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NEWSLETTERS

Below are recent newsletters detailing chapter activities. If you have information of interest to chapter members such as announcements of activities etc. please contact the newsletter's editor, Robert Dewar (rfdewar@earthlink.net).

December 2004
March 2004
December 2003
October 2003
May 2003
March 2003
Febuary 2003
November 2002

EVENTS ARCHIVES

Fall 2004

Friday, December 11, 6:30 pm:  Executive Committee Meeting
Location: Firehouse Restaurant, Downtown Harrisburg

Spring 2004

Saturday, February 7, 9:00 am: Mathcounts
Location: Penn State Harrisburg, Capital Union Building (CUB), Middletown, PA

Thursday, February 26, 1:00-2:00 pm:  Seminar at Penn State College of Medicine
Speaker:  Winston Richards, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Penn State Harrisburg
Title:  Elevated Infant Death Rates in Dauphin County: A Product of Chance
Abstract:  Attention has been focused on the South Central Pennsylvania region since the occurrence of the Nuclear Accident at the Three Mile Island Electricity Power Generating Plant in March of 1979.  Today there is continuing discussion on what may have been the adverse effects of this accident on the population and immediate environment.  The probability map and techniques borrowed from Quality Control (the CUSUM chart) are used to investigate the observed elevation of infant death rates in Dauphin County after the accident.  TMI is located in Dauphin County.  This paper is jointly written with Martin Beibel from the University of Freiburg.  
Location:  Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, Academic Support Building
For more information on this and other seminars in the Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, please contact Allen Kunselman (akunselman@psu.edu)

Monday, March 1, 5:30 pm: Meeting of the Harrisburg Chapter of the Society of Actuaries.
Speaker: Niel Parmenter, President of the Society of Actuaries
Location: Sherton Four Points Hotel on Union Deposit Road just off I-83. Cost $25 for members and $30 for non-members. The cost includes dinner.

Monday, March 8, 8:00 am: York County Science and Engineering Fair
Location: Penn State York, York PA

Monday, March 15, 8:00 am: Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair
Location: Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

Wednesday, March 24, 1:00 - 2:00 pm:  Public Lecture at Penn State Harrisburg, Announcement
Speaker:  Douglas Osheroff, Professor of Physics, Stanford University, co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel prize in Physics
Title:  The Columbia Disaster
Location:  Penn State Harrisburg, Capital Union Building (CUB), Middletown, PA

Wednesday, March 24, 2:00 - 8:00 pm:  Mathematics Symposium at Penn State Harrisburg
Location:  Penn State Harrisburg, Capital Union Building (CUB), Middletown, PA

Saturday, April 24, 4:00 pm:  Spring Meeting and Lectures
Location: Morrison Gallery located in the Library Building at Penn State Harrisburg

• 4:00 - 4:450 pm: Winston Richards, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Penn State Harrisburg
         Title:  Elevated Infant Death Rates in Dauphin County: A Product of Chance
• 5:00 - 5:50 pm: Clifford Wagner, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Penn State Harrisburg
         Title:  Learning About Probability Distributions Via Interactive Software
• 6:00 pm:  Dinner and the Penn State Harrisburg Pi Mu Epsilon induction ceremony.  The menu is a buffet consisting of chicken cordon bleu, cheese tortellini with red sauce, caesar salad, rice pilaf, garden supreme  vegetables, assorted deserts, brewed ice tea, lemonade and ice water.  The cost of the dinner is $20.00.  Please RSVP since the dinner is catered.
  
• After Dinner Speaker:  Nabila Audi, B.S. ASA, MAAA, Senior Actuary for Capital Blue Cross. 
         Title: My life as an actuary.

Fall 2003

Friday, October 10, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm: Fourth Annual Science Fair Workshop on Data Analysis for Science Fairs
Presenter: Dr. Thomas H. Short
Location: Capital Area Intermediate Unit, Summerdale, PA, Susquehanna Room

 

Spring 2003

Tuesday, February 25, 6:00 pm: Winter Meeting and Lecture
Speaker: Milton Loyer, Ph. D.
Title: Plate Expectations - A Dickens of a Problem
Location: Elephant and Castle Pub

Monday, March 10, 8:00 am: York County Science and Engineering Fair
Location: Penn State York, York, PA

Monday, March 17, 8:00 am: Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair
Location: Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA