Report 1

Introductory Meeting

August 30, 2002

By: Kelli Schalk

Participants during this academic year 2002-2003:

Name:	E-mail:
Rochus Boerner	boerner@asu.edu
Junko Murakami	junko.murakami@asu.edu
Barbara Sanborn	b.sanborn@asu.edu
Kelli Schalk	schalk@mathpost.la.asu.edu

What we found out and did in our Introductory Meeting?

• Professor Anne Gelb and Professor Kaliszewski will be in charge of Preparing Future Faculty in Mathematics (PFMF) this academic year 2002-2003.
• Shelly Smith, Amylou Dueck, and Rama Chidambaram talked about their experiences in this program last year, and expressed how helpful it was for them.
• We discussed the schedule we are going to follow this academic year.
• Moreover we got to know advantages of being in PFMF. Some of these are:

1. Get a better insight of Faculty Roles in different types of universities, colleges and special programs.

2. Have the opportunity to visit and work at some of these places.

3. Learn how to write our Vita, grants and proposals.

4. Strategies to search for a job and deal with interviews.

5. Get some hints on how to merge technology and learning.

6. Learn how to apply for Summer Research Programs.

7. And also found out that there are funds we can use to participate and / or attend Conferences of our interests.

For now we have three main responsibilities:

1. Run this website.

For Fall:	Rochus Boerber and Kelli Schalk
Spring:	Unknown

2. Organize the Graduate Student Research Talk Seminar.

For Fall:	Junko Murakami and Barbara Sanborn
Spring:	Unknown

3. Attend every seminar.

Next Meeting:	September 6, 2002 –.
	Job Interviewing Experiences with Dr. Mike Oehrtman

Thanks to Debbie for preparing our Folders.
Thanks for the Cookies and refreshments! They were good!