Meet the Judges: 2006
Head Final Judge
Bernard A. Fusaro, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
Ben Fusaro is an adjunct professor of mathematics at Florida State University who has taught college mathematics for over 50 years. Dr. Fusaro is an accomplished lecturer and author. He has helped organize numerous professional workshops and conferences as well as many student activities. He participates in SIAM's Visiting Lecturer Program, and he co-founded (with Leon Seitelman) the Mathematical Contest in Modeling for collegians. Dr. Fusaro is also an active member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and SIAM.
Final Judges
James M. Crowley, Executive Director, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
James Crowley is the executive director of SIAM, a position he has held since 1994. He was a tenured associate professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and spent two years each at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Dr. Crowley also served as the assistant chief scientist for the Air Force Systems Command. He received his doctorate in applied mathematics from Brown University, his masters's in Mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his bachelor's in Mathematics from College of the Holy Cross.
Joseph Malkevitch, Department of Mathematics, York College – CUNY
Joseph Malkevitch was born and raised in Brooklyn and attended Stuyvesant High School and Queens College. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1969. Since 1968 he has taught at York College – City University of New York (CUNY). He also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has mentored four Ph.D. students. Dr. Malkevitch has co-authored several books and monographs on mathematical modeling for high school and undergraduate students and their teachers. Dr. Malkevitch is a member of SIAM and is especially proud of his articles for the general public about mathematics and its applications.
Henry Ricardo, Medgar Evers College – CUNY
Henry Ricardo is a professor of mathematics at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He has taught college mathematics for over 25 years and spent 14 years at IBM in various technical and financial positions. Dr. Ricardo, who serves as Secretary of the Metropolitan New York Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and SIAM. His book, A Modern Introduction to Differential Equations, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002.
Leon H. Seitelman, Consultant
Leon Seitelman worked on a broad spectrum of mathematical problems in computer-aided design, analysis and manufacturing, economic modeling and engineering analysis, and optimization during his 30-year career at United Technologies Corporation. Dr. Seitelman also worked for 20 years with the Wesleyan University-based Project to Improve Mastery of Mathematics and Science (PIMMS), a pioneering K-12 education effort, developed and chaired the SIAM Visiting Lecturer Program; taught at the University of Connecticut, Trinity College, and Rensselaer at Hartford, and was instrumental in the founding of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling for collegians, conceived and developed by Ben Fusaro.
Walter Stromquist, Swarthmore College
Walter Stromquist is a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at Swarthmore College. Previously, he was employed by Wagner Associates, a mathematical consulting firm, and by the U. S. Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis. He has also worked independently as a consultant. Dr. Stromquist has published papers in graph theory, topology, and applications.
Data Manager for Final Judging
Catherine Ricardo, Iona College
Catherine Ricardo is a professor of computer science at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, where she has taught for 28 years. She is the author of Databases Illuminated (Jones & Bartlett, 2004), Database Systems (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990), and numerous articles in the fields of database systems, educational computing, and program assessment. Dr. Ricardo is an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Information Systems (Academic Press, 2003), a frequent speaker at computer conferences, and has organized several regional conferences in the New York area. She has also served as a reviewer for national and international journals and an evaluator for educational institutions and government agencies. She received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1983.
