• From the start of Fall Semester until the Fall Initiation Ceremony.
• An invitation letter and an application form will be sent to students as soon as we receive the needed information from the Registrar's office. Please see the invitation letter for a list of criteria for membership. The application form explains how to apply to PME and/or GMC.
• Returning members are asked to renew their membership by filling out the above application form. We will send you an email about this.
• Advertising Team: Prof. Girardi and helpers.

• Tuesday September 15 at 6:30 pm in LC 311
• We are looking forward to another exciting year for Pi Mu Epsilon and the Gamecock Math Club! Now is the time for you to help promote and develop PME/GMC. The best advertising for our club is word of mouth, so we encourage you to bring friends (students) who may consider joining.
• Returning (and protential new) members will introduce themselves. We will elect new officers for the year. The elected positions are: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer.
• We will discuss possible events for this year. So, before the meeting, please look over events from previous years and be thinking of what you would like your club to do. Those events that have the interest and support of PME/GMC members will prevail. Those events that fall short of interest ... will not occur. Let your voice be heard!
• Then ... dessert and games. Need we say more. You are welcomed to bring comtributions: your favorite dessert and/or game.
• Recap: check out the photos on Facebook.

• Tuesday October 20 at 6:30 in LC 311&312.
• Event Flier
• Returning PME/GMC members will welcome the new PME/GMC members in the traditional Initiation Ceremony. New PME inductees take the honorary society pledge and officially sign their names into our Chapter's book.
• We will discuss this year's events, for which members will sign up as Team Captions and/or Team Members. Be thinking of in which events you would like to partake.
• Immediately following there will be pizza and refreshments in LC 311.
• Spouses, children, significant others, and parents are all welcome. Typically there is a wide variation in dress attire.
• Committee Chair: PME/GMC President
  Committee Members: PME/GMC Officers
• Recap: check out photos on Facebook.

• Tuesday November 10 at 6:30 in LC 412
• Event Flier (with more info)
• Come ask your questions (those you have as well as those you don't even know you have) about applying to graduate school in mathematics and related fields. For example, what classes should I be taking now, to which schools should I apply, what does an application entail, when should I apply...? If you are interested in studying math or a related field after your bachelor's degree, this is an excellent opportunity.
• We have USC representatives from: mathematics, math education, engineering-&-computer science, and statistics.
• There will be a panel discussion, with the opportunity to ask your specific questions individually afterwards.
• Team Caption: Hudson Harper.

• Tuesday November 17 in LC 412: Talk at 6:30 and Championship at 7:30.
• Event Flier (with more info)
• USC Prof. Josh Cooper will start us off by discussing connections between Sudoku and Math.
• After this, test your skills to see how good you really are at our Sudoku Championship.
• Prizes for the overall winners. Door prizes and snacks throughout.
• Team Members (graduate students):
  Refreshment/Prize Team (undergrads):
  Advertising Team: Brooke and Brittany.
• Recap: check out photos on Facebook.

• Monday November 30 in LC 311 in the afternoon.
• The Math Department participates in the Salvation Army Stocking Stuffers program that provides (filled) Christmas Stocking for children in need. The Math Dept collects up toys to fill the stocking.
• You can contribute and make a child smile this holiday season by helping stuff the stocking with the donated toys. We gather somewhere in LeConte, put all the toys out on the large table, and stuff the stockings.
• If you are interested, please contact Ronda Sanders
• Team Caption: Ronda Sanders
  Team Members:
• Recap: check out photos on Facebook.

• From the start of Spring Semester to Spring Initiation Ceremony.
• An invitation letter and an application form will be sent to students as soon as we receive the needed information from the Registrar's office. Please see the invitation letter for a list of criteria for membership. The application form explains how to apply to PME and/or GMC.
• Those who were member of PME/GMC in the fall semester do NOT need to fill out the above application form.

