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The 51^st Annual Fall Conference will be held in Monterey on December 8-9, 2023 at Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa. The theme of the conference is "Belonging" as our conference keynotes will explore what it means for our students to feel like they belong in STEM and Mathematics.

Information on conference registration and hotel reservations can be found below.

The conference begins with check-in from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Friday, which will be followed by a dessert reception from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm, the Friday Night keynote presentation is from 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm followed by BINGO Night from 9:00 pm - 11:59 pm. The break-out sessions will take place on Saturday, with the Saturday Keynote following lunch.

Call for Presenters

Would you like to present a talk at the Conference? If so, submit a proposal.

Call for Presiders

Would you like to preside at one of the talks at the Conference? If so, offer to do so.

Conference Registration

Preregistration is now open for the CMC3 Fall 2023 Conference. You can register for the conference using a paper registration form and mailing a check, or online by using the QR code available on the form, or online using this link.

Please allow sufficient time so your registration arrives by Nov 22, 2023. After this date, attendees no longer qualify for the preregistration rates and will need to pay the full registration price to attend.

If you are a faculty member at a CA community college, we request that you be a current member of he organization to attend the conference. Attendees are given the option to update their annual membership within the registration form.

Remember, the funds raised are not only used to pay conference costs, they also are used to fund scholarships for community college students.

Hotel Reservations

The 51^st Annual Fall Conference will be held in Monterey on December 8-9, 2023 at Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa.

To get the CMC³ group rate of $169 per night for single & double-occupancy rooms, make your reservation via this link.

To ensure that you receive the CMC³ group rate, reserve your hotel room by 11/07/2023. After the cut-off date, all rooms will need to be booked at the hotel’s standing rate.

Invitation to Exhibitors

CMC3 welcomes all vendors who want to set up a booth to fill out the conference exhibitor form.

What would it mean for a mathematical sciences department to fully embody "Serving" in its campus's Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) designation? Whom are we serving, who is left on the margins, and what is the department doing to counter prevalent practices in the mathematical sciences that lead to wildly unrepresentative participation?

Over the past three years, Sonoma State STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) departments, led by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, have been engaged in department-wide efforts to change STEM culture and embrace "Serving" in our Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) designation.

Transformative Inclusion in Post-Secondary STEM: Towards Justice (TIPS Towards Justice) is named in recognition that STEM professional communities have reached a tipping point—putting to rest tired arguments about where the problems lie and who is responsible for addressing them, finally accepting a measure of responsibility for exclusive, dehumanizing practices and identity within our communities.

We maintain that the academic department is the most potent site for reform that can change stubborn inequitable outcomes and fundamentally change students' experiences in higher education. Is your department on the verge of such a shift?

Ben Ford is a Professor (since 1998) in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at Sonoma State University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Oregon, and his mathematical research area is representation theory and algebraic combinatorics. For over 20 years he has worked extensively with TK–12 schools and teachers through the California Mathematics Project: North Coast. He was on the writing team for the recently-adopted California TK–12 Mathematics Framework.

Brigitte Lahme is a professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at Sonoma State University. She earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Colorado State University in 1999 and spend 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona before joining Sonoma State University as an assistant professor in 2002. From 2013-2019 Dr. Lahme served as department chair.

Dr. Lahme's scholarship is in the area of mathematics education. She was a writer for Illustrative Mathematics, which designs high quality K-12 curriculum (as an OER) and she is co-author of several college level mathematics textbooks.

During her time as chair, the Math and Stats Department implemented a complete revision of the math placement system for incoming students to ensure that students are well supported to succeed in their required GE math courses. Most recently the department has embarked on a project to create a path for STEM departments to become truly "Hispanic serving", supported by an NSF grant for which Dr. Lahme is serving as the PI.

Omayra Y. Ortega is an Associate Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at Sonoma State University in Sonoma County, California. She earned her Ph.D. (2008) and an M.S. (2005) in applied mathematics and computational sciences from the University of Iowa, where she also was awarded her Masters of Public Health. She earned a B.A. in music and in pure mathematics from Pomona College in 2001. Dr. Ortega has directed the Mathematical Epidemiology Research Group (MERG), an undergraduate research group, since 2007. Her scholarly interests reflect her expertise in mathematics: mathematical and computational biology, mathematical epidemiology in developing countries, infectious disease epidemiology, the participation of women and minorities in sciences, and most recently; data science.

Dr. Ortega has organized an annual Sonia Kovalesky High School Mathematics Day at several institutions including the University of Iowa, ASU’s West campus, Pomona College, and Sonoma State University in recognition of the day's namesake, Sonia Kovalevsky, who was one of the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. These events continue in the spirit of the Association for Women in Mathematics' (AWM) funded events that ran through the early 2000's and extends the original event to additionally honor Ruth Gonzalez, the first Latina to receive a PhD in Mathematics, and Euphemia Lofton-Haynes, the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in Mathematics.

Dr. Ortega is currently the President of the National Association of Mathematicians Inc. (NAM), a non-profit professional organization in the mathematical sciences with a mission and purpose of promoting excellence in the mathematical sciences and promoting the mathematical development of all underrepresented minorities. She previously served as the editor of the NAM newsletter from 2018-2021 and was one of the NAM contributors to the MAA Math Values Blog. Dr. Ortega is very active in the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). In her free time Dr. Ortega enjoys travel, the outdoors and the fiber arts.

After emigrating to the United States from Mexico at the age of 12, Prof. Pamela Harris completed her high school education in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In this talk, Prof. Harris tells us her life story, taking us through the fears of being an undocumented first-generation college student and the challenges she overcame as a Latina with a passion for mathematics. Her talk will focus on how she found support networks, mentors, and the development of her identity as a scientist. She will also share how communities can help support underrepresented minorities and undocumented students achieve their full potential as they navigate academic spaces.

Dr. Pamela Harris Photo by Akira Harris.

Dr. Pamela E. Harris is a Mexican-American mathematician and serves as Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her B.S. from Marquette University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Pamela E. Harris's research is in algebraic combinatorics and she is the author of over 65 peer-reviewed research articles in internationally recognized journals. An award winning mathematical educator, Dr. Harris was the 2022 recipient of the MAA Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, the 2020 recipient of the MAA Northeast Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching, the 2019 MAA Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member, and the 2019 Council on Undergraduate Research Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division Early Career Faculty Mentor Award, and the 2022 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Excellence in Mathematical Education. She has supervised the research of over 120 undergraduate students, a majority of whom identify as members of groups historically excluded in higher education, has served as a research faculty mentor for undergraduate research programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, and she is a trained Entering Mentoring Workshop Facilitator. She is the President and co-founder of Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences, cohosts the podcast Mathematically Uncensored, and is a coauthor of the books Asked And Answered: Dialogues On Advocating For Students of Color in Mathematics, Practices and Policies: Advocating for Students of Color in Mathematics, and Read and Rectify: Advocacy Stories from Student of Color in Mathematics.

Future CMC³ Conferences

Information about future conferences is available. For additional conference information, contact the Conference Chair. For registration information contact the Membership Chair