Officials and Advisors

Special Advisors

Paul Campbell
Professor of Mathematics, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Governor, Mathematical Association of America, Wisconsin Section
Associate Editor and Reviews Editor, Mathematics Magazine
Editor of The UMAP Journal
Telephone Number: 1-608-363-2007
email: campbell@beloit.edu
Joel Spencer
Professor of Mathematics, N.Y.U.-Courant Institute, New York, NY
Former Member of Putnam Questions Committee
Former National Academy of Science and IREX Fellow to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Telephone Number: 1-212-998-3219
email: spencer@cs.nyu.edu

North American Regional Representatives 2007–2010

Professor Kendra Killpatrick
Natural Science Division
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy
Malibu, CA 90265
email: Kendra.Killpatrick@pepperdine.edu
phone: 1-310-5067796
web page: http://math.pepperdine.edu/kkillpat/
Professor John Harris
Department of Mathematics
Furman University
3300 Poinsett Highway
Greenville, SC 29613
email: john.harris@furman.edu
phone: 1-864-294-3638
web page: http://facweb.furman.edu/~harrisjohn/
Professor Emily H. Moore
Noyce Science Center
Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA 50112
email: mooree@math.grinnell.edu
phone: 1-641-269-4205 her office
1-641-269-3169 main office
fax: 1-641-269-4984
web page: http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~mooree/vita/vita.xhtml
Professor Michael Orrison
Department of Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College
301 Platt Blvd.
Claremont, CA 91711
email: orrison@hmc.edu
phone: 1-909-607-9709
fax: 1-909-621-8366
web page: http://www.math.hmc.edu/~orrison
Professor Ravi Ramakrishna
Department of Mathematics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
phone: 1-607-255-4013
email: ravi@math.cornell.edu
web page: http://www.math.cornell.edu/People/Faculty/ramakrishna.html
Professor Janet Talvacchia
Swarthmore College
Department of Mathematics
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
email: jtalvac1@swarthmore.edu
phone: 1-610-328-8613
web page: http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/jtalvac1

Program Founders

Paul Erdos (1913–1996)
The most prolific mathematician of all time and one of those few whose work defines 20th century mathematics
Wolf Prize laureate
Member of the National Academy of Science
Member of the Royal Society
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and 5 other National Academies of Science
Honorary Doctor at 15 universities
Lazslo Babai
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Chicago
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Honorary Doctor, Technical University, Budapest
Godel Prize Laureate
Former Polya Lecturer of the Mathematical Association of America
Laszlo Lovasz
Mathematics Research Group, Microsoft Laboratories
Wolf Prize laureate
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Former Professor, Princeton University
Former Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science,Yale University
Vera T. Sos
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Former Professor of Mathematics, Eotvos University
Former Visiting Senior Researcher, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Chair of College Mathematics Committee, Bolyai Mathematical Society, Budapest

North American Office

Professor Paul D. Humke, North American Director
Bonnie Humke, Program Administrator
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, MN 55057
phoner: 1-800-277-0434 or 1-507-645-6440
email: budapest@stolaf.edu
Mary Kay Peterson, Office Manager
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, MN 55057
Telephone Number: 1-507-786-3114
fax: 1-507-786-(3116 or 3549)
email: marykay@stolaf.edu

Program Directors

Paul D. Humke
Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN and Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
Dezso Miklos
Professor of Mathematics, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
Gyorgy Petruska
Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University, Fort Wayne, IN
Professor of Mathematics, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
Laszlo Babai
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

North American Advisory Board

Ronald L. Graham
Professor of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego
Former Director of Mathematical Sciences Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Member of the National Academy of Science
Former First Vice President of the Mathematical Association of America
Former President of the American Mathematical Society
Donald E. Knuth
Fletcher Jones Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Recipient of A.M. Turing Award (ACM)
Recipient of the National Medal of Science
Peter Lax
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Courant Institute, NYU
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Former President of the American Mathematical Society
Foreign Associate of the French Academy of Sciences
Lynn A. Steen
Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College, Northfield MN
Former President of the Mathematical Association of America
Former Chairman, Council of Scientific Society Presidents
Former Executive Director, Mathematical Sciences Education Board
Editor of Why Numbers Count and On the Shoulders of Giants