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Quantitative Methods for Public Policy

David M. Bressoud

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Business Address:

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105

651-696-6559;
fax: 651-696-6518;
e-mail: bressoud@macalester.edu

Degrees:

• PhD, Mathematics, Temple University, 1977; doctoral advisor: Emil Grosswald
• MA, Mathematics, Temple University, 1975;
• BA, Mathematics, Swarthmore College, 1971

Professional Appointments:

Macalester College:

• DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics, August, 1996 to present;
• Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 1995–2001;
• Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science, 1994–1996.

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park:

• Professor of Mathematics, 1986–1994;
• Associate Professor, 1982–86;
• Assistant Professor, 1977–82.

Peace Corps Volunteer, Antigua, West Indies (first and second form math and science teacher at the Clare Hall School), 1971–73.

Visiting Positions;

• University of Minnesota (1998)
• State College Area High School (1990–91), taught Advanced Placement AB Calculus course
• University of Strasbourg (1985–86),
• University of Minnesota (1983),
• University of Wisconsin (1980–81 & '82),
• Institute for Advanced Study (1979–80).

Awards and Fellowships

• Macalester College Thomas Jefferson Award, 2005
• MAA Pólya Lecturer, 2002–04
• MAA Beckenbach Book Prize for Proofs and Confirmations, 2000
• MAA Allegheny Mountain Section Distinguished Teaching Award, 1994
• Fulbright Fellowship, 1985–86
• Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1981–83
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1979–80

Scholarly Interests:

Partition Theory, Number Theory, Combinatorics, q-Series, Special Functions, Symmetric Functions. Author or editor of ten books including Factorization and Primality Testing, Second Year Calculus from Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity, A Radical Approach to Real Analysis, Proofs and Confirmations: the Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture and A Course in Computational Number Theory; over sixty research articles and more than fifty other articles on mathematics education and related issues.

Professional Activities:

Current:

• Past-President, MAA (2011–12)
• Chair, MAA Nominating Committee (2011–13)
• Principle Investigator, Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus (2009–present), NSF DRL REESE grant #0910240
• member, Executive Committee of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (2009–present)
• associate editor for The Ramanujan Journal
• associate editor for Annales des Sciences Mathématiques du Québec
• associate editor for The Fibonacci Quarterly

Former:

• President, MAA (2009–11)
• MAA Student Lecturer, 1994 MathFest
• member-at-large, Council of the AMS (1996–99)
• member, AMS Committee on Education (1996–99)
• chair of the Polya Award Committee (1997–99)
• chair of the MAA Program Committee for the 1998 Joint Math Meetings
• member of the ad hoc Mathematics Magazine Study Committee (1998)
• member and chair of the Polya Lecturer selection committee (1998–2000)
• AMS Committee on Education liaison to the CUPM (1999–2002)
• member and chair, AMS Student Mathematical Library series, 1999–2004
• chair of the ad hoc Committee to Study the Monthly (2000)
• member, CUPM Writing Committee for the CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004 (2002–04)
• chair, College Board Advanced Placement Calculus Development Committee (2002–05), member (1999–2005)
• question leader for Advanced Placement Calculus Reading, 2000–05; table leader 1997–99; reader from 1993–1996
• Director, Macalester's program in Quantitative Methods for Public Policy (sponsored by US Department of Education FIPSE grant and the National Science Foundation DUE-CCLI grant)
• chair, SIGMAA TAHSM (MAA special interest group, Teaching Advanced High School Mathematics), (2007–08)
• chair, MAA Strategic Planning Group on STEM Issues and the Mathematics Program (2008–2009)
• member Pólya Lecturer Selection Committee (2007–2009)
• member of the editorial committee for MAA Carus Mathematical Monograph series (2007–2009)