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CPO #2350 One University Heights Asheville, NC 28804-8511 Office: (828) 251-6556 Fax: (828) 251-6438 |
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The 2009 MAA State Dinner
The Mathematics Department of the University of North Carolina Asheville welcomes member of the Mathematical Association of America, guests and students to a dinner and lecture in Alumni Hall, Highsmith Union, October 29 at 5:30 until 8:00 pm.
Associate Professor Dr. Sloan E. Despeaux of Western Carolina University will deliver a talk entitled:
| FIT TO PRINT? REFEREE’S REPORTS OF MATHEMATICS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LONDON The Royal Society represents one of the first British scientific societies to establish a peer review process for papers submitted to its journals. While peer review procedures were initially at best informal, by the 1830s, they became a formal, required gateway for all Royal Society submissions. This talk focuses on the refereeing of mathematical papers submitted to the Society from 1832 to 1902, the years covered in the first fifteen volumes of referee’s reports archived at the Royal Society Library. Besides judging the mathematical content of papers, mathematical referees during this period handled issues of professionalization, politics, and specialization in their discipline. |
Registration
Registration and payment must be received no later than October 22.
To register please print the registration form and send it with your payment to the address listed on the form.
| Registration form PDF. | Registration form DOC. |
About The Speaker
Sloan Evans Despeaux is an associate professor of mathematics at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. Her research interests include nineteenth-century mathematics, mathematicians, and scientific journals in Britain. Her most recent publication is “Mathematics Sent Across the Channel and the Atlantic: Nineteenth-Century British Mathematical Contributions to International Scientific Journals, Annals of Science 65 (1) (2008), 73–99.
She organizes SMURCHOM: the Smoky Mountain Undergraduate Conference on the History of Mathematics, a biennial undergraduate research conference sponsored by the MAA.
Contact Information
Judi Leffe ATTN: MAA Dinner
Department of Mathematics CPO# 2350
University of North Carolina Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
828-251-6556
jleffe@unca.edu
Directions
UNC Asheville located in the heart of western North Carolina in the city of Asheville, a vibrant culturally rich community in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Asheville is easily accessible via the interstate highway system being at the junction of I-40 and I-26.
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UNC Asheville is also minutes from Asheville regional airport. Directions can be found here.
The dinner will be in Alumni Hall, Highsmith Union. Once in Highsmith union registrants will be directed to Alumni Hall. A Campus map of UNC Asheville is here.