Prof. Sally has directed several Ph.D. students in algebra at the University of Chicago.  He has received the MAA's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics and the AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service. He gave an invited address at the 2003 AMS-MAA joint meetings in Baltimore and has a opinion piece in April 2003 issue of the AMS Notices.   Prof. Sally is editor of the Brooks/Cole Series of Advanced Mathematics textbooks and has initiated several successful projects promoting the involvement of research mathematicians with mathematics education at all levels.

 Prof. Schröder serves as Program Chair for Mathematics and Statistics at Louisiana Tech University. His research interests are in ordered sets, graph theory, computer science, analysis, probability theory and in integrated engineering and science curricula.  His book Ordered Sets was published by Birkhauser in 2002 and he is currently working on a text on precalculus, calculus and differential equations that integrates content with other disciplines in science and engineering.

WKU gratefully acknowledges funds provided by MAA NSF-RUMC (NSF Grant DMS-0241090) for support of student speakers.

All talks will take place in THOMPSON COMPLEX, CENTRAL WING  (TCCW) on the Western Kentucky University campus.  TCCW,  on the northeast corner of campus, is building 56 on the campus map.  Parking is available during conference times in the student lot on Chestnut street behind TCCW.  Directions to WKU may be found at this link, or if you are taking I-65 Exit 22, see below.  There is no conference registration fee.

LODGING:   Blocks of rooms are reserved at the following hotels at I-65 Exit 22.  Please make reservations for these hotels through our reservations bureau by contacting Prof. Ferhan Atici  by e-mail or by phone at 270-745-6229.
Drury Inn ($59.99 + tax per room)  Directions:  At I-65 Exit 22, go west on 231.  Turn right at or before Traffic Light #12 and loop back to the Drury Inn.
Baymont Inn ($49.00 + tax per room)  Directions:  At I-65 Exit 22, go west on 231.  Turn left at Traffic Light #12.  Baymont Inn will be on the right.

Directions from I-65 Exit 22 to WKU Thompson Complex Central Wing (TCCW)
Take I-65 Exit 22.  Go west on Hwy 231 (= Scottsville Rd = Broadway St = 12th St, at various blocks).  The hotels are accessible from traffic light #12 (right for Drury, left for Baymont).  To WKU, continue on Hwy 231 west past traffic lights 11, 10, . . . , 2, 1, and go one traffic light further (this would have been #0 if it were labeled).  Turn left onto Chestnut Street.  Go about 2 blocks to a flashing yellow light at a pedestrian crossing between a parking lot on the left and Thompson Complex and the new Engineering Building (under construction) on the right.  Use this parking lot.  TCCW will be the tallest building visible.
 
 

MORE INFORMATION:
Tom Richmond
tom.richmond@wku.edu
Department of Mathematics
Western Kentucky University
1 Big Red Way
Bowling Green, KY 42101

270-745-6219
FAX:  270-745-3699