At our second annual UCLA Mathematics Department Mathematics and Teaching Conference, we celebrate Professor Emeritus Philip C. Curtis’ 80th birthday and inaugurate our new Curtis Center. Professor Curtis significantly shaped the department’s involvement in mathematical activity at the pre-collegiate level and played a singular role in the establishment of most of the department’s current mathematics education programs. The conference begins with two days of mathematics talks given by colleagues of Professor Curtis. These talks will focus on his research area of Banach algebras and reflect on his contributions. The conference continues with a day of mathematics education talks broken into three strands: Mathematics for Mathematics Teachers, Instructional Strategies for the Mathematics Classroom, and Mathematics Education Research and Recommendations. An outstanding group of speakers have agreed to present at this year’s conference, and we believe it will be thought provoking and worthwhile for mathematics teachers, mathematics teacher leaders, mathematics education researchers, and mathematicians alike.

Keynote Talk by Zalman Usiskin:
“The Current State of Middle School and High School Mathematics in our Nation”

This year, we are proud to present Professor Zalman Usiskin as our keynote speaker at the Saturday luncheon banquet! Zalman Usiskin is a professor of education at the University of Chicago, where he has been a faculty member since 1969. Since 1987 he has also been overall director of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. His research has focused on the teaching and learning of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. He is the author or co-author of over 150 articles and other papers on mathematics and mathematics education, as well as dozens of books and textbooks. In developing these textbooks, he has taught mathematics in nine different secondary schools. He has served terms on the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Research Council, the Board of Directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the steering and test development committees for mathematics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and the steering committee for the Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers (PMET) program of the Mathematical Association of America. He is well-known for his talks. In 1987 and again in 1999 he was the banquet speaker at the annual meetings of the NCTM, with a mathematical presentation filled with songs sung while he accompanied himself at the piano.

This Year’s Session Speakers

	Kirby Baker Liz Brookins Michael Butler Patrick Callahan Helen Chan Frank Divinagracia Wally Etterbeek Megan Franke Mark Green Robert Gould Susie Hakansson Guershon Harel Michael Herrmann Madeleine Jetter Angela Karapetyan Caline Khavarani Shelley Kriegler Eugene Kwong Carl Lager Theresa Lee Allen Martin Minh Ha Ngo Sue Olson Jennifer Pawlak Randy Philipp Jeffrey Rabin Dan Reeves Dee Harmon Reeves Ramon Rodriguez John Sarli Zalman Usiskin Marion Curtis Usselman Michelle Welford Hung Hsi Wu

	Eggert Briem H. Garth Dales Theodore Gamelin Sandy Grabiner Kjeld Bagger Laursen Volker Runde Wieslaw Zelazko

	Asuman Aksoy William G. Bade Edward Effros Jean Esterle José Galé Fereidoun Ghahramani Niels Grønbæk Michael M. Neumann

For complete program (PDF), click here.

Conference Location and Parking:
Thursday and Friday Sessions will be held in the UCLA Kerchoff Salon. Check-in begins at 9:00 AM at the entrance to the Salon. Parking is $8 in Lot 2 on the corner Hilgard Avenue and Westholme Avenue.

Saturday Sessions will be held in the UCLA Mathematical Sciences Building and Faculty Center. Check-in and continental breakfast begin at 8:00 AM at the 5th floor breezeway entrance to the Mathematical Sciences Building. Parking for Saturday registrants will be arranged in Lot 2, on the corner Hilgard Avenue and Westholme Avenue.

Conference Registration:
Registration is closed.  There will be no on-site registration.