Thursday at 2:00, Friday at 11:30, and Saturday at 11:00. Join us for an in-depth look of the Frank Lloyd Wright inspired facility and discussion of practices and procedures in place on site and in conjunction with The City of Madison that have led to this designation.
These tours are free to our registrants.

5K Run

For the First Time ever at MathFest, we will have a Fun Run/Walk. This event will be held on Saturday morning on the Bikepath along beautiful Lake Monona. If you are a serious runner, you won’t want to miss this timed event. If you just want to get some morning exercise, you can set your own pace. T-shirts will be given to all registrants.
Saturday, August 2: 7:00 am assembly. $15 registration fee

Group Tours

The Madison Tour will be an overview of some of the significant gems of the Capitol City. Included will be a tour of the Capitol itself, Madison’s Overture Center, home of Madison’s artistic community, a tour through the University, the First Unitarian Society Meeting house, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Gilmore house, Louis Sullivan’s Bradley House, and a self-guided exploration through the Olbrich Gardens and Thai Pavilion. We will end our tour with an “on your own” lunch at Quivey’s Grove, a four acre country estate featuring a fieldstone mansion and stable built in 1855, and on the National Register of Historic Places. Lunch prices range from $7 to $11. Join us for this limited attendance tour leaving from The Concourse Hotel, Wednesday, July 30. from 8:30—2:30. Most of the tour will be by bus, but some walking will be required. Join us for this five—hour tour for only $25.

pictures © Aldo Leopold Foundation

The Environmental Mathematics SIG will sponsor a bus trip to the Aldo Leopold' Legacy Center in nearby Sand County, Leopold is the father of biology-based forestry. He transformed forestry from a strictly extractive "woodlot" approach to the management of a living system. Leopold was a professor at the University of Wisconsin. Our guide will be Prof. Joseph Buongiorno, UW Department of Forest Ecology, the very department that Leopold molded into a world center for nature-oriented forestry.
The bus trip will be 1:30 - 5:00 Saturday; the cost is $20 ($15 for EM SIG members).
http://www.aldoleopold.org/LandEthicCampaign/campaign.htm

Visit Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and compound near Spring Green, WI. Wright used Taliesin as a laboratory where his ideas emerged, were tested and refined. We will spend two hours touring the home, viewing furnishings, art collections, and gardens. Along the way we will be inspired by the landscape that inspired Frank Lloyd Wright, making him one of America’s pre-eminent architects. We will take a bus Sunday morning to the estate and have a group tour conducted by knowledgeable staff. Cost for admission to Taliesin and the bus is $50 per person. We will return by 12:15 so you can have lunch on your own. There will be a significant amount of standing and walking so wear comfortable shoes. Children under 12 will be unable to join this tour.
http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/

The Pi Mu Epsilon Student Banquet

Friday, August 1, 6:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
All PME members and their supporters are welcome to attend this Award Ceremony and Banquet.
Choice of chicken, fish or vegetarian entree.
Ticketed Event to be held in the Monona Terrace $20 for Student PME paper presenters; $35 general ticket.

  MAA Ice Cream Social
Friday, August 1, 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Besides cake and ice cream, we will recognize all students who gave talks in the MAA Student paper sessions, and award prizes for the best of them. All are invited.
Ogg Hall-UW Madison Campus

  The Annual Silver & Gold Banquet

Our annual end-of meeting banquet is a time to honor MAA dignitaries and have a very special conclusion to our meeting. Please join us at The Monona Terrace Grand Terrace where we will hold this gala ticketed event. Paul Sally, University of Chicago, is our invited speaker who’s talk is “Roots to Research: A Vertical Development of Mathematical Problems” . Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin will be our emcee.
Saturday, August 2
Cash bar. Dinner ticket: $45 choice of entree