Math Club Advisors & Officers

Advisors

Charles Parry
parry@calvin.math.vt.edu

Ezra (Bud) Brown grew up in New Orleans, has degrees from Rice and LSU, and has been at Virginia Tech since 1969, with sabbatical visits to Washington, DC and Munich. His research interests include number theory, graph theory, and combinatorics, and he once wrote a paper with University Honors Director Jack Dudley. His favorite mathematical object is the (7,3,1) block design. He has received a number of teaching and writing awards, and in March 2005 he was selected to be an Alumni Distinguished Professor. His PhD advisor Gordon Pall encouraged him to "write your mathematics as if you wanted someone to read it." Mighty good advice!He enjoys singing in operas, playing jazz piano, gardening, and baking an occasional biscuit for his students. Ask him about his granddaughter Phoebe Rose, and about the karaoke contest he won.

President

Colleen Ackermann
cackerm@vt.edu

I choose to major in math, because I got what my family calls "the disease." They're all math majors. I deceided to come to Tech because the math professor whom I talked to at UVA tried to convince me that men are better than women at math. Besides math I enjoy running, playing my oboe and dancing. I've done tap, jazz and ballet since I was 5 and now I'm trying swing and ballroom. My favorite number is 13 because I was born on Friday the 13th.