• Tuesday February 23 on 3rd floor LeConte
• Event Flier to come
• New members, returning members, family, and friends are welcomed. Come to as much of the evening's festivities as your schedule permits. Dress varies widely.
• Here's the evening's plans; attend as much as your class/work schedule will afford you.
  • Pizza at 6pm in LC 311.
  • Returning PME/GMC members welcome the new PME/GMC members at a candlelit Initiation Ceremony at 6:30pm in LC 312.
  • Then the Spring Initiation Student Presentation (see just below).
• invitation letter (pdf).
  application form (pdf).
• Team Caption: PME/GMC President
  Team Members: PME/GMC Officers.

• Tuesday February 23 at 7pm in LeConte 310.
• On Universal Cycles of Labeled Graphs by Bill Kay.
• Bill will present his results from his Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) from last summer.
• He is currently a graduate student in math at USC. He joined PME at USC in Spring 2006.

• Tuesday March 23 at 6:30pm in LC 311.
• Event Flier 1 and Event Flier 2 (with more info)
• Write a math poem, show off your talents, bring your favorite board games. There will be desserts. There will be ice-cream (and Prof. Sumner).
• A math limerick by Ronda Sanders:

  I am writing with an honest plea:
  Write a limerick for PME.
  Be clever or smart ...
  'bout Pi or Descartes.
  Share your work Tuesday, March twenty-three.

• Check out some sample math limericks along with some limericks' basics.

• Tuesday April 13 at 6:15pm in LC412
• Event Flyer (with more info)
• The USC Integration Bee was begun by Carrie Finch (a former graduate student at USC and current tenure-track assistant professor at Washington and Lee Univ.) on April 8, 2003. Since then, PME/GMC hosts the USC Integration Bee annually. It is similar to a spelling bee, but one integrates insteads of spells. In teams, students try to work through each integral before the music ends. Snacks, drinks, door prizes, and winners prizes are all provided.
• To quote a student: This event is more fun than seems feasible, really.
• We thank the USC Math Department and the South Carolina Honors College for their generous support of this event over the years.
• King Bee: Kenny Brown
  Helpers (graduate students and faculty):
  Refreshment/Prize Team:
  Advertising Team:

• Several PME/GMC members, back in 2007, requested that we start a tutoring program in local schools. We have arranged for interested PME/GMC members to tutor at Dreher High School's Tutoring Center. Mrs. Thunell, the center's director, e-mail me:

  Dr. Girardi:
  I understand that you may have students who would like to tutor in math. Having them at Dreher would be a blessing for us!
  I operate the tutoring center here at Dreher. I am here throughout each school day (8-3) and after school until 4:00 PM. I have students come into my room throughout the day for help with classwork, homework, and studying for tests. As you might imagine, math is the subject that puzzles them the most. I do much of the tutoring myself, although I do have some helpers from Dreher's National Honor Society. My biggest need is for tutors from 3-4 PM on Monday through Thursday. However, if another time was a better fit for your students, we could probably work that out, as well. I would be present in the room, so no volunteer would feel left alone. Our kids are very grateful for the help, so I think your students would find tutoring to be very gratifying and even addicting!
  We need help mostly in Algebra I, II, geometry, and pre-cal. You are welcome to come and visit me here at Dreher at any time. I look forward to meeting some of your students.
  Thanks, Maureen Thunell

• If you are interested in tutoring, please contact Prof. Girardi (girardi@math.sc.edu) or Mrs. Thunell (mthunell@richlandone.org).
• Here (but change the options from by car to walking) are directions for the 2 mile/40 minute walk from LeConte (1523 Greene Street) to Dreher HS (3319 Millwood Avenue), which is the closest high school to LeConte. It's a safe walk in the afternoon, just do not take a detour into the neighborhood boarded by Harden/Greene/Millwood/Gervais Streets.
• Team Members: Cole Franks, Daniel Grier, Robin Neumayer, Kim Selsor, Stefan Singer.

MORE TO COME, such as:

• Putman Exam Study Group
• bulletin board team
• math dept t-shirt team
• Clean Carolina